All the best with your build! I have to say that the quality of the work is pretty good but our house just took longer than we expected. Looks like they are pretty quick with yours, which is good to see
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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison - electricals! 43Feb 01, 2010 11:35 am Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 in Adelaide 47Feb 01, 2010 1:33 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 - cables ZOMG! 55Feb 10, 2010 10:53 am Wow! That's a lot of cables! Are they using the same colour cables for cbus and cbus audio? My partner works for Clipsal on cbus and they use Pink cable for cbus and green for cbus audio... makes things a lot easier appearently Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 - cables ZOMG! 56Feb 10, 2010 12:47 pm ![]() Wow! That's a lot of cables! Are they using the same colour cables for cbus and cbus audio? My partner works for Clipsal on cbus and they use Pink cable for cbus and green for cbus audio... makes things a lot easier appearently We don't have cbus audio - ended up going for something a bit simpler and cheaper but yes they're using pink for c-bus and a different coloured cable for the audio runs. I've been pleased to see the cable runs are very neat in the ceiling. And all the cables are labelled - would be a nightmare for them otherwise when it comes to terminating them later on. evelyng - we need a cat airlock because of relatives who like to stand in doorways to chat. This way we don't need to worry as much about cats escaping (and they can be pretty **). Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 - cables ZOMG! 58Feb 10, 2010 4:46 pm Sorry to hear about your fur-kid, hope the treatment goes as well as expected. Perhaps the relatives can stay on the other side of the airlock ![]() Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 - cables ZOMG! 59Feb 10, 2010 5:09 pm ![]() Sorry to hear about your fur-kid, hope the treatment goes as well as expected. Perhaps the relatives can stay on the other side of the airlock ![]() Thx - we hope it goes well, too... He's such a lovely thing, and an incredible smoocher. And our other furkid (the mad leopard) loves him... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ re. the relatives, that would be a good solution!! They all seem intent on standing on the opposite side of the door and holding it open to chat!! No matter how often you say "come in, we don't want the cats to escape", they all say "oh, no, I can't stay". You don't have to stay, but I want my cats to!! They even block you from stepping out so that you can close the door. I've stood there once with three squirming cats in my arms saying "PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE, come in! OR let me come out. I don't know how long I can hold these guys" and even that didn't work... Thus the cat airlock being an important part of our design - that was part of the spec from the get-go. We've actually done a bunch of things to the house for the cats - including ensuring the there are specific sections of walls with no wires so that we can cut cat tunnels through ![]() As well as being obviously mad, we also believe in responsible pet ownership. We understand that there are people around who just don't like cats, and don't want ours roaming to either be a nuisance to these people, or be in danger from these people. Not to mention the roads... No judgement intended on anyone who lets cats roam - to each his own, and this is the choice that we have made. The reason for the cat airlock, cat-escape-proof courtyard and cat "viewing platform" in the ensuite: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: (heavily modified) Longridge Madison 255 in Adelaide 60Feb 11, 2010 8:45 am ![]() The plan is that the big wall of windows is north facing, and there will be a big, open pergola the whoe length of that wall. Will the pergola be designed to block out the winter sun and let it in during winter? You also want to be careful that those rooms don't get TOO sundrenched, I've seen that happen in designs where sure the house works great in a passive heat sense but the rooms are too bright and uncomfortable to be in. In my place I'm specifically limiting the amount of sun that gets into some of the rooms in the house - which seems counterintuitive - to keep the rooms comfortable during the day, and relying on other sources such as metabolic and cooking sources to provide additional heat. ![]() We're installing heavy, dark, natural basalt tiles to soak up that sun and transfer the heat to the slab so that we can utilise the thermal mass to heat the house. Are the tiles inside the house our outside under the pergola? |