This is our first working diagram of our outlet plan and the wiring to the junction box.  I’m supplying it so our builder Highmark Homes NZ and I can talk about it and see if we need to modify anything.

Thanks to Matt Theule for catching my mistake in the Garage, I need an outlet for the washer and dryer, and the garage door opener! 

OK, so I’ve been amending and playing with this outlet plan quite a lot over the past few days (sorry for making you keep looking at) but I think this is it for now.  I’m sure we will make some more modifications after I talk it over with my builder Highmark Homes NZ and our electrician (for now slated to be New Life Electrical Ltd.).  I’m sure I’m missing something, or we’ll have to adjust.

You are probably asking about that electrical detail in the upper left (if not, too bad, I’m going to tell you anyways)

If you look back where we will be living you and zoom out on the google map, you will see that we live out in the wap-waps (boonies to you yanks).  If there is another hurricane Hawkes Bay or the inevitable big earthquake, or other extreme event that could bring down power / power lines, since we are so far out, and have such a low population, if it is a BIG outage, we can count on being low on the list of getting repairs.

So it makes sense to prepare for the worst, a week or more of no power.  What I have planned is the ability to plug in a Generator in the outside Circuit 1 Power Point, flip a switch on the power board, and Isolate the “necessary” Circuit lines from the main bus.  I’ve given myself the fridge / freezer, Oven, HeatPumps, bedroom lights and Main Computer support.

Again, for our house builder’s reference (Highmark Homes NZ) and maybe our electrician’s (New Life Electrical Ltd.), our lighting plan

I’m obviously going to need to expand this out per room and per wire plan.  Mighty complicated.  It was hard keeping it straight in my mind.

I received a request (actually a couple) to give a layout of the house that identifies the rooms, so for your edification, here you go.

One interesting note about the plan, you may see that in “Bedroom 3” there is no Closet.  Now for those of you living in the Colonies In Rebellion, and especially in California, you may be aware that a defining feature of a bedroom is a closet.  That is not so in New Zealand.  The only defining feature of a bedroom is that there must be a wall that single bed can fit on and will not block a door.

Actually that isn’t a “law” but if there isn’t a wall that a single bed will fit on the council that approves Consents (permits) will usually balk at letting you declare it a Bedroom, and Valuers (appraisers) won’t consider it a bedroom for valuation purposes.  Also you sorta need a window in the room, again, not a “law” but you better be prepared to talk pretty fast!

As long as a single bed can fit in there, though, its a bedroom.  And believe me I have seen some bedrooms in new construction that I would have considered literally a Closet!

Now in actuality Bedroom 3 will serve as our exercise bike room, and secondary Pantry and Storage.   Bedroom 2 will be our office.

Oh and the floor space does include the Garage.

Thought you might like to know what the size of the house layout will be.

and for those of you who don’t know how to use a rational logical measurement system (and you know who you are “colonies in rebellion”)

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