Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 14, 2015 11:44 am Hi I am building a small 3 or 4 bedroom home in Melbourne and at the moment trying to decide on a builder. I had it narrowed down to three builders ?, Metricon, Henley, Carlisle Homes. I have heard that Henley had a really really bad name a while ago. Is this still the case ? Every tradesperson I speak to says, yep Henley bad name a while ago but nobody knows what they are like now. Are Henley still as bad as what they were ? Re: Building with Henley 2015 2Sep 18, 2015 2:23 pm We built our first home with Metricon and would never use them again. That was 7 years ago. We just finished building with Porter Davis and can't talk highly enough of the quality of trades used or the build finish. Their only let down was their lack of communications between paying the initial deposit and starting on site. Things picked up once we started dealing direct with our SS. Good luck! My Waldorf 48 Blog: http://gisbornewillows.blogspot.com.au/ Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 10440 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 30235 |