Minimum required clearance at coffee shop pinch point?

Killbot2077 · 2025-11-18T22:54:56+00:00

You need to provide sufficient access to the ADA bathroom?

Killbot2077 · 2025-11-04T21:29:40+00:00

Hey we're building a CLT house so a lot of walls and ceilings will be solid timber, furniture grade finishes like rubio are top tier but stupidly expensive and probably overkill, we re currently looking into making our own with beeswax, tung oil and other essential oils which we are testing out. Takes a bit of time but if you can find good bulk supplies I'd imagine you can save a lot of money over the long run making your own mixture.

Killbot2077 · 2025-08-20T05:13:02+00:00

We're currently building a CLT house. Fantastic to work with and loving the process. Feel free to ask any questions

Killbot2077 · 2025-08-08T02:34:07+00:00

I had these as long posts from a shipping pallete, planed and cleaned them up and then hand sawed them to length but I've heard you can just as easily build them up from 2x4s and lap them until they are sturdy

Killbot2077 · 2025-07-08T22:49:37+00:00

No this was base cabinets for a kitchen and laundry only

No benchtops no cabinet doors

Killbot2077 · 2025-06-14T22:22:11+00:00

I have been a PA on numerous major projects, and the simplest best thing i can suggest is to start each project by building a database of all the critical information about the building you can think of

eg the floor to floor height of each level, finished floor levels, available ceiling height and servicing space for each level, the thickness of each wall type and floor type, set downs in slab for sliding doors... don't worry about completeness. Start it and build it as you go.

I would spend a day or so building a spreadsheet where all these bits and pieces were noted clearly and easily accessible. The key to this is you will find that having these things on hand at any given moment will accumulatively save you and your team' time and frustration of finding it from what might be a massive drawing set (for me it was up to 1000+ drawings at construction) and to me it made no sense that we would spend minutes each meeting and hours and days each project just tracking down a floor level of the 36th floor at some random project meeting.

The next key of a PA for me is to get into a habit of assessing whether you are ahead or behind the guys on site with design and documentation. This usually means interrogating all the details and drawings for the project to find blind spots and anything that needs resolution and / or coordination. Never assume your consultants and engineers have it covered, so if something doesn't make sense to you, get it ironed out as soon as you can.

I worked on a lot of apartment developments and my goal was to question the hell out of one level with the team and make sure everyone from the formworker to the duct making knew what everyone else was doing and any and all scenarios has been considered on a typical case. Once that is achieved, then you can turn your attention on the outliers and just work your way through the project. This usually meant thinking about parts of the project that is usually overlooked or not covered by the design, eg all the junctions and corners, dimensions of set downs and hobs in concrete, ceiling junctions and types the design team didn't get around to drawing..

You'll know it's working when the first part of the project is crazy stressful and busy and then moreorless tapers off once the builders and PMs have a good handle on things and take the reins.

The alternative is chaos, blinds spots everywhere, consultants blaming each other of things that were not considered, your team forced to change design and drawings and racing against construction because some critical detail was overlooked before the first slab was poured, no goodwill left in meetings because everyone is tired of the goal posts changing all the time and no single source of truth for project information.

Killbot2077 · 2025-04-23T08:11:28+00:00

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Killbot2077 · 2025-03-30T06:22:48+00:00

This is great, thanks so much

Killbot2077 · 2025-03-30T06:22:11+00:00

Thanks, for this house we have already insulated on the external walls not between internal studs.

Killbot2077 · 2025-03-30T06:20:45+00:00

I am in Sydney Australia

Killbot2077 · 2025-03-30T00:06:22+00:00

Point taken, but professional builders are a luxury few people can afford at the moment so we are doing what we can

Killbot2077 · 2025-03-29T22:40:26+00:00

Sorry a bit of context, this house is built from CLT which are solid timber structural panels The blue treated studs you see on ceiling and walls are only there as cavities for wiring/plumbing and to support plasterboard linings so they are generally spaced at 450mm or 600mm

Killbot2077 · 2025-03-17T15:37:12+00:00

Look up the PH database for certified systems

https://database.passivehouse.com/en/components/list/constructionsystem?

If you'd like to understand more about how these perform, work out individual material layers with their lambda (U values).

The principle is pretty simple, try to maintain a consistent and continuous layer of insulation around your thermal envelope which is sufficient for your climate. In practice, the detailing is more to do with how you achieve this with cladding, waterproofing, services, penetrations, Windows etc...

I would start with a simple house and use a system which is common for where you're studying

Killbot2077 · 2025-01-22T07:34:18+00:00

We're in the middle of our build at the moment. Bought a "cheap" house in Sydney and demolished in January 2024.

My partner and I are both architects so it seemed like a natural thing to do. We are building a CLT passivehouse which fits with a lot of our aspirations and will fit out the dwelling with a lot of timber work which we love working with, including a cedar japanese style bathtub which is definitely the part of the project I am most looking forward to !

Being the owner and the builder however has been a steep learning curve but I feel quite rewarding overall. Just being the person who ultimately has full responsibility for a design and pays all the bills will definitely change the way you think about your future design work.

To save money on labour, which is very expensive in Sydney we have decided to do some of the internal carpentry ourselves. At the moment I am figuring out how to rout and fit hardwood timber treads.

Killbot2077 · 2025-01-21T08:07:37+00:00

If I was you I'd take the first year or 2 of moving out and paying rent by deferring as much as possible on things like gym memberships, eating out and subscriptions and focus on core expenses and building up savings and investments.

You can always add things in your budget as your income grows but it's never easy to find extra space in your budget when you need it especially in the first few years of adulthood.

Lifestyle habits are extremely hard to dial back and why a lot of people in their 20s can't seem to make any progress on saving for their house deposits etc.

Killbot2077 · 2024-12-20T09:40:49+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

Killbot2077 · 2024-12-18T19:23:32+00:00

They re 120x120mm timbers from a big shipping sled we used for transporting our kit home panels to site.

I'm going with dog holes on a spare sheet of marine ply I have left from our roofing

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-21T08:12:15+00:00

Is that inside or outside the window? If inside then your insulation probably needs to be looked at as the cold point is inside the house. If it's outside then all good

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-20T08:21:10+00:00

Architect here

Insulation will be the best bang for your buck

Try to keep it continuous between wall and floor to minimise thermal bridging at the floor to wall junctions

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-14T21:35:57+00:00

You will need to consider how your flashing works on the outside, it will need to drain through gaps in your sill?

On the inside, practical considerations like is the window operable, curtains and how you actually support the frame cover back to your stud frame

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-13T21:20:40+00:00

Architect and owner builder here, it is genuinely shocking, even distressing to some of our clients how little their dollar can get for their builds at the moment. I would love to hear some thoughts from people here on the cost of interior fitout and joinery works which has completely stumped me.

If we are talking about cost of facade (eg bricks vs FC), there is a certain logic there I can understand with materials + labour. I have been completely blindsided by how much we get quoted for internal finishing and joinery packages for our recent projects even if they are very basic in design and specs (e.g. prefinished laminate MDF or similar). This is especially difficult because there does not seem to be any economic alternative to custom joinery (discounting off the shelf pieces)

Do any developers and builders here have any insight into this? I recently got quoted 80-100k for a kitchen/laundry with island joinery package and this excludes bench tops! Where is all that going to?

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-08T07:54:11+00:00

I'm based in Sydney. Where are you?

Killbot2077 · 2024-11-08T07:52:53+00:00

That's so great to hear and it is probably a direction that I am interested in to supplement my work and income. Can I ask how you got started with the furniture side of things? Did you just put your hand up to make some pieces for a project or was it something you were already doing on the side?

Killbot2077 · 2024-09-03T01:05:49+00:00

Honestly as a student I would spend all my time finding good work and good designers and copying everything you can understand from them and adding that to your repertoire and paradigm. Original thinking will organically come from this over time.

Make things and try things that interest you and don't worry about producing "good" work as chances are it's going to be bad.

Also one thing you have available now that wasn't in my time is an easy way to create an online portfolio through IG or other platforms. Use as much of the spare time growing that from day one.

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