u/Wazwiftance

Hi all,

Building a house in Australia, however we are from Europe, and want a specific type of switch fitting similar to what we have back home.

Basically they’re 120x120mm large rocker switches. Probably more in the aged care direction over there? Here they are standard in all builds.

Picture for comparison. Where should I be looking?

Thanks!

https://www.bauhaus.info/wechselschalter/voltomat-mono-wechselschalter-mit-rahmen/p/22699855

Hi all,
We’re currently final stages of planning our passive house build. It’s two stories, 205sqm. North/south orientation, fully sealed with MHRV.

The house is in Perth, Australia, so hot summers and mild winters. Summer can get up to multiple days of 40+, with minimums in mid teens. I’m assuming heating will never be an issue in winter.

We have two options with cooling . Either a fully ducted system on two levels, or just placing units in main areas and allowing the flow to cool down other rooms.

My question is, would option two be enough? we went down the passive house route as we didn’t want to rely on dumping cold air into the house constantly, rather just to need to take the edge off. But there’s also an issue of ‘if we don’t fit it during the build, it’s extremely hard to retro fit.’ However, I’m not convinced a fully ducted air conditioner system (16kw or so) working at a fraction of its capacity is good use of resources and money.

Happy to hear your thoughts, especially those in similar climates. Happy to provide plans via DM if you’d like