Porter Davis homes

ajd78 · Mar 25, 2014 4:59 pm

That is great Inglewood and Claire... I cant wait to join you...

Most of the issues on the PCI were incidental and we now have a handover date of 4th April!!!

How exciting... Have updated the blog if anyone wants to see the pics!!

Country Lifestyle · Mar 25, 2014 7:59 pm

ajd78

That is great Inglewood and Claire... I cant wait to join you...

Most of the issues on the PCI were incidental and we now have a handover date of 4th April!!!

How exciting... Have updated the blog if anyone wants to see the pics!!

It looks beautiful, congratulations to you and your family

Back Pocket · Mar 26, 2014 11:44 am

ajd78

That is great Inglewood and Claire... I cant wait to join you...

Most of the issues on the PCI were incidental and we now have a handover date of 4th April!!!

How exciting... Have updated the blog if anyone wants to see the pics!!

Congratulations!! We had handover 14th March

and then took the week off to move and organise flooring installs, trades etc. Still not entirely unpacked

Massive issues with Telstra and we wont have a home phone until 20th May and no internet either despite telling me it would be connected on the 18th. Will try to keep up at work when I can.

Overall very happy with the house, a few small things but hopefully all to be sorted out soon. I can only suggest that those of you still building, check everything every time you go to site and get onto your SS immediately you find something. I am convinced that doing this meant that when we got to PCI and handover just about everything was fixed.

Seriously, our SS was brilliant and he was the one building the house so we just by passed our BC, more drama than she was worth.

Good luck everyone!

puppyso · Mar 26, 2014 3:55 pm

Hi Everyone,
An update on our "birds in roof' issue. The last time I had this issue (about 2yrs ago after the hand over) the tile was not fitted correctly between the eave. It was fixed so they said, but it seems like it was a quick fix now!. Porter Davis instead of cutting the tile to fit the area they had replaced it with a black piece of plastic? Sorry I don't know what it is.

Over time the plastic has reshaped/moved/opened up and the birds are back.

I can hear the birds coming and going from the ceiling and I believe they have caused damaged to our air vents because you can hear them chirping through the vents too now!!

Helen, can you pls help me with this on going issue.

thank you

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 5:25 pm

Hi folks,

For those that want a closer look at the cornice options available for Prestige homes I have uploaded the selections booklet that PD gave me to my blog...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... tions.html

I hope that this helps!

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 5:30 pm

If you want to know the architrave and skirting options available to ALL categories of homes, please see the post that I have put on my blog...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... tions.html

Cheers!

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 5:45 pm

I've just uploaded the list of structural changes for the Providence, Williams Landing and Berwick Waters estates for those that are interested...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com.au/p ... rades.html

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 5:51 pm

If you want to know that options for cabinetry handles without going in to Hopetoun Interiors, check out...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... tions.html

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 6:10 pm

If you aren't already aware, PD has a very simple pictorial survey on their website to help you choose your colour style (or at least give you some idea!). You can complete it at...

http://www.porterdavis.com.au/Our-houses/World-of-Style

The results that we got when we completed the survey were exactly what we had thought of before we used the survey. The four style choices that the survey gave us were...

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tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 10:30 pm

If anyone is interesting in having a look at the standard layout for lighting, electrical and heating vents, check out my blog post. I was able to get a Sales Consultant at Williams Landing to give it to me...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... ayout.html

tlblhayward · Mar 26, 2014 10:44 pm

Has anyone had much luck getting downpipes moved?

Team PD · Mar 26, 2014 11:19 pm

puppyso

Hi Everyone,
An update on our "birds in roof' issue. The last time I had this issue (about 2yrs ago after the hand over) the tile was not fitted correctly between the eave. It was fixed so they said, but it seems like it was a quick fix now!. Porter Davis instead of cutting the tile to fit the area they had replaced it with a black piece of plastic? Sorry I don't know what it is.

Over time the plastic has reshaped/moved/opened up and the birds are back.

I can hear the birds coming and going from the ceiling and I believe they have caused damaged to our air vents because you can hear them chirping through the vents too now!!

Helen, can you pls help me with this on going issue.

thank you

Hi puppyso,

Could you please PM me , via this forum, with your build and contact details and I will have the new home care team look into this for you ASAP.

Cheers, Helen

MummaDJ · Mar 27, 2014 8:58 am

tlblhayward

Has anyone had much luck getting downpipes moved?

I had some moved from what were coming down the front of the house/garage to around the side. There was one though from the Portico roof that still had to go down the front - no where else to go!

hash_nanay · Mar 27, 2014 3:32 pm

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Serenity_Now

ondrej09

Electrician - but I'm getting them to install plug bases for all the downlights that they're either installing or moving for me. That way in the future, if I ever need to change the downlights I won't need to call them back.

have you asked if PD can do the plug base versions instead to save time?

They probably could as they do install plug bases for items such as exhaust fans, but by the time we realised it was too late :([

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I have same problem with our house and I've sent an email to our BC saying downlights should not be hardwired so that I can replace them if needed. We thought it's early enough to resolve this problem since our house is still at Frame stage. I also mentioned this was never mentioned during our electrical appointment nor did they mention there is an option. Response I got from our BC is that they do not provide such option with downlights and all their houses they harwire the downlight. Looks like there is no solution for me unfortunately though it is very obvious to me that any light for that matter should not be hardwired simply for the reason that they need to be able to replaced if needed.

tlblhayward · Mar 27, 2014 8:21 pm

MummaDJ

tlblhayward

Has anyone had much luck getting downpipes moved?

I had some moved from what were coming down the front of the house/garage to around the side. There was one though from the Portico roof that still had to go down the front - no where else to go!

Unfortunately we were not allowed to move the downpipe that we wanted to because it was the only one on that part of the guttering. Oh well... no harm in asking!

tlblhayward · Mar 27, 2014 8:42 pm

For those that are interested, I've uploaded our "finalised" (well, our almost set) selections for Hopetoun Interiors to my blog. Feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... tions.html

Sambogirl81 · Mar 28, 2014 7:11 am

Well we are in!! We have keys !! Very exciting been a stressful few days but we are in! PCI went well very minor details that needed to be fixed, painf chips here and there and a scratch in the floor.

Day of handover (wed) everything had been fixed. We met the SS on site 8am wed morning and we worked thru the list that we had from oic so he could show us things had been fixed and they had. He said we then needed to head into head office to pick up keys and handover cheque and to just call on the way. Well guess what we got there and we were asked what time out appointment was?? Appointment?? At no stage was it communicated to us that we needed an appointment. Lucky for them a lovely lady was able to go throu everything with us.

Since moving in we have found a couple of things not quite rite, the dead bolts on all external doors don't line up. We couldn't have known this earlier as SS doesn't have keys for them, this does concern me from a safety point of view. We had tv point out half way up the wall to mount the tv and after connecting everything the PowerPoint doesn't work. One of the pot draws doesnt have the self closing thing on it. All major IMO we have emailed SS and he is arranging to all have fixed. Now just have to work through the millions of boxes that crowd my beautiful house.

I said to my partner last night that it doesn't feel real, our bedroom is so beautiful I feel like I am sleeping in a hotel room.

Enjoy everyone

Scott2233 · Mar 28, 2014 9:19 am

tlblhayward

For those that are interested, I've uploaded our "finalised" (well, our almost set) selections for Hopetoun Interiors to my blog. Feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated...

http://bendigowaldorf.blogspot.com/2014 ... tions.html

Hi Tlb

Interested to see you choose "moon dust" as the internal wall colour , have you seen any sample pic how the house will look like with that colour?

p.s. we have been recommend the same colour by Hopetourn as well

Mali02 · Mar 28, 2014 9:49 am

Sambogirl81

Well we are in!! We have keys !! Very exciting been a stressful few days but we are in! PCI went well very minor details that needed to be fixed, painf chips here and there and a scratch in the floor.

Day of handover (wed) everything had been fixed. We met the SS on site 8am wed morning and we worked thru the list that we had from oic so he could show us things had been fixed and they had. He said we then needed to head into head office to pick up keys and handover cheque and to just call on the way. Well guess what we got there and we were asked what time out appointment was?? Appointment?? At no stage was it communicated to us that we needed an appointment. Lucky for them a lovely lady was able to go throu everything with us.

Since moving in we have found a couple of things not quite rite, the dead bolts on all external doors don't line up. We couldn't have known this earlier as SS doesn't have keys for them, this does concern me from a safety point of view. We had tv point out half way up the wall to mount the tv and after connecting everything the PowerPoint doesn't work. One of the pot draws doesnt have the self closing thing on it. All major IMO we have emailed SS and he is arranging to all have fixed. Now just have to work through the millions of boxes that crowd my beautiful house.

I said to my partner last night that it doesn't feel real, our bedroom is so beautiful I feel like I am sleeping in a hotel room.

Enjoy everyone

Congratulations, enjoy your new home!!!

Mali02 · Mar 28, 2014 9:52 am

Just popping my head in here...

Our land titled yesterday! :z:

We are hoping to settle early next week. We've had our finance ready to go for about a month as we have been away and there was a chance that the land would title and therefore we'd need to settle when we were away. It didn't, but it is good for us now as we haven't had any running around to do for finance!

PD is in the process of organising our soil test and at this stage we have a site start of early May. After 15 months of waiting, things are finally progressing and we are so excited!!!!