Full Electrical, Entertainment & Sound, Network and Speedheat Plans

The girls and guys in the electrical section at the World of Style to be passionate, friendly, knowledgeable and in short, utterly fantastic!

We went through a few revisions of the base electrical plan, not too many changes, generally small things, but things that could be changed easily after contract signing and covered by a Post Contract Variation (PCV).

So here are our full electrical plans.

I found others' plans to be particularly useful in planning, so I hope you do too.

Electrical plan - ground floor.

Electrical plan - first floor.

Electrical plan - key!

Network plan - ground floor.

Network plan - first floor.

Entertainment and Sound plan - ground floor.

Entertainment and Sound plan - first floor.

Speedheat plan - ground floor.

Speedheat plan - first floor.

It's shocking!

A few months ago we were told that the relevant necessary people had viewed the block and said that it was all fine.

I argued with PD (unsuccessfully, I might add) about the need for an underground pit. PD gave a number of reasons, most of which were invalid as the above ground power lines were already there (and in the way)! Putting a pit in does not remove the above ground power lines and the risks that they can pose.

So, image my surprise that NOW it's a problem! PD want to talk to Powercor, why, I have no idea. I do not see what they can do.

So, $4600 later, we have a pit. Which Powercor put in ahead of time and looks like this:

Yes, the 30cm odd concrete plate is all we see. I'd asked for it to be inside our property, but that is not permitted (and no one told me). It has to be in the 'road reserve', that's a footpath to us mortals.

Oh, and we get shiny new bits as well!

Three phase power, here we come!

It never rains...

...It pours.

As the old saying goes. It is the excessive storm water discharge rates that the council is worried about. Evidently, the large roof size is capable of catching more rain than is permitted to be discharged into the storm water drainage systems due to fear of flooding said systems.

So the standard solution is to install a retention water tank that acts as a storm surge buffer tank.

More details and information on detention and retention water tanks can be found here.

An exemption may be applied for (which we have done).

We are currently waiting a response from Hobsons Bay council.

Further information will be forthcoming, if not the biblical flood itself!