Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jul 31, 2014 1:07 pm Hi I am new to the forum and need some advice. I have been looking at the website for as little while now, and have also been looking at the various builders that are out there. If I was to beliieve the builders I would be mad not to sign with every one of them!! If I were to listen to views I would be mad to sign with any of them!! We have looked at a couple of builders that seem to be quite decent, and was just trying to see if anyone has had any recent experience with either Stellar and Adelaide designer homes that they could share with us... Re: New home build 2Jul 31, 2014 1:41 pm Hi AndyA, Welcome... we found much the same thing. So we just ended up forming up a "Must have" and a "nice to have if we can" list and worked from there. We also relied on a lot of gut feel when dealing with those sales people, if we felt comfy with them we went a little further, some I wasn't even interested in dealing with... We looked at Stellar, Rendition, Adelaide Designer, Fairmont. Metricon and finally signed with Simonds in the end. We initially had a custom plan drawn up and were shopping that floorplan around, but we ended up finding a Simonds plan that was perfect in the end, with only a few tweaks. There are two build threads (one current) and one that's just finished with Adelaide Designer and I don't recall seeing any Stellar builds appear in the past 12 months or so that I've been a regular on here. We got quoted up through Stellar and I just couldn't find or see why the commanded such a higher price than the others. The finish was nice, but not the kind of nice that i'd expect for that much more money than the other quotes! ADH look great and seem great from what I've seen, but in our experience with them the sales consultant just never got back to us after we spoke about a quote, so I kept on shopping and they missed the boat... Here are two ADH threads, both detail their experiences. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70532 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70532 Good luck with your search, I think that shopping stage is one of the most overwhelming stressful times of the whole thing... Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66299 Slab: 16/6/14 Frame: 4/7/14 Roof: 22/7/14 Lock Up: 20/8/14 Fixing: 26/8/14 PCI: 9/10/14 Handover: 20/10/14 Re: New home build - Which builder 3Aug 05, 2014 3:41 pm We have just finalise the contract/selection with ADH. Construction should start very soon, now just waiting for the bank's paperwork to give the go ahead with construction. ADH has been pretty good so far, they are quite transparent and honest with us. Haven't got any major issues so far. Although time will tell as we are pretty only half way through. PM me if you need any more information. Anthony Firstly, wow you have put a lot of work into your list of questions! Great job and they are mostly valid questions that a builder should be able to answer. As… 14 10673 Sorry but you have a crap builder. Probably too late now. For our last build I only spoke to builders who would allow me easy access (at no cost). I used my own sparky… 10 9748 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16081 |