Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 50Sep 19, 2020 5:40 pm It's going to look very impressive! Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 52Oct 03, 2020 8:38 pm scott2323 looks good Fence left today. Toilet and bin are ready for collection. Were almost done! https://thomasarcherbuild.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html - Thomas Archer Homes - Custom Nouveau 41 Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 54Oct 09, 2020 10:11 am kathz Oh wow! That’s so quick! 👏 Anymore photos from your SS recently? Haha, it is actually Blacktea2sugars house which is almost finished. I believe she is having her PCI today. Our build is still going on. Staircase were installed and tiling are happening at the moment. Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 55Oct 09, 2020 12:19 pm BigDaddy kathz Oh wow! That’s so quick! 👏 Anymore photos from your SS recently? Haha, it is actually Blacktea2sugars house which is almost finished. I believe she is having her PCI today. Our build is still going on. Staircase were installed and tiling are happening at the moment. Yeah my house! PCI was supposed to be today but got shifted to next Wed. Darbecca on site at 7.30. Then hubby and I get a walk through on Friday am, yay! kathz has a meeting at the office today. How'd you go? https://thomasarcherbuild.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html - Thomas Archer Homes - Custom Nouveau 41 Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 56Oct 11, 2020 9:47 pm Thx! Meeting went well! Love the design studio Did anyone opt for or thinking of opting for any sustainable improvements to their TA homes? Solar power, rainwater recycling or others? Seeking inspiration for a sustainable home! Thank you! Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 57Oct 12, 2020 6:50 am kathz Thx! Meeting went well! Love the design studio Did anyone opt for or thinking of opting for any sustainable improvements to their TA homes? Solar power, rainwater recycling or others? Seeking inspiration for a sustainable home! Thank you! we had pre wiring done for solar panels (will install post handover) and TA are putting in a 4000L water tank plumbed for toilets and garden. Just to caveat - (unless legislation has changed) this doesn't contribute to your overall energy star rating. However it is always good to be as sustainable as possible. Some of the other forum members might have done other things also and I know that TA are currently building an 8 star energy efficient home so they might be able to share with you some other great ideas that you can do. Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 58Oct 12, 2020 8:37 am kathz Thx! Meeting went well! Love the design studio Did anyone opt for or thinking of opting for any sustainable improvements to their TA homes? Solar power, rainwater recycling or others? Seeking inspiration for a sustainable home! Thank you! Hi Kathz, We are building with TA (approaching contract stage). We are making a few upgrades to make it a sustainable home - not only because we want to, but because we are utilising the new Bank Australia loans / finance for sustainable homes (extra discounts off interest rates). It's been a little bit of a challenge with TA but we're getting there. We have a rear facing north which also makes things easy. We would have loved to have gone for Passive House but we just couldn't make the budget and choice of builder work. TA are providing the following upgrades for us:
Things that we considered but couldn't quite make work for various reasons:
We're anticipating to have a gas free home with approx. a 7 - 7.2 star energy rating. Like I mentioned, we wanted to go further, but we're happy with this given the low additional cost. Feel free to reach out if you want any further info on this. Re: Thomas Archer Hive 46 (customised) Build 2020-21 60Oct 12, 2020 10:18 am Wellbuild kathz Thx! Meeting went well! Love the design studio Did anyone opt for or thinking of opting for any sustainable improvements to their TA homes? Solar power, rainwater recycling or others? Seeking inspiration for a sustainable home! Thank you! Hi Kathz, We are building with TA (approaching contract stage). We are making a few upgrades to make it a sustainable home - not only because we want to, but because we are utilising the new Bank Australia loans / finance for sustainable homes (extra discounts off interest rates). It's been a little bit of a challenge with TA but we're getting there. We have a rear facing north which also makes things easy. We would have loved to have gone for Passive House but we just couldn't make the budget and choice of builder work. TA are providing the following upgrades for us:
Things that we considered but couldn't quite make work for various reasons:
We're anticipating to have a gas free home with approx. a 7 - 7.2 star energy rating. Like I mentioned, we wanted to go further, but we're happy with this given the low additional cost. Feel free to reach out if you want any further info on this. Hi Wellbuild thanks for sharing this and looks very good list. I am also thinking along the same lines with regards to hot water system. Do you remember how much you paid for the upgrade to Heat Pump hot water system ? Also does removing the solar gas water heater reduced your star ratings by any chance for the build ? Thanks We spent close to 2 years in a process with TA. It was horrible..... we got to tender, and the first cut was 50% over our budget which "they care such about meeting ". We… 18 27299 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 17609 Hi, did you get any money from insurance? if you did, does it match what you've already paid the builders? 3 9569 |