TomCat's new digs!

[TomVexille]

No external sensor spottie for the driveway? I guess you know someone who could do that, if you want it later.

I had them put the wiring into a junction box. I'll connect it post handover

 

[blackcat20]

Garage

 

[rainbowgirl]

Garage
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Does the driveway go in before or after handover?

 

[TomVexille]

Does the driveway go in before or after handover?

Before

 

[love_the_life]

Looking fabulous. Make sure you bring lots of photos to AFF#12 'cos you'll have moved in by then. It will be so exciting to see the furniture etc finally there.

 

[Denali]

Still a sexy roof.

 

[blackcat20]

There are a couple of little things that are going to need attention, including a big chip in the front door frame. Not sure how they can fix that without replacing the whole frame. The door handles in the garage also appear to be developing almost rust-like spots.

I'd asked them to alter the position of our dining light as it was incorrect on the plans. Supervisor went out of his way to mark it out on the floor but the sparkies appear to have ignored it So its not correct based on the plan or the floor markings, but somewhere in the middle. Hopefully close enough to where I need it that we wont need to adjust it.

 

[JessicaTam]

I'd asked them to alter the position of our dining light as it was incorrect on the plans. Supervisor went out of his way to mark it out on the floor but the sparkies appear to have ignored it So its not correct based on the plan or the floor markings, but somewhere in the middle. Hopefully close enough to where I need it that we wont need to adjust it.

You were always going to put the dining table in a doorway, weren't you?

 

[blackcat20]

You were always going to put the dining table in a doorway, weren't you?

Well yes, but more to one side rather than right in the middle

One would have thought the markings on the floor were pretty obvious.

 

[RooFlyer]

Could have been worse ... could have had the light on the floor

Took me a sec to figure out what was going on in that pic, then I noticed the sunglasses

 

[blackcat20]

Could have been worse ... could have had the light on the floor

Took me a sec to figure out what was going on in that pic, then I noticed the sunglasses

haha yes, they've been rather good about making sure the doors are all locked

Desperate to see how the bathrooms are looking but probably have to wait another week.

 

[love_the_life]

And nothing like a Dinning light. Maybe the sparkies didn’t realise it was meant for them

 

[blackcat20]

And nothing like a Dinning light. Maybe the sparkies didn’t realise it was meant for them

TV tells me that markings on the floor is standard for positioning electrical stuff.

(and we're installing all our own light fittings after handover)

 

[Pushka]

Could have been worse ... could have had the light on the floor

Took me a sec to figure out what was going on in that pic, then I noticed the sunglasses

You beat me to it, lucky I read the following post!

 

[blackcat20]

This is the dining light


These will go over the bench

 

[love_the_life]

TV tells me that markings on the floor is standard for positioning electrical stuff.

(and we're installing all our own light fittings after handover)

I wasn't worried about it being on the floor, it was more the mis-spelling of dining that caught my eye.

 

[Pushka]

This is the dining light
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These will go over the bench
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Tech question here. Our lighting will change once a wall disappears in a weeks time. We currently have a single pendant with multiple lights which is way too bright in one spot. I take the globes out. So I’m thinking of going for this type of look and presume it’s easy for an electrician to change to three?

 

[RooFlyer]

If an older house (I think it is) and if talking about the ceiling to a ground floor, then the "easiest" solution may be to get a bar holding 3 down lights on tracks (or fixed) that mounts to the ceiling, with the wiring coming down from the original point in the ceiling into the 'bar'. You can spread the lights to the separation and orientation you like. Can get a bar length of up to 1.5m I think.

I looked at this same thing recently, but in the end decided not to go ahead.

Something like this, but with pendants and not spotties, eg:

 

[Pushka]

If an older house (I think it is) and if talking about the ceiling to a ground floor, then the "easiest" solution may be to get a bar holding 3 down lights on tracks (or fixed) that mounts to the ceiling, with the wiring coming down from the original point in the ceiling into the 'bar'. You can spread the lights to the separation and orientation you like. Can get a bar length of up to 1.5m I think.

I looked at this same thing recently, but in the end decided not to go ahead.

Something like this, but with pendants and not spotties, eg:

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Yup. Got that right. House built in 1928. Very high elaborate ceilings. That would work for us! Thank you. We have to change the lights. The wall we are knocking down is between the kitchen and formal dining room. That has a chandelier! That will go as it will look weird in a room moving to black granite benches. There will be a residual ‘wall’ of maybe 50cms across the top so from the kitchen you won’t see the old dining room ceiling as it’s elaborate but we didn’t want to put a fake ceiling in either.

 

[RooFlyer]

All this time we could have had a thread 'Pushka's old digs'