Porter Davis homes

We had our WoS appointment yesterday. God I was exhausted at the end of the day. We were the last people to leave just before 6pm. Went well. A few things we will change/delete. Great having it on a Friday as it gives us the weekend as well as 2 business days to make any further decisions. Found the staff to be very helpful. Kitchen and electrical were awesome. A couple of surprises along the way which cost a bit more, a few I kinda knew were coming, some I did not. Very happy we signed when we did as one of the staff members mentioned the prices have gone up since then (my taps are now $100 more than what we paid). Here are some of our selections:

Façade - tiles, render, brick, windows and garage door (garage door was a surprise. We changed our colour scheme and none of the included colours worked so ended up with an extra $1100 that I hadn't planned on spending on a garage door).




Flooring and wall colour. Floorboards were the included Cat 1. Carpet was a Cat 3 upgrade but we don't have much carpet so not too pricey. We did have to pay extra to change a room from carpet to floorboards even though both Cat 1 was included. We wont know the true price of this until Contract as we will get credits back.



Stone benchtops in kitchen, bathroom and ensuite. 40mm to the island. We tried to have it flow through to our walk in pantry bench but it was nearly $2k to do (since it had no stone to start with) so that got ditched.


Front door - this cost us quite a bit as its a larger than normal door, and I have a feeling the sizes are standard. With frosted glass and stain similar to our garage door. We could have gone cheaper with one of the ones on display there but I wanted a solid wooden door.

Basins for ensuite (x2) and bathroom. Upgrade of $100 each.



Wall taps for the basins. These babies are now $100 more expensive.



Tiles - we went with a large 600 x 600 light grey tile in the bathrooms and ensuite, plus the floor of the toilet and laundry. One wall in both the ensuite and bathroom will have a feature tile wall of white subway in herringbone, plus the laundry tiles will also be in white subway herringbone along the bench. The wall behind the toilet will also be a feature wall of the white subway herringbone tile as well, to tie it in. All tiling is floor to ceiling.



Feature lights for our portico.

I bet you were exhausted! Looks like some great choices there.

Just a question about the door...was the size 1200x2340? Or a different size? Can you share the price?

Thanks.

Hurrow - yep Hubby is dealing with it. He was at the races yesterday when our neighbour popped in so I had to have the discussion with him.
We are actually trying to be quite accommodating as I know it's annoying when someone builds near you (our neighbour across the road just finished his house).

Looks like this is a common headache for most of the KDR, for us there are 3 cables from the pole running over our driveway to our neighbors property. We recently got the underground pit installed.. We are now discussing with the neighbor to get the electricity connected through the underground pit... I have the queries in this regard if someone had done this before:

1- For electricity, can someone recommend any licensed electrician or company to connect the power cables underground

2- Apart from electricity cables, there are Optus and Telstra cable running from the pole, do we have to talk to these providers to get it connected, or we need to contact licensed data cabler to get the job done

Appreciate your response.

Hi all, one quick question about garden tap in quality inclusions brochure under Tapware

2 Garden taps provided - one inside the front boundary and one attached to house.

I can see the tap attached to the house on the drawings, but couldn't find the one inside the front boundary nowhere on the drawings. I asked my BC whether it's because it's not attached to the house, it's not showing on the drawing. She came back saying it’s never put on the plans as the tap is referring to the one provided from Water company which is nearby the water metre. Is that right?


I assume for pretty much all the house designs, they would have the 2 garden taps as inclusions. Has anyone come across the same issue? Is your external tap within front boundary put on your plans?

Much appreciated if someone can shed some lights on this issue. Thank you

We were not given any option, we were just told that that because we are having floor to ceiling tiles in master ensuite, we need to upgrade to square set ceiling. They charged us about $400 for to upgrade to square set.

We are building the Forsyth and have floor to ceiling in our bathroom and we have cornice. Looking back I think we would have preferred square set. Hope your build is going well.

We are building the Forsyth and have floor to ceiling in our bathroom and we have cornice. Looking back I think we would have preferred square set. Hope your build is going well.

We are also getting a power pit but our neighbours don't want to put their cables on it.... Our issue cables are Telstra. After a very lengthy phone conversation with Telstra (I swear no one could understand what I was asking) I discovered that you need an austel licensed electrician to move cables from the pole. To move them off our property we want a mid span done. This is when they connect the cables to the middle of the power line, not the pole. That's what we are trying to do in our kdrb

Hi Everyone, Quick question - PD are building a portion of my garage in brick even tough the entire house is being built in Hebel. This brick wall is on the garage boundary and will be rendered externally.

My question - esp for those building with Hebel, what does the internal wall of your garage look like? Is left with standard brickwork, or is it rendered on the inside as well, or is there plasterboard on the inside?

I'd have assumed that there is plasterboard on the inside, as the ceiling and other wall has plasterboard on it, but the site supervisor seemed to think that it would just be brickwork on the inside wall.

Thanks @WaldorfGrangeBuild...That’s what I would have thought. Was this specifically called out anywhere in your tender or contract? Building a wall in brick was a PD decision, not mine and I think that leaving one entire wall in the garage with brickwork looks ugly...

They charged us $2514 for a 1m extension. It’s listed in the contract under Structural. No mention of plaster internal wall there or under the Plaster section.

Here’s a pic I took back in September.




- View my blog at http://www.waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.com

Thanks for the pic & details again...their excuse is that there is no timber frame to hold plasterboard on to as it is a single brick wall with columns as a supporting structure. They have agreed to render the inside wall in the same color as the other walls, but I’m not this would end up looking...