OK,
For large sealable doors go with a triple stacker\double sliding door like the house has. Should be able to get a fair amount of width to get things thorugh and…

Hey PD,
Lets have a look at your plan and see if I can suggest some good ideas.
Garage: increase the width not length which will allow you to park cars in…

All good, It took us about 10 months from settling the land till building. And we went through two builders before we moved forward.
It's this time which is great to…

Hey,
Sorry abou thte slow reply, been away
So looking at the pictures it looks like you have a left to right downards slope going across the…

Then I suggest you take that up with Timber Queensland.
They have undoubtedly made the above attached data sheet to cover them with enough over engineering to ensure they don't…

If your washing mahcine is handling the water fine it has tighter valve tolerances than any irrgagation product will do. The only issue is what pressure and volume your water…

Here is the guide on how to do it and what to use ot make it structurally sound: http://www.jimboombatimbers.com.au/Retaining%20Walls.pdf
The question is what will be the spacing between the posts.
@ 1200mm…

Do you have a picture of the lot or a plan showing the contour lines? Will get an idea on the slope and how it all fits together.

I'd enclose the top area for a cat safe area (we have a balcony our fluff bum likes). And if you can get the finer mesh thats like fly screen…

Plantation had it as an option on ours called Shower To Guest Room which was a $2275 option.
They also charged $1375 to change the study to a guest room (ie…

I'm a guy, just reading it how it will be
You'll note on ours we solved that problem with two matching ones.

Hmm, did give a nice coats space. I think the store downstairs needs to be the powder room. then it's either up stairs to the that one or down to…

Hows this:

Hey Jo,
Exactly what I was meaning. You end up with a space between the beams which you put insulation into. So just like insulating a wall with it betweenthe studs…

I've added the window to the WIP and changed the door to swing inwards. I also thought it would be really nice to have the kitchen\living area with a sloped…

Yeah I can see a nice diamond shape working with the doors\bathroom corner down there, but my paint skills aren't up to it unfortunately …

Hey Jo,
I think everyone else might be enjoying their christmas
But my comments are as follows:
Bedrooms\Garage
Bedroom size of 3-3.3m square is pretty standard, and…

We have almost finished our build with Plantation, feel free to read through our thread or blog:
http://bellbirdretreat.blogspot.com/

Hi hopefully these two posts from our blog would help:
http://bellbirdretreat.blogspot.com/201 ... sound.html
http://bellbirdretreat.blogspot.com/201 ... rking.html

Where are you building?
Here is our blog: http://bellbirdretreat.blogspot.com/ and our thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=38916

They chain the rest of the downlights off the first so as long as you have one light point on the ceiling it will be fine.

Hey Twiggy,
We have already added 6 overheads and 3 underbnch cupboards to the NHP doc. We are jsut thinking that a broom cupboard on the end would be useful. So…

Do you get a credit back for the carpet that was going to go there?

Jackhammer:0 Tiles:2
Keep the tiles and save on carpet.

Current trends are for more living areas and for smaller bedrooms just used to sleep in. The exception is amster suites with a space as a parents retreat.
Our current house…

Congrats Emma,
Look forward to watching your build unfold.

Ji Jay,
I think what others have said is when they charge not just the $200 upgrade cost from your example but they charge say $450 as an upgrade which is…

Hey Cookie,
I'd imagine that H builds smaller houses on average but also doubt that a custom builder will be able to top them for $$$ per m2. There's always M3tr1c0n…

Hi Lou,
Any idea what cost your semi out of ground added to a standard build?

We've taken our Emperor from a base cost of $288k to $415k with site costs and a few changes. The facades (even unrendered) and other costs of being off town…