Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16505Nov 16, 2022 9:33 am diepiggy Slabs all done! Drainage is being installed in the next week or so, and the aim of my site supervisor is to have the frames up before Christmas Yayyyy so happy for you Diepiggy it is always exciting to see any progress!!! Our whole house have been plastered too and we are in our 30th week not bad considering all these delays - happy days indeed and hopefully to continue! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16506Nov 16, 2022 9:46 am Dang AnnaP that looks awesome! What are you building again? We are building an Ambassador 41 modified to add a drive through 3rd car garage, and increasing the space of the main garage to give me a bit of space for a workshop Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16507Nov 16, 2022 10:15 am diepiggy Dang AnnaP that looks awesome! What are you building again? We are building an Ambassador 41 modified to add a drive through 3rd car garage, and increasing the space of the main garage to give me a bit of space for a workshop thanks mate! We are building Manhattan 52ens with a pool..contract to build is for 48weeks hoping in March we can move in (wishful thinking) Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16508Nov 16, 2022 10:26 am Looks like your build will be completed by Wisdom Homes well within the 48 weeks contract duration AnnaP This will be an awesome achievement by team Wisdom despite all the recent sub contractor and materials availability, supply, and pricing issues challenging all builders. Well done guys! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16509Nov 16, 2022 11:05 am Kippers01 Looks like your build will be completed by Wisdom Homes well within the 48 weeks contract duration AnnaP This will be an awesome achievement by team Wisdom despite all the recent sub contractor and materials availability, supply, and pricing issues affecting all builders. Well done guys! Thanks Kippers01 hopefully so....so far so good with our build from the admin to the SS they have been very outstanding especially with communications and hoping to continue (no jinxs please)...below timeline for FYI to those who are still waiting on construction: 21.04.22 - Slab pour 28.04.22 - Drainage/Sewerage 10.05.22 - Framing completed on ground floor 21.05.22 - Framing completed on first floor 26.05.22 - Windows installed and internal plumbing 24.06.22 - After 2wks of no movement Brick finally started 13.07.22 - Scaffolding installed 19.07.22 - Roof trusses installed 25.07.22 - Start of roof install and completed on 1.08.22 together with the solar 22.08.22 - after 4weeks of no movement brickies were back to continue the first floor 02.09.22 - Brickworks completed 09.09.22 - Eaves installed and painted 17.09.22 30.09.22 - AC, Electrical rough ins, lower roof completed (Pre-lining inspection 03.10.22) 14.10.22 - completed Pre-lining defect/actioned 21.10.22 - Clean bricks 03.11.22 - Wall insulations, lower eaves, more plumbing and security install 11.11.22 - Plastered ground floor (done in one day) 14.11.22 - Whole house plastered - progress pmt today Every progress is wonderful! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16510Nov 25, 2022 6:21 am SaintSir Bazinga Hello everyone, new to this post. Im very close to signing a contract with Wisdom. Thought id say hello and if any knows the dimensions for the slimmest water tank available at wisdom homes? I would seriously suggest you to re-consider it before signing the contract. Wisdom is in hot mess at the moment. Their current average admin period is 10 months and build period is 15 months. Unless this is your expectation. Follow this FB group, you will not see one happy post - https://www.facebook.com/groups/182334015811410 Mate run! Don’t sign with Wisdom. It will be nothing but stress. They do t listen. They don’t care how long they screw you around for. It takes years longer than you think it will. They do t stick to deadlines. We’ve had no I’ve on-site for these past two sunny weeks. Our build started 3 months ago and two months has already been added to the build time. It was supposed to be a 44 week build. Now a 52 week build so far! Trust me. Go with someone else. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16511Nov 25, 2022 6:40 am mark-wisdom SaintSir Bazinga Hello everyone, new to this post. Im very close to signing a contract with Wisdom. Thought id say hello and if any knows the dimensions for the slimmest water tank available at wisdom homes? I would seriously suggest you to re-consider it before signing the contract. Wisdom is in hot mess at the moment. Their current average admin period is 10 months and build period is 15 months. Unless this is your expectation. Follow this FB group, you will not see one happy post - https://www.facebook.com/groups/182334015811410 Mate run! Don’t sign with Wisdom. It will be nothing but stress. They do t listen. They don’t care how long they screw you around for. It takes years longer than you think it will. They do t stick to deadlines. We’ve had no I’ve on-site for these past two sunny weeks. Our build started 3 months ago and two months has already been added to the build time. It was supposed to be a 44 week build. Now a 52 week build so far! Trust me. Go with someone else. mark-wisdom an 8 week extension of time seems quite reasonable, given the massive shortage of building trades at the moment, of all workers actually. Has Wisdom Homes explained this situation to you? Do you have a fair and adequate liquidated damages provision in your contract? Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16512Nov 25, 2022 11:29 am Update: Kitchen/Butlers cabinety are now in working progress yayyyy! Plenty to do in our site with lot of delivery in and out...stairs to complete next week too! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16514Nov 28, 2022 6:55 pm Kippers01 mark-wisdom SaintSir I would seriously suggest you to re-consider it before signing the contract. Wisdom is in hot mess at the moment. Their current average admin period is 10 months and build period is 15 months. Unless this is your expectation. Follow this FB group, you will not see one happy post - https://www.facebook.com/groups/182334015811410 Mate run! Don’t sign with Wisdom. It will be nothing but stress. They do t listen. They don’t care how long they screw you around for. It takes years longer than you think it will. They do t stick to deadlines. We’ve had no I’ve on-site for these past two sunny weeks. Our build started 3 months ago and two months has already been added to the build time. It was supposed to be a 44 week build. Now a 52 week build so far! Trust me. Go with someone else. mark-wisdom quite reasonable, given the massive shortage of building trades at the moment, of all workers actually. Has Wisdom Homes explained this situation to you? Do you have a fair and adequate liquidated damages provision in your contract? An 8 week delay out of 13 weeks is ridiculous to me. The materials are there. We were told we’d have builders on site full time. Just another lie. They’ll owe us if they go over time but we know someone who’s build has been delayed by months and no compensation so far. Wisdom just pretty much laughed at her when she asked about it. Meanwhile we’re all paying rent and a mortgage. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16515Nov 29, 2022 6:54 am mark-wisdom Kippers01 mark-wisdom Mate run! Don’t sign with Wisdom. It will be nothing but stress. They do t listen. They don’t care how long they screw you around for. It takes years longer than you think it will. They do t stick to deadlines. We’ve had no I’ve on-site for these past two sunny weeks. Our build started 3 months ago and two months has already been added to the build time. It was supposed to be a 44 week build. Now a 52 week build so far! Trust me. Go with someone else. mark-wisdom quite reasonable, given the massive shortage of building trades at the moment, of all workers actually. Has Wisdom Homes explained this situation to you? Do you have a fair and adequate liquidated damages provision in your contract? An 8 week delay out of 13 weeks is ridiculous to me. The materials are there. We were told we’d have builders on site full time. Just another lie. They’ll owe us if they go over time but we know someone who’s build has been delayed by months and no compensation so far. Wisdom just pretty much laughed at her when she asked about it. Meanwhile we’re all paying rent and a mortgage. Compensation, aka liquidated damages, is managed by you. You withold the liquidated damages from the final payment. All you do it agree in the start and end date as defined by the contract terms and work out the difference and withold. The builders will try and tell you building time is up when you get there certificate of occupancy, but that's not the case. Its when the house is built and finished as per plans(there aterms in the contract stipulating this) and you have a certificate. It's hard for them to argue that the house is built to plans when there are delays finalising the house, otherwise it would have been handed over. Dark matter scientist, can breathe underwater, mind reader and can freeze matter just by willing it. Trust me, its in my sig. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16516Nov 29, 2022 10:23 am Noname mark-wisdom Kippers01 mark-wisdom quite reasonable, given the massive shortage of building trades at the moment, of all workers actually. Has Wisdom Homes explained this situation to you? Do you have a fair and adequate liquidated damages provision in your contract? An 8 week delay out of 13 weeks is ridiculous to me. The materials are there. We were told we’d have builders on site full time. Just another lie. They’ll owe us if they go over time but we know someone who’s build has been delayed by months and no compensation so far. Wisdom just pretty much laughed at her when she asked about it. Meanwhile we’re all paying rent and a mortgage. Compensation, aka liquidated damages, is managed by you. You withold the liquidated damages from the final payment. All you do it agree in the start and end date as defined by the contract terms and work out the difference and withold. The builders will try and tell you building time is up when you get there certificate of occupancy, but that's not the case. Its when the house is built and finished as per plans(there aterms in the contract stipulating this) and you have a certificate. It's hard for them to argue that the house is built to plans when there are delays finalising the house, otherwise it would have been handed over. Thank you for this information Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16517Dec 01, 2022 10:41 am I was told that I have to reduce my double garage to single garage due to overland flowpath etc. the engineer proposed some divertion to make the current plan working but council wants to keep everhthing natural meaning I have to reduce the garage size, this only affect garage, but it will make the house design (frontage) odd, are there any solutions? to build a carport next to the single garge? any ideas are welcomed, I don't want to change design and go through the whole process again, exausted. thanks. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16518Dec 01, 2022 12:01 pm Flamingo I was told that I have to reduce my double garage to single garage due to overland flowpath etc. the engineer proposed some divertion to make the current plan working but council wants to keep everhthing natural meaning I have to reduce the garage size, this only affect garage, but it will make the house design (frontage) odd, are there any solutions? to build a carport next to the single garge? any ideas are welcomed, I don't want to change design and go through the whole process again, exausted. thanks. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16519Dec 06, 2022 12:16 pm mark-wisdom SaintSir Bazinga Hello everyone, new to this post. Im very close to signing a contract with Wisdom. Thought id say hello and if any knows the dimensions for the slimmest water tank available at wisdom homes? I would seriously suggest you to re-consider it before signing the contract. Wisdom is in hot mess at the moment. Their current average admin period is 10 months and build period is 15 months. Unless this is your expectation. Follow this FB group, you will not see one happy post - https://www.facebook.com/groups/182334015811410 Mate run! Don’t sign with Wisdom. It will be nothing but stress. They do t listen. They don’t care how long they screw you around for. It takes years longer than you think it will. They do t stick to deadlines. We’ve had no I’ve on-site for these past two sunny weeks. Our build started 3 months ago and two months has already been added to the build time. It was supposed to be a 44 week build. Now a 52 week build so far! Trust me. Go with someone else. Thank you mark-wisdom. There is a 95% chance I wont be building with Wisdom. I'm having trouble getting updates and even trying to talk to someone to sort out my questions/issues. Its taken a fair while to finalise my plans with Wisdom. Ive been talking to other builders and my plans almost finailsed over a few days. If im going to spend between $750-800K good customer service would be greatly appreciated. The Wisdom product is good but the service is the main reason I'm switching. My 1st build was a great experience - but then again times are different. I'm ok with the whatever is happening all i would have loved is transparency and frequent updates. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 16520Jan 31, 2023 7:04 pm Flamingo Did anyone ask Wisdom homes to install an outdoor kitchen? Any photos? I need to extend approx 30cm concrete floor on the side of alfresco and build a 1.2 m brick wall for the outdoor bbq kitchen. Any advice and cost? Hey Flamingo, I am also building with WH, and I am in the process of building a kitchen outdoors in our Alfresco area. My plan is to DIY, build the timber stud (inner) for 1m or 1.2m then lay bricks wall (outer). How did you go with your plan, did you DIY or did you get a contractor to do the brick wall? Thanks, Navy navylion Building a Wisdom Homes Manhattan 35 in Sydney North West MyBuildTimeLine: http://navylion.wixsite.com/mybuildtimeline Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. How long are variations taking with other companies at the moment? We… 0 18617 In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 19 73659 Hi Everyone, I am exploring builder in NSW and received a very tempting quote from Wisdom home for their momentum series. I just want to know experience of building… 0 8558 |