Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 2Jan 16, 2008 7:20 am Grandview 36 on Beautiful Bribie Site Start Dec 5th 2007 Projected completion May 12th 2008 NOPE Handover 24th June 2008 Moved in 11th July 2008 Wating on one final thing - Still - Oct 2009 Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 7Jan 17, 2008 9:28 am mmmmm you guys have got me thinking... I'm also building with Adenbrook in South Brisbane. Maybe I should get a sparky to put the lights in after handover. I haven't done the electrical plans with the builder yet so this may be a good idea.... So you're getting all batten lights to start then putting them in after??
Does this viod any warrenty with the building or anything? Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 8Jan 17, 2008 11:48 am I'm sure they will try to scare you with voiding warranties and things like that but I wouldn't let that bother you.
I got the consultant to draw all of the plans for what we want and lastnight i crossed off SO MANY THINGS!! now I am left with a plan that I can show to another sparky. I worked out that I will save $2500 just in downlights and powerpoints and that's on a 31 square home. Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 9Jan 17, 2008 12:16 pm Honestly guys i would be talking with the sparkie on site when he does the rough in - It is another headache you can do without after handover. I agree - I am the boss!! Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 10Jan 17, 2008 12:28 pm slugger Honestly guys i would be talking with the sparkie on site when he does the rough in - It is another headache you can do without after handover. Yep…what Slugger said! You’ll have plenty of other financial commitments after handover. Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 11Jan 19, 2008 10:34 pm Ditto.
I would still be mindful of the maintenance/warranty issue, especially if you do them after handover. During construction is always a good bet, then the builder can't say that they were never aware of their existence. Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 13Jan 21, 2008 11:55 am cfham Novice question time... Can you access the roof space of the downstairs ceiling through the floor of the second floor? If you cut through the floor. Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 14Jan 21, 2008 12:09 pm Sorry what I meant to say was if you were desperate to do the lighting after handover could you cut through the floor (MDF?) to access the ceiling below to put the extra lighting in. The floor is only going to be carpeted over anyway...
Cookie have you heard back from BH council yet? Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 15Jan 21, 2008 12:25 pm cfham Cookie have you heard back from BH council yet? I'll update my Clarendon thread... http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=38534#38534 Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 16Jan 21, 2008 12:26 pm One thing that you need to make sure if doing the lights afterwards, the each light and power point circuit needs to be balanced forthe correct amperage of the circuit which is based on the number of lights and the current draw on that circuit.
This might be part of the reason fro the builders uplifted cost. But you can't have 10 batton lights on a circuit and then install 50 downlights without splitting the circuits to match the current draw on each. and re getting into the upper floor to lower ceiling space, normally there is not much room in there. My thoughts Steve 0 11171 We recently moved into our new build. We have no idea what is happening as every wall has a perfectly straight horizontal line going through it. It stands out terribly.… 0 5719 Not sure, we are doing our driveway during build, our builder MJH has allowed us to get our own trade to do it before handover (lucky in that aspect). But we are still… 2 11279 |