Porter Davis homes

We went 106 days over contract and got no present

We were told we'd get one but he left it at the office and he'd drop it by the week after, guess he forgot!

Our plaster has been hung and had first coat in 2 days. Outside eaves have also been lined and the front of the balcony is nearly done. Found a few errors over the weekend; pantry door wrong height and 2 bulkheads missing. Concrete on front porch also draining toward front door. Apparently most things being fixed today and cornice going up. Apparently cabinets should arrive any day now.

Constant errors. Feel like we are the project managers. PD happy to fix them but they just don’t seem to pick up all these issues. Lucky we only live 400m away and are checking progress almost daily.

Not sure I’d build w them again but then I guess all volume builders are probably the same. Darbecca did actually say we are getting a very well built house

I guess it all depends on the Site Supervisor, we haven't had too many of those kinds of issues (thankfully). We only live just over 1km from our build and it certainly makes it easier to keep an eye on issues and report them to the SS. Darbecca have been invaluable, if only for peace of mind.

We have the ones with the pins and they can only be locked from the inside

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I'm hearing you loud and clear. We are at about the same stage. Electrical done, tiles done, plumbing fit off in the next few days, and the exact same thing. The electricians cut some holes in the wrong places and the waterproofers put a sticker on the architrave that has ripped off the paint, lots of unnecessary damage. Must be so tedious for the painters.

I'm building with Porter Davis in Queensland and we weren't even given a choice, though Checkpoint are who we were given by default.

The surveyors role should be pretty smooth sailing if you are building within council regulations.

Hey all,

A quick update of our build-

We were contacted by our Site Supervisor on the July 31st to advise that Framing Stage had been completed. We were pretty excited as we're close to day 100 of a 308 day build and it's been pretty slow going. An unusually wet winter here in Geelong has apparently been to blame. Another story for another time...

Trusting in the information that our SS provided us, we paid the invoice and arranged Darbecca to complete an independent inspection.

Upon arrival onsite for our independent inspection we found up to half a dozen carpenters still installing roof trusses! Darbecca walked off site and told us to re-book our inspection when works had actually been completed.

As you can imagine we were devastated.

I attempted to contact our SS, leaving both voice and text messages for which he finally replied to at the end of the day after which we had forwarded the Darbecca cancellation fee invoice. He wasn't very apologetic and blamed the sub-contracting carpenters for not telling him the truth about actual completion. I would have thought that a visual inspection or drive by inspection would have been completed before actually advising us and sending the Framing Stage invoice.

Anyhow, a week later we've finally had the Framing Stage somewhat "officially" completed and our independent inspection completed. Further disappointment as the report came back with 42 pages of defects! Everything from out of plumb doorways, to walls being in place where only bulkheads are supposed to be, to roof trusses missing, to voids not being framed up, framing hanging over the slab to the slab having not being vibrated enough, even having steel reinforcements exposed in the edges slab and having damaged window & door frames due to them being left out in the elements for nearly 3 months.

We forwarded the report to Porter Davis and have asked for all items to be rectified ASAP. We are yet to have a response however today we received notification via email from our Building Co-Ordinator (which grammatically did not make any sense at all) that they were working with Darbecca to have the cancellation invoice paid. Nothing about rectification works.

I'm wondering if there are any other forums members out there going though similar experiences with Porter Davis?

That is horrifying. Our experience has been nothing like that, we have generally had a pretty good run so far and we are about 170 days into the job. It seems to me that the quality and timeliness of the build depends heavily on the SS. I would be making a serious complaint about the Site Supervisor to senior management and asking for a competent SS to be assigned to the job. Not much respect for the dream going on there.