Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Home Group WA- Hammond Heights. 15Oct 18, 2014 7:42 pm My sister built with Home Group in Wellard and we built with New Gen in Hammond Heights, her build started a few weeks before ours and we had handover about 4 months before her (taking into account it was over Christmas so maybe 3 months without that delay). Where about's in Hammond Heights are you? We are on Cousins Street in the first release. It is a pretty nerve wrecking experience but when it is all finished it will feel like a lifetime ago. Hope it goes smoothly for the rest of the build Re: Home Group WA- Hammond Heights. 16Oct 18, 2014 8:42 pm Im on the third release... Frankland Ave., still got carpets, paintings, paving, whirly birds, garage door to go. Plus they made a mistake of puting a flume and exhaust fan in the laundry...... and there was one missing in the main wc *shakes heads*. I told them to cover the stone top whilst other trades are working and they said that they would but they didnt, and its got paint and marking on it atm. and they seem to take a while to fix defects, while they should be fixed while the trades are still on site, but to no avail, each time i bring something up they said they will fix later.... which just causes more delay, if you are renting you definitely do not want to build with Home Group WA, as the extra delay that they take in building the house will be needed to added to the building your house. I hope their own quality inspection takes a week to complete but I highly doubt it would occur. I was hoping it was going to be complete before my Birthday. Re: Home Group WA- Hammond Heights. 18Nov 25, 2014 6:34 pm well my PCI is next week with homegroup. and I asked them to ensure that they bring along a set of keys so that we can open and close and inspect the windows and their response. "we do not provide the window keys to the Supervisor for your PCI Inspection. This is standard procedure. If you have any issues with the keys after handover, please advise and I will arrange for Dowell Windows to arrange a time to visit your property." lol... I would be interested to see how the pci goes.... next week... also noted a dent on my window frame how they will rectify that I provide an update. Re: Home Group WA- Hammond Heights. 19Nov 25, 2014 9:40 pm We are also building with HGWA (initial stage). Have you considered getting an independent building inspector for this critical stage? Relatively easy to get a quote and based on what we have seen it is between $500-700. Our Rivello build in Ellenbrook Re: Home Group WA- Hammond Heights. 20Nov 26, 2014 1:57 am wow jnm? make sure to get as much as the changes done before the contract, ask them for a program hopefully you will have better luck in getting one, and also a weekly update. I was shown a program on the supervisor ipad during the tile meeting but when i ask for one from homegroup was never given one... also you will save a lot of money just to get homegroup to do up the lock up stage. do as much as you can yourself as they take very long get things done, and when i ask them what they have done for the last two weeks got no response... also homegroup wa has detered me from building again but my advice for anyone is to ask who is responsible for supervisor the house and what is their experience and get it written in the contract... expect a very very very slow build and you will soon also discover what is their "quality" of workmanship. I do hope however that your experience with homegroup wa is the complete opposite of mine. which has been delay after delay... with no progress of works. Building Standards; Getting It Right! We bought a house in 2015 advertised as a 7/2/2, 4br up, 3br down (7br), and to date, it’s a great house. However, we’ve just had it valued and it’s come in as a… 0 12002 4 14468 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 16289 |