Looks great!

We have a Neff full steam oven and it's excellent. The slide and hide door is handy and being able to steam (puddings or whatever) is worth the price

Thanks for the guidance

What would you recommend for a pet friendly timber or engineered timber floor? To minimise scratches, and if scratched occur, have them be less visible.
We're thinking a light colour wood,…

Great, yes, that explains things for me. Thank you

buildingandLegal Can you explain that in laymans terms? What does a performance based solution mean compared to "deem to satisfy"?

PassiveHaus certification doesn't cost much. Actually building it to the spec is where most of the costs are.

Post pandemic. We're close to starting our build, but haven't executed yet. The pricing was done about a month ago.
Inclusions aren't crazy - nothing really extravagant. Standard appliances, stone countertops,…

intripidlol Interesting. We're attempting a similar thing (similar size, close to passivhaus standard, ~340sqm). We found that 1m was not enough for this…

Thanks. That'll give us more space but we're at the limit for floor space area so we can't actually add any. We actually want to keep the void because we…

fredescu mockkie Good point - I've updated the design with the orientation. North is to the…

Thanks for the feedback. We should have external access to the in law area via a sliding door to the pavillion (its not really clear on the diagram).
Regarding the gym…

jason526 Whoops. Yeah, I uploaded the same floor twice. Updated now.

Any thoughts on this floor plan? Its for our new build, for us (couple) and my in-laws (hence the separate space on the ground floor.

I'd briefly looked into ICF as it looked like a promising technique, but it seems very uncommon and therefore hard to find builders for.

stewie D Did you end up going with any aspects that similar or related to that certification? We're also leaning towards not going…

Noname Thanks - Yeah, I didn't find a lot of information on the forum. I'm actually not too interested in certification, more on…

> If you have the money hire a passivhouse certified Architect...for what's it worth
then do a cost benefit analysis
I'd rather ask around for other's experiences first, rather than go ahead…

StructuralBIMGuy You seem to be annoyed about this. I'm just trying to gather information, its difficult to understand what's worthwhile and what is…

Thanks Phil. We've got the land already, and paid the stamp duty for that. The budget here is just for the construction of the house.

We're trying to figure out what we can get on our build. Assuming you're building a new 350sqm house in Sydney, and you had a budget of $1m.
What would…

We've finally purchased our plot of land and so the next start of our journey has started - Finding a builder, and figuring out what we actually want to build.…

Does anyone know what the regulations are for the heigh of a back fence that doesn't back onto another property? Basically, our backyard faces onto a train line. We'd like…

Sounds really interesting.

Thanks! What was the cost differential for icf vs a timber framed house? 50%, Double, 10x?

Thanks! What about the pros/cons of ICF/concrete panels?
Do you know of any builders using these other materials?

For a new house build, I understand these options
1. Timber frame, brick veneer - timber is the load bearing part, brick is the visual bit
2. Steel frame, brick veneer -…

"If you are going for a complete custom job, I would say 950-1.2m is probably accurate - depending on the quality of your finishes."
We're probably not going for a custom…

Yeah, we don't have land yet. We're trying to figure out what would be good land for us to build the home we want.
The absolute requirement is a granny flat…

"You seem to be new to this since you didn't know what custom home meant."
Yep, we're very new to this. We're in the early research phase. Good point about doing…