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Shampoo

27 April

Building with Dennis Family Homes (Melb)

Hi, im just new here and just joined in. We bought a land in lollipop hill around Aug 2017 and is said to be titled this coming May 2019.. Yep, it was a looonngg…

Wild

6 February

Dennis Family Homes - Harvard 27

Hi Guys, For the titled land, how long generally does it take from initial deposit to commence the construction with dfh ? Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Sandychahal

13 November 2018

Brick color

Does anyone have the pic for Brushwood Horizon brick? We are going to build with DFH

Dennis51

23 August 2018

Dennis Family Homes - Devonport 363. Build has started...

Thank you. Building in Mansfield on 1/2 acre block. Will checkout Facebook pages.

SweetnSassy7

19 March 2018

Crystal 16 by Dennis Family Homes

Thanks for that!

Mayz28

8 March 2018

Missing pegs

Thank you everyone! Some very helpful tips, which we will keep in mind in the future if we’re ever building again!! We went back to our site and dug around and measured…

maddy.r

3 March 2018

Dennis family homes- Venetia 25

Thanks for that 👌

Joker

6 November 2017

Independant inspector worth it? Bendigo area

A must, include pre contract inspection, give yourself no surprise, and let's builder know, you have knowledge on your side, building mistakes are common and most builds…

Lenz88

26 October 2017

Building with the Dennis Family - tips and advice please :)

The builder applies for the permits on your behalf. Where are you building and do you know if you need any council dispensations? We waited till we got approval from the…

rattleAU

10 September 2017

Anyone building pearl 23 with Dennis families

G'day there! No, I'm not and can't help you there, sorry. Just wanted to let you know that there are a few of us who are about to build with Dennis Family homes and we…

dngxxx007

3 September 2017

Denns Family Homes - Pearl 23

Hello All, I am a newbie, planning to go for DFH pearl 23. I am trying to get experience of people who has gone for it. Dennis Family dont have a display house for the…

carrie8

25 June 2017

Dennis Family homes build in Melbourne west. FHOG.Venetia 23

I have uploaded a few but am having trouble writing captions for each picture or editing even on the desktop very frustrating, if there is any other pics you need DM me…

Humphrey29

10 May 2017

Crystal - Dennis Family Homes

Anyone building the Crystal with Dennis Family Homes?

Lenz88

18 April 2017

KDR Under the Flight Path - Dennis Family Homes (Hawkesdale)

Rondy - I love your house!!

rattleAU

23 March 2017

Anyone building the Kimberley through Dennis Family?

We've been considering the Kimberly 30. If you are in Victoria, they have one that is being handed over and the owners are letting them show it between 10:30am and 12:30pm…

carrie8

6 October 2016

Venetia 25 Dennis Family Homes

Following as we are building venetia 23! exciting!

aloenyx

18 September 2016

Dennis Family Homes - promotions

This is always a tricky one. Builders use promos and price jumps to push you into signing up quickly, before you see something else you like better. I've been watching a…

rtforresters

7 July 2016

Dennis Family Homes - Princeton 25

Thanks for the info. Hopefully we have a good SS and will allow additional things that we had forgotten. Enjoy your beautiful new home.

rondy

29 June 2016

Venetia 25 by DFH

Great to see another Dennis build! I hope all went ok with your contract. We are building the Hawkesdale (plan no longer available). We signed contracts on 1/5/16 & our…

Beetaloo

10 April 2016

Waterproofing = tiling? Confused with requirements

Water proofing is a separate process to tiling. Tiling only provides a water resistant surface, tiling by itself is not a water proof finish. Water proofing typically…

bashworth

16 February 2016

Brick surface - concave better?

Concave bricks are a new one on me! Are you sure they are not talking about the mortar joints (see http://anewhouse.com.au/2013/06/brickwo ... ar-joints/)

bjasani

30 January 2016

Dennis Family Home - Cosgrove 292 - Post Handover

gootza

19 January 2016

Our Build: Dennis Family Homes "Oxford"

No worries at all! Yes of course I will! Good luck with everything, I hope your experience is as pleasant as ours was.

janidbest

6 November 2015

Dennis family Venetia 29

@julia1301 it's perfect if you have more east facing because sun travels along from your garage to alfresco across living area.. Sleeping on south west is recommended…

sanremo

28 September 2015

Any one building with Dennis Family Manor Lakes(Melb)

Hello Team, I am planning to buy in recent release, any neighbours or peps other than above to geeks.?

gazish

9 September 2015

Dennis Family Homes

Hey gengenm, What series are you looking at? Aspiration or Inspiration? We are building with DFH, infact did our color appt today. We are building Venetia 23 aspiration…

bpratt

21 July 2015

Need a vent and DFH I'm not enjoying building with...

I still can't believe that photo showing the batten fittings with a shade above them. I sure hope you didn't have to pay extra for the shade attached to the batten.

Kikomatching

19 March 2015

Beaufort Model House from Dennis Family Homes

Hi All, I am considering to build new house model Beaufort from DFH. I would appreciate someone who had this model and give me feedback, please before…

Leonardo_23

19 September 2014

Dennis Family Build Quality- Interested to build "Hastings"

Hi Guys, I have actually seen 2 such homes by that builder and each was well above average for large builders. Ask who is going to supervise and what experience they…

sal032

1 September 2014

Our First Home Build DFH - Bendigo

Hi Everyone, Thanks so much for the lovely comments. I have published a new blog "Moving In" , photos of our house being lived in Enjoy.

SaveH2O

26 January 2014

Local Geotech

You can search here within any radius of where you are: http://www.consultaustralia.com.au/Find ... earch.aspx

sal032

28 September 2013

Warralily Coast Dennis Family Homes

Hi Mark, I wouldn't bother paying the 5k to lock in the current promotion unless you have already selected a design, sometimes their promotions are only on particular…

juski

10 July 2013

A new build in the bush

Hi cec1974! I see there haven't been many updates to your thread - any photos coming up? Would love to see your colours as you said they were similar to ours. I assume you…

ben/melissa

19 May 2013

Our Columbia 211 Dennis Family Home

Well its been a long time and how things change dramatically firstly we didnt go ahead with the new house couple different factors from costing and factoring in the…

our dream home

25 April 2013

Our Hartley 361- build

Thanks you

gootza

23 April 2013

How to save with building an Outdoor room?

the outdoor rooms start at $8000 I think so you think we would not benefit from getting them to just build out the roof? I don't really know how it works to be honest lol.…

our dream home

23 March 2013

Taking forever DFH

Thought I'd update. We are now In march 2013 and been told that handover is very soon. We have our inspection on tuesday with the SS. We still don't have a splashback or…

Mac25

7 March 2013

Hartley 341 - Dennis Family Homes (College Views, Bundoora)

Thanks, we are now in! We had a few issues but they are happy to resolve, still not happy with a few things so will bring up at 6 month visit.

building-expert

7 March 2013

Anyone built or building with Dennis Family?

We do a lot of stage inspections and over the years we have seen a lot of good and bad workmanship. Dennis Family Homes almost never comes up on a complaint radar. That…

RagnarsWife

16 February 2013

Building the Charlton29 with DFH

nice to meet another fan of madagascar cabinets it really does look awesome cannot wait to see it is all done

our dream home

16 January 2013

Help with choosing render colour for my house

Good luck we are at lockup stage also but No render . We went with the savannah facade. What facade did u pick ?

shellbelle

15 January 2013

Building The Harvard 271 With Dennis Family

LOL yes we are i have been very slack in updating this site... oh well it is sooooo exciting to be finally in. where abouts are you building? and have you joind the…

Leah_Com78

14 January 2013

Building DFH Murchison

Showers... http://s1256.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=5 Front door... http://s1256.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=2 I'm having 2 with clear glass, and…

Leah_Com78

19 November 2012

building wth dennis family homes Ballarat

Hi ks4, I too am building the Murchison so am very keen to see how your house comes along. I love your colour choices too! DH and I are "negotiating" at the moment. …

our dream home

6 September 2012

DFH Hartley 341 in SE burbs

Those are the bricks we picked as well and was worried for the same reason but they look great thanks for pics we are building the Hartley 361 starting soon ( we hope)…

our dream home

29 August 2012

Dennis Family Homes - Contract

Hi all after months of paper work I finally got the permits and documents to hand over to the bank which means that hopefully in the next few days we will get our site…

Mac25

23 August 2012

Building DF Harvard @ Ascot (Bendigo)

Thanks, I though it was, I am now starting to worry that it will look awful, I have found the steel line range have a timber look that actually looks genuine and nice…

Ashkate

14 August 2012

Building our 2nd house :) - We are in :)

Ohhhhh I like the hot tub!!

boofnmike

9 August 2012

our CoLumbia.. loving life in the hunt Club!!

hi there, would it be possible for someone to post a pic of the carpet colour "lipson drizzle " for me to have a look, can not find it anywhere on the computer! if you…