Porter Davis homes

Good luck with your PCI next week MummaDJ. Waiting for tilers to finish at our house at the moment so hopefully not too far behind you.

Thanks Belle - hope tiling is super, love to see some picks when done.

your kitchen is looking fab, never seen a green glass spalshback before. TBH its looking really cool

Love the lime splashback!

I'm currently dealing with post-handover hassles that have me grumpy. My splashback had a black dot behind it, so they came back and pulled the thing down to fix the paint on the back of it. In doing so they made it worse. Yay. Then they told me somebody would stop by, remove it and take it away for a week so they could repaint it, leaving me with an unusable kitchen!

The same company does the shower screens, and had to come out today to replace most of mine because they had machining marks on it. Something that was noted at handover, but took a couple of weeks to get actioned. Unfortunately the guy doing the job shattered one of the doors, resulting in a huge mess of broken glass across my bathroom. I wasn't home when all this happened, my partner supervised, and I was fully prepared to write it off as bad luck but then I returned to find a two inch chunk taken out of my bathroom wall where he banged something into it.

Not only did the guy leave broken glass all over my bathroom (he didn't actually clean up properly after himself), he broke my wall and didn't bother telling anyone. Come Monday I'll be making one seriously irate call to my former site supervisor. I have so many outstanding items it's not funny, and can't get anybody to return my emails or calls this week.

Small tip - don't accept handover unless things are 100% perfect. Even little things can turn into a nightmare (I've had to be home three days in two weeks to facilitate access, still don't have my fly wire door screens, am waiting on my replacement splashback, have a few broken roof tiles, never saw my doorframes re-finished despite being assured it would be done, have a bunch of paint defects, and various other issues). I should have gone home on handover day and made them get it perfect before making that last payment.

Mummadj, looks fabulous! Love green, such a nice shade too. Did you have to get starphire?

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oooh, mummadj.. that looks fabulous... and good luck with PCI next week...

No we didn't, an advantage of picking green is it doesn't matter if it has a green tinge. Save some $$$

We went to see Marbella 42 today to compare with Hoffman 39 to find out which one would suit better for our family.

I would say decision isn't easy, as both have own features and benefits. Both with standard alfresco and bronte facade look pretty much perfect. At this stage trying to ignore other options from Henley (Sahara q1, and mercer q1), or it will become even harder to decide.

One thing we noticed about third time visiting PD displays, sales persons are very happy to help and try to provide information till they find out that we already have a PD sales person. Whole atmosphere changes in a blink, been ignored, and advised to contact our sales person.

We found this very unprofessional. If we are driving 50 Kms to the other side of Melbourne to see a display house in person and need to clarify few things from local sales person, what's wrong with that?

We haven't signed and paid anything beside $1,000 initial deposit, and believe that we have right to choose a different house from PD range.

Mirz, if you like the Hoffman, you can have the same option MummaDJ talked about in the Webley, you can change the loungeroom down the bottom to a guest bedroom either without or without the extended area for the loungeroom. Get your SC to call the sales person at the display and make a time to go through the house with you personally and have a list of questions. That really worked well for us, because we had the same issue at one hoffman display but not at the other.

MummaDJ is also right about the houses. We had three different houses drawn up with prices and plan outlines before we decided on the Hoffman. It's your house and it has to be right for you and your family, you will be paying for it for a long time so you have to be happy and comfortable with it. Also, don't be afraid to ask for changes to make it what you want.
These are some of the things we did to the standard Hoffman that made it right for us. (we did a bit)

Extended the lounge and turned it into the guest suite with a guest ensuite. (std option)
Extended the downstairs "study" into the family room to make a lounge room since we turned the lounge room into a bedroom
Changed the Master ensuite to have a separate toilet with a door (std option) Major win as it was only $449 to do this!
Put more cupboards in the laundry
Took out cabinets in the galley so there was room for a fridge and a freezer
Put a wall between the stairs and dining with double doors so sound would not travel from upstairs to downstairs or to the bedroom at the front
Took out bed 2 upstairs and made bed 3 and bed 4 bigger with WIRs and then turned the remaining bed 2 area into a study area and changed the wardrobe in the old bed 2 into another linen cupboard
Changed windows, locations and sizes
and other things...

We made quite a few changes. Not to mention that PD came to the party and enabled us to have an ensuite on the ground floor that has a "walk in" type shower with no step as my mum is disabled. It took a bit of compromise along the way, but this was a non negotiable for us. So we worked around it and came up with a compromise that worked for all of us and did not cost the earth.

PM me if you would like to see the plans or more info. Our roof is now on and the brickie should start this week. All the dramas are really before you get to site.

Good luck with it all