Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Apr 27, 2010 11:31 pm Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had a basic estimate of how much it will cost to upgrade my garage door to timber fx Jarrah colour, my bricks to Austral Newport and my front door to a jarrah stain instead of painted. I am building a churchill 33 with Porter Davis, from the Prestige range. If anyone has upgraded to any of these items could you please give me an idea of how nice I will have to be to DH in the coming weeks She's backkkkk... Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 2Apr 27, 2010 11:43 pm I didn't do any of those upgrades, but I don't think they'll be fall over in shock expensive...probably the bricks out of those will be the costliest (did I make a word up?). The paint upgrade wouldn't be more than a couple of hundred dollars I don't think. If you're wondering about other upgrade costs, I listed all mine in my thread. There wasn't much that I fainted at the thought of actually, or maybe I already had low expectations. lol. Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 3Apr 27, 2010 11:47 pm We had the laundry door stained instead of painted.... that was only $45, but it's a fully glazed door, so not a lot of timber anyway. The front door frame, we switched to stained - that cost $90. I'd imagine front door plus frame wouldn't be more than a few hundred. They did charge us $861 to stain the facade windows though. Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 5Apr 28, 2010 1:39 am Not sure if the same price applies to prestige but for access the cost to upgrade to the timber look sectional panel lift garage door was $1600 ---------------------------------------- Building the PD Lisbon 24 http://www.porterdavis.com.au/#homeviewer/lisbon/24 Blog of our progress. http://lisbon24.blogspot.com/ Homeone build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28665 Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 6Apr 28, 2010 2:02 pm We are PD, Heywood 25. Cost to upgrade to timber garage would have been $1900. Cost to upgrade to catagory 2 bricks was about $500. Can't remember the cost to upgrade the door, but I imagine it wasn't that much. Lara and Joshua http://pdheywood25.blogspot.com/ viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31186 16.03.10 Scrape 29.03.10 Slab 08.04.10 Frame 11.05.10 Lock Up 03.06.10 Fixing 24.08.10 Handover Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 8Apr 28, 2010 6:31 pm Hi Sharee Our timber look garage door was approx $1600 and $145 to stain entry frame $188 to stain entry doors (internally and externally) these are double doors. Cheers Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 9May 01, 2010 2:45 am MY upgrade to timber fx door was $1500 but that was nearly 2 years ago. I would advise against trying to match a Jarrah stained front door to a Jarrah fx garage door as speaking from experience I can say you will end up with two distinctly different looking colors and appearances that do not match. The timber fx looks fine on its own but up against the real thing it just doesnt look like timber. Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 10May 02, 2010 10:15 pm Thanks Mozzie. That is something I thought about. There are a few places around who have a really good match, I was thinking of knocking on their doors and asking what they had used.... She's backkkkk... Re: Porter Davis Upgrades 11May 03, 2010 8:31 am Also, check what stain they use (brand and specific product). The Solver product they used on our doors and windows was rubbish, and whatever the other big builders use appears just as bad, looking worn and horrible within 3-6 months. I'm told on good authority that Solver don't even make an exterior grade stain. Cheap shortcuts... If there's an option to upgrade to a top-notch product - or to slip the painter some cash to do so - I highly recommend you do it. We've just spent the better part of two weekends getting the flaking, peeling crap off our French doors and facade windows and re-staining, and we're not even half done. Wow that is terrible about the insurance! I guess ideally proof of insurance should be provided prior to first deposit but I'd imagine they would refuse to be out of… 17 14248 There isn't any need to. As I wrote previously, there isn't a set term, there is just commencement based on earlier of contract signing or building permit issue and… 24 13408 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 6510 |