Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 10, 2013 11:24 pm Hi there we are building with Elderton and was hoping other Elderton customers can come together and share some advice/feedbacks along their building process so we can all learn from each other... Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 2Apr 12, 2013 9:34 am Hi there, Thanks for starting this thread. We are considering an Elderton build as well. We are looking at their single level designs and they seem good value for money. May I ask where you are building and if you have decided on a design? What made you select Elderton? There is so much choice out there and it is quite hard to compare apples to apples. Regards Ally Deposit paid to Masterton 30/05/13 Contracts signed and 5% deposit paid 09/10/13 CDC Approval 14/11/13 Slab 22/01/14 Frame 18/02/14 Brickwork 14/03/14 Roof 22/03/14 Lock Up 11/04/14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 3Apr 20, 2013 2:08 pm Hi Fievel, aWe're also thinking if building with Elderton, were impressed with the sales person when we went there. We were planning to go with ebh and have even put in the deposit for the build but things went pear shaped and in the end we did not feel comfortable with them and cancelled the build. Elderton on the other hand seems to be better in their customer service. We are waiting for our land to be registered before we contact them again. Where about are you building? We are in Kellyville. Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 4Apr 21, 2013 8:45 pm Hi Azzure and Ally, we didn't actually choose Elderton it was a house and land package in Beaumont Hills and we really liked the pricing/location of the lot and quite liked the packaged house design as well, so we just went ahead with it. Plus we really liked the feel of their sales consultant John. All that said and done, we are just past the color consultation stage and waiting for land to be registered, so still a lot of things to unfold I'm sure! Hopefully more good than bad! Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 5Apr 22, 2013 1:14 pm Yeah, we spoke with John as well and like how he present the sales. I was not aware that they had a House and Land package in Beumont. I thought it's only on Jordan Spring and Rouse Hill. How are you finding them? Most reviews seems to be saying they are slow during the pre built (admin) phase but is fast during the build phase. Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 6Apr 23, 2013 3:49 pm We are first time builders so we really have no idea what to expect, but in general it felt like we should have bargained for more items prior to paying the deposit. For the money we paid despite all the negotiations it still feels like we are spending more than we expect. But perhaps that's the same with all builders... Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 7Apr 23, 2013 4:16 pm We are currently building with elderton. As others have commented they are a bit on the slow side however we have found their work to be of a good quality and they are always prompt in responding to any queries. After 12 months of research, we decided on them as we felt comfortable with them and thought they provided good value for money. I have also made about 15 changes after signing off on the plans and have never been charged a fee for making a change ( although they weren't structural) , a friend of my is building with another large builder and changed the colour of her stone worktop, they charged her $2000 to make the change and they were only at slab stage! Any way so far so good! Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 8Apr 23, 2013 6:01 pm Yeah Nabby we have made certain aesthetic changes too but we are not even at slab so no charges as well. Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 9May 02, 2013 11:34 am Hi all, is Elderton tender/contract is a fixed price contcat. Regards, Building a custom Drysdale 27 at The New Rouse Hill Land Reg - Feb 15 2013 Tender Accepted – May 16, 2013 Contract Signed – June 13, 2013 Allocated Construction start date – October, 2013 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 11May 14, 2013 9:23 pm Hi there - we are building with Elderton at the New Rouse Hill at the moment. I see a couple of people are asking about fixed price contracts - the price is fixed within the specifications and caveats in the contract so read this carefully. Always expect a few things to come up in the build process - more piering, drop edge beams, longer service connection lengths etc - I would always allow $5k float for this sought of thing on site costs and same again for late internal changes everyone seems to make! Elderton have been good so far (up to frame at the moment) through initial sales, contract, approvals etc, start up etc. We tried a couple of larger builders but got ordinary service. Elderton are priced pretty aggressively so you will probably need to upgrade a few inclusions here and there but changes seem to be fairly priced. A few small changes to layout were also no real hassle. Good luck - ask lots of questions on what you can expect to add to cost Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 12Oct 06, 2013 12:34 am Hi everyone, We are considering Elderton for building our new home. Can anyone please share their experience? It appears a few people were in the early stages of their project in April/ May 2013. How did it progress afterwards? any bad experiences? We have just paid $1000 for tender. So really keen to get some update/feedback from existing Eldeton clients. Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 13Oct 23, 2013 4:06 pm Hi all, We build a house with Elderton since March this year. They took more than 30 weeks to complete a single storey, it is really long building process when comparing to other builders. We are the second house to place the slab in the street, but we are the last one to move in. The only sweet is the customer service provided by the sales person - John. Other than that, it is terrible. If you build with them at the basic plan without upgrade, then all the things will be really basic. Don't expect you can get the similar from the display home. The paint work is not good throughout the house. We upgrade the wardrobe from mirror to smart robe, but they provide us the sliding smart robe ($16 each door at Bunning) which is ugly than the mirror one. Even we upgrade the toilet with extra cost, but they install a small toilet (just fit to light weight & slim person) with bad quality (leaking when doing walk through inspection). The gutter were not installed completely when we did inspection. Our bank contact them for final inspection which not contactable and make the key handover delay. If you like hassle, then Elderton Home is your choice. Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 14Oct 29, 2013 1:56 pm wllau Hi all, We build a house with Elderton since March this year. They took more than 30 weeks to complete a single storey, it is really long building process when comparing to other builders. We are the second house to place the slab in the street, but we are the last one to move in. The only sweet is the customer service provided by the sales person - John. Other than that, it is terrible. If you build with them at the basic plan without upgrade, then all the things will be really basic. Don't expect you can get the similar from the display home. The paint work is not good throughout the house. We upgrade the wardrobe from mirror to smart robe, but they provide us the sliding smart robe ($16 each door at Bunning) which is ugly than the mirror one. Even we upgrade the toilet with extra cost, but they install a small toilet (just fit to light weight & slim person) with bad quality (leaking when doing walk through inspection). The gutter were not installed completely when we did inspection. Our bank contact them for final inspection which not contactable and make the key handover delay. If you like hassle, then Elderton Home is your choice. We're at the colour selection point, and yeah, we did upgrade a few things (benchtop, toilet, doors etc) but not overly so. Having said that, we are still waiting on the quote to see how much those are going to impact us. I really like how John and Marcel (the colour consultant) been helping us, they were accommodating to us and our ehm... "Quirky" requirements. Some of the inclusions did seems a bit... cheap and basic, but we are planning to do some upgrade in the future ourselves. I guess they are a bit cheaper than the bigger builder though, so they may not have the required buying power from those brands? Has there been delays? Yeah, but some of it been our fault as well for missing deadlines and/or giving additional requirements. Although, and this *may* be attributed to both parties, some of the items we asked did not go into the final drawing. i.e. We have this requirement for one of the stair to have 6 or 7 steps, nothing less nothing more (as I said, "Quirky")... They ended up putting 8 steps despite discussions. We requested a door to our ensuite bathroom, but it was not included as well. Nothing really that can't be fixed, but just need to really delve into it and make sure you have EVERYTHING in the drawing. Am crossing my finger and just to wait and see till we actually start out build... Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 15Nov 10, 2013 7:44 pm Hi there I'm the OP of this thread..been MIA for the past months because LendLease had delayed settling on the land from the promised April till October. While this delay had been absolutely painful and unexpected, we r now finally about to begin construction (as soon as the last of the paperwork is done)... Thus far we have been happy with Elderton in terms of the post contract variations we've had to make and they've been accommodating. Will update this thread as we go along.... Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 16Nov 12, 2013 9:31 am Welcome back Fievel. Congrats on getting the land registered. Now comes the exciting part where you can see the house getting built little by little From our side, we were just told that it'll take at least 30 weeks for our house to be built (two story house)... So at this rate, we are looking to start building in January and move in probably september - ish... Hahahaha. Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 17Nov 12, 2013 6:47 pm azure7 Welcome back Fievel. Congrats on getting the land registered. Now comes the exciting part where you can see the house getting built little by little From our side, we were just told that it'll take at least 30 weeks for our house to be built (two story house)... So at this rate, we are looking to start building in January and move in probably september - ish... Hahahaha. I'm not building with Elderton, however I expect increased demand for new housing is causing increased competition for the tradies. This would be blowing out build times for many people. I have a 16-24 week build time in my contract. I think they will be pushing it to achieve 16 or even 20 weeks, although progress has been good so far ( roof on 6 weeks after construction start ). I received my first 'rain delays' notice today. Build thread: here Land Nov 12, Contract 6/07/13, Consent 15/08/13, Start 20/09/13, Slab 25/09/13, Frame 4/10/13, Brick 21/10/13, Roof 2/11/13, Lock-up 17/12/13, Handover 3/3/14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 18Nov 15, 2013 7:36 pm We have just gotten the contract from them, it's official... They are quoting us 36 weeks at least to finish the build... We do get paid $50 a week if they went beyond the timeframe. Having said this, I would assume that $50 a week on a hundred of thousands of dollars build would be peanuts for them and there would be no real incentive if the build was extended for say 4 weeks or so. Maximus: Hope the rain does not pose too much of an issue. Are you building in NSW or other state? Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 19Jan 17, 2014 2:16 pm See my build thread. We r going thru a tough patch with Elderton right now..sigh...only pray that this will all come to a good passing. Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 Re: Elderton Homes - reviews and feedbacks 20Jan 18, 2014 12:33 am Our builder is asking us to fork out in excess of $8000 extras just before we go to slab claim and im really at a loss now...I have lost my confidence in their tender price and am now considering any alternatives I might have I hope some of you experienced home owners reading this thread can help..we have a bub on the way and I feel very frightened I should never have signed with them and listened to their sales pitch. Im thinking of 1) backing out of the building contract and lose the deposit of $5k and onsell the land to someone more experienced at this 2) lodging a report with fair trading 3) hiring a building consultant to do an assessment of our situation and engage a solicitor The problem is im just an inexperienced first time owner and I dont know how much legal recourse I have in my situation, and I dont wish to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars going down a legal action path only to lose. Im pretty adamant that I did my due dilligence when at sales stage about this house and land package, and this sewer concrete encasement requirement should have been reasonably anticipated by any average builder and included in their tender, since it was them who drawn up the plans with the developer to market it as a pre approved design on a battle axe lot. They insist it was the developer who installed the sewer pipes off position and since it now runs less than 600mm from our garage it needs concrete encasement and extra pierrings. Developer insists they never did breach their end of the agreement as they installed according to the sydney waters requirements. Im caught btw them but since im now the owner of the land, I cop the bill I really hope someone who has experience in these sort of disputes can give us advice and help us. Even though the land value has gone up at least 15% since, if I can just get out of this deal now ill gladly do it at breakeven...thats how scared I am Build Threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68156 Lendlease/Elderton Cntract:31-01-13 Settled:1-10-13 DA: 10-10-13 CC: 28-11-13 SC: 3-4-14 We are looking to do a KDR with fairhaven homes, Have seen plenty of good reviews about them pre construction and plenty of negative reviews about them during contruction… 0 18045 Hi starting the process of looking around for Dual Occ builders. Looking to build a home shared with family either as a duplex or front back. Has anyone done any recent… 0 2268 Old Home Restoration / Renovation I cannot find a review for the Reblocker I am getting a quote from. Am I doing something wrong, or are numbers of reblockers who hold VBA registration not reviewed on your… 0 2478 |