Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 43Oct 06, 2008 3:01 pm Timbacare - Save Your Furniture! We can help you revive timber furniture & flooring www.timbacare.com.au Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 44Oct 06, 2008 3:21 pm http://www.rentfreeatlast.blogspot.com/ Building in Berwick ----------------------------------------------------------- "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams Re: Things you forget - summary page 32 46Oct 06, 2008 4:44 pm http://www.rentfreeatlast.blogspot.com/ Building in Berwick ----------------------------------------------------------- "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams Re: 58Oct 21, 2009 12:34 pm Building in Mooroolbark! Building permit: 21.10.09 Site Start: 12.11.09 Slab 23.11.09 Frame completed 18.12.09 Roof completed 15.01.10 Lock up 05.03.10 Fixing : 30.04.10 Handover: 11.06.10 Blog: http://kelnryan.blogspot.com Re: Things you forget 59Oct 21, 2009 11:27 pm love all the suggestions so far ... keep em coming people ... we all need our houses PERFECT 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: Things you forget 60Oct 22, 2009 9:38 am Suggestions ! - data cabling GALORE ... we did like every room in the house... (multiple points in some rooms) - extra phone line for security system if you feel the need - the special cable for foxtel so we can connect easy at some point in the future. - organised the split system air con before building started.. so all our cables are now hidden inside the walls and dont require ugly pipes hiding cables everywhere Think about cross breezes etc when considering window positioning. For example our master bedroom.. standard was a window facing the east... we added another window on opposite side (west) so the breezes can now flow straight through.. its lovely ! and im so glad I did it ! If you are wanting just that bit of extra space.. but dont want to go nuts with extensions, consider pushing the walls out to the eaves (i.e. so you have no eaves). We did this with 2 sides of our master bedroom.. which made the bedroom and ensuite bigger Security lights out the back and the front Depends what you're current inclusions are, but we're not including wardrobes and will just use second hand ones until we can save later on to get them built. Also have a… 3 11647 Looking to start the journey of becoming an owner builder in SA. Feeling pretty (overly) confident on the building and construction details, but really struggling to find… 0 8422 No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6634 |