HGWA First Home Build - Ocean Road Estate

Decka · Jun 08, 2016 7:46 am

Yep, our builder was the same, appliances, hot water and bathroom fittings were done a day before PCI. Even light switch covers were left off.

jasmineandjason · Jun 08, 2016 6:44 pm

What idiots!!

Thank god that this happened before handover though - how awful to get keys and then this happen and have no hot water! I have requested for our developers to put our fence up asap. Touch wood it doesn't happen again :-|

Literally going to have to get onto home and contents insurance as soon as we get keys in case!

Good news is that our second PCI meeting is booked for Tuesday morning! Hopefully all the items we picked up have been rectified and there aren't any more delays. Then we should get keys straight after if all okay as we've got the ball rolling now for our final progress payment (apparently this takes up to a week to process as the bank has to value the property??). Would have preferred to wait until after the inspection to pay them but we can't afford it holding things up.

Painters booked for Thurs/Friday (thankfully they are flexible as we know them) and then hopefully start the move Saturday if all goes to plan! WOO

CustomStirling · Jun 08, 2016 7:13 pm

Woohoo, that's great news! Congrats!

Building a custom Sterling home in Adelaide.

Decka · Jun 08, 2016 7:27 pm

You will probably find you need to organise your insurance to start on that date pretty soon as you will need to provide this to the bank prior to them releasing payment

jasmineandjason · Jun 08, 2016 8:07 pm

Decka

You will probably find you need to organise your insurance to start on that date pretty soon as you will need to provide this to the bank prior to them releasing payment

Thank you for letting me know - I had no idea it had to be organized prior to payment being released. Have just emailed our broker about it - thanks!

jasmineandjason · Jun 08, 2016 8:08 pm

CustomStirling

Woohoo, that's great news! Congrats!

Building a custom Sterling home in Adelaide.

Thank you

Natalie92 · Jun 08, 2016 8:47 pm

I work at a bank and usually insurance will have to be organised before they release final payment, will need to send them a copy of your certificate of insurance when you send in form for final payment. Not long till keys!

jasmineandjason · Jun 09, 2016 5:54 pm

Natalie92

I work at a bank and usually insurance will have to be organised before they release final payment, will need to send them a copy of your certificate of insurance when you send in form for final payment. Not long till keys!

Thanks I got it all sorted this morning

ak11 · Jun 10, 2016 12:52 pm

Who did you get insurance through Jas? Need to start thinking about organising ours. I've got a quote from RAC but open to other suggestions

jasmineandjason · Jun 10, 2016 1:02 pm

ak11

Who did you get insurance through Jas? Need to start thinking about organising ours. I've got a quote from RAC but open to other suggestions

We got ours with YOUI

Decka · Jun 10, 2016 10:17 pm

jasmineandjason

Decka

You will probably find you need to organise your insurance to start on that date pretty soon as you will need to provide this to the bank prior to them releasing payment

Thank you for letting me know - I had no idea it had to be organized prior to payment being released. Have just emailed our broker about it - thanks!

No problems

jasminelee_86 · Jun 10, 2016 10:24 pm

Commonwealth bank have great insurance.

Natalie92 · Jun 11, 2016 12:18 am

Guys please be careful with cheap insurance companies like aami etc, they don't do new for old replacement, please make sure your policy states new for old replacement of home and contents and insure you add enough in for removal or debris and GST! they use recycled goods when repairing your home! At NAB we use a policy under written by Allianz which is an amazing policy and so many people after the storms had problems with Coles aami and insurances like that using recycled fencing! I can't stress enough that everyone needs to really look at what you are covered for

jasmineandjason · Jun 14, 2016 3:01 pm

Natalie92

Guys please be careful with cheap insurance companies like aami etc, they don't do new for old replacement, please make sure your policy states new for old replacement of home and contents and insure you add enough in for removal or debris and GST! they use recycled goods when repairing your home! At NAB we use a policy under written by Allianz which is an amazing policy and so many people after the storms had problems with Coles aami and insurances like that using recycled fencing! I can't stress enough that everyone needs to really look at what you are covered for

Thanks heaps for the info Nat! We just had to get something sorted quickly for the final payment to be released so I haven't looked into it all in too much detail yet (figured we have the cooling off period lol).

jasmineandjason · Jun 14, 2016 3:36 pm

Picking up keys this afternoon!!! YAY

Had our second PCI meeting this morning and it went okay - there are still a couple of things that need to be done but they have already been organized by our SS to be fixed in the next day or two.

spuddles76 · Jun 14, 2016 3:38 pm

WOOHOO. Congratulations on the keys.

jasmineandjason · Jun 14, 2016 3:39 pm

spuddles76

WOOHOO. Congratulations on the keys.

Thanks spuddles!

ak11 · Jun 14, 2016 3:51 pm

Woohoo! When is move in day? Hopefully we're not too far behind you guys!

Robina · Jun 14, 2016 4:07 pm

That's fantastic also congratulations

jasmineandjason · Jun 14, 2016 4:46 pm

ak11

Woohoo! When is move in day? Hopefully we're not too far behind you guys!

Saturday!

yes I'm sure you won't be too far behind at all! There was a trades guy at yours today