Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1084May 03, 2019 10:56 am steel would you mind sharing why your windows can't be tinted please? We have ordered double glazing with (seemingly) the same specs as you for our 2 storey and they've not provided frosted glass to the bathrooms, the answer from the builder was to tint these!! Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1085May 03, 2019 11:06 am Double Glazing is different to Laminate in that Double Glazed refers to a vacuum between two panes whereas laminated glass is two panes of glass with an intermediary product between the two. Its not recommended to tint laminate in general as far as I can tell for Laminate because it can create hot spots. On top of this, the ComfortHush has a low E coating applied to the interior of the windows so that would be damaged. My only option is external tinting which is reflective only and far more expensive to achieve. I would speak with a glazier but I would suspect you can get double glazed windows tinted after the fact with less issues. Assuming its standard glass. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1086May 20, 2019 8:10 am We are just about to start our 2nd build and are still referring back to this page, it's a goldmine! One little thing that is a big deal to me is the grout in the tiles. I am not sure if it's just me but I definitely prefer smaller grout lines, and as usual, if it's not mentioned and in the contract its very difficult to change! Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1088Jun 05, 2019 5:11 pm jkelleher01 We are just about to start our 2nd build and are still referring back to this page, it's a goldmine! One little thing that is a big deal to me is the grout in the tiles. I am not sure if it's just me but I definitely prefer smaller grout lines, and as usual, if it's not mentioned and in the contract its very difficult to change! tile gap is more closer when u go for rectified tiles as my understanding goes. 600 x600 rect tiles will have smaller as rectified tiles will have fine edges and they are able to lay them close and grout lines will be smaller... Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1089Jun 10, 2019 11:42 am One thing that we forgot and one thing we regret not getting. Dusted vacuum thought the house and hebel power floors. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1091Jun 10, 2019 11:54 am steel Very situational on Ducted Vacuum. I personally dont rate it and wouldnt get one. We have one in our current house. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1092Jun 11, 2019 7:28 am I know five people that have them in their homes and they all say that a ducted vacuum is the best thing ever. Four of them have two storey houses and they keep a hose on each level. We're installing one in our upcoming build as well. Stewie Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1093Jun 11, 2019 1:08 pm or instead save tons of money and get yourself a couple of vac robots instead. They are very good those days. Ducted vacuums will be gone really soon, same as TV antenna, same as phone lines - those are good things to NOT put into a new build. Give some second thinking re NBN too as with 5G Mobile Internet it will lose competition quickly too. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1094Jun 11, 2019 1:32 pm steel Double Glazing is different to Laminate in that Double Glazed refers to a vacuum between two panes whereas laminated glass is two panes of glass with an intermediary product between the two. Its not recommended to tint laminate in general as far as I can tell for Laminate because it can create hot spots. Hi, we have used laminated glass in most of our windows, as part of the double glazing system. So for example our main living area windows/door are 6.38mm clear lam with a 14mm air (argon) gap and then a 4-5mm toughened glass pane on the inside. We wanted the clear laminate to provide a bit more noise suppression and also block most of the UV light coming in. We have used grey tinted laminate on two East side bedrooms plus our main south facing bedorom, and although I agree it could be problematic (with hot spots) we hope that no issues appear on these partiuclar windows. Where we have tinted on the west side we just went with standard toughened grey tint within the double glazing unit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1095Jun 11, 2019 1:35 pm One thing we recently discovered was the shelving height in the robes for our boys bedrooms was set @1660mm. We didn't realise this was the builder's standard height, and when I raised the robe door heights to be 2340mm (instead of standard 2040mm door height) I imagined the shelving to be up around 1800-1900mm. Anyhow this was an oversight, in that if you raise the robe door heights make sure you let the builder know what height you want the top shelf in your robes to be set at. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1096Jun 11, 2019 8:08 pm Stewie D I know five people that have them in their homes and they all say that a ducted vacuum is the best thing ever. Four of them have two storey houses and they keep a hose on each level. We're installing one in our upcoming build as well. Stewie Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1097Jun 11, 2019 8:09 pm Surely it can’t beat the new Cordless Dyson on each floor. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1098Jun 11, 2019 8:13 pm darb74 One thing we recently discovered was the shelving height in the robes for our boys bedrooms was set @1660mm. We didn't realise this was the builder's standard height, and when I raised the robe door heights to be 2340mm (instead of standard 2040mm door height) I imagined the shelving to be up around 1800-1900mm. Anyhow this was an oversight, in that if you raise the robe door heights make sure you let the builder know what height you want the top shelf in your robes to be set at. Another point is if you habe WIR in each of the bedrooms and you have draws, make sure they are not impact when the doors on the WIR is open. Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1099Jun 11, 2019 8:25 pm KamadoJusto Surely it can’t beat the new Cordless Dyson on each floor. Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 1100Jun 12, 2019 9:34 am Drew01 KamadoJusto Surely it can’t beat the new Cordless Dyson on each floor. Because we have the wool blended carpet, a few push of the vacumn and it's full. Question for everyone, how is the robotic cleaner in solid floorboards? As we have French oak timber it's soft and I am concern that it will scratch the floors. 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 11648 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 8424 No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6636 |