Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

tomterm8 wrote: »

Looks like I am the only person on this thread who has no interest in ever adding an extension ever under any circumstances whatsoever, thankyouverymuch...

( The Builders, The Builders)

We've no plans to extend the house, everything was done before we moved in. Or so we thought, we had to redo some things that had been done poorly. That and double glazing, replacing one roof...

But that is the fun of this thread, an opportunity to give input with no builders mess.

michaels

With a pressurised system are there rules around qualified installers every time you need to drain and re-pressurise the system and compulsory annual checks?

JonnyBravo wrote: »

We've got Megaflow.
The big advantage is it is pressurised so can cope with supplying many sources at once. You don't get a shot of cold water on you if someone turns on a hot tap whilst you're in the shower as can happen with just a combi.
There are many sizes of tank for Megaflow.
Ours is heated by both the gas CH and has an electric immersion giving flexibility. A mate up the road has his preheated by solar on the roof.
I'd get it again if we move.

michaels

When we were looking the already extended properties:
a) cost 100k more than buying an unextended and paying for an extension
b) were almost always extended 'wrongly'

silvercar wrote: »

We've no plans to extend the house, everything was done before we moved in. Or so we thought, we had to redo some things that had been done poorly. That and double glazing, replacing one roof...

But that is the fun of this thread, an opportunity to give input with no builders mess.

GDB2222

In Brisbane right now, you spend ages waiting for a bus

GDB2222

Then two float past at once.

silvercar

Michaels,

certainy give you a lot more space. I see you have three baths upstairs, have you thought of making one a walk in shower?

GDB2222

I'd better get my coat.

JonnyBravo

michaels wrote: »

With a pressurised system are there rules around qualified installers every time you need to drain and re-pressurise the system and compulsory annual checks?

No need for an annual check (at least we've not had one!)
We've only had work done on it once and a mate who does plumbing (but admits he'd never worked on a Megaflow before) managed to drain it, replace the immersion, fill and re-pressurise just by following some instructions he got from a mate.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

When we were looking the already extended properties:
a) cost 100k more than buying an unextended and paying for an extension
b) were almost always extended 'wrongly'

I know, we were lucky and found one that had been extended as we liked. Plus we have no vision and couldn't have come up with the idea.

I know that buying unextended is cheaper, but then everyone who has extended says their final bill is far more than they had budgeted and took far longer.

Our extension was similar to your plans. They added a kitchen extension/ family room, utility room downstairs and an extra bedroom and two ensuites upstairs.

JonnyBravo

michaels wrote: »

This is mine:

Lots of similarities between yours and mine. The back elevation especially.

<tootles off to see if he can find some pics