Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Aveling Build - Rosehill Waters 19Nov 21, 2017 5:07 pm Looks like abt $4k we spent.....Lots of GPO's @ $56 each, and LED's @ $146. We also upgraded bathrooms to those IXL Tastic light/fan/heat combo units. Also ran a conduit and blank wall box next to Shoppers entrance for alarm panel down the track, also put junction box in ceiling above kitchen bench so wiring is all in place for easy hookup of future pendants (Maybe do same in your Bedroom if not doing pendants with builder) I think smart wiring was another $1000 but I couldn't stretch the budget too far. If you want to future proof you might want to look at Intelligent Homes, I know with our builder you had to have consult with them and then take the info to pre-start. It looks like your living room TV will be on the external wall in that cutout which will make life easier to add things later, but for your theatre looks like TV will be on internal wall so will need some pre-planning by you of what you want in there. My advice; Plan out what TV and Devices are for what room ie Foxtel Box, media players etc, and if possible - what mounting bracket (so you can plan the points behind the TV to be spot on in relation to the bracket) I drew a sketch of what I wanted to plug into the TV and thought about what cables are needed, which led me to how many conduits I wanted to run. I ended up with a wall box at 300 and a wall box at 1250 where TV is mounted, with 2 x conduits running from the ceiling down to the floor via those wall boxes ( 1 x 25ml and 1 x 32ml) My Setup; TV Height (1250 off floor) TV Aerial point and 1 x GPO + wall box and conduit for all other cables. (Try and make sure this wall box is on same side of TV that the hdmi ports are). If you go smart wiring chuck a data point here too so your smart TV is wired not wifi so should get better performance Floor Height (300) Quad Power Point, Data point/points + wall box with conduits (Planning on my Foxtel coming down from ceiling, then HDMI going up to TV for that plus HDMI's for things like games consoles/laptops). Setting up my router down here so can run data in there from the wall and then from router to Foxtel box and games console so have wired connection for better results We wrote out our electrical into Must haves/Nice to haves and went from there, and then considered internal walls being a 'now or never' type thing! Re: Aveling Build - Rosehill Waters 20Nov 21, 2017 11:38 pm One of our big things was installing 2 and 3 way switches. Our hallway lights all had seperate switches which meant we would have to walk down to the front door to turn the hallway ones off. Instead we put 3 way switches in so the same lights could be turned off from the front and back of the hallways. Hilbert HGWA Build viewtopic.php?t=89433 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 17511 thank you! do we need to get this or our builder before we commence new build on the block? 2 10404 Hi, did you get any money from insurance? if you did, does it match what you've already paid the builders? 3 9559 |