On Tuesday afternoon I met the electrician at the site for the walk through and set the locations of the alarm pad, lighting fixtures, switches, power outlets and data points. He then came back throughout the next two days and installed all the wiring and switch points.
The electrician's main piece of advice was to keep the hallway clear of switches/outlet points so it didn't look cluttered as you looked down it from either end. I had never thought of that but it makes a lot of sense. So with that in mind, I moved everything from the middle of the hallway - the alarm pad, mid hallway light switch/es and hallway power outlet, round into the secondary hallway off toward the laundry and the garage. This left only the one switch panel at the front door and one at the far end.
We opted for a three-way switch for the hall lighting so they can be turned on/off no matter where you enter/exit the house, from the front door, the garage entrance or the kitchen. We also coughed some more money for an extra double power outlet on the bench so there is one on either side of the cooktop, the electrician told us the most often call backs he has is for additional outlets in the kitchen. Along with the double outlet we already added beneath the lip of the island bench top we'll be well and truly prepared for anything!
To allow for easier access in the future, we had conduit installed through the wall from the study to the front of the house for the National Broadband Network (NBN) cables to be passed through when it becomes available.
The air conditioning ducts were installed in the roof cavity at the same time as the electrical. The combination of the ducting and the wiring, along with too many years in the job, led to my immediate thought that it looks like we are setting up a grow-house!
The frames for the two sliding doors in our main bedroom (the en suite and the walk in wardrobe doors) have also been installed and the plumbing within the walls has been completed - all ready for gyprock sheeting to go up next week, making the house ready for the internal fit-out to begin!
And last but not least, with the excitement of scoping out the internal work, we didn't notice until we were about to leave that the bricks were all cleaned up, and looking pretty good I might add!
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