Good Afternoon all,
We have finally made our decision to go ahead with Porter Davis in building our new home in Doreen which is the Regatta 23.
After a long road of trying to choose a builder we origanally signed with Burbank, but found with our sloping block we needed someone who did a fixed site cost as its costing us a fair bit in site cost and don't want it to go up anymore.
We were really unhappy with Burbank from day 1, heaps of things left out of the quote, prices that they were unsure of and questions they couldnt answer for us after given them our deposit they said in the next 2 weeks they would do a soil test but wow that didnt happen for at least a month and a half later, while Burbank were doing the soil test we started a soil test with Porter Davis which took them 14 days to get back to us with a finished quote with site costs. We werent happy with Burbank so we thought we sould look elsewere so we did thats when we found this wonderful home with Porter Davis.
So we finally got the quotes back from Burbank which we were very disapointed with and they said that the site costs may go up once they start doing the site works which we didnt agree with.
So after turning down Burbank and losing abit of money we are very happy that we found out the bads before they actually started building our house. Now we no that there are faults with every builder and thats just part of life but hopefully we have had a bad luck out of the way by now.
So We are in December now and we have signed for a start date as of the last week in March 2011. And by my counting if correct we should be finishing 2nd Week in August 2011. fingers crossed.
We havnt made heaps of upgrades as we are first home buyers, we have all the color consultations book in now and are waiting to see our finished product in August next year.
Im really enjoying reading everyones opinons on different things on the site its been great.
Have a good day
- Porter Davis - Regatta 23 with Colum Facade
-Proposed start date March 2011