Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 13763Dec 15, 2016 9:14 am Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: Porter Davis homes 13771Dec 15, 2016 12:17 pm Wow that was all pretty fast and great news!! Good luck with the final stages Building Porter Davis Waldorf 44 (KDR) in Melbourne East Sales: Oct '15 Tender: Jan '16 Contract: Apr '16 PCV: ?? Site Start: ?? Re: Porter Davis homes 13773Dec 15, 2016 1:15 pm Hehe I can't remember if you had the long contract stage too. Our contract went for 12 months! Build stage was fairly good though right? Building Porter Davis Waldorf 44 (KDR) in Melbourne East Sales: Oct '15 Tender: Jan '16 Contract: Apr '16 PCV: ?? Site Start: ?? Re: Porter Davis homes 13774Dec 15, 2016 1:48 pm Momiji Hehe I can't remember if you had the long contract stage too. Our contract went for 12 months! Build stage was fairly good though right? Yes, i think so. We paid deposit dec 2015, and i think contract was at possibly may 2016. Being a KDR i understand to some degree. Given out site start was meant to be May, it was well overdue when we finally start in August. Roll on February!!! Here is also a pic of our blind fabric chosen along with shurtter. I couldn't remember who i referred to Supurb, but we paid out deposit and arranged our check measure yesterday. Cathy and Hans are fantastic! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Porter Davis homes 13775Dec 18, 2016 11:39 am lizbf85 Momiji Hehe I can't remember if you had the long contract stage too. Our contract went for 12 months! Build stage was fairly good though right? Yes, i think so. We paid deposit dec 2015, and i think contract was at possibly may 2016. Being a KDR i understand to some degree. Given out site start was meant to be May, it was well overdue when we finally start in August. Roll on February!!! Here is also a pic of our blind fabric chosen along with shurtter. I couldn't remember who i referred to Supurb, but we paid out deposit and arranged our check measure yesterday. Cathy and Hans are fantastic! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Which house are you building again? 6 months build time is awesome! Ours is a KDR too but the Waldorf 44 so I'm expecting 9-10 months but keeping 12 months in my head so I don't get disappointed should anything happen. It wasnt me who you referred Superb to but will look into them. Where are they based? I will Google. Did you find your plantation shutter prices reasonable? Building Porter Davis Waldorf 44 (KDR) in Melbourne East Sales: Oct '15 Tender: Jan '16 Contract: Apr '16 PCV: ?? Site Start: ?? Re: Porter Davis homes 13776Dec 19, 2016 8:16 am Momiji lizbf85 Momiji Hehe I can't remember if you had the long contract stage too. Our contract went for 12 months! Build stage was fairly good though right? Yes, i think so. We paid deposit dec 2015, and i think contract was at possibly may 2016. Being a KDR i understand to some degree. Given out site start was meant to be May, it was well overdue when we finally start in August. Roll on February!!! Here is also a pic of our blind fabric chosen along with shurtter. I couldn't remember who i referred to Supurb, but we paid out deposit and arranged our check measure yesterday. Cathy and Hans are fantastic! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Which house are you building again? 6 months build time is awesome! Ours is a KDR too but the Waldorf 44 so I'm expecting 9-10 months but keeping 12 months in my head so I don't get disappointed should anything happen. It wasnt me who you referred Superb to but will look into them. Where are they based? I will Google. Did you find your plantation shutter prices reasonable? We are building the Vancouver 31 squares i think it was about a 20-23 weeks time frame on paper, but our contract was about 287 days! we knew that was over stated. Keep all expectations low, that's what we did and are pretty happy with the 'build stage' so far. That's OK I think someone else got a quote through them recently and wanted to share. Yes very reasonable, and the quality looks fantastic!! Re: Porter Davis homes 13777Dec 20, 2016 10:07 am lizbf85 your house is looking great! The scaffolding came down from our place last week. When I looked at the photos I had taken, I realised a window had been installed in the wrong place. It's a big window at the front of the house, and it should have been centred and lined up perfectly with the window below. It's placed off centre by at least 40cm? Anyway, we raised it with PD and it's being fixed. Re: Porter Davis homes 13778Dec 21, 2016 10:23 am Hi everyone! My husband and I are building the Montague 21 in Altona North. We just had our World of style appointment and I thought I'd start a blog so I can keep updates as reading blogs helped me allot in preparing for things so far (also being a school teacher I'm on holidays now with nothing better to do lol) an if any of my rambling can help out someone then why not. I'd really appreciate any feedback, never built a house before and never wrote a blog before. I'm really scared about the building process and really looking forward to the last tender to know exactly how much it will cost to build on our land. http://buildingmontague21.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Porter Davis homes 13779Dec 21, 2016 12:07 pm Naama Hi everyone! My husband and I are building the Montague 21 in Altona North. We just had our World of style appointment and I thought I'd start a blog so I can keep updates as reading blogs helped me allot in preparing for things so far (also being a school teacher I'm on holidays now with nothing better to do lol) an if any of my rambling can help out someone then why not. I'd really appreciate any feedback, never built a house before and never wrote a blog before. I'm really scared about the building process and really looking forward to the last tender to know exactly how much it will cost to build on our land. http://buildingmontague21.blogspot.com.au/ Thanks for the blog, i love reading these as it's our first time building. we just signed our tender last week. was quite surprised when we got told our site costs had increased by more than 15k our kitchen quote came in well over of 17k + for kitchen and galley. quote incl 60mm island bench and waterfall to one edge. cat 5 stone colour tech to kitchen and galley We are very fortunate that a family member works for a kitchen business and upright told us that the price had been marked up over 60%. We have negoiated with PD and all we are getting in our kitchen is a sink and cabinet underneath. this will allow us to do the kitchen post hand. we are able to get our dream kitchen incl 2 pac cabinetry through out and Calcutta marble for half the price WOS quoted us Re: Porter Davis homes 13780Dec 21, 2016 12:18 pm dc_1985 Naama Hi everyone! My husband and I are building the Montague 21 in Altona North. We just had our World of style appointment and I thought I'd start a blog so I can keep updates as reading blogs helped me allot in preparing for things so far (also being a school teacher I'm on holidays now with nothing better to do lol) an if any of my rambling can help out someone then why not. I'd really appreciate any feedback, never built a house before and never wrote a blog before. I'm really scared about the building process and really looking forward to the last tender to know exactly how much it will cost to build on our land. http://buildingmontague21.blogspot.com.au/ Thanks for the blog, i love reading these as it's our first time building. we just signed our tender last week. was quite surprised when we got told our site costs had increased by more than 15k our kitchen quote came in well over of 17k + for kitchen and galley. quote incl 60mm island bench and waterfall to one edge. cat 5 stone colour tech to kitchen and galley We are very fortunate that a family member works for a kitchen business and upright told us that the price had been marked up over 60%. We have negoiated with PD and all we are getting in our kitchen is a sink and cabinet underneath. this will allow us to do the kitchen post hand. we are able to get our dream kitchen incl 2 pac cabinetry through out and Calcutta marble for half the price WOS quoted us wowzer!! although very easy to spend that in kitchen i remember 8k was our quote just for cabinet upgrade to the vinal wrap. we ended up compromising to silk gloss, still not the nicest finish but it will do. Our stone upgrades cost $2.5k approx however we are extremely happy with out kitchen. Lucky for you you were able to negotiate. Our tiles just went in and our kitchen is starting to really take shape. Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 13113 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 76495 I would never build with Fowler homes. 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