Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building with AVJennings / Sekisui house? 42Jun 28, 2012 12:58 am Just my two cents worth - went and saw them at the Rochedale Estates display, gave them all my contacts and that I wanted to speak to someone about a two storey home in the estate and NOT one call or email to date and that was 3x weeks ago. So obviously, have now crossed them of my list. Bit sad when you cant even get a call to try and spend money with them Re: Anyone building with AVJennings / Sekisui house? 44Jul 15, 2013 11:52 am We would not recommend you guys to build with them (Sekisui House) and dont do the same mistakes as we did. Their sales person from Kellyville mentioned and guaranteed that we will have no problem building one of their display house. That is the main reason why we signed contract with AV Jennings at the first place. Turned out we had to have our house size cut and are having issue with double garage. In addition, to that our Design Assessment application were rejected by Council twice and almost lose the Government first home grant worth of $17000. Took them more than forever to build 2 storey house. After moving in, we found some many issues related to their neglience and slackness. 1st issue - Dishwasher 3 months ago we started to use our dishwasher for the first time resulting in disaster; the dishwasher was leaking water from the bottom of the door to all of our kitchen floor. A plumber came and had a look and mentioned that the dishwasher had never been installed and placed properly. In addition to that, the drain pipe from the dishwasher wasn't drilled so the water couldn't go anywhere. 2nd issue - Rain water tank They never installed our rain water thank properly and did not even bother to show it to us on how it work on the handover day. When I complained to them, their rude customer service staff just told me to contact the manufacturer directly. Turned out that the problem was pump was short circuiting the power due to incomplete works / defects. I am currently dealing with Fair Trading in order to resolve this building dispute. Re: Anyone building with AVJennings / Sekisui house? 45May 13, 2014 12:10 am rzantika We would not recommend you guys to build with them (Sekisui House) and dont do the same mistakes as we did. Know someone who lived in a brand new rental from AV Jennings / Sekisui homes and build standard was appalling (nothing was straight on the inside, they had leaks, cracks, broken windows, doors, plaster issues...). When I was looking for builder, I definitely knew it wan't going to be this bunch of people. Reading the reviews, I'm actually surprised AV Jennings / Sekisui homes still has customers. From all the home builders in VIC, "AV Jennings / Sekisui homes" has one of the poorest ratings (ratio no of reviews vs score). Re: Anyone building with AVJennings / Sekisui house? 46May 13, 2014 12:16 am We are building with Sekisui... Actually still in the admin stages but should start building in the next couple of months... We'll be getting an independent inspector for peace of mind but we've also heard some great things from people too... So I think it just depends. Re: Anyone building with AVJennings / Sekisui house? 47Feb 17, 2015 10:08 am milesy71 Ribbon Wow the Piazza seems very popular! We are building a modified Meridian 240 in Canberra. We have had the land for some time now, and strugged with trying to get a custom design together with another builder before eventually dumping them and falling in love with the Meridian display home. We are pre-contract at the moment waiting for soil tests and Sekesui is getting plans together for planning approval, but the sales person has been by far the most helpful and knowledgeable of any of the builders sales people I have spoken to. Everyone building the PIAZZA can count themselves very lucky that you signed when you did! It is a fantastic design. I was told by a SC in Vic to 'sign within the week' if I wanted the PIAZZA (around 3 months ago) because they were about to remove it from their designs. Reason given by SC: Sekisui House/AVJ "were infringing on Copyright laws" and were required to remove it from their list. We just didn't want to rush and to be honest I (half) thought it was a ploy to get our business! I'm pretty sure it was the "Yelena" that was also a very similar design to the PIAZZA - and it was removed too, though not sure about the reason behind that decision. Lucky bunch all you that got in on time I'd love to know the company that had the original design, might investigate. Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. 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