We paid $10,500, which was for a 14Kw 4 zone ESP Platinum. In saying that, we went with the lowest quote we got for install which in hindsight wasn't great…

Ok, we are about 220sqm when excluding garage and outdoor areas (that would still include bathrooms though). So yeah, much smaller than your place.
For reference, our builder wanted to…

Looking at your plan i'd be inclined to always use it with the living area zones anyway. If you are heating or cooling that room and have the living off…

Strange that they are not ok with 2 vents in the theatre (i assume rumpus on your plan) as it looks not far off the size of your Master.
Their…

How many zones are they installing? Generally, advice is usually the other way around - "make you have at least a few zones on".
However, you are right in that the…

No point even considering what it is actually worth. Builders credits are never anywhere near what they are saving by not doing it. Likewise, adding things are always at a…

Yeah we were concerned about how surfmist would look on the inside as well. I think i'm slowly becoming more ok with our decision to go for white vs surfmist.

Thanks for the reply and thanks for posting the image!
Yeah I've heard a few people say the same thing regarding the surfmist. Managed to find a few example images…

Anyone have any thoughts (pros or cons) on surfmist vs other whites like Pearl White (for windows) or perisher white (for garage doors).
Our vision was dark bricks, monument metal roof…

Repost as i moved to correct section.
We did our external colour choices this morning and ended up going against surfmist for our whites. In the studio it just didn't look…

Yep we ended up adding it in. For $650 extra it was an easy decision.

Our will be purely a square set. We still don't know if we'll put doors in so this way we can see how it feels once we move in.
And we…

You will need to check with your builder - i cant imagine it would be an issue though.

Depends on what you the rooms to work. Do you want the doors…

A cavity slider has to slide somewhere. So that's why it's limited to that size. If you want a wider opening you will won't be able to do a cavity…

I've mocked up the size we would have for the WIR and it's fine, it's just whether or not its worth sacrificing some ensuite room for more WIR room. We…

Yeah kind of a hard one to answer as there are no "standard" sizes for bathroom or laundry's.
Like Hillsbuilds said, get yourself a tape measure and check the size of…

Having second thoughts about the size of our ensuite in comparison to the WIR. I've always been of the opinion that ensuites in general are too big when they come…

Did you have much luck finding any other examples of the Bluegum. We are deciding between the same two options but bluegum looks the likely choice at the moment.

Did your tender not include any form of site costs?

So basically they worked out the number of lights they think is required and paired them with a combination of standard batten lights.
So if for example, your plan has 45…

Great result. Cleaned up well.

Thanks for the feedback, good to know.
Most of our requests have come back very reasonable so far. It's just been a few things that have come back which seemed…

Soil on its own shouldn't be too hard to get rid of. It's when it's mixed in with construction rubbish that it becomes expensive as the tips don't want it…

I had to deal with the same thing - lot was 5 years old when we bought it and was the dumping ground for every lot around it. We tried…

Popped down to the tile supplier that NLH uses recently to work out what we might be up for if we upgrade the tiles.
We have about 90sqm of living…

Was it a choice to not have a BIR in bed 4/study?
I'd replace that bookshelf with a BIR even it wont be used as a bedroom. Good for resale…

Not quite the same, we won't have the nib walls but the floor and strip drain would have been basically the same.
What we asked for was just a glass…

Can anyone help me understand if this seems reasonable or not.
We are in the process of planning our build and we requested for a partition shower screen instead of the…