Brick or concrete block front fence
If you have the budget, you can do stackstone (over concrete bricks) with slats for nice looks.
Living room / Home Theatre
Simply put - if you are looking for a HT experience in a living room purpose built or with sound bars or whatever your are not going to get that…
Cost for H4 timber retaining wall construction
They were built temporarily as our land sitting below from either side. Cost was low as they didn't use H brackets and etc. I removed it b4 building a concrete…
Building at Willowdale
Be top on your SS and constantly check and compare every part of house with final plan. Adam (if he is ur SS) made couple of mistakes with us..
Mcdonald Jones Homes Vs Masterton
You could ask here what the usual contract period goes into the HIA contract who have built with Masterton. You will know average time to build. There is a masterton…
Cost for H4 timber retaining wall construction
I forgot to post what I went for - I went for a local landscaper who quoted $7.3k. Now build all finished, I will have to move it after fence…
Coral Homes general build thread
You could do tiling, decking or anything you want on top of porch later and get the slab to the height suits and little higher than driveway. If driveway and…
Things you forget - summary page 32
I have been using Aldi's one since 2015 - still working and it does the job and has laminated floor now and used it on carpet too- good on both.…
Things you forget - summary page 32
Unlikely you are going to get a unlimited plan on 5G any time near future as they won't allow it as it will choke the network and technology is not…
Raspberry Pi/Arduino and other Roll Your Own Home Automation
If anybody successfully finished any projects with Raspberry Pi or Arduino - share it here. How to do it and components and little guidance too. I'm interested in it…
Things you forget - summary page 32
tile gap is more closer when u go for rectified tiles as my understanding goes. 600 x600 rect tiles will have smaller as rectified tiles will have fine edges and…
Coral Homes – Grange 29 (St Kilda façade) HB/QLD
@mpricecs Beautiful your house after the landscaping finished. Glad to see a finished work almost similar to ours (Grange 29, St.Kilda and frontage -slope etc). I have been thinking…
Coral Homes general build thread
For us, every Mon there would be calls. But if you missed it and return the call, never got them (2-3 times only tried). So I was mostly doing with…
Coral Homes general build thread
If anybody doing downlights with builders for $100++ could look at these . I know you will need downlight+bridge ($69+35+installation) , but you get from cool white to warm in…
Coral Homes general build thread
If this is the one - its just controller i think.
Coral Homes general build thread
It should be doable - if you just want the controller option with mobile app. But full system of myair, airtouch or izone needs changes to ducts, but aircon installers…
Coral Homes general build thread
We took this as part of flooring and aircon promo for $4999. So we thought it was good deal... it comes with basic invertor and it won't run as far…
Coral Homes general build thread
We took that promo as well... But after some research I decided to add myair ($1997) as Daikin's not that energy efficient like Actronair and needs the main zone running…
Coral Homes general build thread
So you mean you already asked Clipsal to do ur donwlights? And you are supplying the LEDs and they charged $89 each without LEDs? why would you do that?
Coral Homes general build thread
My guy is a brother my friend - so we know each other. He quoted $48/downlight with 5 year warranty was last year. He will be doing it next year…
Coral Homes general build thread
It's still possible i think. But you can upgrade power points at appointment. If you think you need a double where Coral provide single or in places like ITHub/media room…
Coral Homes general build thread
If its single storey - I don't suggest going over the basic. If you know a good electrician - have a discussion with him and do all downlights after hand…
Coral Homes general build thread
If your house is double storey and you want downlight - you will have to do it at this appointment. Single storey too you can do , but if you…
Coral Homes general build thread
We went from floor color (white-grey glossy) and splash back (glass window+white tiles). So we selected night sky(black) stone and selected contrast colors for cupboards based on that.
Ice snow…
Coral Homes general build thread
A 600x600 porcelain rectified upgrade for our main floor areas cost us $7.9k (of that $5.0+k for labour) - rectified laying charge is higher. But via builders they charge $1.5-2k…
Coral Homes – Grange 29 (St Kilda façade) HB/QLD
@ , Could you post a picture of the facade if front is all finished please... We are also doing St.Kilda facade, so curious to see...
Coral Homes general build thread
First of all, all the best for your color selection. Don't feel blankk - look at pre-start color selection pdf which should have been sent to you by now. Have…
Coral Homes - Grange 25 (Newport)
@bestspecials . Great looking grass... Could you tell me what grass you used ?
Cost for H4 timber retaining wall construction
I have 3 different quotes - 1) 17k (28+13= 41m) 2) 11k 3) 7.3k . Such varying quotes...