electirical pricing on PD Houses and Jet master queries

$8k? Wow, that's a lot of lights! Are you trying to rival Las Vegas? LOL JK!

Jet master is the fireplace? I find them too expensive either way (with builder and after builder) but I'd say do it after yourself.

Just wanted to clarify.

I only really upgraded to what is in display minus some lights. Downligts are $100 by PD. The house is a single storey also so access to roof is no issue just how easy is it to go down the walls. I put lights in another house and they cost $30 each for a standard crome downlight and then pay electrician. It seems expensive $8K I would have thought $5k

Also does anyone know about alternatives to Jet Master that are not as expensive.

Hi Stevec,
We have just finished building with PD in Wyndham Vale, the Entertainer 44.
We are very happy with the process and the final house with only a few minor hiccups along the way.
We found that the electrical plan that they provided was very expensive and had way too many downlights. We went and discussed it with Beacon Lighting - they were very helpful and drew up a plan. We didn't go for as many downlights which I'm not too keen on anyway but we did get it all done through PD since I think it would be a bigger hassle after handover. We are getting an electrician to put up all the light fittings after we move in.

We also wanted an open fireplace but PD will only do gas so we got them to put in the chimney bit and we are going to have the rest of it done later. We have dealt with Jetmaster before and found them helpful but this time we went to Sneddons in Yarraville. They were really helpful, knowledgable and competintive on price and had the advantage of being a local, family business whick I like.

Are you getting the flooring done through PD? We found them very overpriced and had it done ourselves. Even one of their sales reps told me that their flooring was expensive.

Hope building your house is a great experience!

Thanks guys for your advice it is much appreicated and without forums like this I would have no idea. I will take Penjay advice and get a quote from Beacon. My electircal plan also included CAT5 internet canling and pay tv points, some additional TV points, junction boxes for outside future lights four outdoor flood lights etc. They gave me the price list and I went through and mapped out what I think is needed after looking at the display. I built a metricon three year ago (But that is another storey I could talk about forever but my anger will get to high again as my stress levels have just returned to normal LOL) and I missed heaps and did have to get an electirican in afterwards.

Inb terms of Jetmaster my partner wants it we have central heating in all rooms so it is to look pretty I believe. A big price to look pretty. I did not put it in last house but quote quoted and it was 5-6k then so paying 7k is ok if that is around the price. Not sure if is though. When I spoke to jetmaster they said I need to brick in a himerly or I would have crappy silver boxing on outside of house.

In terms of floor covering I was going with PD. They had $13K in allowances for Cat1 tiles and CAt2 carpets. It is junk and I think I can get a good quality wooden floating floor and carpets for that price. House is 290m2 in total.

Ahhh - how much was the CAT5? In every room? We are considering this but we haven't asked about the price yet

I upgraded quite a bit with my electrical layout.

I went with refrigerated cooling, upgraded ducted heating, got them to prewire for alarm, intercom and ducted vacuum and increased the downlights similar to display specs (a bit less) but only went for batton lights which were only $45 per point instead of downlights at $100 per point.

I will install the downlights myself after handover.

I also only installed batton lights downstairs, whilie upstairs I only went for batton lights that were "free", and I am planning to install the rest of my downlights upstairs after handover, as it is still easy to do for the 1st floor.

wow...that's nasty....was $39/$80 only a few months ago...and that was bad enough!

I agree with all of the above
electrical better to prewire only if double storey otherwise leave... but the electrical people mentioned that having a batten at the first downlight point and then placing others to allign esp in areas with roof cavity acces can be tricky as some beams may come in the way requiring one to shift the original batten leaving a hole behind having to plaster and paint later on. Is this a hassle?.
Is this right orjust their selling trick?
we are still debating whether to have m3'kon do the downlights or do them after handover. Hubby has come with a clever idea.. asking them to put in cfl downlights and the guy is making enquiries and will get back...

As with jetmaster.. they are retailing at 6.5K too overpriced they are made in canada..Aussie made are about 2999-3999 ... i believe in Be Australian-buy Australian

I havent decided but connair or rinnai are equally good i.e if u like the looks of the woodlog gasfire..hubby is keen to just go for the jetmaster rather than have the hassle of getting tradies in later on.. The only positive with Metricon's Jetmaster is that their installed price is nearly 1K less than retail price (apparently the fireplace showroom guy cnr springvale and centre road said jetmaster is the rolls-royce of gas fireplaces.. i dont care about that)