Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 81May 10, 2012 10:50 am I had a meeting with the new SS on Monday to go over some outstanding issues and while I was inside I was able to get a few pics of the kitchen splash back and Floor tiles. Enjoy. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 82May 10, 2012 11:02 am More pics showing the tiles. Once again very happy with how both this items (splash back and tiles) have come out. They still have the grout wash on them that will be cleaned up closer to handover but quality and workmanship seems spot on. Dining - Living Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Dining - Bi folds - Rumpus Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking toward front door from kitchen Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 83May 10, 2012 11:11 am GORGEOUS!!! For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 84May 10, 2012 12:32 pm Zinner I had a meeting with the new SS on Monday to go over some outstanding issues and while I was inside I was able to get a few pics of the kitchen splash back and Floor tiles. Enjoy. Hi Zinner, So great to see an update from you, I agree with Mclaren – it looks gorgeous! I don’t think I’ve seen that colour splash back on the forum before, I like it a lot. How was the meeting with your new SS? Do you feel a bit more at ease with the timeframe and progression of your build? Cheers, Ebony Porter Davis Homes Questions? Call 1800PORTER Mon - Fri 9am-8pm Sat - Sun 10am-4pm info@porterdavis.com.au http://blog.porterdavis.com.au/ http://www.porterdavishomes.com.au Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 85May 10, 2012 1:10 pm Your stair case and white front door look amazing! Sent from my iPhone so please excuse my spelling mist cakes Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 86May 10, 2012 2:28 pm Thx Mclaren and CCC. It is VERY white in there atm. ... the bone, the beige, the off white, the cream... lol I think that the front door is just the undercoat but not 100%. I'm not sure if they paint the inside the same color as the outside? I think there might be some color detailing to be done but again i'm not sure. The outside front door color is very similar to the splash back color and suits our dark color bricks (Front door color is Torrence). The splash back turned out a lot darker than the sample at Hopetoun and the SS explained that it might have something to do with the dark fire-heat proofing material that they stick it to as it is a dark grey. Showed the photos to the DW and she loves it!! ... was very worried as I have done all the selections (color tiles widows bricks door handles.. etc) for the house so if there is anything out... I'm the who get's a whippin! The reasoning for the light or neutral colors was so that if we wanted to add a splash of color we could do it via fixtures and furniture. If we didn't like it or wanted to change the look then it would be easier to simply change the furniture or other sources of color rather than to re-paint it all. I'll put up some of our color selection information soon but for those interested: Walls - New Soft Blush Doors and skirting - Oriental White (Gloss) Benchtops - Night Sky 6100 Splash back - Smoked Flamingo Kitchen Cabinets - Parchment Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 87May 10, 2012 6:49 pm Looooove it!!!! Your not far away from completion Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 88May 11, 2012 10:38 am Love your progress and happy you got a date I do not have a date, assume it is not long. Orchid 4200 with Burbank: Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53034 House Built in 7 Months and 2 weeks Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 89May 11, 2012 11:58 am Team PD Zinner I had a meeting with the new SS on Monday to go over some outstanding issues and while I was inside I was able to get a few pics of the kitchen splash back and Floor tiles. Enjoy. Hi Zinner, So great to see an update from you, I agree with Mclaren – it looks gorgeous! I don’t think I’ve seen that colour splash back on the forum before, I like it a lot. How was the meeting with your new SS? Do you feel a bit more at ease with the timeframe and progression of your build? Cheers, Ebony Thx Ebony. The meeting was good overall. Bit of a mixed bag. Internally, everything seems pretty good. Externally, there was a little bit of drama over the balcony. This balcony issue currently holding back the render to the facade. Internally, the wrong light switches and sockets were installed. We upgraded to slimline and normal were placed instead. The SS had all the plans on him so after initially saying I was wrong and showing me the spec with all normal, he found the first page of the electrical quote which states both the Total cost of the electrical, and a big picture in bold heading saying "SLIMLINE" with all the slimline sockets pictured. That not too much to sort and about a day or less to fix. The bath has not been framed. The supplier also did not supply enough tiles for the bathroom. Very suspect on this as they both sort of match up to co-inky-dinky but I didn't push it... just as long as I end up with a bath and finished bathroom. No toilets or sinks or door handles or carpet and still some skirting and architrave fixes (i.e. they are missing from some walls) but not a whole lot of work. Think I will need a few touch ups to some of the paint but very minor atm. Externally... better list it.. actually, another post might be in order as it might get a bit big for just the one... The SS is still getting across everything and now that he knows most of the major issues, has organised for the tradies to start coming in. Unfortunately for me, this means that there has been no work at my place this whole week. If you add the SS change over week where there was no work done, plus this week with no work done, its almost the last 2 weeks of no work done on my build. As its costing me around $700 a week, that's a one expensive change over cost to me by PD. As my build is now a few weeks away from penalties, its seems a weird last minute change for PD to make as well but I guess on the grand scale PD have their reasons for the SS restructure. Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 90May 15, 2012 5:03 pm Week36 - Heating Vents - Alfresco repair -13/5/2012 After my meeting early in the week I figured there would not be a lot of work done as the SS is still sorting out what the carpenters need to do when they come to do the touch up and some fixing. Also had a major Issue with the balcony that held up any work being done on the render. Cut a long story short, the Balcony floor is not low enough so the SS's first solution was to put 2 extra bricks on the balcony and facade and leave the window area without bricks. Bow! Boow! That idea went down like a lead balloon with DW. Much yelling later (not as if I had the lame brick idea)... I told the SS it was a no go which he sort of figured. Only option was going to be to lower the balcony floor. On friday the SS gets back to me with one of my initial ideas which was to put a rail on it. Turns out a chrome rail is not as expensive as he thought and lowering the floor would cost a lot more so in the spirit of "getting it done fast" I accepted the chrome rail idea for the balcony. Had a look through the windows and saw the the heating vents had been placed in the roof so at least there was some work. I also saw that the tiles for the Alfresco roof had been almost taken off so its ready for the batons to be leveled out correctly and placed back on nice and level. Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 91May 17, 2012 9:59 pm Zimmer, Had a read of your experiences...both the baks and the build time...some things dont really go well. Anyway good luck for the rest of the build and hopefully you move in quickly. Your experience has been an eye opener and will help me. Just have signed to build the randwick and waiti,g for the land settlement. Thanks... Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 92May 21, 2012 9:28 am Week37 - Door Handles - 20/5/2012 Yes... Door Handles were installed this week.. thats about the only work done from what I could see. Must be cracking almost 4 hours of work the whole week. Not bad for $700+ dollars paid by me. The alfresco roof tiles, which have been pulled off, are in exactly the same position as when I checked last friday 11/05/12. The slimline power points and switches are still not in. Rendering has not started. Looks like there is some wood that is sitting in the living room that I assume will be used for framing the bath ?? as this has still not been done. I suspect that is why the tiles in the upstairs bathroom were not finished. We were told that they didn't get enough from the supplier so I guess its a combination of both. Looks like a window is also in the pile so I guess one of the windows might need replacing but I couldn't get a decent view of it so I'm not sure. I had a builder mate do a quick assessment of the state of the house and when he thinks it might be finished as PD still haven't given us an approximate finish date. He said he thinks its at least 5-6 weeks away based on a quick external view. This would almost be the last week of contract and then I think I'm into the liquidated damage zone. Around day 259ish of the build now. 269 is the current contract max days I think (241 + 28 for Christmas) Building the Rowland with Porter Davis 93May 21, 2012 4:52 pm You have base render on noticed it when I went out for school pick up. Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render 95May 24, 2012 9:40 am I checked on the base render and the house looks great now. Its been looking the same for over 5 months so about time something changed. Unfortunately, even after numerous emails and phonecalls saying that the right hand light box is to low(by 1 brick) and being assured it was not problem to fix, it has not been changed and now the render is on. This is the sort of thing that gets my goat as now it will either be an uphill battle to get it changed, will require annoying extra time to fix IF THE TRADESMEN EVEN COME BACK... or we will just have to suck it up and have a wonkey lighted house. Bit of a shame really, with all the work going into the house only to have it look wonkey... Base Render Pics Enjoy Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front View Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Left side view Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Close up showing Wonky right hand side light - not in line with other light boxes. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Shower screen and ensuite tiles - niiicccee! Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render Pic 96May 25, 2012 10:41 am i have just read ur blog and my heart goes out to you. zinner things can only get better from now on. house looks great and im sure once you get over all of this ull forget everything once you have moved in.. Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render Pic 97May 25, 2012 11:41 am ma2531 i have just read ur blog and my heart goes out to you. zinner things can only get better from now on. house looks great and im sure once you get over all of this ull forget everything once you have moved in.. Thx ma2531. This thread was never meant to turn out like it has. I was meant to show the joys and excitement of building a house like so many other threads on this forum. Now its starting to sound more like a horror story.... New SS is too busy to return calls. BC the same... Day 264ish now of an originally signed 241 day build. The thing that really confuses me is that there was nothing major that went wrong with my build (..at least as far as Ive been told??). Being of reasonable intelligence, as I would think most people on this forum are, I don't need to mention much about my build for most people to draw their own conclusions as to why my build has gone for so long. ...and still no PCI in site... Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render Pic 98May 25, 2012 2:15 pm It can be a painful disheartening business at times can't it? We went through a 6 month stress free build until PCI (mostly due to having no communication with our SS ) ... then the alarm bells went off. Won't go into it here but it took 6 months to get things fixed and of course some things you have to let go and live with ... but not your wonky light - I'm sure that is an easy fix, don't let them fob you off .. they should have done it before render though Your house is looking great - love the full length window in the ensuite Sending good vibes your way ... For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render Pic 99May 25, 2012 3:07 pm Mclaren It can be a painful disheartening business at times can't it? We went through a 6 month stress free build until PCI (mostly due to having no communication with our SS ) ... then the alarm bells went off. Won't go into it here but it took 6 months to get things fixed and of course some things you have to let go and live with ... but not your wonky light - I'm sure that is an easy fix, don't let them fob you off .. they should have done it before render though Your house is looking great - love the full length window in the ensuite Sending good vibes your way ... Thx again Mclaren. ...I need all the good vibes I can get atm... We are very happy with how our house looks, but then again, that's what we paid for in base cost + upgrades so its exactly how I would expect it to look. It's just the long drawn out time its taken so far. When you add in a couple of young kids (one who has never had a room of her own), a negative bank balance, credit cards all Maxed out, energy company wolves at the door, baked bean dinners ("Look kids, its a special night tonight (again)... so its.. BAKED BEANS ON TOAST!! YAY!!!). I just hope the stress I'm suffering wont effect the kids long term. I guess we all face these issues and hopefully I'm just dealing with mine before moving in rather than after... Re: Building the Rowland with Porter Davis - Base Render Pic 100May 25, 2012 3:12 pm Must be hard ... luckily you like baked beans I bet you'll never eat them again once you are back on your feet ... try not to stress too much it doesn't help and you don't want to become ill ... take care For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12320 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 30236 |