Porter Davis homes

blanco I wouldn't touch their products.
We built a house a few years ago. Paid for what we thought was a reliable brand, gas stove never worked properly and oven heating element went in 6 months and oven seal came off. They repaired it but after 6 months it happened again ( element ) and out of warranty.

It's looking great ma! It's amazing the difference a little paint can make


Interested too, although that horse has bolted for us! We will be replacing the blanco dishwasher PD are providing with our Bosch, but only because we already own it (we were able to take it with us when we sold our last house).

^our SS told us "definitely October", but we'll see! He says he can give a good indication of completion once the tiling starts, so hopefully we'll have a better idea soon. We're staying with family at the moment, so on the 'personal space' hand we want it to happen ASAP, but on the financial hand the longer the better, lol!

Hi Monkeypantz. Are you able to post a link to your blog pretty please. I am on Tapayalk and can't see signatures and I really want to check our your progress!!!
Thanks!!

Oooh, it did!

Zinner – I tell you what, even though things seem to have turned out alright for us, if we were looking to build now, and not a year ago, and I had read any of your posts prior to deciding upon a builder, I would never in a million years have picked Porter Davis. Maybe you were just very unlucky, maybe we were just lucky everything worked out in the end, but for such a ‘professional’ company to allow their customer to suffer such financial stress, due to problems of their own and not the customers, seems completely heartless. Then to not only hand over a house with outstanding issues, but to not IMMEDIATELY rectify all of those problems without the slightest delay, is again also heartless.
We all have some issues while building our homes, no matter the builder. If we didn’t then this forum would be a very empty and boring place! But when there are major problems, everything within their power should be done to at least ease some of the stress. The money they owe you for running over contract should be paid monthly, even if the contract says they don’t have to, it’s the right thing to do. Fair enough if they are just running a few weeks over schedule pay it at the end, but 4 months is a joke. The problems that need rectifying should be done immediately. When we moved in there were some things left outstanding. When some things hadn’t been fixed properly, not only did my SS arrange for the tradies to come and fix the issues, he came first thing in the morning and waited while all the work was done, just to make sure it all got done. The same should be done for you, hell the manager should be on your doorstep making sure you are looked after.
I hope eventually you get the enjoy your new house properly, the way everybody should.

Hi Zinner,
I hear your frustration and would like to help you out. Could you please send me a private message with your Name, Phone Number, and the details of the type of house you have, so I can get in contact with you and discuss it further. I'm here to help. Cheers. Helen

After fighting for almost 2 years now I'm not sure there is any fight left in me. Between Developer delays, site start penalties, house and land packages that are not really house and land packages, bank errors, contract price errors, legal contracts that state if you have the legal contract looked over by solicitors they will be voided (i.e. legal contracts that you cannot seek legal advice on), contract blow outs, incorrect building plans, bad tradesmen who don't seem to care and don't come back to fix mistakes (the main excuse as to why my build went well over), inadequate penalties that don't seem to get paid anyway... yep, I think I'm just about done fighting, complaining, contacting or calling anyone anymore.

I have tried to avoid getting legal advice on this for a long time, in fact, all during my build, when after paying good money for independent inspections at frame, fixing, and final stage and knowing nothing was being done about these issues brought up in reports(that were paid for by me) sent to my SS and BC I know that whatever I do makes little difference. I'm all out of "catching more flies with honey" as the honey approach does not seem to make any difference. Even with all the face punching I got during my build, I was still always nice, polite, and understanding to all the PD staff that I spoke to.

Now that I finally have a phone you could call me (yes, up until last week my phone line was not working so after spending 3 weeks, time off work, and more than 10 hours (not an exaggeration either, I have the logs) on the phone between telstra and the PD wiring contractors they found that the phone line was not connected to the splitter inside the house correctly. From telstra's end, everything was connected correctly and I will still have to pay 3 weeks of phone line rental even though I couldn't use a phone.)

As I said, I was willing to take the piddly penalty cheque and move on but as even this small thing seems to elude me, I think I will be forced to find a professional that can get this last thing done for me. The penalty cheque was supposed to be ready on handover. Not only was it not ready, there was no one in the office on the handover day to sign it off anyway. I was told all staff that could possibly sign it off were "in a meeting". I had to settle with leaving the head office with only the wrong set of keys (yes... the keys to the back bi-fold door were the wrong keys and didn't open the door).

As far as I can gather, PD have forced me to look at this as the only option now.

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pp: I called the PD office as recently as this morning to enquire about my penalty cheque and where it was. I have still not received a call back yet. Only after speaking with a colleague about my frustrations (he has heard them all since I started the building process) and his advice that I seek a professional to continue the fight have I come to this think that this might be my only means of getting this issue closed.

There should be quite a few, especially if height is not an issue (we got a complimentary overhead cupboard that we didn't even think about until the fridge didn't fit! lol my first true handy-man job was to move the cupboard up slightly).
http://www.appliancesonline.com.au/side-by-side-fridges/filter/-943593658/ is very helpful sorting through fridges that will fit that link should take you directly to a page that only has fridges in that size range