Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 17226Jan 02, 2020 2:05 pm inphaz Discusses expectation verses reality and also uncovers a little known truth about PD trades. Happy reading https://forsyth35.com/2018/11/25/the-gr ... %E2%80%8B/ Hey inphaze - very informative blog for those looking to build with PD Re: Porter Davis homes 17227Aug 15, 2021 12:47 pm Hi there, We are considering building Astor 43. It has some features similar to the Sanford 42 but Astor has more spaces such as study, theatre, etc. It looked amazing when we first visited the display home in Berwick (Minta farm), specially with the void in the living. Appreciate any advise, recommendations or learning experts can share regarding the experience building Astor 43. Thanks in advance. Re: Porter Davis homes 17228Oct 01, 2021 3:08 pm Fongeo We have a north facing block on which we are planing to construct the Astor 49. Attached are the sitting and ground floor plans for the same. The challenge we are having is if we need to keep the kitchen on the right (west) facing or change the orientation to the left (east) facing. We have a pretty big fixed window in the kitchen and we are not sure how bad the evening sun would be. The block on the right (west) is sold and we are not sure if it is a double story or a single story block, on the other hand we have two blocks on the left (east) of which one (528) can be a single or double and (529) can only be a single storey, they are house and land packages. The builder is okay moving the crossover. Considering these I would greatly appreciate some thoughts on this. Thanks. Super confused !!! Hey Fongeo , hope you are keeping well. I was wondering if you went ahead with building Astor 49. We are planning to build Astor 49 as well. However we couldn't find a facade we like. Particularly given the Astor 49 has nothing over the garage it feels like most of the nice facades doesn't fit well. Which facade did you go with for your build? Re: Porter Davis homes 17229Nov 02, 2021 12:51 pm Hi all, I got a question regarding site cost. When we built our first house 6-7 years ago, we were able to get the soil test done at very early stage and were able to a confirmation on the site cost. This helped us to devise whether to proceed with Porter Davis or not as we had short listed few other houses from various other builders. We had a similar discussion with sales consultant at Minta and agreed to get the soil test done so that we could know the site cost. However after the soil test has been completed, we were told only at the tender they can confirm the site cost. I was wondering if there are others who were able to get the site cost finalised prior to the tender appointment ? Thanks in advance!! Re: Porter Davis homes 17230Nov 03, 2021 7:44 am We did our build with them 3 years ago and confirmed the site costs at tender as you say. By memory they provisioned an amount of money for site costs based on other homes they built in the area so we had a rough idea. It actually went down at tender so they over compensated initially. Site costs include engineering of the slab and other factors... They aren't going to go through all that trouble if they aren't going to secure the deal IMO. Building a Madison 45 with Porter Davis Madison 45 Blog (Send me a PM with your email address to be added) Re: Porter Davis homes 17231Nov 03, 2021 8:49 am Thank you fademan. I was under the impression the site cost is mostly decided based on the house model, size, fall / slope in the block, soil condition, utility connections and permit cost. If house model and size is known then changes to engineering diagrams which would impact the site cost would be minimal right? Is that not correct ? Re: Porter Davis homes 17232Nov 03, 2021 1:41 pm In principle but the work would still need to be done .. depending on the type of soil and the results, including any changes you want to the house, the site costs will change. All this is work... It's not like they have a spreadsheet somewhere with all the house types, soil types etc.. That they can just look up. What I'm saying is that they aren't going to go to all that trouble to finalise an amount without the commitment to build. Before that point they just provide an estimate, which is what I got. Even then, during my tender, the site costs included traffic management, which I asked them to remove because we are on a quiet street.... So they didn't get it right even then Building a Madison 45 with Porter Davis Madison 45 Blog (Send me a PM with your email address to be added) Re: Porter Davis homes 17233Nov 03, 2021 2:43 pm fademan Even then, during my tender, the site costs included traffic management, which I asked them to remove because we are on a quiet street.... So they didn't get it right even then Good to know. We will certainly keep an eye on the items included in the site cost. Re: Porter Davis homes 17234Nov 03, 2021 2:58 pm If there are major discrepancies between their sales quote and tender process, it is best to question it through the sales consultant. We had a good sales consultant who was happy to be involved and we found that there had been errors when they were working out the costs. In our case, it was nearly a 17K error (not for site costs but for an additional structure). Luckily our sales consultant was able to find it based on the costs that they have on file for other similar projects and was able to help it being rectified at the tender. All the best. Re: Porter Davis homes 17235Apr 12, 2022 7:03 am so porter davis never installed my flue, got sick of following them up back then. tried again, old mate could have just left is at. 8 years is abit too long to claim on this. sorry for the inconvenience. but they say this giant non painted box and no flue is the correct install. cOrrEcT InsTalAtiOn Re: Porter Davis homes 17236Apr 12, 2022 7:10 am Xile so porter davis never installed my flue, got sick of following them up back then. tried again, old mate could have just left is at. 8 years is abit too long to claim on this. sorry for the inconvenience. but they say this giant non painted box and no flue is the correct install. cOrrEcT InsTalAtiOn I would expect it to be painted at least. 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