Browse Forums Building A New House Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1701May 11, 2012 9:43 pm I totally concur about lighting above work surfaces in the kitchen-I had to argue with our builder about moving our light from the middle of the kitchen to directly above the sink.. As I ended up saying to him-it's easy to tell someone who doesn't spend much time in a kitchen! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1703May 11, 2012 9:51 pm SunshineT kiwi link for some various STAIR LIGHTS that is what they are called here http://www.lightingplus.co.nz/lighting/led-lighting/ square doesnt have screws showing. etc great site kiwi! I am actually seduced by the square ones, sorry kiwi, but I will still name them after you and think of you forever more. Especially when kids tumble out of bed for the bathroom. Yes but I bought the square ones so they should be gogo's lights Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1705May 11, 2012 9:56 pm jodge T, I think gogo wants you to put her in your thread title. Just quietly. Or name a part of my house after her? You have the toilet. Dee has the bedroom window. steph and grumblebum have the garbage drawer (depending on which one we go with). Kiwi has the lights (sorry gogo, she got there first, even though I have changed shape). Maybe I should name the WHOLE house after her as she was the one that introduced me to Zen?! SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1706May 11, 2012 9:58 pm SunshineT jodge T, I think gogo wants you to put her in your thread title. Just quietly. Or name a part of my house after her? You have the toilet. Dee has the bedroom window. steph and grumblebum have the garbage drawer (depending on which one we go with). Kiwi has the lights (sorry gogo, she got there first, even though I have changed shape). Maybe I should name the WHOLE house after her as she was the one that introduced me to Zen?! Oh if you must Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1708May 11, 2012 10:03 pm SunshineT jodge T, I think gogo wants you to put her in your thread title. Just quietly. Or name a part of my house after her? You have the ]toiletDee has the bedroom window. steph and grumblebum have the garbage drawer (depending on which one we go with). Kiwi has the lights (sorry gogo, she got there first, even though I have changed shape). Maybe I should name the WHOLE house after her as she was the one that introduced me to Zen?! Read woman! Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1710May 11, 2012 11:22 pm jodge ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . thanks. I can always rely on you to read for me when I've had too many wines. . . Ta gogo! you're funny, jodge.... And gogo, treat her well, or you won't get the best kitchen design ever!! Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1712May 12, 2012 12:11 am T, just a few observations: Ground floor When you walk in to the living from the patio at night and turn the patio lights off you will be standing in the dark. Maybe next to the patio light switch have one connected to kiwis hall light or a two way switch to the four halogens. I would make the foyer light 2 way, the other switch going in the hall or to the living room. Does the normal light over the stairs need to be 2 way as the downlights there are? I would put another DGPO in beds 2 & 3. In the ensuite/bathroom I would change the SGPO to double, if one is charging a toothbrush and the other wants to use razor or hairdryer they can’t, avoid the dramas. I have the 3-in-1 thingies in my bathroom and when I turn it on it’s like walking into my grandmas house in 1964. The light is pathetic until it warms up so you will need the extra ones and they recommend wall lights as the best light for makeup etc. If you are having a clothes dryer do you have a power point for it? I see you have an alarm but I don’t see the GPO for the control box. Ours is in the WIR at a height of 2m, out of the way, remember to turn it off during big storms, ours blew up in one. Looking at the size of your garage I would recommend 2 long fluoros. I also don’t see a GPO in your garage for the door opener. I don’t know where your tank is so I gather one of the external DGPO’s is for it. I would have lighting on all external walls, doesn’t have to be flash. I bought Mercator Shore external lights for $25 each (small rectangular and square ones and quite sturdy) from a little light shop in Auburn. I would recommend an external power point to the left wall of your garage in case you want to use a gerni to wash your car. I don’t see where your taps are but hopefully there is one on this wall or nearby. Upper floor You must have a light over your sink to avoid shadows. You need GPO’s for oven and range hood but I only see one. Is the GPO in the island for a microwave? I only see 2 DGPO’s in your kitchen and think you need more, maybe even on the ends of your island. Think about your appliances and which ones will be plugged in permanently, I have a quad and 2 doubles in my kitchen/pantry and have 4 things plugged in permanently. General It’s great to hide your GPO’s behind things but make sure there are some in the open for you to plug in the iron, hoover etc so you are not moving furniture to get to them. Where you are having your entertainment areas make a count of what you are putting there, a quad might sound enough but believe me in the main areas you will need more. In my TV room I have 2 quads and a double and have had to add a power board as my son has hooked up other things for me. In the room I have TV, Austar box, DVD, amplifier, speakers, woofer, MyBook Live, Wireless router as booster for MBL, floor lamp, small fan, phone charger, laptop. Our kids are adult and gone (she says with fingers crossed) so there are no gaming machines to consider. OMG I've said enough. Have fun reading this tome. Regards, Grumbles Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1713May 12, 2012 7:42 am grumbles - she says doing Japanese seiza on the floor and bowing many times (picture it girls!) - your comments are fantastic. Thank you so much. I read them with my plans in hand and have made a gazzilion notes to incorporate them. Extremely extremely useful and coming from a place of experience I can tell DH and I are just trying to organise a baby sitter (aka Nana) so we can walk through the house together today with the plans and all my notes from here. It never ceases to amaze me how much knowledge there is on H1. And just when I thought we had the plans sorted. SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1714May 12, 2012 8:27 am ps: DH just had a serious read of the last few pages and was very impressed with the comments, especially jodge and grumblebum's analysis of our plans. He loves kiwi's lights. When he saw jodge's very stylish vanity light photo he had a hearty laugh and then said "hey, is that the girl that came here?!". All good, thanks guys. He is going to photo shop our plans to incorporate most of the suggestions. SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1715May 12, 2012 8:59 am Pictures of our deck frames and roof beams finished. The deck was about 450mm shorter than planned, so to compensate I am going to put glass balustrades on the northern deck. On the east we are having timber look aluminium slats (1000m high, same as balustrade) for privacy. Otherwise our house would be like a fish bowl from the street. One of the challenges with our site position. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Inside looking East out onto the deck. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The kitchen ceiling is lower (to the right of the photo) at 2400mm. SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1716May 12, 2012 10:26 am The information on this thread is brilliant. Thank you all. It's too late for our electrical plan but I think we did OK - learnt a lot from other threads. Can I suggest someone copies or references these pages to the "things you forgot" thread - so much useful info. Sunshine I love the space you have created in that last photo. It's similar to ours except you have those wow factor clerestory windows (learnt that term on here somewhere). Can't wait to see more pictures as things progress. Hope you manage to stay sane(ish) during the rest I'd the build and don't have any more dramas. Ruth Our Homebuilding Thread 17th Nov - 1st meeting with PJB architect 27th Feb - Signed contract 23rd Mar - Plans approved 3rd Apr - Slab laid 18th Apr - Roof On 10th May - Lock-up 26th June - Handover Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1718May 12, 2012 10:44 am T, always happy to share the knowledge from past experiences - good and bad and I was a Sydney girl from 1974 til 2011. Enjoy the day without the sprogs! Regards, Grumbles Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1719May 12, 2012 10:55 am Hey GBum! I forgot about the GPOs on the bottom floor, wrote a PM to T last night with a few double ups of what you said. . . seems we might both be chronic researchers and thinker schminkers eh I do have a thought on one thing you said though. . . we had 4 GPOs behind our TV, and an extra one behind the wall mount TV, and we've found we don't really need them all. We've bought a super-duper surge-protection power board for the home theatre, so we're only actually using one single GPO behind there. I wouldn't plug our TV and Amp and stuff straight into the wall. Is there a way you can put built-in surge protection into the house? Really must read up more on this stuff in case we ever build again. On another note T, Grumblie's excellent point about the alarm system. . . you may want to put a telephone point in next to where you're going to have the alarm, ours has a feature where it will send a text to our mobile phones if it goes off (or back to base), but has to be connected to a landline. Also, I'd put a GPO on each wall of the garage. You never know where your workbench will end up (if you have one). We put our workbench on the only wall without a GPO. . . FAIL! Edit: wondered where you're having the switch box for those ethernet ports. .. you'll need a phone point there too Re: SunshineT's Build: electrical plans 1720May 12, 2012 11:31 am Jodge – excellent point re the surge protector for home theatre, T should do that. I think you can have them built in to your main switchboard these days but not aware of the techo details. Don’t worry about your GPO fail in the garage, this was our second build and I still missed things, wonder how many it takes til you get it right? You may be a researcher and thinker but at the moment I’m not working so I am suffering from the chronic disease of sitonmyfata$$infrontofthecomputer syndrome. But hey, we all need a break sometimes. 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