On our contract, we specified 820W by 2340H double glazed aluminum laundry doors. It was also specified in the construction drawings. We lived in Orange NSW
First delivery: 2040H single glazed.…

We signed our Tender March 2021 and contract a week later. DA submitted to Council July 2021. DA documentation was riddled with wrong documents and wrong drawings. DA was…

Those currently building with Rawson Homes, how’s your build so far?

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Better upgrade insulation and glazing.

For our build, for the facade, we wanted to have an industrial look facade and we initially look to have Tribeca as well. Looks really good. But our builder charges…

Look retyractable screen

Try to sesrch for
Lifetyle clothesline.got option for cover. Aussie made as well

Few architect around and as well as house designer. Try to talk early on with builders as much of them pretty book out.

Source architects

Try To make glazing in the north bigger. I looked for the floorplan you mentionee and I think the study, WCs needs skylights.

Look for an modern eaves which slopes up rather than parallel to the ground.

Rawson filed our DA with non-compliant slope for driveway. How can a big builder who have build thousands of homes with driveway can’t get it right?

Explore split level type of floorplan

If space allows put decidous plant in wedt facing windows

To solve for the aircon size use the data from nathers multiply it by the area you want to condition then convert mj to kw and divide the overall result…

Yourr r 16kw is more than enough. Its heating rating is 18kw. Zone your house. For daytime and nightime areas

Engage a townplanner.

By the way upgrading your insulation, minimizing windows facing east and west if possible is better option.

Have you checked your nathers certificate? It usually have the heating and cooling cooling on per square meter. Its also climate dependent. My internal space is 241 square meters. My…

In my experience, I dictated much on how much to cut the land. What I did was to get the Natural ground level the lowest and highest point of the…

Nornally, the party who cuts the land and put the retaining wall to supprt the dirt shoulders the cost. My neighbour cuts his land on his property side but almost…

Put.a decidous small tree in the west to cover the glazing during summer.

My uncle (an architect) did a house design for us. He split the floor plan based on the contour of the block to avoid a big cut and fill and…

My uncle (an architect) did a house design for us. He split the floor plan based on the contour of the block to avoid a big cut and fill and…

First, what’s the size of the courtyard? Where it is facing? North, south east or west? Try to to search japanesencourtyard garden tsuboniwa.

Have you considered structural insulated pAnels?

This is is single glazed in low e and achieves 10 star.
Lots of thermal mass. Also note a 10 star in Brisbane when built in Canberra willl have a…

There are many types of glass, is it air between the two glass or something else, your window frames is it a standard one or a thermmally broken aluminum or…