Porter Davis homes

Another great post Charly, thanks for that!

$4k in electrical for a 2 story house seems a ridiculously low estimate by your SC, our SC put in $5k plus $2k for the NBN ready stuff which included 4 sets of two data and tv points and that's for a single story house. We did consider putting in more of each but ended up just leaving it as is, so TV points in the Master, Theatre, Lounge and Rumpus rooms. It's bad for kids to have TVs in their rooms anyway right? We also didn't do much with downlights etc except in the living areas which I think a lot of people spend money on.

We thought about doing all the pre-wiring for the theatre room at least but in the end I decided to go with a Sonos system instead, so no wiring required although you do still need the power points for each speaker and the sub. Plus that way to add anything on anywhere in the house at a later date we just need to buy more speakers and add them on. The Porter Davis charge of $520.72 seemed really expensive for 5.1 pre-wiring for basically running twenty or thirty metres of cable!

PD didn't seem to have much in the way of smart home stuff or what they did have seemed really expensive. We're going to be doing Arlo cameras, the Sonos system and potentially a Ring doorbell. We may also look into some Hue lightbulbs or the equivalent at some point.

OK team, Inphaze and I have joined the RACE!!!

We have temp fencing, a port-a-loo and site scrape, all in one day!

266 days and counting, ETA is 8th of November - it's going to be close! My parents and grandparents have already booked flights from NZ to join us for Christmas and I need the new house finished so I can house them all lol.

Question: Should the crossover protection be that short? It looks like its missing half its length.

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Its very exciting, It's a long process, but all worth it when you finally see the build start! Where are you building?

Morning All,

I advised our SS that we would be having at independent inspector at PCI and this was the response.

"I will let you know when the pci date will be but before I book in a date you will have to get the your independent through. I must have your independent report at pci. After I receive this and we go through his items and your pci I will advise a approx. handover date, I cant give you a handover date until all this has happened.
I will advise you a date to get your independent through when the house is completed"

Does this seem right? The whole idea of PCI is that they are saying the house is complete, but he wants our private inspector to come through before PCI and tell him what's wrong so he can rectify it before PCI. In a way I'm happy about this as the sooner it's done the better but at the same time I think it shouldn't be our inspector that has to tell him what needs to be done.

Thoughts?

We made it very clear we wanted to only bring our independent inspector through after PCI as the house is meant to be “complete”. A lot of site supervisors out there “use” the independent inspectors to make them a final list which is not the purpose of them. The email suggests they have to do it the way they have suggested so that you can get a handover date but I had PCI a couple of weeks ago and still don’t have a handover date so it doesn’t seem right to me.

We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI.

Exactly! Things he figured we just wouldn’t notice. I’m really annoyed by it.