Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 42Apr 22, 2014 11:09 am Building with Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 Building Photos : http://s758.photobucket.com/user/zultbe ... 32%20Build Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 43Apr 25, 2014 10:11 pm J&J Building our Home on The Coast. Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=55601 No longer our dream it's our reality!!! Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 44Apr 26, 2014 10:58 am Building with Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 Building Photos : http://s758.photobucket.com/user/zultbe ... 32%20Build Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 45Apr 26, 2014 11:38 am J&J Building our Home on The Coast. Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=55601 No longer our dream it's our reality!!! Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 47May 12, 2017 8:59 am klea bgkdavis Porsche bgkdavis - Thanks so much for the dishwasher pic. I'm pleased to see it does in fact have a hidden element. Coral quoted us 8k for a 5kw solar power system. Needless to say we are not upgrading to 5kw. But we are going 3kw and sometime in the future we will upgrade to 5kw. Apparently we can upgrade from 3kw to 5 kw but not 1.5 - 5kw. We are however getting 18 solar panels instead of the 6 that is included. We aren't really into the media room thing either but DH has a lot of memorabilia and that is the room we'll keep all that stuff in along with one of the TV's. It will be a kid free zone and us adults will retreat to that room once the kids are in bed. I'm writing down all your tips so I have them ready to go when we go to our clipspec appointment (if we ever get the contracts done ). From what DH said we don't get light fittings is that correct? I think we'll def be looking into getting all our lights just not sure when. I'm sure DH has a plan though. Our covenant wants our house set back 6 metres but we are applying for a 4.5mt set back to give us a little more room from the back of the house to the fence line. Sukarabikun - Thanks for the links. Do you know I've been looking everywhere for a picture like that? I could not find one anywhere. I really like the portico. Corals quote of $8k for a 5kW solar system is the upgrade quote from the 'free' 1.5kW to 5kW, when you factor in the $2.5K rebate you get for removing the 1.5kW system then it totals $10.5K for a 5kW system Your standard electrical quotation is fine if you want to use a lighting plan that dates back to the 1950's as it probably only includes 1 baton light fitting per room/area, which Ill bet you will not want....this is where the clipsepc appointment comes in, during which they will upsell you better fittings, but I strongly recommend that before the clipspec appointment you take a visit to a decent lighting shop and get some prices.... I can highly recommend Martec Infinity LED lights.... just two of these are all you need for the media room, we have 3 over the dining area, 4 over the family area, 2 on patio 1 in kitchen (supplemented by 3 narrow beam lights over central counter)... I was really concerned with using so few down lights, but it was plenty, each light is only 11W if you want they can be fitted with dimmers, unlike CFC lights there is no warm up time, and they have a projected life per globe of 20,000 hours (probably last 20 years) However, here is the sting.... for each baton fitting you remove from the quote they will credit you $54 (yay), but for each light you supply they will charge you $68 to fit it (wtf!!!), BUT, since each light costs you $40 its still cheaper than the $160 Clipsal will charge you for supply and fit a similar light For the fans we used clipsal with fan lights in bedrooms, and we supplied a martec wraptor fan for main bedroom... note the clipsal fanlights have CFC bulbs which are slow to warm up!, we also supplied our own outdoor lights and wall mounted bedside lights. Another thing is clipsal has nothing to do with data wiring, you will have another company try and sell you data wiring, but I did my own, and just used the data contractor to supply the NBN connection Hi, I just had my Clipsal appointment yesterday at the Gold Coast. I was planning to replace the standard batten holders with owner supplied downlights and thought I had been told over the phone the install cost for owner supplied downlights was only a little more than the $55 batten credit, like you said. However yesterday turns out it is $96 per downlight to install!! Has anyone else been quoted far less by Clipsal lately? It's $105 if I got clipsal to install their own 9w led downlight but then the clipsal guys says "oh but you'll need like 4 per room" instead of the one batten fitting that was there. I'm going to supply my own compact fluoro downlights which I have in my current house as they are 1 per room and very bright. the quote i was given about downlights made it seem like it was only $45 for a 15w flouro downlight with installation... , BUT that is charged if there is an EXISTING batten light already in place. So in reality, the charge to add a NEW coral supplied downlight is $65 (original batten) + $45 (change to downlight) = $110). And, yeah, one of those suckers it not going to be enough to light a room properly, so i image it'd be at least 2 per bedroom, but 4 or more per large room, making it' 3 to 4 times the cost of a house with standard battens. This is why on our previous build we ended up retro-fitting single batten fixtures with some nice pendant lights - with multple LED bulbs in each one - for our living areas, and left the internal ceiling lighting plan as standard spec... (we added some wall lights to a few key areas for effect, and the results are fantastic)... Downlights do look pretty good in all the builders display homes - but considering some builders have added approx $40,000 worth of lighting (i asked once), you'd want it to.. Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 7202 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 47327 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 73537 |