Althom posted:Evaporative Cooling / Gas heating vs Refrigerated cooling
Melbourne is too humid in summer for Evaporative to be effective.
Gas heating is expensive.
RC ducted air con is the most energy/cost efficient.
Althom posted:Building inspector - not really worth it
Not uncommon from my experience. Quite often your BI will know your Site Super and would rather maintain his network of contacts than do the right thing by his client.
Althom posted:Footprints in Driveway
If that's your builders approach to something as simple as a driveway then I'd be very worried about what is going on inside the house.
Althom posted:Garage Motion Sensor Light Recommendation
Mr. Beams do a range of battery powered sensor lights which are quite good.
Also your automatic garage door mechanism should have an inbuilt LED light that will come on every…
Althom posted:Electrical Plan Critique/Help
What are you planning to put/do in your garage?
You'll need one single powerpoint dedicated to your NBN connection.
Then - clothes dryer, beer fridge, freezer, excercise gear plus if you intend…
Althom posted:Electrical Plan Critique/Help
You need a minimum of four double power points in the garage.
At least one double power point outside in the front yard, at least a double in the alfresco and…
Althom posted:Building with MOMU @ Duncraig
One thing to be aware of with your pantry opening into and backing onto the garage is that your pantry could get quite warm with potential impact on shelf life…
Althom posted:Laying new turf on area with bark
Remove chipbark, turn over soil underneath, add soil improver and also Clay Breaker or Sand Remedy (depending on the nature of your soil).
No nutrition in bits of bark.
Althom posted:Loft style homes by New Generations? WA
New Gen are part of Summit. Summit seem to be one of the few builders in WA who maintain consistent quality and reasonable pricing.
Althom posted:ceiling fan wall control wired wrong?
Ours have numbers 1 to 3.
1 is the fastest, 3 the slowest.
Seems to be the standard.
Althom posted:cleaning gutters water damage risk
The other thing to check is whilst your roof may be Colorbond it doesn't necessarily follow that your gutters are. Some builders will install gal gutters and paint them even…
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
Happy to be respectful but I will not accept abuse
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
Some of your more recent trolling;
"Yeah so true nothing worse than cables running all over the house from too many ovens. Thanks
No.10 - plan garden. What? That should’ve been, at…
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
Do you just haunt this site looking for an argument?
Here's a hint - you're not going to get one so go away and be a troll somewhere else.
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
Unfortunately there seems to be an ever increasing trend to whine about everything.
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
Statistical make believe?
No, it's fact.
Deal with it.
Althom posted:External Motor Rangehoods? Marketing or Fact
+90% of kitchen rangehoods would be vented externally. The only ones that aren't are the cassette type.
So, as for "imposing it on your neighbours" +90% of households in Australia would…
Althom posted:Venting toilet and bathroom
Certainly should.
I was under the impression that all our extraction fans exhausted externally and our "Independent Inspector" even told us they did.
Only when I got up in the roof…
Althom posted:Venting toilet and bathroom
Couple of years ago I got a quote to fit ducting and roof vents to two fans that were exhausting into the roof space.
Was surprisingly cheap.
$250
Althom posted:Cistern inlet and outlet washer replacement
$300 to replace inlet and outlet washers on 2 cisterns?
Reasonable or ridiculous?
Althom posted:Return air filter. Do u have one in your new house?
Just looked up photos of our old house where we had evaporative cooling and separate gas heating.
There was definitely a return air filter.
Althom posted:Return air filter. Do u have one in your new house?
Is it just ducted heating or RC Air Con?
Althom posted:Help repair my lawn
Grab some runners from somewhere else in the lawn and plant them in the bare patches or buy a roll and cut out patches to fit.
Loosen up the soil in…
