Porter Davis homes

YAY Good luck with it all!

I met a future neighbour (4-5 houses down from us) yesterday; she was their to see the site scrape for their place, and the little guy and I had wandered down to check out the digging truck we had been hearing all morning. Turns out she is building the same house as us! That makes at least 7 in our little estate (including ours). I don't mind (perils of a volume builder!) but I do find it a bit weird to think that there's a bunch of us living in the "same" house all over the estate . It seems to be a much more popular design than I thought based on my verrrrrry extensive research (ie, this thread )

How funny! I have thought about this a little. There is only a small portion of people on this thread really when you thing about how many houses are currently being built. What will be interesting is how different they look with your selection.

hi all
PD wont release the contract before we sign. I know terms and conditions are standard. but we are within our consumer rights to look at the contract before we sign!!!

I am amazed that we are expected to sign without really knowing how much risk we are bearing, considering we are paying over $200k.

Please can you shed light on this matter.

cheers

There should be a copy of the standard HIA contract in your 24/7 portal. All it would be missing is the personalisation of it all, is this what you are after?

If I were doing this over again I'd turn up to the contract appointment, work through getting it as close to right as possible, then insist on taking it home for review if I had any concerns at all.

If the builder refused to allow you to take it home at that point I would walk away. They can't refuse you, not without opening up a ton of risk. My best understanding is you cannot be held to a condition you were refused the opportunity to consider. If you believe it necessary to review it from home then that's completely reasonable.


HD

I've been in my house now for about 16 months and have just discovered that my range vent is not connected to the outside as I paid for. Everything is up there, the vent is done etc, but the two are not connected. Any idea who I should contact at PD to dispute this?

You have to pay extra to have your range vent connected to the outside? Where is it connected to now?

I didn't ask for this to be done, so I might have to look into that.

Yes you do, can't remember how much but the standard is to just vent into the roof space! I'm not a very happy camper right now!

I can't believe it's not standard to vent outside. Just another thing to add to the list I guess!

Bows to your logic ! If you make it, bonus, but dont push otherwise standards slip !

Yay for you!!! So exciting. We're still waiting on our land to settle. It can't be long now - they're putting in the footpaths now.

ROFL! Well it is such a nice house! They've got the same good taste we have
We were told that the Drysdale is one of PD's most popular designs. Hopefully your new neighbours have chosen a different facade...

$ 322. Same for exhaust fans (powder room) to be ducted out side /atmosphere but I think its standard for the kitchen rangehood.

Hi AudreyandOscar,
Could you please send me a private message via this forum with your contact and build details and I will have this followed up for you.
Cheers, Helen

Yay that's great news. :):) good luck!

Can someone please clarify this ventilation issue? Are you guys saying that it is not standard to have the rangehood fan and bathroom exhaust fans connected to the outside, but into the roof space?? Surely that can't be good??

Whoo hoo! Will be watching your blog for the first pics!
Good luck

Correct. Standard just vents into the roof space, same for all builders. I changed my kitchen vent because of the smells, but bathroom, laundry etc are just standard vents into the roof

Meowsy, my understanding is that a double story is vented externally,because otherwise it would go inot the space between the floors but not a single story. For a single story you need to request and pay for the ventilation to the outside rather than the roof space. We paid for this to happen in our single story with PD 5 years ago.