Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again?
Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes
Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck
What's on the cards for you this week?
Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5961May 15, 2017 9:46 pm msjovi Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5962May 15, 2017 10:37 pm MrsLlamas2016 msjovi Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes It looks amazing Mrs L, so excited for you! Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5963May 15, 2017 10:39 pm Got my landscape provisional quote back today. Some prices are kind of reasonable, some outrageous. I just wanted to ask if $3350 to remove kerb and gutter and install layback is reasonable or way over the mark? It's way more than I was expecting but it's not something I've had quoted yet. Also, for those further along, did your actual quotation after the site visit differ much from the provisional, and were they negotiable? Thanks Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5964May 15, 2017 11:04 pm MandM+4 Got my landscape provisional quote back today. Some prices are kind of reasonable, some outrageous. I just wanted to ask if $3350 to remove kerb and gutter and install layback is reasonable or way over the mark? It's way more than I was expecting but it's not something I've had quoted yet. Also, for those further along, did your actual quotation after the site visit differ much from the provisional, and were they negotiable? Thanks Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Our provisional and actual quote were virtually identical. We were told that they could only discount if we did the lot with them, not if we just picked bits and pieces. majestic35.weebly.com Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5965May 16, 2017 9:38 am MrsLlamas2016 msjovi Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Eek! So exciting! Tiling started for us this week! And the stone guy was there yesterday measuring for our kitchen benchtop. Also emailed our SS about the incorrect facade render colour and he said he'll sort it all out. Feeling more positive these days! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5966May 16, 2017 9:44 am msjovi MrsLlamas2016 msjovi [quote="MrsLlamas2016"] Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Carpet apparently goes in on Thursday .. But all painting is complete, bathroom sealing getting done today... Home stretch! Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Eek! So exciting! Tiling started for us this week! And the stone guy was there yesterday measuring for our kitchen benchtop. Also emailed our SS about the incorrect facade render colour and he said he'll sort it all out. Feeling more positive these days! [/quote] That's good. Do you think that they will just paint over the render that they all ready have there, because didn't they upgrade your render with the acrylic one? If so will you be happy with that? Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5967May 16, 2017 9:45 am MrsLlamas2016 msjovi Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Wow. You are so close now... How awesome!!!! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5968May 16, 2017 11:31 am HI All, I have received my contract for signing. I am guessing these are pretty standard, but I can also see there are some blank areas including Excluded Items & Special Conditions. I have read the document and will probably sign, but would like to know is there anything specific I should be checking, or anything else in hindsight the more experienced members here wish they did at this stage. Any help or insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Bob Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5969May 16, 2017 4:22 pm Just wondering what kind of discount you all got during tender acceptance. I am not happy with the discount and considering strongly on clarendon now. Also don't like sales person (more than one) telling about price increase just every month. I was told price increase May 1 & then June 1. I have worked as a pricing analyst and there are very few companies who have price increase twice a year and no one has one month before financial year starting!!! Disappointed considering how much time is wasted on researching W Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5970May 16, 2017 4:25 pm aaron2008 Just wondering what kind of discount you all got during tender acceptance. I am not happy with the discount and considering strongly on clarendon now. Also don't like sales person (more than one) telling about price increase just every month. I was told price increase May 1 & then June 1. I have worked as a pricing analyst and there are very few companies who have price increase twice a year and no one has one month before financial year starting!!! Disappointed considering how much time is wasted on researching W Last week i was told by a WH sales consultant that there is a price increase after 20th May and it will be 20k higher for each double storey house Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5971May 16, 2017 6:53 pm ozmonkeyoy msjovi MrsLlamas2016 [quote="msjovi"][quote="MrsLlamas2016"] Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Carpet apparently goes in on Thursday .. But all painting is complete, bathroom sealing getting done today... Home stretch! Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Eek! So exciting! Tiling started for us this week! And the stone guy was there yesterday measuring for our kitchen benchtop. Also emailed our SS about the incorrect facade render colour and he said he'll sort it all out. Feeling more positive these days! [/quote] That's good. Do you think that they will just paint over the render that they all ready have there, because didn't they upgrade your render with the acrylic one? If so will you be happy with that? [/quote] I'm not sure what they'll do, although I'm assuming they'll just paint over it as you can do this over acrylic texture coat render. If they do use paint, I just hope the colour matches the acrylic one! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5972May 16, 2017 7:29 pm msjovi ozmonkeyoy msjovi [quote="MrsLlamas2016"][quote="msjovi"][quote="MrsLlamas2016"] Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Carpet apparently goes in on Thursday .. But all painting is complete, bathroom sealing getting done today... Home stretch! Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Looks fantastic!! When's your PCI again? Building Ambassador 41 - Wisdom Homes Friday next week!! (The 26th) its looking like it's nearly ready for the moving truck What's on the cards for you this week? Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Eek! So exciting! Tiling started for us this week! And the stone guy was there yesterday measuring for our kitchen benchtop. Also emailed our SS about the incorrect facade render colour and he said he'll sort it all out. Feeling more positive these days! [/quote] That's good. Do you think that they will just paint over the render that they all ready have there, because didn't they upgrade your render with the acrylic one? If so will you be happy with that? [/quote] I'm not sure what they'll do, although I'm assuming they'll just paint over it as you can do this over acrylic texture coat render. If they do use paint, I just hope the colour matches the acrylic one! [/quote] Yes that's why I commented b4, just be sure that the paint will match if they paint directly over the top. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5973May 16, 2017 9:08 pm aaron2008 Just wondering what kind of discount you all got during tender acceptance. I am not happy with the discount and considering strongly on clarendon now. Also don't like sales person (more than one) telling about price increase just every month. I was told price increase May 1 & then June 1. I have worked as a pricing analyst and there are very few companies who have price increase twice a year and no one has one month before financial year starting!!! Disappointed considering how much time is wasted on researching W Discount was small...like 1% of what we've spent. Most builders have a price rise at the end of the financial year and beginning of January. It was $8k last time. Have you read the Clarendon thread? Lots of unhappy customers and pages of defects. Most of us here chose wisdom for a quality build. I think you get what you pay for. Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5975May 17, 2017 12:06 am aaron2008 Just wondering what kind of discount you all got during tender acceptance. I am not happy with the discount and considering strongly on clarendon now. Also don't like sales person (more than one) telling about price increase just every month. I was told price increase May 1 & then June 1. I have worked as a pricing analyst and there are very few companies who have price increase twice a year and no one has one month before financial year starting!!! Disappointed considering how much time is wasted on researching W We got a discount as a returning customer... But it was practically nothing. I would imagine If you bargain too hard now they will find ways to claim the money back (i.e. Not extending your contract period if you go over.) Wisdom isn't meant to be a cheap build, and you get an amazing result at the end. Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes Building with Wisdom Homes 5976May 17, 2017 12:44 am DaniK Hi... how did you get a 1% discount? Did you have another tender for comparison? It wasn't exactly 1%. We just asked them if they could sweeten the deal to get us to sign, so they offered us a round number. My husband has a go at negotiating with absolutely everything (while I go away and cringe usually ) Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5977May 17, 2017 9:56 am MrsLlamas2016 aaron2008 Just wondering what kind of discount you all got during tender acceptance. I am not happy with the discount and considering strongly on clarendon now. Also don't like sales person (more than one) telling about price increase just every month. I was told price increase May 1 & then June 1. I have worked as a pricing analyst and there are very few companies who have price increase twice a year and no one has one month before financial year starting!!! Disappointed considering how much time is wasted on researching W We got a discount as a returning customer... But it was practically nothing. I would imagine If you bargain too hard now they will find ways to claim the money back (i.e. Not extending your contract period if you go over.) Wisdom isn't meant to be a cheap build, and you get an amazing result at the end. Building Majestic 40 - wisdom homes I think they key to this is to load your tender with provisional allowances, even if you don't intend on using them it makes you look like a big fish and the margin is there to give something back. It also definitely doesn't hurt to have a tender from elsewhere or even turn up with a folder with something in it from another builder, even carrying brochures discreetly but visible helps. Last thing is to ask the right way, you are not kicking tyres so if they can absorb a discount and believe giving you something will be the difference between gaining a profitable customer they will. If you really like the house, getting a discount should not be the defining factor, but it never hurts to ask. As a previous poster has already advised, I would check the Clarendon forum group, I nearly went with them too and can see it is mayhem over there compared to the very patient, very happy Wisdom Customers here.. Good luck. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5978May 17, 2017 10:25 am Hi All, We signed off our tender last month and are patiently waiting on drawings. I received drafting variations with a number of changes (reduced size) to doors and windows. The changes are reduced size - either height and/or width. Eg 720mm ILO of 820mm CSD. I asked if we should have received credits. I was advised that no credit is due as they are the same cost. Does this sound correct? Should I sign off this variation? Anyone have similar experience. Thanks Building WH Manhattan 44 Ensuite Production Estimates: 13 Nov 2017 DA Approval : 25 October 2017 Contract Sign: 28 May 2017 Tender Sign: 24 April 2017 Request for Tender: 22 Jan 2017 Building with Wisdom Homes 5979May 17, 2017 10:40 am lombieagle Hi All, We signed off our tender last month and are patiently waiting on drawings. I received drafting variations with a number of changes (reduced size) to doors and windows. The changes are reduced size - either height and/or width. Eg 720mm ILO of 820mm CSD. I asked if we should have received credits. I was advised that no credit is due as they are the same cost. Does this sound correct? Should I sign off this variation? Anyone have similar experience. Thanks Height, is that 2340 down to 2040? Because you would have paid for the extra height if that's the case. Windows you won't get a credit for if you reduce in size or remove them. Doors id think 720 would be the same cost, yes. Anything above 820 is extra though. Remember that by reducing sizes of windows and doors means more wall which is a similar cost. It's only the large, custom sized windows and doors that cost heaps. Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 5980May 17, 2017 11:45 am lombieagle Hi All, We signed off our tender last month and are patiently waiting on drawings. I received drafting variations with a number of changes (reduced size) to doors and windows. The changes are reduced size - either height and/or width. Eg 720mm ILO of 820mm CSD. I asked if we should have received credits. I was advised that no credit is due as they are the same cost. Does this sound correct? Should I sign off this variation? Anyone have similar experience. Thanks We experienced the same. They made our laundry window so small that we ended up deleting it entirely. If you're getting drafting variations then that is a good sign that your drawings are in progress. We didn't get the variation until we got our drawings. Building Wisdom Aspiration 31 at Willowdale https://ourwillowdalehome.wordpress.com/ 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 11956 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… 20 57449 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 3532 |