Porter Davis homes

Mali02 · Nov 18, 2013 3:46 pm

skye02

We have been told that we will have our PCI late next week - this is really happening!! :z:

YAY YAY YAY!!! :z:

clairemumto5 · Nov 18, 2013 6:09 pm

Hey Mumma dj, why the need to pay for phone connection? Our contract has a 462 charge for telecommunication infrastructure connection to home....im confused I thought this meant it was hooked up already?

Mali02 · Nov 18, 2013 6:31 pm

My understanding is that the telecommunication infrastructure is essentially for the underground cables (or however they do it) from the street to your home. You then have to engage a supplier to make those cables 'active' so you'd incur a charge from the particular supplier you choose to have your service with (Telstra, Optus, etc).

Corz11 · Nov 18, 2013 9:19 pm

We had PD lay the bolero flooring in rustic coffee, however some packs of the flooring are a shinier finish than other packs laid, most of them have a matt look finish. This is unfortunately down the passage so you can see from the front entrance. Looks horrible, has anyone else had difference in the finish of their bolero flooring?

MummaDJ · Nov 18, 2013 9:52 pm

Corz11

We had PD lay the bolero flooring in rustic coffee, however some packs of the flooring are a shinier finish than other packs laid, most of them have a matt look finish. This is unfortunately down the passage so you can see from the front entrance. Looks horrible, has anyone else had difference in the finish of their bolero flooring?

No, we haven't had this problem. All quite uniform. That is a real bummer. Chat to your SS about it straight away.

MummaDJ · Nov 18, 2013 9:55 pm

clairemumto5

Hey Mumma dj, why the need to pay for phone connection? Our contract has a 462 charge for telecommunication infrastructure connection to home....im confused I thought this meant it was hooked up already?

Hi Claire

As ftdt notes, this cash is for the connection to the underground pit in the street. The telco man came and hooked it up from the underground pit to the actual service.

ajd78 · Nov 18, 2013 10:23 pm

MummaDJ, your house looks amazing

Claire - where are you at? I haven't been for a while so not sure... last time I went I was locked out

Backpocket - how is your house going?

To all the new starters - congrats... wishing you all a smooth and happy process..

Just a question to all - how much contact are you getting with SS during the process?

Back Pocket · Nov 18, 2013 11:35 pm

Hey ajd78. Good to hear from you again! Stairs were going in today, I could see through the back door. Plastered and cornices in too. Garage and alfresco roof now framed. Moving steadily along.

Communication
Hmmm BC, hopeless! last week I got the first unsolicited email from her after no contact for three months, no calls, emails, texts, nothing. First SS spoke to us once and hung up on us during the second phone call. He left the company. Seriously, we don't think he ever made it our site, just booked trades.

Current SS? Always either picks up the phone or calls us back. We don't get calls initiated by him, but then we check our build every night and if we have a concern we call, so he probably does not need to. Very upfront and straight down the line which we are happy about, No hesitation in having a meeting on site when he took over the build. Very upfront and straight down the line which we were happy about, we even emailed him the updated plans and queried the window issues (we have the same window issue as Tinker). All in all very happy. Testimony very small issues in the last two inspection reports. All either fixed or being monitored.

I really have to say that as a second time builder with PD I REALLY MISS 24/7. ::angry::

I can't see what days are being claimed as rain days, I can't see where when I am upto on the build. I can't see they have recorded my emails and their responses. Cue the fact that I previously sent my BC's manager copies of emails I sent her that were not recorded on their system. This was during my complaints about communication! The communication is a big big let down. Anyone who is building for the first time must be bewildered at what is going on. At least with 24/7 you could follow the build without having continual phone calls and emails trying to work out what was going on.

Sorry for going on, rant over!

MummaDJ · Nov 19, 2013 8:27 am

Thanks AJD

During our build we would get a call every fortnight on a Friday from SS if we hadn't spoken for some reason. He would give an update of where things were at. I know he had an office day every Weds with the BC to update her on all the jobs. I would then get a quick call from her on a Weds, not every week, but perhaps every 2nd. She knew I lived close by and was closely monitoring the build and sometimes knew that I knew what she was telling me, but it was useful when we got locked out as I couldn't see what was happening.
If you aren't getting much - suggest having the conversation with your BC and SS asking what they normally do and perhaps set some expectations, maybe ask for a weekly update or fortnightly update. The key is the communication and luckily our SS understood this and said it himself.

skye02 · Nov 19, 2013 11:43 am

ajd78

MummaDJ, your house looks amazing

Claire - where are you at? I haven't been for a while so not sure... last time I went I was locked out

Backpocket - how is your house going?

To all the new starters - congrats... wishing you all a smooth and happy process..

Just a question to all - how much contact are you getting with SS during the process?

Not much at all unfortunately. I hope they set up another 24/7 portal for future customers.

ajd78 · Nov 19, 2013 12:24 pm

Thanks all. I don't have a problem as yet - specifically. I was just wondering whether what we were having is normal. I'm not unhappy yet. He does a good job and he has had to put up with a few stuff ups which aren't his fault.

Our BC has just left tho which I find extremely sad. She was amazing - extremely thorough. Very sad. Haven't heard who has taken over yet but I assume that will happen in coming days.

I dot know much about this 24/7 site. Sounds like it was good. If I continued to have the same bc I would say it was ok not to have it, time will tell with new one

Back Pocket · Nov 19, 2013 2:01 pm

Whoo Hoo!! popped up to the house at lunch time, staircase is half in and they were delivering doors and architraves. Bring it on

clairemumto5 · Nov 19, 2013 9:07 pm

Hi Adj - we haven't had anything happen on site since staircase went in last thurs and friday. Bit frustrated.

As far as SS goes - our calls every wednesday, and I will occasionally txt him at other time during the week and he will reply usually soon or call back, I try not to call him and just have a list of things to check with him when he calls on a wednesday, like our bc who sent us an update on monday which said cabinets were installed, so I rushed over excited to check but she must have been misinformed as no cabinets are in now that we can see. Both get back to me timely both are approachable, so have no complaints in that respect just feels like build is maybe put on the backburner while they maybe try finish ones that can be finished before chrissy which is annoying...but what can you do

Sambogirl81 · Nov 19, 2013 9:17 pm

Back Pocket

Whoo Hoo!! popped up to the house at lunch time, staircase is half in and they were delivering doors and architraves. Bring it on

Hi Back Pocket,

Where are you building as sounds like we are at the same stage. Door and architrave drop off day. Have you been told if you will be in by Chrissy or not?

inglewood · Nov 19, 2013 10:07 pm

Lurgen

inglewood

Roof trusses are up and windows are in! :z:

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That's a rather familiar sight! I remember mine looking just like that... Which facade did you go with? Ours is Horizon,

HD

We are going with the gable facade.

inglewood · Nov 19, 2013 10:08 pm

Ally007

We finally have a site start date!!!! woohooo!!!
Start date is 22/11/2013 and slab should be poured 7-10 days after that....

Yay!

It's so exciting and once it starts, it keeps going - and so does the excitement!

inglewood · Nov 19, 2013 10:09 pm

Country Lifestyle

I received news last week that our site would be cut tomorrow (18th) with the slab to be poured on the 25th, was exciting to see the port-a-loo and rubbish bin on site!

Wahoo!

Very Exciting!!! It just gets better and better!

inglewood · Nov 19, 2013 10:15 pm

MummaDJ

Slowly updating blog with info over the last few weeks after handover. Loving being in our house.

Caught up on your blog Mumma! Looks soooo good! Thanks for the info on blinds - I'd like to have the plantation shutters too. Will have to check out timbershades.com.au

Back Pocket · Nov 19, 2013 10:27 pm

Sambogirl81

Back Pocket

Whoo Hoo!! popped up to the house at lunch time, staircase is half in and they were delivering doors and architraves. Bring it on

Hi Back Pocket,

Where are you building as sounds like we are at the same stage. Door and architrave drop off day. Have you been told if you will be in by Chrissy or not?

Hi sambogirl, we are building a two storey lifestyle we started in early August, and contract date is 2 April. Our SS will not give us a date yet, he says it is too early.

Fingers crossed for late feb, daly March as our current house went on the market today and we will need somewhere to live :lol:

inglewood · Nov 19, 2013 10:50 pm

Guttering is on and pipes are in. Moving along nicely.

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Just not sure what is happening with the frame at the back of the garage. Our plans have a single door (we forgot to put in a window) but the door frame has not been put in and there's a window sitting in the garage along with the door frame - both of which would fit in the gap in the frame (btw - we have the frame invoice even though in our opinion it's not finished yet)

We emailed our BC to ask about the window - wondered if their plans were wrong (b/c it's not like that's never happened before according to others on here), and if so, we are more than happy for them to put in the window. She stated that "Your house will be built as per the plans, any material on site is required for areas specified on the plans. We are unable to accommodate any structural changes at this stage of the construction process." so we are wondering where the heck that window will be going (as we don't have any windows that size on the plans and all windows are in) and why on earth was it delivered if it was "specified on the plans"? :roll:

So we are waiting to hear from our site supervisor to find out what is going on, and if they can just be done with and put the window in. If not, we'll think about putting in a new door afterwards with a window on it. We're not worried either way, but figured if the window was there it might be on their plans (as a mistake) but we are happy with this "mistake" and will gladly help them out by having the window :wink:

- if not, put the door in and finish the frame. Weird.

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