We have zenolite with a gas cooktop (Omega 6 burner). No problems at all. We don't deep fry but cooking fat has not caused any problems so far. Very easy…

We had this set up also, my concern was all of the gas pipes with joins located near lots of power connections. Apparently it is all within the standards…

Hi Toby,
We did zenoliht as a splash back. Nice red colour in our kitchen, as we had glass bricks behind the stove top there was no problem with…

We got the builder to put a standard light switch just inside the pantry door and after handover replaced it with a movement activated switch from HPM, has a time…

Follow up on this, got another quote. $500

We built a 4 bedroom house and my dream was underfloor hydronic heating with solar collectors, however this was simply not cost effective.
In the end went for gas ducted heating,…

Pump is a Davey Pump with matching Rainbank unit (we are supplying this).
regards

So we have a rainwater tank, davey pump and rainbank unit and wanted a plumber to plumb the tank in and connect to existing pipes, less than 2m run of…

+1 Asko,
Simple robust design especially the door seal that is different to the others- have a look to see. Lowest water and power consumption of any we found (look…

Have a look at some steel frames to see how they work, they have holes pre drilled with rolled edges so no problem for running cables etc. In our…

Looks great, surfmist is a great roof colour as it changes with the light of the day. And like everyone else love the larder!

We did a red splash back and really love it! So far almost everyone has liked it, so it is not too radical!

I thought that monitored alarms send a regular signal to the alarm company so that if the line is cut they can raise the alarm.

Just bought a Panasonic phone with 4 stations, big feature for me (besides wifi friendly) was that the address books are synced between the handsets. So if you put…

I had been hoping our access to the roof would be via a hatch in the storage cupboard or pantry but now I read about ladder access and dirty boots…

I did this as a budget type of calculation, for each month calculated the water harvest based on average rainfall for the month less the water consumed. …

Love those steel slats, was that a big ask for the builder?

Cabling is not expensive to get done before the walls go on- a couple of hundred dollars in our case. Better (cheaper) to cable early on and then terminate…

Have done the exact same thing as Rickster, phone line, power and cables all terminate to the top shelf of our central storage cupboard. Room for modem, small…

Great idea, can you get a matching window?

If you look through a few display homes built by your builder you can get an idea of the items that are available, the sales people should be able to…

Hi Leah,
I thought that in SA the old fire plugs are being replaced by blue cats eyes in the centre of the road that indicate where an outlet is located…

The big item to consider is extra for the footings, this can go over big time if they hit rock or other unexpected obstacles.

Was at the block on Friday and caught the loo man in action taking the builder's loo away.

April Fool's day??

Well lets hope I am wrong

We were quoted a lot more than that to have downlights installed (did include fitting however) so decided to get them done after moving in. Also we didn't know…

Hi Spud,
When we started looking at display homes they all looked great, however after a few months we got to the point where we could tell the difference in quality-…

We saw some very nice under mount sinks at the home show, using manufactured stone. This material allowed metal to be joined so the under mount sink was totally…

Is this what you mean by a window behind the stove? Hope it will be easy to keep clean