Browse Forums Building A New House Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 74Jul 28, 2020 4:44 am Looks great, love the black and white theme, ours will be similar! Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 75Aug 11, 2020 4:52 pm alexp79 I see. I don't know why in Australia/NZ virtually no one is installing flooring first before installing kitchen and built-in furniture. Same applies to tiling after vanities are installed. I have asked same Question to my builder. He said factory maid kitchen & vanities have base profile error & it will easy to do adjust on slab by adding extra spacers & silicon them. after tiling it will look cheap. Honestly, I am not agree. I am CAD engineer & CNC is my subject. I know most of kitchen makers are now using CNC to cut sheets which has +/-0.05mm tolerance. Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 76Aug 19, 2020 2:10 pm powersquad Very slow progress this week. Weather has been bad. Lots of rain. Roof was due to be installed couple of days ago but rain hampered the efforts. Hopefully Thursday and Friday are going to be clear days for roof to be done by. We bought both our bathrooms and WC shower systems and taps from Germany. It was a lot cheaper even after paying customs/duty and shipping charges. The shower systems have built in thermostat as well. We went with all Grohe for bathrooms and WC tapware and shower systems. The rain shower is big (310mm) in diameter so covers the entire body very well and has two different spray options. 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 ⋅ Hi powersquad the house is really coming great ! I am following some of your selections for our house and I thank you for your updates. I was planning to use the Grohe Smartshower system for our Master ensuite and was bit confused of what systems should I use. Do you have any details of what you had ordered. Does the whole system consist of Rapido smartbox (https://www.grohe.com.au/en_au/for-your-bathroom/rapido-smartbox/) + The front end thermostat ? Or everything comes in as one unit. I am planing to use the 3 button plate to control 2 overhead showers and 1 handheld. I hope my understanding of the application is correct. May I ask how did you order it and approximate cost for it ? I can see Reece are selling it for $2K - https://www.reece.com.au/product/grohe-smartcontrol-concealed-thermostat-3-button-9508896?query=grohe%20smart%20control Appreciate your assistance ! Thanks Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 77Aug 19, 2020 8:00 pm Hi Ozshaz . Thank you. We have now moved into our new home as of last Sunday and we still have plenty of landscaping work to do. I will take some driveway pics and upload that sometime this week. The Grohe shower system is honestly really amazing. We love using the rainshower and also the handheld. You are correct in that the rainshower photo I posted in an earlier message provider rainshower and also a massage shower. These are controlled by individual buttons on the 3 button thermostat model that you have linked. The third button like you correctly mentioned is for our Methven Aurajet AIO rail shower. We use all three at the same time. It is amazing shower experience. We went with the circular model 3 button thermostat though while the one you have linked above is the square design. We went with the circular design because we also imported all our other bathroom and toilet tapware from Grohe which have circular caps so it matches the design for rest of our fittings. We bought our Grohe fixtures from couple of places depending on the stock availability. insansi24.de and xtwostore.com They are both German suppliers and remove EU VAT from final checkout prices. We had to buy each bits individually. From memory each shower system which includes the Rapido smartbox, smartcontrol thermostat 3 button in Chrome, Rainshower 310 smartactive in Chrome, Rainshower smartbox was all up just under NZD$1000 per bathroom shower so we spent all up $2000 for 2 bathroom shower systems. This included delivery and GST (15% when it arrived in NZ by customs). The total system here for 1 bathroom in NZ was $3000. We bought 2 of these systems. Saved $4000 These are the Grohe codes we purchased. The Grohe product codes across the world are the same so you will easily be able to search for exactly what we purchased. Rainshower - 26475000 Rainshower Smartbox - 26484000 Thermostat - 29121000 Rapido Smartbox - 35600000 If you are also wanting to know the Grohe wall taps we bought for basins, bathtub then these are below. When we purchased the colour options had just been introduced so they were out of stock everywhere and very expensive. We were happy to stick with Chrome as it has a nice coating to it so avoids finger mark anyway. Grohe Essence 183mm - 19408001 Grohe tap's inwall connectors - 23571000 Edit - Couple of pieces of advice I can give you. I hope your plumber is knowledgeable and honest. Our plumber had both qualities. He was straight up honest and said he has never install this complex shower system before. In reality if you watch the animated install video from Grohe that are on Youtube, it is very straight forward. He got another of his plumber friends to install the shower systems because he did not wanted to disappoint us with a faulty install so show your plumber the animated install video from Grohe before purchasing it. Second advise is without knowing what kind of water pressure you get in Australia and in which city you live in as water pressure varies is to buy a water pump as you can imaging running all three showers under 1 system at same time, someone else is using the other bathroom and taking a shower or running tap in kitchen and you may get a drop in pressure. We also purchased and installed the DAB E.SYBOX via the plumber. We get 0 pressure drops with both bathrooms running all three buttons on the thermostat at same time, kitchen taps running, guest toilet basin tap running and water irrigation system going. Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 78Aug 19, 2020 8:55 pm powersquad Hi Ozshaz . Thank you. We have now moved into our new home as of last Sunday and we still have plenty of landscaping work to do. I will take some driveway pics and upload that sometime this week. The Grohe shower system is honestly really amazing. We love using the rainshower and also the handheld. You are correct in that the rainshower photo I posted in an earlier message provider rainshower and also a massage shower. These are controlled by individual buttons on the 3 button thermostat model that you have linked. The third button like you correctly mentioned is for our Methven Aurajet AIO rail shower. We use all three at the same time. It is amazing shower experience. We went with the circular model 3 button thermostat though while the one you have linked above is the square design. We went with the circular design because we also imported all our other bathroom and toilet tapware from Grohe which have circular caps so it matches the design for rest of our fittings. We bought our Grohe fixtures from couple of places depending on the stock availability. insansi24.de and xtwostore.com They are both German suppliers and remove EU VAT from final checkout prices. We had to buy each bits individually. From memory each shower system which includes the Rapido smartbox, smartcontrol thermostat 3 button in Chrome, Rainshower 310 smartactive in Chrome, Rainshower smartbox was all up just under NZD$1000 per bathroom shower so we spent all up $2000 for 2 bathroom shower systems. This included delivery and GST (15% when it arrived in NZ by customs). The total system here for 1 bathroom in NZ was $3000. We bought 2 of these systems. Saved $4000 These are the Grohe codes we purchased. The Grohe product codes across the world are the same so you will easily be able to search for exactly what we purchased. Rainshower - 26475000 Rainshower Smartbox - 26484000 Thermostat - 29121000 Rapido Smartbox - 35600000 If you are also wanting to know the Grohe wall taps we bought for basins, bathtub then these are below. When we purchased the colour options had just been introduced so they were out of stock everywhere and very expensive. We were happy to stick with Chrome as it has a nice coating to it so avoids finger mark anyway. Grohe Essence 183mm - 19408001 Grohe tap's inwall connectors - 23571000 Edit - Couple of pieces of advice I can give you. I hope your plumber is knowledgeable and honest. Our plumber had both qualities. He was straight up honest and said he has never install this complex shower system before. In reality if you watch the animated install video from Grohe that are on Youtube, it is very straight forward. He got another of his plumber friends to install the shower systems because he did not wanted to disappoint us with a faulty install so show your plumber the animated install video from Grohe before purchasing it. Second advise is without knowing what kind of water pressure you get in Australia and in which city you live in as water pressure varies is to buy a water pump as you can imaging running all three showers under 1 system at same time, someone else is using the other bathroom and taking a shower or running tap in kitchen and you may get a drop in pressure. We also purchased and installed the DAB E.SYBOX via the plumber. We get 0 pressure drops with both bathrooms running all three buttons on the thermostat at same time, kitchen taps running, guest toilet basin tap running and water irrigation system going. Awesome !! Very Very thanks for the information and for sharing your experience !! This has clarified a lot of questions I had and was bit confused with the system but now its clear. As suggested I will run this pass the plumber first to see if they understand and would be ready to install. Its a great feeling to be in the new house after seeing it through construction and I am sure you would be enjoying every bit of it. Looking forward to more of your photos. Well Done ! Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 79Oct 15, 2020 12:48 am Can't wait to see final pictures - the house looks amazing! I had to laugh with how many times you've said you're getting things from overseas. I say that ALL the time. We're getting tiles, bricks and doors from the US; appliances from the UK; cabinetry from the Netherlands and Poland...crazy! I couldn't find anything like my bricks here; and since I was getting a container load anyway, I threw in the tiles (which were half the price of them here); and a door (which was 1/4 of the price, though admittedly, not as schmick). Re: 100% Pure New Zealand. A Kiwi build journey 80Oct 15, 2020 7:53 pm Stunning Your outdoor lighting and deck is inspiring. 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