Hi all,
We are building a new house at Waterford County in Newcastle and they are currently conducting the final peg out which has been a real roller coaster ride getting to this stage.
At first everything started fairly quickly with colour selections and plans etc but since our final sign off EBH have been a nightmare to deal with and i don't see it improving any time soon.
Below you can see our journey so far,
1. Soil Sample Taken (EBH homes always class every soil sample as H class to enable extra charges we couldn't even find bore holes from samples taken from our land)
2. The fixed price contract is just a catch phrase and they go out of there way to hit you with as many post contract variations as possible
3. Heres a good one be very careful with the bush fire rating (BAL) they try and make you place security screens over every door on the dwelling and then when i got the council involved they relented and said that we didn't have to "but" they said we can get away with it if we upgraded our doors more money.
4. The Big Promotional campaign $1 air con $1 Colour Bond Roof - you are paying for it its just buried across the other associated costs in there contract price.
5. Stone Bench Tops you have a massive choice with only 2 Colours available without up grading- More Money
6. Took 10 Weeks for a variation to come through to make the fridge area larger so our new fridge can fit
7. Still no guarantee on a start date like they tell you so be careful if you are in a hurry to get to a start date
8. They tried to charge us $10,700.00 for a driveway which i had removed from the contract price
9. They tried to charge us twice for the soil sample until i made them change it
10. If you tell them we will carry out a certain task by a third party they will tell you its fine but they cant issue us with a interim occupancy certificate if we do things our-self, they just lie to you and try and bleed as much money as possible from you pockets.
There have been some small positives so far we would just like a few more in the coming months.
Will keep you updated