Porter Davis homes

humble · Sep 11, 2012 11:05 pm

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Doreen_Kallara33

Has anyone got flyscreens/screen doors through porter davis that seem to be very fragile and flimsy?

the ones I got were of high quality. I was impressed at the time

Mine were also good! Maybe a supplier change?

gabster · Sep 12, 2012 11:59 am

Our concrete slab pour has been delayed twice! but today can't be a better day to pour our slab! the melbourne weather has finally pulled through for us! We are so excited about the slab getting completed - but it also means a $ will be coming soon! HAHA! Does anyone know how long will it be before frames start going up? Its quite concerning that we haven't heard from our BS or SS. I think they might've forgotten about us......
But we are pouring...How exciting!
Refer to blog for more updates.

Does anyone know any good landscapers around, so we can get a quote on landscaping.

Thanks monkeypantz for referring us to Final Inspect. He's an absolute gun at what he does. Definitely worth the $.

monkeypantz · Sep 12, 2012 12:14 pm

gabster

Does anyone know how long will it be before frames start going up? Its quite concerning that we haven't heard from our BS or SS. I think they might've forgotten about us......
But we are pouring...How exciting!

Very exciting Gabster! Our frame started 5 days after the slab was poured, and was completed 8 days after that. Our SS and BC can be a bit inconsistent with communication, but for the most part as long as everything is going well I'm not too fussed about getting a phone call saying "everything is ok" :lol:

But that's easy for me to say when we've had no major issues to date (touch wood) and we have a lot of confidence in our SS from the communication we have had

cinderella_375 · Sep 12, 2012 1:16 pm

gabster

Our concrete slab pour has been delayed twice! but today can't be a better day to pour our slab! the melbourne weather has finally pulled through for us! We are so excited about the slab getting completed - but it also means a $ will be coming soon! HAHA! Does anyone know how long will it be before frames start going up? Its quite concerning that we haven't heard from our BS or SS. I think they might've forgotten about us......
But we are pouring...How exciting!
Refer to blog for more updates.

Does anyone know any good landscapers around, so we can get a quote on landscaping.

Thanks monkeypantz for referring us to Final Inspect. He's an absolute gun at what he does. Definitely worth the $.

Oh I am so jealous!! Thats awesome. Melbourne weather has been so lovely the last couple of days but I think the next couple are supposed to be yuck

We drove past our block this morning and they had the truck parked out the front with plumbing pipes etc so at least we should see some more progress with ours today!! Woot!

cinderella_375 · Sep 12, 2012 1:27 pm

Silly question; how do I know when to book our independent inspector for?

Eg- slab pour was said to be this Thursday, but doesn't look likely. Did you get told a confirmation of slab pour so then knew to book your inspection for, say, the next day etc?

ma2531 · Sep 12, 2012 5:25 pm

cinderella_375

Silly question; how do I know when to book our independent inspector for?

Eg- slab pour was said to be this Thursday, but doesn't look likely. Did you get told a confirmation of slab pour so then knew to book your inspection for, say, the next day etc?

Hi cinderella we booked our inspection for frame then again for pre plaster.
And its worth every cent.. they need about 3 days notice for a appiontment.

humble · Sep 12, 2012 7:39 pm

cinderella_375

Silly question; how do I know when to book our independent inspector for?

Eg- slab pour was said to be this Thursday, but doesn't look likely. Did you get told a confirmation of slab pour so then knew to book your inspection for, say, the next day etc?

Do frame and slab together and save some money.

ma2531 · Sep 12, 2012 11:07 pm

hi monkeypantz,can i ask if all your electricals and plumbing been fitted off and completed, so we can get a idea when our pci will be as we have been told by our s/s that we will be handing over in 4 weeks but i dont know if we are just hoping..

Team PD · Sep 13, 2012 12:50 am

Doreen_Kallara33

Has anyone got flyscreens/screen doors through porter davis that seem to be very fragile and flimsy?

Hi Doreen_Kallara33.
Have you contacted your SS or anyone else at PD about your concerns? We can have someone inspect your fly screens/screen doors to determine if they need to be replaced. Please send me a private message with your contact details so I can follow this issue up for you.
Cheers, Helen

monkeypantz · Sep 13, 2012 8:10 am

ma2531

hi monkeypantz,can i ask if all your electricals and plumbing been fitted off and completed, so we can get a idea when our pci will be as we have been told by our s/s that we will be handing over in 4 weeks but i dont know if we are just hoping..

They weren't at our last visit (Saturday). I hope you do get to handover in 4 weeks, that's so close!

mitroff · Sep 13, 2012 9:28 pm

Hey guys,
Just a quick one, before signing off on the Frame invoice, do all the windows need to be up? I still have one sliding glass door and two sidelights laying on the ground everything else is pretty much done. What do you recon?

michaelrezk · Sep 13, 2012 10:53 pm

mitroff

Hey guys,
Just a quick one, before signing off on the Frame invoice, do all the windows need to be up? I still have one sliding glass door and two sidelights laying on the ground everything else is pretty much done. What do you recon?

Windows and sliding doors are the first thing to go in the frame.
I wouldn't stress about it as its a day work.

Rups · Sep 14, 2012 12:06 am

Evening everyone... been a long time since we've posted on here. Seems like a lot of new builds have kicked off and are generally going well, which is great to hear. Building (with PD or not) can be very trying, and having come out the other side being extremely happy with our house, all I can say is - know your build, hold your ground, be fair and courteous, and ask as many questions as you need to.

We booked in our 3 months maintenance today, with an appointment next Friday. The list we have is fairly small, which is good.

For those of you who are interested, our blog has finally been updated after nearly 3.5 months! Big change from a regular weekly update! Hope you get a chance to have a look

Best of luck!

Zinner · Sep 14, 2012 8:54 am

Rups

Evening everyone... been a long time since we've posted on here. Seems like a lot of new builds have kicked off and are generally going well, which is great to hear. Building (with PD or not) can be very trying, and having come out the other side being extremely happy with our house, all I can say is - know your build, hold your ground, be fair and courteous, and ask as many questions as you need to.

We booked in our 3 months maintenance today, with an appointment next Friday. The list we have is fairly small, which is good.

For those of you who are interested, our blog has finally been updated after nearly 3.5 months! Big change from a regular weekly update! Hope you get a chance to have a look

Best of luck!

Awesome Rups! :shock:

. House looks great.

We had a lot of issues as well when we took the over our house but your issues seemed to be a lot worse than ours. Good to see you got it all fixed.... for us... umm... not so lucky.

The newest issue is our driveway cluster F but im way to upset to comment on it right now, and that wasn't even done by PD. Long story short, house was late, all money for getting fences driveway landscaping was eaten up by late build. Back in debt after fences, driveway, blinds (still haven't arrived), backfill for lawn(still needs more dirt so no lawn yet) excavation costs and other issues but now with no money to fix them... and a nice chunk of debt to live with (and a bad driveway).

Over 2 years since we put the deposit down now. Only been in a month and wish id never set foot down this path....

I used to believe that you make your own luck... now I believe that God just hates me.

monkeypantz · Sep 14, 2012 10:13 am

Rups

Evening everyone... been a long time since we've posted on here. Seems like a lot of new builds have kicked off and are generally going well, which is great to hear. Building (with PD or not) can be very trying, and having come out the other side being extremely happy with our house, all I can say is - know your build, hold your ground, be fair and courteous, and ask as many questions as you need to.

We booked in our 3 months maintenance today, with an appointment next Friday. The list we have is fairly small, which is good.

For those of you who are interested, our blog has finally been updated after nearly 3.5 months! Big change from a regular weekly update! Hope you get a chance to have a look

Best of luck!

Congratualtions and congratulations! The house looks fantastic and your little girl looks even better

I love how you've styled the place, it's all come together wonderfully.

J & C · Sep 14, 2012 12:26 pm

Rups

Evening everyone... been a long time since we've posted on here. Seems like a lot of new builds have kicked off and are generally going well, which is great to hear. Building (with PD or not) can be very trying, and having come out the other side being extremely happy with our house, all I can say is - know your build, hold your ground, be fair and courteous, and ask as many questions as you need to.

We booked in our 3 months maintenance today, with an appointment next Friday. The list we have is fairly small, which is good.

For those of you who are interested, our blog has finally been updated after nearly 3.5 months! Big change from a regular weekly update! Hope you get a chance to have a look

Best of luck!

Hi Rups,

Great to see you back on this forum, I have said that before and will say it again...your house looks terrific!! And hats off to you for accepting the house at handover with all the issues that required rectification. We don't think we'd have the courage to accept the house the way did...we've heard so many stories of calls not being answered and tasks not being completed after the final payment. We have been promised all the issues we raised will be rectified before handover.

Remember in your one of your forum you mentioned that you'd your landscaping through PD, if you don't mind can you please PM us how much did it cost you to upgrade to exposed aggregate with the PD contractor (we have been informed that all upgrades are to be dealt with the concretor). I believe PD uses only Boral for expose aggregate, is it of good quality ? Did you do your aprons around the with the PD contractor too.

Cheers - J & C

Rups · Sep 14, 2012 2:33 pm

J & C

Hi Rups,

Great to see you back on this forum, I have said that before and will say it again...your house looks terrific!! And hats off to you for accepting the house at handover with all the issues that required rectification. We don't think we'd have the courage to accept the house the way did...we've heard so many stories of calls not being answered and tasks not being completed after the final payment. We have been promised all the issues we raised will be rectified before handover.

Remember in your one of your forum you mentioned that you'd your landscaping through PD, if you don't mind can you please PM us how much did it cost you to upgrade to exposed aggregate with the PD contractor (we have been informed that all upgrades are to be dealt with the concretor). I believe PD uses only Boral for expose aggregate, is it of good quality ? Did you do your aprons around the with the PD contractor too.

Cheers - J & C

Hi J&C - Thanks for your kind words

Just to be clear, we didn't accept the house with any outstanding defects, aside from a few missing electrical things which we were happy to wait until Appliance Day to resolve (and they did in good faith, they just failed dismally on that day!). Things went wrong on Appliance Day, and it wasn't that they ignored us - it was just a slow resolution... and the drain problem really couldn't have been found out any other way! Everything that was defective or of poor quality was resolved before handover, which is why it was delayed a week.

All of our concrete and landscaping was done privately. PD didn't supply it. Our driveway is in exposed aggregate, the side path in coloured concrete and the front apron in plain concrete in preparation for a deck that will wrap around the facade. All this work was done by Nathan Porter Concreting, and come highly recommended (but I think he only does this side of town). The total cost for this, including 2 x drains on the side path, some concrete for the mailbox and sealing of the aggregate and colour was $5,500. The driveway was roughly $2,700 all done.

monkeypantz · Sep 14, 2012 3:17 pm

Does anyone else have a doorway like this?

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Where the door from the garage to back yard is it looks like the frame is too high. We noticed it once the bricks were done, and mentioned it to our SS after plaster and he said it was normal and they do blah blah blah (I may have not been paying attention, or I may have not understood) to make it right. But the plaster has now been painted and nothing's changed. The brickwork above the door looks terrible (ie, no care taken with the mortar like the back of all the brickwork, but all but this part was covered with plaster). We can't check out the displays, because the garage in the displays is either an office or off limits. I just can't imagine how they will fix it now that it's painted. Anyone have any experience or insight?

(ETA - this obviously isn't the most recent picture, but it's the best one I have of the problem)

Wateman · Sep 14, 2012 3:25 pm

Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi monkeypantz that is normal for PD houses all I have seen r like this see my pic

monkeypantz · Sep 14, 2012 3:28 pm

Thanks Wateman, I find it really strange. You'd think that if it was standard they'd at least take a little more care with the brickwork up there