Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you forget 122Oct 16, 2010 9:10 pm Block bought 1st RBC X! 2nd Ventrua,Keeper! Pstart 18/7/11 Ethwks jan 2012 Slab Bricks- finished 7/6 Roof Trusses 15/6-cbond 21/7 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=41185 Re: Things you forget 129Oct 21, 2010 11:34 pm Jason Building a modified Platinum MKII with Blueprint Homes. House Plan Contracts Signed: 18/10/2010 Prestart 21/10/2010 Sandpad: 14/1/2011 Slabbed: 27/1/2011 Brickwork: 15/2/2011 Roof: 18/3/2011 Re: Things you forget 134Oct 25, 2010 2:19 pm Building at Warner Lakes in sunny Queensland. Building with Bold Properties. Building thread is here! - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=38957 Blog is here! - http://campoutforland.blogspot.com Re: Things you forget 136Oct 25, 2010 9:30 pm My house and my rants.... - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26937 We are in!!!...and still unpacking. Thankfully there are always Tim Tams Re: Things you forget 137Oct 25, 2010 9:39 pm Great that I have found this post guys I sign my contract next wk. I will be checking where our man hole will be, and be getting extra garden taps for sure, thks. But all extras I have asked for so far; - we have a big master bedroom with a retreat (waste of space) so we have put another wir in, a wall behind our back bedroom wall & only cost me 600- money well spent - lots of extra power points, tv points - additional duct for vacuuming - provision for fan for alfresco - much cheaper to do ourselves, father in law used to be a sparky - frosted glass in bathrooms - translucent glass at entrance & in front door - power point in alfresco - lights in staircase - I have a toddler - lots of dual lighting entry to hallway, etc - lots of extra floodlights outside - dbl sensor flood light on garage - doors added to close off rumpus & main living area, - big down lights to alfresco ( less needed) - split heating for downstairs/upstairs (money well spent when the winter bills come in) - extended garage to 2 1/2 - heard about how 2 cars will just fit! - extended alfresco - decent size for entertaining - heat lights to both bathrooms, had these in my old house & loved them, I always found ducted heating was to stuffy! And great for applying makeup! - added niche with full length mirror in ens bathroom - added niches to both showers - made bath bigger - only cost $25- bargain! Lol - ext bathroom mirror over bath, makes bathroom lookmbigger! - added broom cupboard & extra benches in laundry - made fridge space bigger, for dbl fridge - down lights all downstairs - can do upstairs later, lucky that my father in law used to be a sparky and said he can do anything upstairs, but downstAirs is a lot harder without putting holes everywhere! Bugger that absolutely everything to be done downstairs! - flyscreen doors to rumpus sliding & balcony sliding doors. - locks to downstairs windows only! If I had more money I woukd have: - added laundry shoot - quoted 2k, forget! - gotten bigger eaves - quoted 7k - upgraded all bathroom tiles - onlynwent STD & upgraded features to mosaics only cost 1.7k for 2 bathrooms & powder rm - gotten 3 car garage - quoted 6k vs 3k we r paying - gotten 40mm bench tops waterfall - extra 3 k, just went STD 20mm! - 2pac kitchen -went vinyl wrap, much cheaper - upgraded staircase - 3k upgrade! - put pillars & plaster to block off formel lounge, so it can dbl as guestbroom! Hopefully we can do this one day! I think that is absolutely everything! We upgraded little things too like door handles, privacy locks to all toilets, bathrooms. Upgraded carpet underlay, front doors, deadlocks, etc. All those little hidden extra! Lol Mel Re: Things you forget 138Oct 29, 2010 8:55 am Gas point on deck/alfresco to plug the bbq into (no more hassling with bottles) Get plumber to put in provision for later greywater recycling, it is only a few extra dollars of cheap pipe Make sure the builders seal around the window frames and other penetrations properly Want dimmers? Make sure you get (or are supplied) CFL globes that are dimmable Re: Things you forget 139Oct 29, 2010 9:15 am This has been fantastic guys, thanks so much. I havent started building yet, so this thread is really valuable. A couple of other suggestions: Niches in the showers Soft close hinges on drawers and cupboards Powertainment things - these inlcude 6 powerpoints and a tv cable all on the one point - we are putting around 3 of these in. Another thing we are doing because we have quite a lot of storage in the laundry is including a hanging rail to hang the shirts/pants on in the linen cpboard to use both before and after ironing. Hopefully this will help keep us a little tidier. Change doors to internal sliders (hallways, ensuit, WIR's) Def check which way doors open - we have only just got our fisrt working drawing, and gee i am glad i checked the doors - you wonder what some people think when drawing these plans up Check size of windows - our prelim drawings had 900 and 1500 wide windows. I went off and bought all of my blinds 50% off , on the drawings they have decreased in size (this will be changed). Hope i havent doubled up, as i am still making my way through this thread. cheers Re: Things you forget 140Oct 30, 2010 8:57 am higherdestiny * Conduit. Conduit is basically just hollow pipe which can be run from the ceiling cavity down the inside of a wall to a point where cabling can be run in future. I installed 13 conduit runs to blank plates in my house so I can run my own Cat6 network later. Electricians can install a blank wall plate (like a power point plate, but completely blank). You can run network cable, speaker cable, HDMI cable - whatever. Cost me $33 per point, and well worth the effort, considering running cable through nogging post-build can be a headache! Perfect for media rooms. Also consider putting power and telephone ports on the top shelf of a broom or linen cupboard - as an internet / modem point for your house. You can have your modem and wifi router tucked away where no-one can see it Unless you are a Data cabler or you are an Electrician and have your Open or restricted cabling License/ Ticket it is Still Ilegal for you to run your own Network and telephone cabling. 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 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 12448 A question. 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