Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 84Feb 24, 2020 12:44 pm https://thomasarcherbuild.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html - Thomas Archer Homes - Custom Nouveau 41 Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 94Mar 05, 2020 9:11 am jedigriever ourrawsonbalmoral38 jedigriever Hi, Always looking forward to your weekly updates and it is nice to see how your build is going along. We are at admin stage atm and trying to do my research on multiple things. I have a question since I saw that you got downlight provisions. With the downlight provisions, does this include the plug base and hole cut-out? Meaning will you just be buying downlights that you want and can possible install them yourself? Also, if this is the case, does it mean you can have provisions to ground floor as well? Thanks in advance, I was gonna ask about your strip lighting underneath overhead cupboards but I reread your first post and found the price. So thanks for that! Good luck with your build admin stage was slow for us! With the D/L provision its basically tie cable up in roof cavity. On handover my electrican will saw hole in gyprock then go fishing for cable with a hook and will need to wir ein quick connect socket (I think the sockets are like $5 ea or thereabouts) Yes on a double storey ground floor you must do all provisions beforehand, on first floor on some houses can do wiring etc after handover but we have a skillion roof with minimal room in cavity so just decided to pay rawsons for their D/L provision Thanks. I was hoping the provision included the socket and hole cutout so I can just plug in the downlights myself. Hmm unfortunately not... You save a lot of $ (by memory it was $140-150 per D/L think we had 54 in total in our home) and what rawson charge for a D/L provision is still bloody expensive but yeh... Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 95Mar 05, 2020 11:11 am Electricians and builders love installing downlights. Both have their snouts right into this ‘golden trough’. The electrician’s costs per fitting roughly are; quality SAL downlight $10, Clipsal quick connect socket $1.50, apprentice labour $7.00. At consumer pricing of $140 per installation that’s some very profitable 90mm holes in the gyprock! Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 96Mar 09, 2020 7:34 am Week 40: The tiler finished off the tiles, and painting had started of doors walls architraves and scaffolding finally came down Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Week 41: will see shower screens toilets tapware fitted, electrical finished off, and A/C ducted finish. Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 97Mar 12, 2020 9:04 am jedigriever ourrawsonbalmoral38 jedigriever Hi, Always looking forward to your weekly updates and it is nice to see how your build is going along. We are at admin stage atm and trying to do my research on multiple things. I have a question since I saw that you got downlight provisions. With the downlight provisions, does this include the plug base and hole cut-out? Meaning will you just be buying downlights that you want and can possible install them yourself? Also, if this is the case, does it mean you can have provisions to ground floor as well? Thanks in advance, I was gonna ask about your strip lighting underneath overhead cupboards but I reread your first post and found the price. So thanks for that! Good luck with your build admin stage was slow for us! With the D/L provision its basically tie cable up in roof cavity. On handover my electrican will saw hole in gyprock then go fishing for cable with a hook and will need to wir ein quick connect socket (I think the sockets are like $5 ea or thereabouts) Yes on a double storey ground floor you must do all provisions beforehand, on first floor on some houses can do wiring etc after handover but we have a skillion roof with minimal room in cavity so just decided to pay rawsons for their D/L provision Thanks. I was hoping the provision included the socket and hole cutout so I can just plug in the downlights myself. Hey Just thought I'd update you, we're having electrical done this week the electrician called asking what size downlight we're going to put in as he needed to know the cutout size. So basically they cut out the holes leave cabling hanging down, so after handover you can use a quick connect socket then plug in the downlights. Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 98Mar 12, 2020 4:28 pm Thanks for the update! That's good to know that they will do the cut-out. One less thing to worry about. I'll have to make sure to confirm at our electrical appointments though. Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 99Mar 12, 2020 5:07 pm That's new. On my build it was just 3 core unterminated with a pilot hole in the ceiling. Re: Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW 100Mar 12, 2020 9:54 pm SteveMc That's new. On my build it was just 3 core unterminated with a pilot hole in the ceiling. Yeah that's what I was told to expect by the sales admin, probably a case by case basis and depending on what sparky you get? (TBH what we were told at admin stage and what reality is generally completely different though!) The guy we had was a top bloke really helpful friendly and easy going. I was very appreciative of his work and he was even calling to check things and surprisingly sent me pics once he'd completed! Outstanding service from the electrical contractors! Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 2463 In NSW the maximum deposit for building work is 5% until the builder provides HBCF insurance 1 4830 Hi All, see above image. The required setback from the rear boundary in my case is 5m, as you can see the shape of the site and location of the boundary is slightly… 0 8463 |