Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 43Oct 06, 2008 3:01 pm Timbacare - Save Your Furniture! We can help you revive timber furniture & flooring www.timbacare.com.au Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 44Oct 06, 2008 3:21 pm http://www.rentfreeatlast.blogspot.com/ Building in Berwick ----------------------------------------------------------- "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 46Oct 06, 2008 4:44 pm http://www.rentfreeatlast.blogspot.com/ Building in Berwick ----------------------------------------------------------- "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 56Oct 09, 2008 9:39 pm BlackRain haywgl MrT And if you're provisioning for PayTV, don't forget the phone cable that should be installed to the outlet as well as the coax cable (we did, but caught it just in time). Is this necessary to make the pay tv work or only if you want to order movies etc? The reason I ask is that we don't have a phone point next to our current Foxtel and it works fine...the only problem we have is if we want to order something through Main Event/Movies we have to ring up to customer service to do it rather than order it via our remote. I think you are right about the phone line being for ordering movies on In our previous rental home we had Foxtel but there was no phone point near where we had the TV connection so we were given a wireless connector to plug into the power point near the tv that had a phone line going from it to the set top box and another wireless connector in the kitchen hooked up to the phone line. Was a bit of a pain in the bum as it took up an extra power point in the kitchen when I would rather have had my kettle hooked up So I suppose it would be better to get the phone put in near the TV point just for convenience sake which is what I have done on our new place Just asked my brother about this as he works for foxtel, he says not only is the phone point for ordering movies, and doing interactive stuff, but they often, in the middle of the night do updates to software on the iq boxes and it is done via the phone line Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 57Oct 10, 2008 9:25 am We are in the final stage now, so still got a few things to go before we know everything we may have forgot, so far we have notice in the kitchen, our sink is on a bench which doesnt have a wall against it, so if a dish is to fall it falls on tiles! so should have had added something at the back of the sink to make sure that couldn't happened!
A good thing lve notice a lot of ppl do forget is outside powerpoints, so if you haven't done your electricals think of those! and was also told to remember conduit for outdoor lights, its something you should do before a driveway or path goes down, if you want outside lights later on, adding the conduit now will save you LOTS of money later (so im told!) Re: 58Oct 21, 2009 12:34 pm MICA Hi there all, I must say, we can add realms of points, but taking into consideration the following points: - your brand new home, - you paying the mortgage, - getting through the first winter, -etc, etc, etc, A MUST for all new homes is a Heater Point in the Bathroom!! You'll thank me for it once you move in! Hehe This is so true for me - All the things I am reading on this forum I wish I could afford to do but may have to be done later Kel Building in Mooroolbark! Building permit: 21.10.09 Site Start: 12.11.09 Slab 23.11.09 Frame completed 18.12.09 Roof completed 15.01.10 Lock up 05.03.10 Fixing : 30.04.10 Handover: 11.06.10 Blog: http://kelnryan.blogspot.com Re: Things you forget 59Oct 21, 2009 11:27 pm love all the suggestions so far ... keep em coming people ... we all need our houses PERFECT We're building The Albany 330E with Casa Design & Construction via National Builders Group See how we are going here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32694 Re: Things you forget 60Oct 22, 2009 9:38 am Suggestions ! - data cabling GALORE ... we did like every room in the house... (multiple points in some rooms) - extra phone line for security system if you feel the need - the special cable for foxtel so we can connect easy at some point in the future. - organised the split system air con before building started.. so all our cables are now hidden inside the walls and dont require ugly pipes hiding cables everywhere Think about cross breezes etc when considering window positioning. For example our master bedroom.. standard was a window facing the east... we added another window on opposite side (west) so the breezes can now flow straight through.. its lovely ! and im so glad I did it ! If you are wanting just that bit of extra space.. but dont want to go nuts with extensions, consider pushing the walls out to the eaves (i.e. so you have no eaves). We did this with 2 sides of our master bedroom.. which made the bedroom and ensuite bigger Security lights out the back and the front Depends what you're current inclusions are, but we're not including wardrobes and will just use second hand ones until we can save later on to get them built. Also have a… 3 11596 Looking to start the journey of becoming an owner builder in SA. Feeling pretty (overly) confident on the building and construction details, but really struggling to find… 0 8397 No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6626 |