Browse Forums Building A New House Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3662Apr 06, 2013 8:17 pm Building CH Ascot MK2 29 Contract - 3/5/13 Site Scrape - 16/9/13 Slab - 26/9/13 Framing - 30/9/13 Roof - 10/10/13 LockUp - 19/10/13 Fixing - 1/11/13 Painting - 11/11/13 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3667Apr 07, 2013 9:05 pm Hey Johnno, I have not the foggiest idea. I'm thinking that what you're talking about is having the wire near the spots you want to install lights after handover? In that case I'm thinking they would have to be in the form of junction boxes. Not sure :/ Xjohnno LittleWing Harishka Hi Guys, What I heard from a sparky was that sometimes you might find stud when doing post handover downlighting which may lead to lot of things. Therefore it's in a way much better to get builder to do batten points to the places where u need down lights. His charges are $20 to fix downlight to existing batten point. $40 to put new downlight (these are without the light) Good LED light could vary between $35 - $65 Carlisle charge around $50 per batten point and junction box is around $90. Funny! My sparky told me that often the builder will install battens near a ceiling beam, and since downlights need space around them this could lead to removal, ceiling patching etc. of course I'm sure you can specify that the battens are not placed close to ceiling beams...? I talked with Carlisle electrical consultant who told me you'd need a junction box for each downlight. Not sure how true this is as I thought it was a junction box per area of downlights. Obviously if the former that would be quite costly! HD Can you get CH to terminate the electrical wire where you'd like the downlight to be? Any idea on cost? HD Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3668Apr 08, 2013 5:23 pm LittleWing Hey Johnno, I have not the foggiest idea. I'm thinking that what you're talking about is having the wire near the spots you want to install lights after handover? In that case I'm thinking they would have to be in the form of junction boxes. Not sure :/ HD Thanks I'll let everyone know once I've done my Colour Selection this Thursday. Has anyone got pictures of what colours they have picked? Building CH Ascot MK2 29 Contract - 3/5/13 Site Scrape - 16/9/13 Slab - 26/9/13 Framing - 30/9/13 Roof - 10/10/13 LockUp - 19/10/13 Fixing - 1/11/13 Painting - 11/11/13 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3669Apr 09, 2013 1:36 am Hi all, I'm pretty certain that you don't need a junction box for every downlight. As long as you have at least one light point in the room, the rest will chain off it. Having a batten in place makes it easier to install the downlight yourself. An electrician doesn't need multiple battens in one room. This is a huge saving if you're hiring an electrician to do the lighting after handover as Carlisle Homes charges you $50 each. I personally prefer to do it myself and pay for the battens. On the other hand, having a junction box means having no light in the ceiling at all. Basically a junction box gets installed in your roof space and the ceiling is left untouched. An electrician then installs all of the downlights wherever you want and connects them to the junction box. Xjohnno - I'll post the colour pictures up soon Not happy with Carlisle Homes at the moment Long story short, I originally chose the Stella 20 (Essential Series) because it fitted on my block with minor reduction to the length of the house to meet the developer's building envelop. With all the upgrades I wanted, it was cheaper to go for Geneva 20 (T-Range) instead. I was guarantee that I only need to take 500mm off the length. On Saturday, at the colour browse, I got my master floor plan and it clearly shows that I'm over by 1185mm. Hopefully Carlisle Homes can come up with a solution - I had to bring the issue to their attention otherwise they wouldn't have picked it up ! The T Range - Geneva 20 by Carlisle Homes Build Thread: Coming soon... Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3670Apr 09, 2013 10:17 pm We moved in a couple of weeks ago, not a whole has been accomplished since as i got a phone call on good Friday that I had to leave that day for work, I'm on a drilling rig in the North Atlantic till mid May. I am managing things as best I can from out here - I did get our driveway done, and can recommend him, not the cheapest, but quality work and done to spec with good communication - which was shocking with the first few I got quotes from. Trevor Brimble. Anyway, we are happy, we have picked up a few small things - but nothing too bad, and will get that knocked out in the 3 month inspection. Here is a fuzzy photo of the driveway the wifey sent me. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Odessa 34 by Carlisle http://carlisleodessa.blogspot.com/ Deposit 6/5/12 Colour Selection 12/6 Contract Signing 26/6 Site Cut 2/10 Slab 9/10 Framing 26/10 Roof 2/11 Lots of other crap PCI 21/2/13 Settlement 22/3 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3671Apr 10, 2013 10:24 am I have a question regarding ducted air-conditioning for those who have installed with Carlisle or from a different company after hand-over. What brand and model do you have, how are you finding it? Outdoor unit and indoor unit noise level? Cooling and heating performance? Running cost? I am tossing between getting it from CH or get Daikin / Bonaire / Mitsubishi after hand-over, but there are no reviews Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3673Apr 10, 2013 12:13 pm K4neX: I'll personally would get the evaporative cooling after handover. You could get the same model as Carlisle Homes for cheaper or get a larger evaporative cooling for the same price as what you would have paid. A lot of people on this forum also have had problems with Carlisle Homes' installer - Dandy Air. Just bear in mind, you will have a duct for heating and another for cooling unless you upgrade to refrigerated cooling. Breezair would be top in evaporative cooling. Brivis is what Carlisle Homes offer but better in refrigerated cooling . The evaporative cooling is installed on the roof so I don't think sound is an issue personally - I can't hear it. The cost to run evaporative cooling will depend on usage and temperature however it is roughly under $2 a day. Evaporative cooling requires the windows to be open. On humid days, it tends to be sticky. You won't get the cold effect like split system/refrigerated but it works fine in summer. gavinha: I'm certain this is after handover. While Carlisle Homes is building, everything is covered through them which is why they don't allow you to get your own subcontractor on site. Once you made the final payment and get the keys, the house is then yours and your responsibility. The T Range - Geneva 20 by Carlisle Homes Build Thread: Coming soon... Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3674Apr 10, 2013 8:34 pm My home loan company required proof of insurance before releasing the final construction loan cheque. That was when I got it - (The insured date from was my settlement date) Odessa 34 by Carlisle http://carlisleodessa.blogspot.com/ Deposit 6/5/12 Colour Selection 12/6 Contract Signing 26/6 Site Cut 2/10 Slab 9/10 Framing 26/10 Roof 2/11 Lots of other crap PCI 21/2/13 Settlement 22/3 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3675Apr 11, 2013 1:34 pm An update on Contract signing, I received our documents on Tuesday at 1pm prior to our appointment the next day at 1.30pm. There are a few errors and I stressed, so moved our contract appointment to Friday (tomorrow). Eased my stress greatly. My advice to everyone would be check your contract documents very VERY carefully. Particularly make sure that any written changes you have made are also reflected on the drawings. On the positive side, it looks like we might be able to commence building earlier than we thought, maybe even the end of the month! I will be very excited when the building actually begins! Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65498 Deposit 17/02/13 Contract 12/04 Slab 17/05 Roof 06/06 Bricks, Lockup and Fixing 04/07 PCI 22/08 Handover 29/08 Moved in 07/09! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3676Apr 11, 2013 6:21 pm [quote="K4neX"]I have a question regarding ducted air-conditioning for those who have installed with Carlisle or from a different company after hand-over. What brand and model do you have, how are you finding it? Outdoor unit and indoor unit noise level? Cooling and heating performance? Running cost? I am tossing between getting it from CH or get Daikin / Bonaire / Mitsubishi after hand-over, but there are no reviews /quote] Hi There - we had the provisions installed by Carlisle for refrig then got it installed after handover from another company (as we had read the reviews on here too RE: Dandy Air) It didn't save us any money and we actually had issues with the company that we used to install the unit leaving us with no cooling for Christmas day with 20 hot and bothered guests on a hot and humid day... If I had my time again I would have just got it all installed with Carlisle - price wise it was the same - and then that way I wouldn't have had to waste 3 days to stay home for install and then the other days waiting around for them to fix. Also - sound wise - the unit is outside our rumpus so not a big issue - I can live with the slight noise for the fact that it is actually cold on hot and humid days... you couldn't pay me enough to have evap cooling over refrig.... My 2 cents anyways - hope this helps! Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3677Apr 11, 2013 8:57 pm Hi Sleven I have a few question. what model a/c did you install via your own contractor? Brivis or something else? How many KW in what size house? What did carlisle charge you to provide provisions for a/c? Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3678Apr 11, 2013 11:14 pm walkz187 Hi Sleven I have a few question. what model a/c did you install via your own contractor? Brivis or something else? How many KW in what size house? What did carlisle charge you to provide provisions for a/c? Hi we had to install Brivis as that is what the provisions were for. We have a 17.1KW unit in a 36 square home (well its 29 square living) From memory provisions were apprx $5k and we signed 3 years ago so I'm assuming that the price may have gone up by now. Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3679Apr 12, 2013 7:38 am Thanks sleven Is the 17.1kw powerful enough? How many zones do you have? And are you able to use the full power in 1 zone on really hot day to keep let's say downstairs cool during the day and upstairs at night? I'm looking at a 43 sq house with about 36sq living space. They have recommended the 17kw system. But I'm thinking I should go for the 20kw. Based on your exportable do you think the 17kw would offer enough power across 2 zones? Thanks Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3680Apr 12, 2013 2:39 pm At our contract appointment. Waiting while our CLE finds out the answers to our questions. Lol We had quite a few. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65498 Deposit 17/02/13 Contract 12/04 Slab 17/05 Roof 06/06 Bricks, Lockup and Fixing 04/07 PCI 22/08 Handover 29/08 Moved in 07/09! 0 5145 We are at the stage on our build in Kilcoy, Queensland where we need to get our fencing installed but we cant get any contact details for our neighbours to give them… 0 6444 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14450 |