Total Electrical Price - $180K

The Old Tolley Winery

In 1892, the Tolley family arrived in Hope Valley with visions of creating a renowned winemaking dynasty. In the verdant landscape and fruitful soil, they also achieved their ambitions.
But the Tolley’s also passed their torch to a family who would follow 110 years later with their own dreams. The result is a breathtaking re-birth: an historic winery converted into one of Adelaide's most imaginative and spectacular homes - truly the "Toast of the Valley".

Our client purchased the property with the vision of turning it into a beautiful family home.  

What they achieved is nothing short of amazing.

Our Scope of works was as follows: -

The rooms in the above picture are the bar room and pool area.  A combination of halogen up-lighters and low voltage Dichroic trapeze lighting was chosen in the bar room and low voltage halogen up and down lighters in the pool area.  This really accentuates the yellow tones of the natural stone achieving a beautiful effect.  Various scenes can be triggered through C-bus at the touch of a button to set different moods.


In the kitchen – living room above, again a combination of halogen up-lighters and low voltage dichroic trapeze lighting was chosen.  This was to give the client lighting options.  The up/down wall washers provide a subtle light while highlighting the stone of the walls while the trapeze lighting provides a more direct lighting for eating meals etc.  Again quite a range of various scenes can be triggered through C-bus at the touch of a button to set different moods.

See More Pictures of The Old Tolley Winery Here!

C-Bus Home Automation
Originally the house was to be wired using standard wiring.  As this job was undertaken over 5 years, the client’s needs changed over time.  Once the client’s full vision came to light, we understood that the complexity of the job would make it an extremely cumbersome task to achieve the required results using conventional wiring methods.  We offered the client an alternative that would not only simplify the wiring but also provide them with a level of control that would be impossible to achieve with conventional wiring.  

That option was C-Bus.

At the time this decision was made, Bedroom’s 2, 3 and 4, formal living room, laundry, guest suite, garage and outside rear yard lighting had been completed and were operational.  This created a question of how this existing lighting was to be integrated with the main C-Bus system.

The answer was C-Bus wireless.

C-Bus wireless was installed to the area with a wireless gateway linking it back to the main wires C-Bus system.  This meant that every light or fan in the entire home can be controlled with C-Bus and all from the colour touch screen if you like.

Each room has its own light switches as you would expect except for the bar/pool area and the main living room.  The client did not want any switches in these rooms as they felt that it would detract from the natural stone.  To enable control in these areas, we installed a DTL (Dynamic Labelling Technology) switch behind the bar allowing control of 4 lights and 4 scenes, and also 3 infra red sensors up high out of the way, 1 in the bar, on in the pool area, and one in the main living area.  This enables the lights in those areas to be controlled by a hand held remote.

 
Special Features
The multi sensor at the front is a light level sensor, PIR to pick you up when you walk near it, and also a remote receiver.  This sensor is programmed to turn the front lights on for 4 hours at dusk and the entry lights on for 10 minutes for visitors when they approach the door.

We have programmed a “Welcome Home” button at the entry from the garage.  This turns a passage of lights on to enable you to get safety from the garage, through the formal living, living and kitchen areas to the master bedroom at night.

We have programmed a “Goodnight” button either side of the main bed to turn off all the lights except for the front garden lights when you go to bed.  This saves you going back to turn off all the lights individually.

We have installed DLT’s or Dynamic Labelling Technology switches.  These are switches that have a screen that enables each switch to be labelled.  There is up to 8 switches available over 2 scrollable screens.  This enables more light banks to be controlled from a single switch plate than ever before.

Every switch doubles as a dimmer.  So from the touch of a button you can turn the lights on or off or dim them up or down to any level you like.

We have installed a colour touch screen to the kitchen.  This allows un-precidented control over the whole house from the one location.  From the main screen you can select the room that you want to control.  This takes you to the screen for that room.  Then you can turn the lights or fans in that room on or off or dim them up or down to any level you like.
You can also control any of the many pre-programmed scenes in the entire system.

We have installed a telephone dialler to the system.  This enables us to dial in at the clients request and make any alterations to the system that they require.  This saves them money in the future.  It also enables them to access the house via their mobile phone to turn lights on-or off while they are not at home.

Future upgrades are available to enable an audio visual system to be controlled via C-bus.

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