Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Nov 25, 2009 9:00 pm Or is it just me?? We are coming to the end of our building adventure and there has been not many ups ans so many downs. I love the area we chose but I look at the house and just hate it. I can see every imperfection when Im there and just want to sell it and start again. The workmanship is of such poor quality that I just dont want to live there. Does this change once you move in? Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 2Nov 25, 2009 9:02 pm I'm feeling the same way at the moment. Not becasue of anything the builder did, just because half of my selections look sh1t. I hope it will get better when we move.... but I won't stay there if it doesn't. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 3Nov 25, 2009 9:05 pm Hopefully once you are both in, you will both start feeling better about it. The imperfections will just fade into the background. Joles is it only the render that you dont like? That's an easy fix. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 5Nov 25, 2009 9:09 pm Building can be such a long and exhaustive project, hopefully once your in and settled you'll feel different. We're only at slab stage and dh has already been saying he wished we'd bought instead of built, it's been a long 15 month wait for us and lot's of hicups along the way. And Joles, I love your selections! Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 6Nov 25, 2009 9:26 pm EKT Or is it just me?? ... just want to sell it and start again. The workmanship is of such poor quality that I just dont want to live there. (cough) ... well, we have only just started and we've already decided! If they don't catch up big time, no landscaping and other finishing touches for us ... we'll just sell! That's one of the reasons why I still haven't started our build thread - it's just so disappointing, I'd say even embarassing (although I know it's not us who should be embarassed). Another decision ... Has anyone checked out productreview on builders yet? Also found today that the colleagues from the same company as our no-show PCA have been cautioned and reprimanded by industry certifying body ... Ah, the cyber space ... My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 7Nov 25, 2009 9:38 pm We had a huge list of unfinished items and imperfections when we moved in. But over time a lot of things have been fixed by the builder. A few things will always pi$$ me off such as the bricks/mortar issues and crappy internal paint job. But now we are making our personal touch on the house as we complete inside and do the gardens and I am really starting to love living here now. The positives far outweigh the negatives and it does get better over time. My advice to you is to move in, get used to the house and finish it off the way you want to. Also make sure the builder fixes up the poor workmanship. If you still feel the same way after 6-12 mths then look at moving on, no point in living somewhere if you are not happy. Blog: http://bluemistkids.blogspot.com "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic." Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 8Nov 25, 2009 11:40 pm joles I'm feeling the same way at the moment. Not becasue of anything the builder did, just because half of my selections look sh1t. I hope it will get better when we move.... but I won't stay there if it doesn't. Wow - I checked out your blog, and your house looks awesome. I don't know how you can say it does'nt look good. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 9Nov 26, 2009 6:12 am We expected getting the keys to our new home to be an exciting and happy experience. Instead, we just felt disappointed, disillusioned, exhausted from the constant stress and we had real concerns that the roof would leak or bits would just fall off our house. My husband actually did hate the house (I'm a bit sick of hearing him say it, actually ), and wanted to sell it immediately on handover. That was never an option, given the costs involved. We've lived here almost a year now, and both of us are still suffering from the mental and emotional stress of the disastrous experience of building. Luckily, 12 months on things are improving. I'm enjoying planning our landscaping and decorating the house for Christmas. Last Christmas I just didn't care enough to bother..... Even my husband is coming around and is beginning to enjoy living here. And nothing has fallen down yet. Touch wood. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 10Nov 26, 2009 6:51 am I think definitely move in and see how it goes for at least 6-12 months. Once you get settled in and have all your stuff around you it's amazing what you can forget about and what is no longer as important, especially if you are moving to a new area that's different and exciting for you. 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 11Nov 26, 2009 7:22 am This is a really interesting question Before we started building I talked to two of my friends who had built and they both said, "never again." But interestingly, rather than being unhappy with the house itself, they were more put off by the amount of stress the building process placed on their relationships. I think for them, the house symbolises all those conflicts. But in saying that, I do have other friends (who are mostly a lot older) who have built several times; people I'd refer to as 'serial builders' and they appear to revel in the process. Interesting topic Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 12Nov 26, 2009 8:44 am To answer the actual question - No. Even with all the kerfuffle we have gone through - taking two years to get to this stage, Council making things extremely difficult, costs increasing by over $150k and eventually builder going broke we still never disliked the home. It was the place we designed and we wanted to live the rest of our lives in. I think that sometimes we all have such high expectations that when it becomes reality it can come as a rude shock when things come to fruitition. My advice is to always remove yourself from the personal aspect. Ask is it actually the house that is the problem or something else. And I agree with PPs - live in it for six months to see if your outlook actually changes over that timeframe. Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 13Nov 26, 2009 8:53 am kyton My advice is to always remove yourself from the personal aspect. Ask is it actually the house that is the problem or something else. A wise point well made...the material things don't often change the things that matter. Which is not to imply that a decision on a new/different home is only done on the material. mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 14Nov 26, 2009 9:19 am to_do_list kyton My advice is to always remove yourself from the personal aspect. Ask is it actually the house that is the problem or something else. A wise point well made...the material things don't often change the things that matter. Which is not to imply that a decision on a new/different home is only done on the material. ^^^I know that's what I'm doing at the moment.... vvvvThis is from my vanities thread.... which is morphing into a thread similar to this, so I thought I would post it here as well as it certainly ties in with Kyton's point. joles kek I think you're just at the pointy end of a stressful experience. Even the smoothest build is still a challenge to your mental equilibrium, and things can oh so easily get blown out of proportion. I think that might be it. Our build itself has been relatively smooth. I have had a pretty laid back attitiude to it... I haven't been stressed when things have gone wrong. Structural beam that engineers had to sign off on it being altered early on, this week they have to rip out one of the front windows and maybe some wall. I've actually been calm about that stuff and thought "fluck ups happen, it will be fixed and we'll move on." It's everything surrounding the build. All the crap to actually get started (none of which was PD's fault), living here.... and financially. I am pretty much out of money. This has dragged on so long.... mum is crap at doing anything so I have to do everything.... I need to go back to work but it's not much point when we are moving away and I can get work up in Kilmore (friend doing pre-training). One of the reasons we built such a big house was to accommodate my invalid brother (who is terminal)..... now he is moving to Queensland on Wednesday. Two years of us all living in this shoe box and now he decides he can't live with us and we are evil. A couple of weeks before handover on a 40sq house? WTF??? We could have built something considerably smaller (around 30sq-35sq) as we would have needed one less living area. And he could have gone to Queensland a while ago and not made living here so stressful. I hate this time of year... we all hate Christmas. I think I mentioned this last year, but within a five year period... my Nan was diagnosed with leukamia on Christmas Eve and died five weeks later, my Dad was hospitalised for the last time a few weeks before Christmas and died on December 28th and then my pop got very ill over Christmas and passed away. My whole family hates Christmas... we get through this period with gritted teeth and love to see the 1st of January. I think the vanities and the house just give me something to focus all the negativity on. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 15Nov 26, 2009 9:21 am kyton To answer the actual question - No. Even with all the kerfuffle we have gone through - taking two years to get to this stage, Council making things extremely difficult, costs increasing by over $150k and eventually builder going broke we still never disliked the home. It was the place we designed and we wanted to live the rest of our lives in. I think that sometimes we all have such high expectations that when it becomes reality it can come as a rude shock when things come to fruitition. My advice is to always remove yourself from the personal aspect. Ask is it actually the house that is the problem or something else. And I agree with PPs - live in it for six months to see if your outlook actually changes over that timeframe. It absolutely is the house itself. We LOVE the area and the actual block of land has always felt like home. The experience I can get over but the ******* work is something we will be looking at every day and will most likely be paying for for years to come. I feel shattered because we also designed this house ourselves and paid so much for quality, and then to see what we paid for ruined by these people makes me want to Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 16Nov 26, 2009 4:32 pm I loved the last house we built but I always hated the poor workmanship that was done on the tiling, it bugged me for 8years, this time we made sure we used a smaller builder so we could have more control on the standard of finish, we made sure we looked at completed homes(not display homes) he had built & ones under consrtuction looked at that a several stages before we signed up with him. So far so go but we are only at slab stage, but we hate the rental we are living in so much it will take a lot for us to hate the new build. Sorry to here about your disappointment kek, I hope it all changes when its not longer a house but your home. Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 17Nov 26, 2009 4:39 pm I am in next week, and I just dont care anymore, I am over the whole building experience. Today they rendered over the ******* brickwork in the wrong colour, my rainwater pump is not suitable, etc etc. I feel defeated, I am sick of arguing for good quality work, generally it is fixed, but still have to argue the point. I am not excited at all, just glad it is finally over. But if I was given the land for free I would build again. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 18Nov 26, 2009 4:50 pm I'm really glad about this thread...in a funny kinda way... cos I thought it was just me!! Pix Built a (highly) modified Allcastle Maxworth 38.7 in Sydney. Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 19Nov 27, 2009 5:02 pm My wife didn't like the place we stayed when we moved to Singapore. But after staying here for a year she has decided she likes it, and we've been here 5 years now. Time changes how a place feels. Just think about what's going to make you happy. Forgive the people who didn't do quality work, because it's you who suffers from thinking about it, not them. Don't allow them to make you unahppy. Who controls how you feel, their ** workmanship or you? And be thankful for all the wonderful things in your life that mean so much more than having a perfect house! Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Has anyone hated their house after building?? 20Nov 27, 2009 5:13 pm We HATE the house we're renting now! We've been here just on 7 years... I hate some of the neighbours, I hate living opposite a school, I hate living on a corner, I hate constantly finding white tail spiders, I hate our feral neighbour's cat pi$$ing on our front security door, I hate that we have NO insulation in the walls AND ceiling, HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT. Itching to get into our house we're building! Even though we're only at frame stage, I could pitch a tent in the yard and be happier there than we are here! Having said that, today Aaron's boss offered us his house in Kangaroo Ground at half the rent we're paying here, fully furnished, for as long as we want it. Move in 23rd Dec. He's moving his family down the penninsula to their holiday house. So... a few acres... peace and quiet... and we can take our time moving into our house once it's finished being built. I think we're going to do it! Sorry - got somewhere off topic there... Hello everyone, I have a question regarding moving a chandelier after it has been mounted. 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