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Browse Forums Building A New House Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 121Jun 13, 2019 11:37 am gablesrocks Thanks gablesrocks, they’re Aluminium. Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 122Jun 13, 2019 11:42 am Stairwell window Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Upstairs hallway window overlooking the pool. You can just see the pool roof dormer window in the top right corner of the photo. This has louvres to allow ventilation, although we also have a mechanical ventilation system for the pool area. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 123Jun 23, 2019 11:14 am A requirement in the design of our granny flat and some ground floor areas of the main house has been to be future proofed, for eg restricted mobility. This weekend I visited an almost complete house designed for NDIS to platinum standard. Although our house is not designed to that standard in terms of access, it was good to see some of the concepts we included actually implemented in a real house. Eg no variances between floor levels greater than 5mm. Below is a photo of the front door threshold. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 124Jun 25, 2019 1:00 pm Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 125Jun 26, 2019 2:27 pm Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 126Jun 27, 2019 11:06 am That passive ventilator setup looks like it should work well (esp. with 5 in total). Hillsbuilds do you have eave vents to assist with supply? I am still unsure about whether or not to go with eave vents. We have doubled the standard number of brick weeper vents, and I am hoping that to help ventilate our brick wall cavities this can act as the supply air for our powered ventilators. But the issue will be if the brick weepers are not able to supply enough air, so maybe we will add in some eave vents as well? I am also thinking now I might install one standard whirly bird in addition to our two powered ventilators (on temp/humidity sensors). This way even if the sensors are not firing up the powered units we still have some basic air movement through the roof. We can set the powered units to run on low/med/high continuously but I think I would rather use the sensors to be honest. My thoughts are in winter if the roof area is getting warmed up and moisture isn't an issue (to trigger the ventilators) then maybe we should be working to retain that heat? Possibly even consider some sort of close-able ceiling vent that allows movement of that warm air into the house? There is far too much physics involved in all of this for me! How did you get onto that particular type of ventilator? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 127Jun 27, 2019 2:53 pm darb74, these are not quite the same as whirly birds - they seem bigger for one thing! I think the largest two over the pool area are 600mm. They also don’t ventilate the roof cavity, they ventilate the actual rooms of the house. Hence most are placed over the raked ceilings as that’s where the heat will rise to, and be purged through the vents. They can be used passively but also actively. So no eaves vents required in this instance. I suppose with your situation you’ll have to look at the volume of air the whirly bird is able to extract and match it with sufficient air entering the space, be it weep holes or eave vents. The closable ceiling vent sounds like a good idea if you want to remove excess rising heat from rooms directly (which is what we’re doing!). Have you spoken to professionals? In our research we discussed with two or three companies and found that quite helpful. They looked at the house plans and elevations and made suggestions, including where to place the input and output vents. Our biggest concern was to ventilate the pool area, hence this type of ventilator. Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 128Jun 27, 2019 3:35 pm Hillsbuilds @darb74, these are not quite the same as whirly birds - they seem bigger for one thing! I think the largest two over the pool area are 600mm. They also don’t ventilate the roof cavity, they ventilate the actual rooms of the house. Hence most are placed over the raked ceilings as that’s where the heat will rise to, and be purged through the vents. They can be used passively but also actively. ahhh, that makes sense. I wondered why you had so many vents in very specific spots. Raked ceilings would work very well for this as you say. Would you think this system would still be effective in a house with a typical flat ceiling? Without knowing your roof section thickness....what type & approx. length of duct connects the roof vent to the ceiling outlet? A few months ago I was investigating 'whole of house fans'. They are fairly large diameter and sits over your ceiling an purely suck heaps of air into the roof area. Obviously not a passive system, but they run on a fairly efficient DC motors. With our roof ventilators and potential eave vents (to expel the air) I'm still considering this single large fan option. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Custom build Sydney Hills with attached granny flat 129Jun 28, 2019 1:28 pm darb74, our rumpus area has a flat ceiling and there will be a vent there. I don’t think it says anywhere that it’s for raked ceilings only, so I can’t see why not. The raked ceilings don’t have much distance between the roof and ceiling, it’s literally just the roof frame thickness I think. The flat ceiling has more, but I haven’t seen the duct as that section has no roof yet even! I’ll try to get a photo for you when that goes up. I’m thinking the length is as long as it needs to be! Re: Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny 130Jul 03, 2019 3:43 pm Re: Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny 133Jul 12, 2019 1:55 pm amilelka What a lovely detail! Have you chosen a name yet? Thank you! It’s drawn a lot of comments No name as yet. Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny flat 134Jul 12, 2019 1:57 pm Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny flat 135Jul 15, 2019 1:40 pm Looking out from the MBR feature window. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ About three quarters of our 80m2 attic space which we decided to go ahead with. An adult can stand up comfortably in there, the highest point is about 2.5m. Carpenters have strengthened the joists and added yellow tongue flooring. The ceilings and walls will not be finished, and there will be a good quality pull down attic ladder to get up there through our WIL. In the future we could make it into a proper living space by covering walls and ceiling and adding skylights, windows and a proper staircase. Its’s not really in our plans though, unless life circumstances change dramatically. For now, the electrician will run lighting up there and a couple of data cables. This photo was taken by me just climbing up the temporary ladder and sticking my head through the hole in the floor. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny 136Jul 15, 2019 1:57 pm Hey darb74, I made a mistake about the ventilators. There are no ducts between the roof ventilators and the indoor vents. With flat ceilings the ventilators DO suck the air out of the roof cavity as well as the rooms of the house, the latter through vents placed in ceilings. When the ventilator is placed above a raked ceiling though I’m not sure if it goes directly through to the ceiling or if there’s still separation between roof ventilator and ceiling vent. I can’t imagine there’s much space to ventilate there anyway. Re: Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny 137Jul 16, 2019 3:56 pm Awesome build, subbed! Hamptons inspired architect design with attached granny flat 138Jul 25, 2019 2:14 pm The lower roof is now complete. It’s been great to be able to get a better feel of our main living space. Standing in kitchen looking through dining and living area. Nice midday winter sun coming in. The spotty shadow is scaffolding. Morning sun comes in through the end gable window. Loving the raked ceiling! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ North facing French doors Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ South facing French door for access to back yard and through-breeze Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi all, Been browsing project builders' website and saw Masterton with attached granny flat design Seeing bad reviews from masterton in this website/facebook, does… 0 18300 I would suggest you simply go and talk to council about your proposal, most councils are getting onboard with ancillary dwellings. There is no benefit in keeping it… 1 4106 I think I know the answer but just checking to see if anyone has had experience with it. I want to build a small 20 square metre retreat in my backyard, it will have a… 0 13890 |