Browse Forums Building A New House Re: 29Dec 27, 2013 9:36 am Mel&Em I'd prefer to have heating vents in the ceilings anyways. Having them in the floors means that you are restricted when moving around or buying new furniture as you do not want to cover them. Besides, a 700mm fall only means 350 cut and 350 fill (hardly noticable) Em My in laws built a new house and put them on the floor... it makes more sense to have heating coming up from the bottom... if in the ceiling it has to heat the space that is above the area you feel before it heats up the air at a persons height. Timber stumps all the way. insulate the timber floor underneath.... and the noise goes away. Re: Concrete Slab vs Timber sub floor? 30Dec 29, 2013 9:15 pm Just a comment re the fall of your block. You mention there is a fall of 600mm over the block. However how much fall is there over the actual building envelope. Given you are going two storey chances are there may be less fall over the slab area. If this means there ends up with only 300mm then a slab is a no brainer and should even be the cheaper option. Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1. optional, you can but normally just use the earth from the main switch board 2. should be enough but the distance determines voltage drop - sparky should work it… 1 29187 Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 16403 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5438 |