Browse Forums Building A New House Re: A Perfect House with Gemmill Homes - New House Update 16 301May 26, 2010 12:00 am Painting! We have also started painting. I will take a few pics when I get a chance! We have picked purples for the home theatre, green for the study and white pepper half for the neutral in the study/living areas (the purple and green are at different ends of the house and it is much much nicer than it sounds!). I haven't picked the bedroom or bathroom/powder room colours yet and I have no idea what colour to do the feature wall in the lounge room. SO hard! I might have to hunt through everyone else's blog for inspiration! *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 302May 26, 2010 12:18 am I haven't posted in forever so how about I be a crazy person and do three in a row? Has anyone else had the problems I have had post-build? 1.Carpet company sell us 75m2 of carpet and write 16linear meters on the invoice and then try to make us pay aother $800 at the time of installation as 16linear meters is no where near 75m2. We fought this on the phone and at the shop in person and eventually the company saw things our way. 2.Click Laminate company (same as carpet company) sell us click laminate including delivery and then when we call for delivery they refuse and say that they do not deliver and tell us we can pay a courier if we want at an additional costs exceeding $150. Again we fought with them over ****** during the selling process. After three phone calls and a visit to the office the product was delivered for free but up to 20% of the packets were damaged. 3. We bought blinds (pretty day night ones from a reputable curtain company). We have large windows and I specifically ask the sales person if the products we have purchased are suitable for our large windows. She asured us they would be great and showed us pictures of the product on large windows. We purchase the blinds and they are installed. 2 days later my mother was trying to close one of the blinds and it falls out of the wall on her head. Luckily she had put my 6mths nephew down moments before. After calling the company and receiving no promise to fix the blind and no empathy for my poor mother I called my salesperson and told them that at my new years party all 100 guests would be told why I was missing a blind and that yes I would be name dropping the company responsible. This was fixed pretty quickly. THEN the blinds all developed pulling and puckering. After about 10 phone calls a repair person came out at a time convenient for him to take them away and fix them. This left us without blinds during the hottest days of summer. The blinds returned in the same condition and we again called repeatedly. The blinds where then remade and installed at a time convenient for the installer. Again they looked horrible and were puckering. I call and told the company to give me back my money and take their stupid product away. They said that they were the best at what they did and insinuated that if they couldn't make us happy then no one could. 4. New blind company promised us that we'd have blinds hanging two weeks ago. 6 phone calls later they have finally FOUND our order and are again saying the blinds will be in by friday. Seriously! Do I have bad luck or does every company related to fitting out your house completely suck. I have had nothing but ****** and terrible customer service from everyone I have dealt with so far! (Well except bunnings - they mixed some paint for me and it was the right colour and price and it looks great on the walls - AMAZING!) *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 303Jul 21, 2010 9:47 pm Hi Manda Finally i got my keys today .. it has been a long time to get the house done, for me ..Gemmill Homes is one of the worst builder I never met, nothing can get things done properly such as slab is not level, sliding doors not level, mater bedroom's window not level, brick panel in the garage not level and water mark appears in the barge because the timbers they put on have a big chip that natural from the timber, I don't understand why they still use that timbers?? can't they use a better one? where is for the front elevation, there are many more of the issues ... and today i find out the lock can't slot in ....OMG, so many hassles, useles SS can't help. a lot of dissapointment, regret and stresses with this builder. i think you were lucky enough when you build your home with them.. Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 304Jul 22, 2010 12:59 am Quote: i think you were lucky enough when you build your home with them.. I agree!! The more stories I hear about them the more I realize your perfect house must have been one hell of a fluke!. Hey maybe thats why you had so much bad luck after the build, you must have used up all yours during the build. Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 306Jul 26, 2010 3:10 pm Hi Jimstring, we are building with Gemmill and already we are having issues with even getting work done, and no bricks have even been layed. After reading your post I am concerned with more than just the buildtime. Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 307Jul 27, 2010 1:23 am All the builders are same, they don't build but only do business, trademan does. Builders only concern about money not your building. they don't do it perfect in the first place but only to fix if something goes wrong. Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 308Jul 27, 2010 1:52 am Anyone of u who is building with Gemmill, did u receive BBQ as your hand over gift ?? i got 2 sparkling wines and some cheap plastic cutlerys and plates, 1 outdoor blanket and 1 school bag with the Gemmill logo. look likes all of them is for outdoor BBQ but only missing the BBQ burner. For those who got BBQ please tell me how much you build your house with Gemmill. Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 309Oct 22, 2010 4:55 pm I'm so sorry to hear about the terrible experience you have had jimstring I'd write a letter to Craig Gemmill and ask him to come "stand behind your house" and you can show him where he can start fixing things! I'm about to get the back/front yard landscaping done so I really hope I have some luck back at this point or I might just go insane!! *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: A Perfect Home with Gemmill Homes - 6mth inspection 25/0 310Oct 22, 2010 5:51 pm We live around the corner from you We had heaps of trouble with our build, but so far things have gone pretty well since we got our keys... touch wood!! Flooring going down next week, so FINGERS CROSSED it all works out well!! We have some blinds being installed tomorrow, but we've used the company before, and have the blinds in our current house. Good luck with the rest of your landscaping Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 We used a smaller qld builder who went bankrupt about 12 months after completion of ours. It was a shame as they were good and relatively cheap and I would have used… 3 4726 i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 98697 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5351 |