Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 206Oct 19, 2009 8:45 pm brittany Wow Albany you're building with Brian - lovely man! Seems really nice and quiet helpfull over the phone ... Did you ever have any problems with him answering calls, or returning messages ... Im hoping he will be contactable during the build, ive got a friend that has a supervisor that never answers or return calls with another builder We're building The Albany 330E with Casa Design & Construction via National Builders Group See how we are going here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32694 Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 207Oct 20, 2009 8:49 am Mel&Em Hi Brit and Blessed. Do either of you have issues with your heating downstairs. We're finding that we're not getting much airflow at all coming out of our downstairs vents, but upstairs is boiling. Thanks Mel Hey Mel, We have the opposite problem. Our downstairs is boiling and upstairs is a nice temperature except for the master bedroom which seems colder than all the other rooms upstairs. When we have the heater on in both zones and you stand under the ducts, your can feel the heat coming through steadily. However, with the duct in the master, your feel very little hot air flow. I was under the impression that the downstairs was super hot because there are more ducts downstairs (10 ducts than upstairs (6 ducts i think). But something is definitely up with the duct in the master so the builder has contacted Bonaire to come and have a look as the Evaporative Cooling needs to be turned on up in the roof as well. The workman came last week but needed dry weather to be able to climb on the roof and turn it on. Apparently when it was installed, they "forgot" to turn it on With it being warm today and our living areas west facing, we left a message for Bonaire Will let you know how we go. Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 208Oct 20, 2009 11:34 am Our master bedroom is cooler than the rest of upstairs too but we rarely turn the bedrooms on and our bedroom is above the garage so less insulated. Fi has moved in!! Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 209Oct 20, 2009 11:37 am I never had any problems with him returning calls and messages. He's good at email too. He was on site a lot but we live very very close to him so this was probably due to convenience. My only real issue with him is time and I never pressured him enough. Fi has moved in!! Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 210Oct 20, 2009 12:51 pm Have you guys got zoned heating? How do you close upstairs vents? Em Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 211Oct 20, 2009 1:28 pm We paid for the upgrade in the belief we were getting zoned heating. That never turned out to be what was represented to us by the girl at NBG. However saying that when the tradesman installed the unit he did somehow put it so we can turn the bedrooms on and off at the controls. The big central room is zoned with the rest of the house. I have closed the vent on the downstairs bedroom. We usually leave the zone for the bedrooms upstairs off. Fi has moved in!! Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 212Oct 20, 2009 1:44 pm Same here Mel & Em, We paid to upgrade to zoned heating with the belief that we could actually turn off 1 zone and have the other on and vice versa as per the advice we received from the colour selection CSR at NBG. However, this isnt the case at all. Zone A covers the entire ground floor and has to be on if you're using heating. However, you can opt to turn off Zone B at any time which covers the upstairs. This means that if you choose to use heating during the night to all bedrooms, you will also have the heater running downstairs. However, this is still preferable than having the upstairs area as Zone A cause with tiles on the ground floor, the heating isnt as stiffling when compared with the carpeted areas upstairs. Brit your note about being above the garage and having less insulation makes a lot of sense. We just got a call from Bonaire, they'll be coming by today before 5pm. Will let you know what he says. Also does the noise of the garage door opening disturb anyone else sleep in the Master bedroom? Dh opened the garage this morning at 6.30am and i almost jumped out of bed it isnt too loud...but it was more of an unexpected noise than anything else Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 213Oct 20, 2009 2:34 pm I'm usually the one up early and HE hasn't left me any space to park in HIS garage. I've never been woken up by him coming home late at night though. I barely notice the garage door coming up though and until he walks in the door don't know he is home. Fi has moved in!! Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 214Oct 20, 2009 2:42 pm Should I mention that HE backed into HIS garage door the other day. It's left an almost invisible dint. He thought I didn't see it and was quite mortified when I pointed out that I did. Very flimsy garage doors and I shouldn't speak too soon as on that slope the next time it will be me. Fi has moved in!! Re: My buckingham palace - all moved in!!! 215Oct 20, 2009 3:02 pm Oh Fi you crack me up! Having a view sure has its benefits Glad to hear the dent is pretty much invisible but of course all things are visible to one who has superpowers Joe, it depends on your certifier but we are noticing the ones we deal with are really cracking down. So i would recommend you follow your approved landscaping plans to… 4 10965 Hi Simeon, Thank you for laying it down for us. Makes sense. Appreciate it very much. Have a nice day. Cheers 2 9005 A question. Im in Queensland and building a new home. 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