Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 164Jul 28, 2010 2:39 pm Decided to knock down & rebuild Designed our own home - building privately with CC Designer Homes Doonks' World - The Thread Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 165Jul 28, 2010 3:29 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 168Sep 23, 2010 8:55 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 169Sep 24, 2010 12:05 am Welcome Johnlong, Hopefully you have a plesant building experience with them .... Ill be watching your 'build thread' Regards We're building The Albany 330E with Casa Design & Construction via National Builders Group See how we are going here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32694 Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 170Sep 24, 2010 8:44 am we used national builders for the last house we built and would have gone with them again in a heartbeat, but the designs and the place we live now made the cost per square for what we wanted too expensive...we loved nbg,,,,we built a maquarie23 with alterations.I wanted to build it again...this time we are building with simonds,,and they have been fantastic too,,,,the usual communication issues, but overall nbg andf simonds have been great,,jg king on the other hand.....who built our very very first home were TERRIBLE and I wouldnt reccomend the, to anyone! hope your build goes smoothly,,,and youhave a house you will love for a long time,,if i could have picked up our house and taken it with me when we moved away I would have! Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 171Sep 24, 2010 11:48 am Hey again, i found a business that was the same as my allocated builder on some website and rang the guy up and it was the builder that had been doing the initial things for my house. So it was a good 10 min chat and seem like a fairly nice guy. He game some address where he had built in the same estate as where i am building so it was good that he knows the area. Now to get through all the NBG stuff so i can deal with the builder directly. I did ask if i could do some stuff but he wasn't hesiatant (spelling?) and rather things get done through the correct channels... ie the telstra smart community wiring... would have been nice to do it myself but we'll see... also i thought about some sort of sound insulation for the theatre and and my room again, hopefully he'll allow that to be done... ---------------------------------------------------- Living the dream.... yeap a mortgage... Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 172Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm Hi all, just a quick question for anybody who is/has built with NBG... does the builder pay for the building permit, or do you? i always thought it was the builder, but my contract notes "planning permit by owner"... not sure what that really means. thanks John ---------------------------------------------------- Living the dream.... yeap a mortgage... Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 173Oct 07, 2010 3:40 pm Planning permit is different to building permit John. Our building permit was specified to be by the builder, planning permit by us if required (which it wasn't) Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 174Oct 07, 2010 5:16 pm ahhh... i c, so planning is more for people who are building in built areas, i.e. knock down new build... where as most new estates will only require building permit... is that right? perhaps that clause was there just in case... I'm building in a new estate so hopefully that won't be the case... ---------------------------------------------------- Living the dream.... yeap a mortgage... Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 175Oct 08, 2010 7:08 am johnlong Hey all, i too have just signed off on my quotation estimates, i was told it be envirotec homes building my house, tried to do research on them but to no avail. they are apparently in mornington which is quite far from cranbourne... anyway, if anyone knows much about them let me know... thanks. that was the house we built last time,,I would have given my anything to rebuild it this time,,but it was going to cost 100000 more..yep 100000 more in 5 years! we made the ensuite a small one with wir,,,turned the original bathroom into a 5th bedroom and had the hostess kitchen added when we built we alos added a carport to the side of the garage....I LOVED this house so much,,,when we moved away from where we lived It nearly killed me to leave that house!......hope you love it just as much as we did! Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 176Oct 08, 2010 7:10 am johnlong Hi all, just a quick question for anybody who is/has built with NBG... does the builder pay for the building permit, or do you? i always thought it was the builder, but my contract notes "planning permit by owner"... not sure what that really means. thanks John I will look at my old contract,,,suprisingly they were one of only about 5 things that survived our house fire,,,,more contract than photo's!!! but I will look and see if it is listed in ours! we were in sw vic and jim clifford built ours he was from werribee.... Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 177Oct 17, 2010 2:57 pm Johnlong, We are building with Envirotec Homes as well. Building permit came through about 6 or 7 weeks ago. Excavation and plumbing done, slab should be done this week. So far so good, I have found them very helpful and reliable although its still early days. But unless my judgement is way out I think they will give us a lot better experience than some others on this site who are unfortunately struggling with NBG and their builder. Good luck. Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 178Dec 17, 2010 7:55 pm I would never build with them again. After we signed the contract all the extra variations popped up. And as cherry on the cake just before they started to build they told me that my garage wasn't going to be waterproof, I had to pay extra for that too. Why didn't they tell me that before... They put in a smaller airconditioning, in the contract was 8 kw and I got a 6 kw but it was an inverter, but what can I do with a smaller unit. It has to work longer now to get the same results. My sub contractor was ok, he fixed a lot for me, but this was not thanks to National Builders. They promise a lot and then everything is an extra. They display laminated shelves, but what you get is painted shelves, or you have to pay extra. They display a beautiful painted house, but actually you only get two thin layers of paint. I can't sit on my toilet, it is too small. I paid $70000 extra on top of the original quote Still ... my house is ok but won't build it again with NBG. No customer service at all and they promise a lot but at the end everything is extra, at least it was when I signed up. And it took 6 months before they started to build. After the start up it was ok, but again that was thanks to my builder and not thanks to NBG. Then as cherry on the cake, if you put a bad review on the internet they sue you for defamation. Such a joke, they think they can do anything and get away with it too by threatning you with the defamation law. So when things go wrong you can't even warn others because then you are doing the wrong thing. Then only thing is ... I am telling the truth, so that is what they call justification. Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 179Dec 18, 2010 8:59 am ^^^^ Arrow, we have laminated shelves throughout, paint is 3 coats ( sealer plus 2 paint), if your builder has not supplied what THEY were contracted to, then that is who is to blame. What do you mean about your garage not being waterproof????? NBG is like a co-op, the builders pay a % of the contacted price to be involved and are responsible for the build quality- as is defined in all of the paperwork. It is your responsibility to be sure of the products you are receiving in your contract- at ColourWorld NBG display the specified products and any substitution needs to be documented. From some of the detail you have supplied I believe that you should be contacting the relevant Housing Association in your State- about your builder! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Any comment on National Builders Group 180Jan 17, 2011 12:07 pm We are now about to begin our process. Hopefully pay our $500 deposit today and gets things started. I'm putting a list together of things within the "standard" house that are upgradeable. What I want is to know what things do we have the option of upgrading, the range of choices, and the cost of each. I'm talking from the door hinges to the bricks to the colours to the roof. We drove from Mulgrave to Bairnsdale to have another look at the Porofino (because the Berwick display house was sold late last year). We had a good overview given to us by Paul, the sales guy out there. I'm hoping ppl here can give me some good ideas as to really practical things that will benefit us in the future, such as: All double power points, or make sure we get a certain pressure rated tapware in the kitchen, etc. It's a bit scary to actually get started, but the sooner the better if we want to be in by Xmas 2011 (we also have to demolish and remove the current house) Decided to knock down & rebuild Designed our own home - building privately with CC Designer Homes Doonks' World - The Thread 4 14849 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14636 Site works are just about to start on our build with Blueprint in Midvale. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=106894 2 4094 |