We just popped into our house having been away for 2 days and they have been busy. There is guys in the garden burying the water pipes, electricians are almost finished installing all the lights, switches and power points. Can’t wait for the cabinetry to be installed on the 16th.
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Browse Forums Building A New House  06 Dec 2016 719 Melbourne Gold Member 09 Aug 2017 503 VIC Gold Member Re: Porter Davis homes 16062Jan 11, 2018 3:15 pm  nikilWe just popped into our house having been away for 2 days and they have been busy. There is guys in the garden burying the water pipes, electricians are almost finished installing all the lights, switches and power points. Can’t wait for the cabinetry to be installed on the 16th. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com 06 Dec 2016 719 Melbourne Gold Member Re: Porter Davis homes 16063Jan 11, 2018 3:27 pm brucefil2011 nikilWe just popped into our house having been away for 2 days and they have been busy. There is guys in the garden burying the water pipes, electricians are almost finished installing all the lights, switches and power points. Can’t wait for the cabinetry to be installed on the 16th. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com So great to see them back at work after the holidays  Re: Porter Davis homes 16064Jan 11, 2018 3:31 pm  Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi WGB I’m assuming you have the quad because your timber floor is floating I would suggest having the quad painted the same colour at the pillars so that it looks like it’s part of the pillar and the white will just blend into its surroundings and you’ll never notice it Re: Porter Davis homes 16065Jan 11, 2018 5:58 pm  Charly6s World_Of_Waldorf Charly6sHi Team, another blog posting. This one is all about staircases, I surprised myself with how much information I have learnt about PD's Staircases and wonder if I will ever need it again after this build. Check it out at: https://forsyth35blog.wordpress.com/201 ... ase-leads/ Cheers C. Again a great read, thanks for writing it very detailed. I can relate myself been gone through some of the pain points while discussing the staircase with PD, i wish i had this much wisdom on staircases before. Btw i guess you are doing flooring post handover, do you mind sharing the details of what have you finalized. Thanks. Hi Thanks and yes we are doing it post hand over. I can make that my next blog. When I start out writing a blog I think, oh I'll write about this subjet and then it goes off on such a long winded tangent that its already a full blog about somthing I never ment to write about lol Hope you dont mind I stole your staircase photo  Ta C. I guess thats WGB's staircase photo.  Re: Porter Davis homes 16066Jan 11, 2018 6:00 pm Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though  Re: Porter Davis homes 16067Jan 11, 2018 6:06 pm World_Of_Waldorf Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though  /quote]Only way to do it properly is to leave the skirting boards off and install after handover. PD do this but perhaps didn't advise you.journeytotheplaza.wordpress.com 09 Aug 2017 503 VIC Gold Member Re: Porter Davis homes 16068Jan 11, 2018 6:40 pm Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ In discussing our post handover wood floors we discussed white beading with our flooring company and they told us that the white ones will make the flooring narrow and stand out. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Re: Porter Davis homes 16069Jan 11, 2018 7:21 pm  Mondeo World_Of_Waldorf Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though /quote]Only way to do it properly is to leave the skirting boards off and install after handover. PD do this but perhaps didn't advise you. Hi guys We asked PD to leave our skirting off downstairs so we could have them put on after handover when the flooring guys have finished installing our timber floor. When we got to contract we were told that PD had changed it's policy and there are now only 2 options. All on or all off. All off means that you would have to paint and install all the skirting yourself (or pay someone) We have a double story house and consider that too much like hard work, so we opted for skirts all on and painted. We asked for all downstairs skirts to be increased from 67mm to 92mm to accommodate the thickness of the timber floorboards, so that they will still look about the same size as the Architraves once the floor is down. We hate the look of the quad, so we have decided to have our flooring direct stuck, this means that there doesn't need to be a 10mm expansion gap around the perimeter of your timber flooring area. P.S. if you would like to read more about our exploits in the world of flooring, stand by for a new post from Charly, she has been asked if her next posting could be about flooring options and how we got to our decision to install after handover. Re: Porter Davis homes 16070Jan 11, 2018 9:06 pm Charly6s World_Of_Waldorf Charly6sHi Team, another blog posting. This one is all about staircases, I surprised myself with how much information I have learnt about PD's Staircases and wonder if I will ever need it again after this build. Check it out at: https://forsyth35blog.wordpress.com/201 ... ase-leads/ Cheers C. Again a great read, thanks for writing it very detailed. I can relate myself been gone through some of the pain points while discussing the staircase with PD, i wish i had this much wisdom on staircases before. Btw i guess you are doing flooring post handover, do you mind sharing the details of what have you finalized. Thanks. Hi Thanks and yes we are doing it post hand over. I can make that my next blog. When I start out writing a blog I think, oh I'll write about this subjet and then it goes off on such a long winded tangent that its already a full blog about somthing I never ment to write about lol Hope you dont mind I stole your staircase photo Ta C. No probs about using the photo. Wordpress sent me a notification that the blog had been linked. It’s good to get the info out there for other customers which is exactly why I write my blog. Re: Porter Davis homes 16071Jan 11, 2018 9:26 pm World_Of_Waldorf Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though /quote]Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Yes here’s a pic of the island bench. Can’t paint the quad white here...... Re: Porter Davis homes 16072Jan 11, 2018 10:35 pm Waldorf_Grange_Build World_Of_Waldorf Waldorf_Grange_BuildOur laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though /quote]Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Yes here’s a pic of the island bench. Can’t paint the quad white here...... are the corner joints of Colortech panels damaged or still some more work left ? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Porter Davis homes 16073Jan 11, 2018 11:19 pm World_Of_Waldorf Waldorf_Grange_Build World_Of_Waldorf[quote="Waldorf_Grange_Build"]Our laminate flooring is in. I’m happy with the colour....but not with these tiny sections of quad at each of the pillars with metal strips in between. Any suggestions on what would make this look better. We are going to speak to our site supervisor about it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Painting it white as like your skirting would be good, i reckon. The challenge is the island skirting though /quote]Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Yes here’s a pic of the island bench. Can’t paint the quad white here...... are the corner joints of Colortech panels damaged or still some more work left ? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ [/quote] Nearly all our colourtech is damaged. Some have already been replaced. More have just been ordered. Given how expensive they are it has been a major waste of money down the drain for PD. I did a whole blog post on the damaged colourtech. So disappointing. We were meant to be in our house already and this pic was taken today. Still damaged. Re: Porter Davis homes 16074Jan 12, 2018 8:07 am 20 more pics here from yesterday's visit to the block >> https://waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.co ... ange-hood/ 09 Aug 2017 503 VIC Gold Member Re: Porter Davis homes 16075Jan 12, 2018 2:04 pm Just recieved a call from our SS. Hes aiming at practical completion end feb. Discussed dates for electrical plumbing ect. My feeling is it will be earlier than that. Starting to get close to having a house back. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com 21 Dec 2016 492 VIC Gold Member Re: Porter Davis homes 16076Jan 12, 2018 4:23 pm Waldorf_Grange_Build20 more pics here from yesterday's visit to the block >> https://waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.co ... ange-hood/ Are the pink parts on the pillars at the front going to be painted? Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Porter Davis homes 16077Jan 12, 2018 5:44 pm Hurrow Waldorf_Grange_Build20 more pics here from yesterday's visit to the block >> https://waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.co ... ange-hood/ Are the pink parts on the pillars at the front going to be painted? Yes they will eventually form a part of the pillar. Here is a pic of the base of the pillar at the display home Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Porter Davis homes 16078Jan 12, 2018 8:53 pm What’s everyone’s thoughts on doing flooring though PD vs post handover? PD offer a $10k package however we are looking for cat 2/3 so that is going to probably add another 10k on top. From previous comments on here I am leaning towards post handover but bit concerned about the skirting. We don’t want to have to do it later, so how do you deal with the heights? Are flooring places generally good with advising how far off the ground for the builder to follow? Is it worth doing? Re: Porter Davis homes 16079Jan 12, 2018 10:45 pm Hi Shane, we decided to do the timber flooring through PD and will do the carpets after handover hence avoiding the issue with the skirting. It will also save us close to a week of time. Re: Porter Davis homes 16080Jan 12, 2018 11:34 pm  shane3340What’s everyone’s thoughts on doing flooring though PD vs post handover? PD offer a $10k package however we are looking for cat 2/3 so that is going to probably add another 10k on top. From previous comments on here I am leaning towards post handover but bit concerned about the skirting. We don’t want to have to do it later, so how do you deal with the heights? Are flooring places generally good with advising how far off the ground for the builder to follow? Is it worth doing? journeytotheplaza.wordpress.com Wow that is terrible about the insurance! I guess ideally proof of insurance should be provided prior to first deposit but I'd imagine they would refuse to be out of… 17 9363 There isn't any need to. As I wrote previously, there isn't a set term, there is just commencement based on earlier of contract signing or building permit issue and… 24 9134 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 2627  |
