Hi guys
We're at pre site with Plantation Homes. We're at the stage of final plans to be approved and to pay the deposit before build.
This has been a really bad experience so far. We have found its all about adding more to our price.
First of all, the estimating team is SO slow. Every change takes 1-2 weeks and when we finally got the changes back, they were incorrect. This happened multiple times.
Then dealing with Your Home Consulting (for electrical) was terrible. We waited 2 weeks to hear back from them. Absolutely no contact and they were incredibly rude when they finally got in touch with us. Also they made incorrect changes multiple times.
We also had the fun experience of being told we'd need to get our own electrician to bring power in from the street at our own cost. Then plantation charged us $2000 to bring the power to the house when they're not even doing it. We fought this and they took $1000 off then a couple days later tell us they have to charge us $1000 for the meterbox. Our electrician was providing that already.
Our latest drama is the storm water line. Its incorrect and they haven't been bothered to check our land to see that there is no existing line where they put on the drawings. We had originally requested it somewhere else but they didn't make the changes so now they're telling us that we have to pay more to change it and have everything pushed back. If we leave it as is, they'll realise as soon as they get to site that its wrong and will charge us more.
I'm so worried about what will happen when we start building. I'm worried they'll find other things to charge us with.
We are considering changing to another builder but will have lost all this time and our deposit. Then need to start from scratch.
Has anyone else experienced this with plantation? What about at build? Did your price continue to go up?