Porter Davis homes

Had my selection of tiles yesterday. Even though NT didn't have our updated floor plans they still did a great job using the standard floor plans. The process was smooth, the coordinator was friendly and we finished the appointment early. *thumbs up*

We kept our tiles the same colour everywhere throughout the house so made the selection process quick and simple.

Tip: do your homework first by visiting NT earlier, as them for a sample tiles, also check out PD displays.

Next up is colours and electrical on Tuesday.

Thanks Cinderella. The facade we chose really lends itself to a grand entrance so we wanted something big, and this seemed a better option for us than double doors. We also raised the ceiling height again in the foyer which, along with the door, gives a real wow factor to the entrance (if I do say so myself )

We have the same concern about the pivot door; when we were at the house last Friday the SS opened the bifolds and with the wind rushing through the door almost had a mind of its own when opening/closing. We asked about the self closing mechanism that Corinthian do, but PD told us we couldn't have it so we will look at retrofitting something after handover to try and make it a little safer.

We have the same door, I think its very popular and Corinthian gave us the same advice, but our SS as usual said he'd be calling us to check where we wanted the locks fitted before drilling holes in the door but has gone ahead and done his own thing and place the lock above the handle and now we have to live with it.

And are your bricks Blackwood.

Ugh, how frustrating, J&C. Only our deadbolt is on at he moment, but it seems to be in the right place (although it is the wrong deadbolt, the SS tells us that's an easy swap). Hopefully it all comes together once the handle is on.

Our bricks are boral mocha.

Minor blog update with this week's minor progress completed

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.

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