Browse Forums Building A New House Re: dennis family homes 2Mar 09, 2009 10:15 am Built the Atlantique 37 Mk2 with Carlisle Homes - WE'RE IN!! Building thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=14413 ATLANTIQUE 37 MK2 PHOTOS THREAD - updated 22nd August '09 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22399 Dennis Family 9Mar 10, 2009 1:13 pm My husband and I are currently building with DFH, and have found them excellent! We are building the Brookdale 24 at Brimbank Gardens.
Our site start was on the 30th January09 and to date we are at the lock up stage. Our site supervisor is great and keeps us in the loop with everything. So far our building process has been a breeze. Re: dennis family homes 10Mar 10, 2009 9:03 pm Just wondering about end to end process times.
From what I've gathered around the forums, and from the friendly DFH staff is that it's approx 12-14weeks from Initial consultation and contract signing. Then approx. 24 weeks of building time. So to me, that's 9 months (approx). If anyone could shed more light on the process that would be great. For example, by the time we get to contract stage, are we already in line for a pretty quick site start date? It just seems like 3 months in contract prep is long, and then to wait another month or two would be a killer Also, what is the process from initial consultation through to contract signing? Is there a specific place we go to pick tiles, colours etc (E.G. The same as PD, M*tricon etc), how many different appointments are there during this? Sorry for the 20 questions. We are just really interested in building with DFH so would love as much info as possible We have a house in Doreen. Built the PD Kensington 24 (with Alfresco & Rumpus option). We are in...Decorating in progress...pics to come soon... Re: dennis family homes 11Mar 10, 2009 9:47 pm We are currently building with Dennis Family. Our site start was last Friday.
In our experience the contract stage took approximately 3 months. We had a month delay due to the Christmas break over January and after two variations we arrived at our site start date last Friday. From the time of initial consultation we had regular contact with the sales consultant to get to a proposal stage at which time I paid the $1000 deposit. From that point it was just waiting for the contract to be produced. About one month into the wait for the contract we received a call from the DFH Colour Consultants to arrange our colour appointment which is held at their colour room at their head office in East Malvern. We are also provided with a colour pack which provides the contact details of their preferred suppliers. We utilised the rest of the contract stage to visit the suppliers to select colours, styles etc which made the colour appointment very straight forward. Hope this answers the questions you have raised. Regards NoviceBuilder Re: dennis family homes 12Mar 11, 2009 8:53 am Thanks NoviceBuilder!
That has actually really put my mind at ease. I love the idea of the appointment being at their office in East Malvern as we drive home that way some nights, so it will be easy to leave work early one day and do that on the way home (it's the little things that make you happy when building I think ) I also really like the idea of them giving you the supplier details and you do that on your own time. That makes a lot of sense. Another tick to DFH for me I think. What DFH office are you dealing with? We went up to the one at Laurimar on the weekend, the lady there was a champion We have a house in Doreen. Built the PD Kensington 24 (with Alfresco & Rumpus option). We are in...Decorating in progress...pics to come soon... Re: dennis family homes 13Mar 11, 2009 11:23 am Glad the answers were of assistance. We have been dealing with the Taylors Hill office as we are building in Taylors Hill. Both the sales consultants whilst extremely busy are always very prompt in answering queries and do put in some marathon hours in order to service their clients.
We had a lot of additional items which we wanted to include due to the fact that we had selected all of our kitchen, bathroom, ensuite appliances, taps, sinks etc as we had initially gone through an architect to design our house only to find that we would of exceeded our budget with the build. We then started to look at a series of builders who had a house design which we liked and would suit the block. Our block is at the end of a hammer head court and whilst it is regular in size and proportion we needed a house design which was more in a homestead style so that our facade would face the street frontage. As Dennis Family build in the country they had a series of homes which suited this style of block so we have settled on the Stanthorpe. We had a lot of non-standard items added to our contract as we wanted to utilise our selections already made in this house with Dennis Family and they were more than accommodating. As already mentioned we are able to modify the design of the house in order to satisfy the developer setbacks. I have also found the contract administration process to be very smooth and also the colour consultants / interior designers give you a lot of good ideas and help you finaliseyour decisions. They allow 2 hours for the colour appointment. Regards, NoviceBuilder Re: dennis family homes 14Mar 11, 2009 7:25 pm NoviceBuilder Glad the answers were of assistance. We have been dealing with the Taylors Hill office as we are building in Taylors Hill. Both the sales consultants whilst extremely busy are always very prompt in answering queries and do put in some marathon hours in order to service their clients. We had a lot of additional items which we wanted to include due to the fact that we had selected all of our kitchen, bathroom, ensuite appliances, taps, sinks etc as we had initially gone through an architect to design our house only to find that we would of exceeded our budget with the build. We then started to look at a series of builders who had a house design which we liked and would suit the block. Our block is at the end of a hammer head court and whilst it is regular in size and proportion we needed a house design which was more in a homestead style so that our facade would face the street frontage. As Dennis Family build in the country they had a series of homes which suited this style of block so we have settled on the Stanthorpe. We had a lot of non-standard items added to our contract as we wanted to utilise our selections already made in this house with Dennis Family and they were more than accommodating. As already mentioned we are able to modify the design of the house in order to satisfy the developer setbacks. I have also found the contract administration process to be very smooth and also the colour consultants / interior designers give you a lot of good ideas and help you finaliseyour decisions. They allow 2 hours for the colour appointment. Regards, NoviceBuilder Im been through the same process (taylors hill also) currently waiting for updated drawings to come back. Which house are you building? Re: dennis family homes 16Mar 11, 2009 8:42 pm NoviceBuilder We are currently building with Dennis Family. Our site start was last Friday. In our experience the contract stage took approximately 3 months. We had a month delay due to the Christmas break over January and after two variations we arrived at our site start date last Friday. From the time of initial consultation we had regular contact with the sales consultant to get to a proposal stage at which time I paid the $1000 deposit. From that point it was just waiting for the contract to be produced. About one month into the wait for the contract we received a call from the DFH Colour Consultants to arrange our colour appointment which is held at their colour room at their head office in East Malvern. We are also provided with a colour pack which provides the contact details of their preferred suppliers. We utilised the rest of the contract stage to visit the suppliers to select colours, styles etc which made the colour appointment very straight forward. Hope this answers the questions you have raised. Regards NoviceBuilder Thats a very clear and excellent explanation, Novice Builder. Spot on Congratulations on your site start! We have also paid our $1,000 deposit with DFH now, just waiting for the soil report to come thru. hoping that our site costs wont blow up. We will be having our colour appointment just after the easter break. Cant wait for that! We have been contacting and visiting the suppliers to the available selection, which is great! Its good to know that people generally have been happy building with DFH. It gives us more confidence. oh by the way, we are building the Harvard from the Aspirations series. Stephen Williams Landing Stage 10 - Kingwell Neighbourhood Re: dennis family homes 17Mar 13, 2009 9:15 am thanks for all your replies guys we live on acreage and its hard to find plans that suit our land and dfh have some great plans currently leaning towards the murchison 27 providing bank funds come through ok we will be going with them Re: dennis family homes 18Mar 27, 2009 4:35 pm First post My partner and i are currently renting and just starting out building our first home! We are building with Dennis Family Homes, who have been fantastic. The process itself has been a little stressful at times and there have been some lengthy delays early on as when we paid our deposit our land wasn't titled. A lengthy waiting period was frustrating but at the same time not the fault of anyone and couldn't be helped. We paid our deposit in Feb 08 and our slab was layed in November! Currently we are at lock up stage, the wet areas were tiled today and our supervisor (who has been awesome!) has given us approx. 4 weeks until handover. Exciting, i can't wait! We are starting small as it's our first home and only the two of us (for now) we are building the Barwon from the Generations series. We also delt with the Taylors Hill Office, who were really great. We are building In the Tenterfield Estate in Burnside Heights (close to Taylors Hill). Re: dennis family homes 20Apr 06, 2009 2:46 pm We are building the Columbia with DFH and they have been terrific - we went through their financial advisors too and Neil has been just wonderful. I am building with my brother. We haven't got our contract yet, our land doesn't settle till early July so we are just waiting at the moment. We had some dramas with the lawyers for the land vendors which were a bit silly, but our sales consultant and finance dude were only too happy to call them and tell them they were being unreasonable!
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