Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 2Jan 16, 2008 7:20 am Grandview 36 on Beautiful Bribie Site Start Dec 5th 2007 Projected completion May 12th 2008 NOPE Handover 24th June 2008 Moved in 11th July 2008 Wating on one final thing - Still - Oct 2009 Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 13Jan 21, 2008 11:55 am cfham Novice question time... Can you access the roof space of the downstairs ceiling through the floor of the second floor? If you cut through the floor. Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 14Jan 21, 2008 12:09 pm Sorry what I meant to say was if you were desperate to do the lighting after handover could you cut through the floor (MDF?) to access the ceiling below to put the extra lighting in. The floor is only going to be carpeted over anyway...
Cookie have you heard back from BH council yet? Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 15Jan 21, 2008 12:25 pm cfham Cookie have you heard back from BH council yet? I'll update my Clarendon thread... http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=38534#38534 Re: Doing electrical work through the home builder 16Jan 21, 2008 12:26 pm One thing that you need to make sure if doing the lights afterwards, the each light and power point circuit needs to be balanced forthe correct amperage of the circuit which is based on the number of lights and the current draw on that circuit.
This might be part of the reason fro the builders uplifted cost. But you can't have 10 batton lights on a circuit and then install 50 downlights without splitting the circuits to match the current draw on each. and re getting into the upper floor to lower ceiling space, normally there is not much room in there. My thoughts Steve The DIY project can be broken into two major steps. Planning and Design and Construction. Both of these steps are as important as one another to ensure you give… 0 5415 Hi group, have some damage to the door frame and skirting board. It's a side door to the laundry area. Only has a security door. I had a termite inspection (note drill… 0 5630 0 2382 |