Building with Wisdom Homes

Hi All,

Long time lurker first time poster. Our little family have decided after much consideration to use WH for our forever home and are building the Manhattan 44 (but will be closer to 48 as we had to move garage as land is at the end of a cul de sac). We signed our tender 3 weeks ago. Besides a few minor changes we are very happy. Waiting on a revised tender, we have been advised today its 10 days away, (so 5 weeks for a revised tender) is this normal? Also when do WH organise appointments? Thanks to everyone on this thread for the valuable information which I hope will make admin process a little easier. Wishing everyone the best of luck!

Building Manhattan 44

We usually waited 2-3 weeks between tender revisions but plans take much longer (standard wait seems to be about 2.5-3 months to get plans ATM).

Have you paid the $5k deposit yet? First round of appointments (kitchen and tiles) are organised after that deposit while they're working on your draft plans. We have been postponing those appointments now for 3 months while waiting for the plans first because we changed kitchen and bathroom layouts. If you have made changes that will impact on quoting your kitchen or tiling, the colours team won't know and will still try to book you in so keep that in mind

Once you sign off plans they will move you to contract and pay the 5% deposit, then finally you get 2nd appointments for colours, electrical and landscaping.

Hi All,

Long time lurker first time poster. Our little family have decided after much consideration to use WH for our forever home and are building the Manhattan 44 (but will be closer to 48 as we had to move garage as land is at the end of a cul de sac). We signed our tender 3 weeks ago. Besides a few minor changes we are very happy. Waiting on a revised tender, we have been advised today its 10 days away, (so 5 weeks for a revised tender) is this normal? Also when do WH organise appointments? Thanks to everyone on this thread for the valuable information which I hope will make admin process a little easier. Wishing everyone the best of luck!






Building Manhattan 44

We usually waited 2-3 weeks between tender revisions but plans take much longer (standard wait seems to be about 2.5-3 months to get plans ATM).

Have you paid the $5k deposit yet? First round of appointments (kitchen and tiles) are organised after that deposit while they're working on your draft plans. We have been postponing those appointments now for 3 months while waiting for the plans first because we changed kitchen and bathroom layouts. If you have made changes that will impact on quoting your kitchen or tiling, the colours team won't know and will still try to book you in so keep that in mind

Once you sign off plans they will move you to contract and pay the 5% deposit, then finally you get 2nd appointments for colours, electrical and landscaping.

Hi Lombieagle,

Good choice in design.
In regards to time waiting for a revised tender, how long is a piece of string? As per forum comments here, you can get lucky and have it within a week or two or unlucky and be waiting months. All I can suggest is to make contact once the advised period is up, and after that make it more commonly known that you are still waiting.
We had a period of 3.5 months waiting for changes to initial tender to be correct (it came back wrong multiple times), until finally we were able to sign off on the contract.

Re appointments, depending upon what changes are made to the masterplan, W sometimes waits for the drafting/estimators to finalise your tender before allowing appointments to occur. If hardly any changes, then as others have said external appointments can start, Home Central appointments once you pay them more $$$.

Good luck, happy times ahead.

Thanks. Yes it is and it fits our needs. Its a great product! Looking at your timings we may need to lower our expectations lol

Building Manhattan 44

This is the Rosewood stain for anyone interested and still at colours stage.,


Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes

I asked Wisdom months ago if we could recess the tracts to our alfresco sliding doors but they said no, it's not easy to do. I know other builders that do it though. A shame cause I really wanted it...

May I ask who told you no? Was it sales rep in display home or in your appointed CSO @ HO (Sorry not sure what stage you are at)?

There were a few things that we were told we could not have during our admin journey, but have found out we could have had them, only to be told incorrect information. If you want something, I would certainly push them as hard as you can. For example we were originally told no pendant light in powder room, no glass shelve in ensuite niche, no changes to selected facade, but we pushed on some and some items were agreed to.
Pity that there is no consistency.

I asked Wisdom months ago if we could recess the tracts to our alfresco sliding doors but they said no, it's not easy to do. I know other builders that do it though. A shame cause I really wanted it...

Hi guys, ive been off here for a few weeks - and what an emotional few weeks we've had. We had PCI on the 9th. There was only minor things to do - some more paint touch ups, one room didnt have the carpet done and some bricks needed a better clean. We got a call from SS on the Friday after to tell us that after waiting nealy 4mths to get our garage door installed, someone has damaged it. I could have died. I told hubby he needs to deal with SS now as im going to have nervous breakdown! SS told hubby to call last week to see where things were at as he wasnt able to set handover. Wednesday came around and we got told that Di Lorenzo have run out of our carpet and wont be in stock till end of month and we cant handover till then! I was devo'd. One room without carpet and they cant handover. I said that i didnt mind moving in without that room done as it's one of our spares, but no (apparently he'd called the boss and that was the answer). Friday came round and he was not answering our calls and msgs. He finally called me back and raised his voice at me through the phone. I was hysterical. Called hubby who called HO who gave him the bosses number. Boss said he knows nothing about our house and certainly doesn't see a reason why we couldn't move in without one room carpeted! He said leave it with him and he'll make some calls. Within 2 hours, they were getting the carpet from another supplier and we have handover Thursday 23rd - tomorrow. SS was trying to call me but I wasn't answering after the way he had spoken to me. Finally answered and . I'll admit i was quite short with him. But we are finally handing over tomorrow.
Phew. What a week. Im glad it's over to be honest. I'll be sure to post some pics tomorrow once we have the keys in our hot little hands lol.
I hate to say it, but im not even excited. The last week has really taken the shine off it all and I just want it to be done. We have our tiler booked in to start on Friday as we have that to do and he'll probably take over a week so we'll be moving on the 8th/9th. Right before I have the family over for Easter!!!
Sorry for the Novel - just new you guys would be able to understand. I know our issue pale in comparison to some of you guys. Just keep your chin up and it will all be over eventually!