My council requires them above 600. Just sayin.

Plus engineer cost as it's very likely you'll need it for a wall that high so check with your council to see at what height they require engineering.

Just move in, no one but you and local are going to know you don't have an IOC. We did exactly that (in Ryde area), the council is not interested.…

No experience but it doesnt do 3d so that's a no for me.

These are really good, I have one.
They will ship to Australia.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/contro ... ku=1255549

Maybe http://www.grasscel.com.au/grass-driveways-solutions/

You didn’t mention any sort of budget but if it were me I would think about attaching something to the front of the house on the right side. It would…

If you want it in the ground you have to call them and arrange. Don't wait till they show up at your door.

I hate wireless speakers for home audio. Much prefer a wired system. Can get 7.2/11.2 receivers now with great apps to do 3-4 zones all controllable over wifi. I have…

Very nice work. Did you buy those patch cables or make them?
One of my best friends swears by Ubiquity, good choice

7, Not using any "security system" software as such. Have a Bosch home security system which is connected to my network but I use a…

Nothing too fancy:)
Just a couple of HP procurve gigabit switches, a Linksys POE switch (wouldn't do that again that sucker sounds like a 747!) and a few hubs to do…

1) Hikvision
2) Never enough:):):)
3) All of the above
4) Front door, second story right, first story left
5) During build, 80-100 per point is the going rate
6) I would have bought more…

CCNA long expired, didn't need to do CCIE due to Mgmt career progression:)

Happy to help, I am local and ex network engineer
No charge for advice either.

This is one way:
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/m2en/electri ... ?pid=56052

Run everything in before insulation goes in. Think of it this way, that's how all the electrical is run so this is really no different.

The thing about pools is you can spend 50k or 600k ( or more even) there is such a range of what you can do. I guess like houses 400k…

*** off.

Now that's what I'm talking about:):)

Glad to help if I can.
My thoughts were similar to yours, our latest build was our second. One thing I think about all this is that in general most…

Sure I do. It was fairly obvious to me that the quote was not for a battler doing it tough who needs to shop at the reject shop for their…

I don't see anything big wrong with the OPs price list other than what I mentioned. It is a lot of $$ but looks like they're going the whole hog.…

Um, I would not be using Bunnings prices for anything unless I was doing it myself altogether. Show much does labor cost in this country? (Pssst, it's a lot!)

The only thing that jumps out at me is the garden lighting. $325 a light seems like a lot. Looks like you are going for the works though:) I like…

No. A little concrete to the mix won't make it much harder to dig up. It will be more difficult but not much.

I built with Binet and am happy:)
Re no parking not totally surprised 7-11 am is when everyone shows up to do the work.

My first place had 2m of fall over the building envelope and yours seems close. If you think about it, that's prob too much for a true split level.

Do you have a site plan that shows elevations? You need to know how much fall there is within where you want to place the house.

Sounds reasonable to me.