Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 14306Feb 27, 2017 7:58 am Hi Sunshine, Has your build started yet? I know you were having the pool installed not long ago. How does it look? Re: Porter Davis homes 14307Feb 27, 2017 8:07 am nikil Hi Sunshine, Has your build started yet? I know you were having the pool installed not long ago. How does it look? Yes! It's in framing stage. Photo is about 3 posts above of the framing. The Darbecca independent inspector was happy with the slab so that's a good sign so far. It's moving pretty quickly, slab was 2nd week Feb & framing started last week. Once the slab is in that's when things start to move, very exciting! Re: Porter Davis homes 14308Feb 27, 2017 8:14 am Sorry, I did actually see that post! Very exciting, I'm hoping that once they start then I will know of a end date, until it actually starts you can't really be sure. Re: Porter Davis homes 14309Feb 27, 2017 10:14 am that looks great sunshine83, we also went with the Hampton facade and played safe with colours by sticking with the standard colouring in the picture. http://www.porterdavis.com.au/~/media/h ... rop=1&as=1 Re: Porter Davis homes 14310Feb 27, 2017 11:26 am F1natic that looks great sunshine83, we also went with the Hampton facade and played safe with colours by sticking with the standard colouring in the picture. http://www.porterdavis.com.au/~/media/h ... rop=1&as=1 Those are the colours I wanted! I thought you'd chosen Hampton but hard to tell until colours up. Did you do white garage? You don't have a rough timeline do you of what happened with your build ie Dec slab, late Dec frame? Trying to guesstimate how long it might take Re: Porter Davis homes 14311Feb 27, 2017 11:40 am Hi Guys, Can anyone tell me if they received these documents at contract time? Council approved plans (stamped plans) Builders Insurance contract of works. Builders Public liability Insurance. The bank require these documents before we can proceed with the mortgage. I have just asked our BC and she said they won't be available until they commence the build? She said that they are not available until they receive the building permit, The building surveyor won't issue the building permit until they receive developers approval. I don't know what she means by developers approval? We are doing a KDR not building in a new development. These documents are not available until we receive the building permit, this is available when we commence construction.mflksafkj Re: Porter Davis homes 14312Feb 27, 2017 11:52 am sunshine83 F1natic that looks great sunshine83, we also went with the Hampton facade and played safe with colours by sticking with the standard colouring in the picture. http://www.porterdavis.com.au/~/media/h ... rop=1&as=1 Those are the colours I wanted! I thought you'd chosen Hampton but hard to tell until colours up. Did you do white garage? You don't have a rough timeline do you of what happened with your build ie Dec slab, late Dec frame? Trying to guesstimate how long it might take Garage is white (near white anyway as you can't get white) like the picture too, we played safe. Hope this helps, we slipped a lot with the framer, they didn't have enough people on the job, its complex with the beams and side projections and he was pedantic (not necessarily a bad thing!) Mid September – Site Cut Mid Oct – Slab pour Late Oct – Frame Start Mid nov – first floor frame complete Late nov – second floor frame and upper roof complete Early Dec – Frame Inspection and windows installed (our inspector and the frame still wasn’t 100% complete) Mid Jan – Downstairs hebel Late Jan – Upstairs hebel Early Feb – Upstairs render This week – Side projection roof and upstairs cladding Early Mar – Lockup (fingers crossed!) Remember what happens when you try and guesstimate!!! Our contract completion is end of June and we had a chat with our S/S last week about our concern to hit this date, he said that his estimate is still to finish around mid May, more fingers crossed..... Re: Porter Davis homes 14313Feb 27, 2017 11:58 am nikil Hi Guys, Can anyone tell me if they received these documents at contract time? Council approved plans (stamped plans) Builders Insurance contract of works. Builders Public liability Insurance. The bank require these documents before we can proceed with the mortgage. I have just asked our BC and she said they won't be available until they commence the build? She said that they are not available until they receive the building permit, The building surveyor won't issue the building permit until they receive developers approval. I don't know what she means by developers approval? We are doing a KDR not building in a new development. These documents are not available until we receive the building permit, this is available when we commence construction.mflksafkj Hi nikil We had exactly the same issue as you which was made worse as we needed to get rid of trees during the demo of the original house that we couldn't do until we had approved build plans that you don't get until just before they go to site, which they won't do till the house was gone!!! I hope you don't need to get rid of trees. You will get the two insurance docs as part of the contract. Our bank approved the mortgage and had it ready to go subject to final approved plans by the surveyor that PD use, hope this helps Re: Porter Davis homes 14314Feb 27, 2017 12:15 pm nikil Hi Guys, Can anyone tell me if they received these documents at contract time? Council approved plans (stamped plans) Builders Insurance contract of works. Builders Public liability Insurance. The bank require these documents before we can proceed with the mortgage. I have just asked our BC and she said they won't be available until they commence the build? She said that they are not available until they receive the building permit, The building surveyor won't issue the building permit until they receive developers approval. I don't know what she means by developers approval? We are doing a KDR not building in a new development. These documents are not available until we receive the building permit, this is available when we commence construction.mflksafkj Hi, the council approved plans came through a couple of week before going to site and the insurance docs came in the mail, the week works commenced. You don't need developers approval. We used our own funds to cover the cost of the demo as the mortgage funds would not be released by the bank until they had the stamped plans. We did the demo in November and transferred to site in January. We didn't need to provide the insurance docs to our bank just the council approved plans. I don't think they will put the plans in to council until after the second soil test which can't be done until the house is demolished. Re: Porter Davis homes 14316Feb 27, 2017 12:43 pm We have only just been told this today so we weren't aware that we needed any of these things. It's annoying but we will have to figure something out. Our demolition guy is now taking the *** as well I don't know what he's up to but he's certainly not working! Re: Porter Davis homes 14319Feb 27, 2017 3:20 pm Can anyone also recommend a good demolition person in case ours leaves us in a bad way? Re: Porter Davis homes 14320Feb 27, 2017 3:46 pm dc_1985 Has anyone got recommendations for a site clean up company? we have rubbish and some concrete thrown on our block and need this cleared before site. thanks, Do you know who did it? If so you can complain to your council and they can try trace it and get them to remove. Wow that is terrible about the insurance! I guess ideally proof of insurance should be provided prior to first deposit but I'd imagine they would refuse to be out of… 17 14230 There isn't any need to. As I wrote previously, there isn't a set term, there is just commencement based on earlier of contract signing or building permit issue and… 24 13381 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 6489 |