Trixee's Passive Solar Build Perth

Sorry sorry all, have been super slack about pictures and updates. Will hopefully get to it tomorrow night. We have a site meeting with electrician and supervisor tomorrow afternoon.

Still unhappy about the portico, most of the roof is on and they still haven't fixed the thing. Will be sure to make my displeasure known. That's 2 major things they've stuffed up that I'm not confident they'll fix to my satisfaction (portico and side fence).

Plus they are already a week behind schedule, hope they can make up the time after lockup.

Good luck Trixee.

Hope it goes well tomorrow, trixee (actually - later today Aus time )

Thanks ardie and mal.

I got up a little early today so can squeeze some photos in.

I love this view from the corner over the neighbour's fence.

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The front. You can see the detail that I don't like in here, looks ridiculous.

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We're doing the downpipes ourselves after handover, but they've left a little "pop" for us. Not particularly happy that it's not colourbond (am I being picky), and more importantly there was no discussion over it so they just made an assumption. I hate it when they make assumptions, it usually turns out poorly. Also, someone's been walking on the ceiling!

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The insulation part 1 is going in now, batts will go in once they've done the ceiling:

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This is what they're using:

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The ties that are holding the roof down:

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Air vents waiting to be installed:

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View of the back, looking nice and solid. I like this view the best.

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OK that's it, gotta go earn some money to pay this thing off now.

Looks like you have spiderman working on the job

Hope the meeting went well.

Haven't had the meeting yet, 1 hour to go!

Thanks Duke!

Neurotic question time: what do people think about these door stops?

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And door stops in general?

I think these look OK but I don't think I want door stops on the floor as the robot won't be able to clean around it (first world problem, I know, I'm almost too embarrassed to bring this up at all!)

They're nice but you can't put them on the wall? Get wall mounted ones, yeah


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My door stops are vintage flat irons and it steers around them.
Yes I think it would find it hard to squeeze under the wall mounted ones!!

Meant to say Trixee that anticon and batts work superbly together, you won't regret having them both!!

Thanks guys - yeah I think wall mounted ones might be better, can always mount them a little higher for the robot.



Archetto do you have any pics or links for this?



Trees do you have any pics/links?

Aside from that, meeting went well! Had a bit of a laugh at the apprentice putting the points in the wrong places, sparky said to ignore it and he'll mark it up properly tomorrow. There was no rushing through anything, and it took about an hour (probably would have taken less if we didn't spend half the time in chit chat! But it was fun.)

Supervisor finally understood what I was going on about regarding the portico, and said it's not a problem to do, so am very thankful for that.

I'm dying to post more pics of the roof but I have a hair appointment now so have to shoot off!

Looks something like this
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Or

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Seems it be can be done a few ways