For our electrical appointment, I was spaced out like a zombie having worked to the wee hours of the morning with little sleep in between. Luckily the electrical selections were pretty straight forward and basically we could have just left it to the consultant to plot all the locations of the LED downlights and power points. You'd think it would be much less time consuming if they had done that to begin with. Have a base plan and a fully upgraded plan that people can just choose and be in & out in 15 mins.
Here is the layout:
For our kitchen island,instead of having the power points on the essa stone, we're getting them tucked inside a cabinet door like this we can not get these:
For the LED lights, they are hardwired Telbix 301 LED GU 10 Downlights with 9W globes, 520 lumens, 60 degree beam angle. These are really bottom of the range stuff. I was hoping to be able to option up to something that has seperate GPO plugs, 1000+ lumens and wider angles. Unfortunately there is only one type of LED option to choose.
For outdoor lights, they must be attached to a sensor to meet 6 star energy guidelines. Hence, they recommend you place junction boxes connected up to the switches and then get an electrician to convert this over to an outdoor light post handover.
For large lights that you want to hang in a void area, it has to be a certain distance from the balustrades. Hence, another junction box + switch alternative is needed and lighting to be done post handover.
For the big ticket electrical items, we chose
8 port home network package: A tip is to put your switch in the store room or somewhere hidden. You don't really need to see the network switch so it is best tucked away somewhere. We have an outlet in each of the living areas, near the TV points if the room has a TV or near a wall we think a desk would go. We deliberately left outlets out of the bedrooms. Figured if the kids want internet, they should really be out in the living areas. Besides, they can always go wireless. Update: Here's a post with the actual home network plan layout
Ducted Vacuum with Dust Pan option: If you have a big house, make sure you go for the Electron EVS 2808. Despite the EVS 3505 having a bigger model number, it is actually the weaker of the two. Make sure you measure the distance between the outlets and the furthest corners of your house. If it can't reach, put more outlets in.
Hills Reliance 12 Home Security system: You can pay extra for the wireless receiver and remotes. Initially we thought this would be good but have opted not to have it as it should be quite easy to just switch on and off for the panel. The system gives you a few seconds delay to allow you to turn on /off. Haven't read great reviews on this so I would probably upgrade to a better system later (Bosch?) but at least the wiring will be in.
I am not a big sound / music guy so I didn't opt for any sound wiring. Figured we'd just be able to all go wireless if really necessary.
Here is the layout:
Ground Floor:
Upper Floor:
For our kitchen island,
For the pullout bin, we wanted to put in the blum servo drive uno to auto open / close can not get these even though they are from the same supplier (blum)
For the LED lights, they are hardwired Telbix 301 LED GU 10 Downlights with 9W globes, 520 lumens, 60 degree beam angle. These are really bottom of the range stuff. I was hoping to be able to option up to something that has seperate GPO plugs, 1000+ lumens and wider angles. Unfortunately there is only one type of LED option to choose.
For outdoor lights, they must be attached to a sensor to meet 6 star energy guidelines. Hence, they recommend you place junction boxes connected up to the switches and then get an electrician to convert this over to an outdoor light post handover.
For large lights that you want to hang in a void area, it has to be a certain distance from the balustrades. Hence, another junction box + switch alternative is needed and lighting to be done post handover.
For the big ticket electrical items, we chose
8 port home network package: A tip is to put your switch in the store room or somewhere hidden. You don't really need to see the network switch so it is best tucked away somewhere. We have an outlet in each of the living areas, near the TV points if the room has a TV or near a wall we think a desk would go. We deliberately left outlets out of the bedrooms. Figured if the kids want internet, they should really be out in the living areas. Besides, they can always go wireless. Update: Here's a post with the actual home network plan layout
Ducted Vacuum with Dust Pan option: If you have a big house, make sure you go for the Electron EVS 2808. Despite the EVS 3505 having a bigger model number, it is actually the weaker of the two. Make sure you measure the distance between the outlets and the furthest corners of your house. If it can't reach, put more outlets in.
Hills Reliance 12 Home Security system: You can pay extra for the wireless receiver and remotes. Initially we thought this would be good but have opted not to have it as it should be quite easy to just switch on and off for the panel. The system gives you a few seconds delay to allow you to turn on /off. Haven't read great reviews on this so I would probably upgrade to a better system later (Bosch?) but at least the wiring will be in.
I am not a big sound / music guy so I didn't opt for any sound wiring. Figured we'd just be able to all go wireless if really necessary.
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