Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Metricon 8563Mar 07, 2020 6:44 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Building with Metricon 8565Mar 08, 2020 7:42 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Building with Metricon 8567Mar 08, 2020 12:50 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Building with Metricon 8568Mar 10, 2020 9:23 pm Hi everyone! What a wealth of knowledge there is here! I’m not able to build a new home at the moment. Hoping to build the bayville 49 one day. Can anyone tell me what the interior wall colour is? chokyulate Hi Phoenix We are looking at Liberty 40 with provincial however was advised it was too Big for 465 SQM land Wondering how big your land was and how much did it cost for 38 including icon / upgrades And did they including aircon in upgrades ? Phoenix77 Hi everyone, Just found this site a couple days ago and have been devouring the content. Thanks first of all for all your input and for those keeping it real. We plan to build Liberty 38 with provincial facade in Ryde. M has done and approved our compliance check on 22 Nov and offered for us to go straight to contract (i.e. skipping tender process), which we accepted so we are currently awaiting contract and have scheduled a contract review meeting with M New Homes Advisor (NHA) 14 Dec. We reckon we captured all of our basic requirements in terms of structural changes and must-have wants. Below are items that we have captured during cost and layout change with M NHA: - Adding bedroom, ensuite and WIR on ground floor - Ground floor height to 2700 mm and 1st floor to 2550 mm - Extend outdoor room, include eave 390D - Include driveway concrete and council cross over - Butler pantry - Hebel render - Added toilet on 1st outside toilet - Tile on ground and carpet on 1st which we plan to change to timber and our sales consultant provision $5k for us - 80m island bench and waterfall on both side - Provide gas connection - Change electric induction cooktop to gas - Tile to ceiling on all wet area except laundry - Upgrade most windows to size to 2100 mm instead of 1500 mm - Upgrade entrance to 2340H x 1200W Hume Savoy Pivot entry door - Change and add a couple doors to sliding door (gosh this one really adds up !) - Change hot water system to Thermann 6 Star 26L 50 degree gas continous flow hot water system We are quite happy with the draft plan from compliance because we only have to step down garage to 333m, compare to worst-case scenario of having steps inside the house. We only have to cut 800 mm and fill 700 mm. NHA has provision $25k for this so really looking forward to how much will this actually cost since we only have to step garage down. I am looking forward to advices and encouragement from all of you, the KDR or new build warriors! Excited but anxious at the same. Cheers Metricon - Liberty 38 with Provincial facade - Ryde Re: Building with Metricon 8569Mar 30, 2020 9:04 pm shokel1975 Kimmykim Anyone experience leaking from the vent? Ours was leaking badly when the storm came just now. We had cooler guy came over to check our cooler yesterday and wondering whether they have caused the leaking today. Called Metricon and am waiting for them to reply. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Nothing so far, but the timing sound suss. If the cooling guy was there there day prior, sounds like he may not have put everything back where he is supposed to? You are right. They have broken one of our roof tiles who caused the leak. We have M sending over roof specialist to check and found out that. Now all fixed. Beware next time if anyone going up your roof. They might crack the roof tiles (if you are having roof tiles) while walking on them. Re: Building with Metricon 8570Mar 30, 2020 9:07 pm Drew01 What cooling system do you have, and what was the guy there for? We have Braemar. We called the cooler company to check why it is not cooling and breeze seems to be quite weak even we turn on high. They couldn't find anything wrong with it. Re: Building with Metricon 8571Apr 22, 2020 8:53 am We have this very annoying humming noise coming from the ceiling of our Master bedroom ensuite and the bedroom next to it. The constant humming noise is audible through the whole night till early morning. Around 7am to 8am, there will be a loud banging noise also coming from the ceiling then the humming noise will stop. At first we thought the banging noise was from the construction behind our house but after checking it, it was from inside the house and from the ceiling. We suspected the humming noise is coming from the water heater due to the antifreeze valve but not sure about the banging sound. My daughter has to shift to another bedroom due to the humming noise. It is really very disturbing. Wondering anyone has this problem and how to solve it. Thanks in advance. Re: Building with Metricon 8572Apr 25, 2020 10:23 pm Kimmykim We have this very annoying humming noise coming from the ceiling of our Master bedroom ensuite and the bedroom next to it. The constant humming noise is audible through the whole night till early morning. Around 7am to 8am, there will be a loud banging noise also coming from the ceiling then the humming noise will stop. At first we thought the banging noise was from the construction behind our house but after checking it, it was from inside the house and from the ceiling. We suspected the humming noise is coming from the water heater due to the antifreeze valve but not sure about the banging sound. My daughter has to shift to another bedroom due to the humming noise. It is really very disturbing. Wondering anyone has this problem and how to solve it. Thanks in advance. We have the dripping noise above our master bedroom, which is the hot water system. Until your post I hadn't thought much about it but we do get a random thumping in that wall too, usually in the morning. It's the external wall so it doesn't affect any room but ours. Re: Building with Metricon 8573May 01, 2020 11:13 pm Does anyone have an Actron refrigerated cooling/heating unit? Can you help?? We have just restored the factory settings as it was doing some strange things (probably as a result of me playing around with it when we first moved in)... anyway, since I did this today when the unit is in heating mode and set at 22°C, the main control unit gradually starts dropping in temperature by half a degree until it has gone down at least 2 or 3°C. This in turn drags down the zone temperature for the lower floor to then be lower than it was originally set at. It seems that the zone temperature cannot be any more than 2°C different to the main control unit temperature. We are wondering why the main control unit keeps dropping its set temperature automatically over the course of 30 minutes or so... help!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Metricon 8574May 02, 2020 2:35 pm shokel1975 Does anyone have an Actron refrigerated cooling/heating unit? Can you help?? We have just restored the factory settings as it was doing some strange things (probably as a result of me playing around with it when we first moved in)... anyway, since I did this today when the unit is in heating mode and set at 22°C, the main control unit gradually starts dropping in temperature by half a degree until it has gone down at least 2 or 3°C. This in turn drags down the zone temperature for the lower floor to then be lower than it was originally set at. It seems that the zone temperature cannot be any more than 2°C different to the main control unit temperature. We are wondering why the main control unit keeps dropping its set temperature automatically over the course of 30 minutes or so... help!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ you really should contact actron air directly via their website Re: Building with Metricon 8575May 02, 2020 3:05 pm [quote="FortuneCat":1akywgmd][quote="shokel1975":1akywgmd]Does anyone have an Actron refrigerated cooling/heating unit? Can you help?? We have just restored the factory settings as it was doing some strange things (probably as a result of me playing around with it when we first moved in)... anyway, since I did this today when the unit is in heating mode and set at 22°C, the main control unit gradually starts dropping in temperature by half a degree until it has gone down at least 2 or 3°C. This in turn drags down the zone temperature for the lower floor to then be lower than it was originally set at. It seems that the zone temperature cannot be any more than 2°C different to the main control unit temperature. We are wondering why the main control unit keeps dropping its set temperature automatically over the course of 30 minutes or so... help!!! [img:1akywgmd]https://forum.homeone.com.au/u/83269_1588338806.jpeg[/img:1akywgmd][/quote:1akywgmd] you really should contact actron air directly via their website[/quote:1akywgmd] Only been in house 5 months, so will be contacting M to send someone out.... Just been avoiding that – as they are a pain in the backside to deal with for warranty and service. Re: Building with Metricon 8577May 02, 2020 4:35 pm Jayjay84 Is ur system set on auto? My old actrom one was and it would change itself every half hour or so Yes it is... maybe I will try taking it off auto. I also think it may be happening when upstairs is not on and is too cold up there. Thanks 😊 Re: Building with Metricon 8578May 02, 2020 8:28 pm blackcat20 Kimmykim We have this very annoying humming noise coming from the ceiling of our Master bedroom ensuite and the bedroom next to it. The constant humming noise is audible through the whole night till early morning. Around 7am to 8am, there will be a loud banging noise also coming from the ceiling then the humming noise will stop. At first we thought the banging noise was from the construction behind our house but after checking it, it was from inside the house and from the ceiling. We suspected the humming noise is coming from the water heater due to the antifreeze valve but not sure about the banging sound. My daughter has to shift to another bedroom due to the humming noise. It is really very disturbing. Wondering anyone has this problem and how to solve it. Thanks in advance. We have the dripping noise above our master bedroom, which is the hot water system. Until your post I hadn't thought much about it but we do get a random thumping in that wall too, usually in the morning. It's the external wall so it doesn't affect any room but ours. We also have the dripping noise above the ensuite. Anyway, we have contacted M to get Chromagen to come in next week. See what they have to say. Re: Building with Metricon 8579May 30, 2020 9:31 pm Hi, anyone knows whether we’ll have neutral wire in lighting switch or not? Also do anyone knows about registering positive covenant for OSD? Thanks Metricon - Liberty 38 with Provincial facade - Ryde https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... &p=1859996 Re: Building with Metricon 8580May 30, 2020 10:30 pm Phoenix77 Hi, anyone knows whether we’ll have neutral wire in lighting switch or not? Also do anyone knows about registering positive covenant for OSD? Thanks I'm not a sparky, but still think there is red, black and green in the wiring In regards to the positive covenant, a registered surveyor should help you there, but why could your builder not tell you that? Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. 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