Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Home Builder Nightmare 2Nov 06, 2009 11:53 am Odd post, you say they are great then they should be out of business. My thoughts are every builder is the same. They do good work and they do bad work. You probably won’t see too much praise on these forums for builders since most people come on here to complain, rather then say how great everything is. Talking to some of my neighbours in my street, they all had problems, but different home builders. Problem is the houses aren't build by robots, so the quality of workmanship varies. Re: Home Builder Nightmare 3Nov 06, 2009 11:57 am Zav - I agree. Our builder has gone belly up in the last month and treated their contractors and some customers badly. BUT our home is gorgeous and well built. They treated us well - even when we were sacking them last month. The contractors were all happy to come back and finish off their work for us - probably since they were going to be paid straight away. Unfortunately there will always be bad stories as well as good - we just hear more bad then praise for builders. Credit where credit is due - our builders obviously sucked at the business side of things but they employed wonderful tradies who have built us our dream home. Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Home Builder Nightmare 4Nov 06, 2009 12:00 pm Hmmm... there is good and bad... Hopefully the good is more often than the bad. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Home Builder Nightmare 6Nov 06, 2009 12:33 pm That is for sure Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Home Builder Nightmare 8Nov 06, 2009 2:37 pm Quote: You probably won’t see too much praise on these forums for builders since most people come on here to complain, rather then say how great everything is. Well, not really I had some minor hiccups before and after my build which I did post about; I also posted many good things about the experience and was happy with my builder overall. I think most peoples building threads are a mixture of the good and the bad. We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16268 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 20411 |