Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 421Apr 24, 2017 1:50 am Thought I'd give an update on my situation and keep the DFH discussion a little more active. We've only given the deposit so far and just last week, we saw the holes from the soil test when we went for a drive out to the block. Notified the next day that soil test was done and they'll be doing an 'S' class slab, we budgeted for a more costly one and that our BAL rating came in at a 12.5 instead of the 29 we budgeted for (back fence is shared with forest. So that freed up some money from the initial estimates. Had a meeting today with the consultant and gave our changes to the plans, so they can be drawn up, paperwork can be signed and we can get this thing happening. We managed to destroy those savings I mentioned and added some more stuff, but we are feeling good about the direction we are heading. The final cost, not so good. Hah, hah... We are well above that initial "we build this house for..." quote they give you when you sit down for the first time. Had the meeting where they do the colour selections, so it was great to have a sneak peak at our options. Was very surprised that we are quite happy with some of the standard choices in our options. Less money to fork out. YES!!!! I think that with the carpet, we will eventually go for the standard range , but in the colour we like as the 6 kids will give it hell over the years and we'd re-do those floors in the future if we sell or decide to have a change. We certainly found that out when we fixed up and sold our previous house (we built 17 years ago). Well, that's it from me from now. Keen to get updates and pictures from you all. Hope things are going well/better for you. Oh, and for future reference, I am a dude (happily married to an awesome wife). Was talking designs online recently and kept on getting called darling and sweetie by some of the girls who assumed I was the wife for quite a while before I asked them to stop with the pet names. Bahahahah! Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 422Apr 24, 2017 6:19 pm rattleAU Thought I'd give an update on my situation and keep the DFH discussion a little more active. We've only given the deposit so far and just last week, we saw the holes from the soil test when we went for a drive out to the block. Notified the next day that soil test was done and they'll be doing an 'S' class slab, we budgeted for a more costly one and that our BAL rating came in at a 12.5 instead of the 29 we budgeted for (back fence is shared with forest. So that freed up some money from the initial estimates. Had a meeting today with the consultant and gave our changes to the plans, so they can be drawn up, paperwork can be signed and we can get this thing happening. We managed to destroy those savings I mentioned and added some more stuff, but we are feeling good about the direction we are heading. The final cost, not so good. Hah, hah... We are well above that initial "we build this house for..." quote they give you when you sit down for the first time. Had the meeting where they do the colour selections, so it was great to have a sneak peak at our options. Was very surprised that we are quite happy with some of the standard choices in our options. Less money to fork out. YES!!!! I think that with the carpet, we will eventually go for the standard range , but in the colour we like as the 6 kids will give it hell over the years and we'd re-do those floors in the future if we sell or decide to have a change. We certainly found that out when we fixed up and sold our previous house (we built 17 years ago). Well, that's it from me from now. Keen to get updates and pictures from you all. Hope things are going well/better for you. Oh, and for future reference, I am a dude (happily married to an awesome wife). Was talking designs online recently and kept on getting called darling and sweetie by some of the girls who assumed I was the wife for quite a while before I asked them to stop with the pet names. Bahahahah! Good to hear from you rattle. Look forward to seeing your selections. Which house are you building? Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 423Apr 26, 2017 5:23 pm Can anyone spot the mistake? Are they f$&king serious?!? This build is beyond a joke. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 425Apr 26, 2017 6:18 pm HENRY Mirror! Spot on. Instead of it finishing with the tiles, it's now sticking out. Not hard to get right especially when it's supposed to be measured before fitting. Building with Dennis Family Homes Building with Dennis Family Homes 426Apr 26, 2017 7:48 pm rtforresters HENRY Mirror! Spot on. Instead of it finishing with the tiles, it's now sticking out. Not hard to get right especially when it's supposed to be measured before fitting. No care factor should never been installed! I would hate to be a supervisor Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 427Apr 26, 2017 9:17 pm No care factor what so ever. We are 4 weeks away from contract end date and no where near finishing. My list of defects just keeps adding up everytime i look at the house DFH is supposed to be a good builder Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 428Apr 27, 2017 9:41 am That is appalling RT - is there anyone you can escalate to? I would be calling head office and demanding to speak to someone. Surely, there is someone who will listen and make it right. Might even be worth calling your sales consultant and asking if he thinks this is ok? Far out! I am so upset for you. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 429Apr 27, 2017 5:13 pm Feel so bad for you rtforresters. So much of your money, time and feelings are invested in this and it would be horrible. Really do wish you the best of luck with moving forward and getting things sorted. In regards to your question the other day, we are building the Devonport 363. Hopefully we'll get a good bunch of tradies and supervisor who is on top of things. We are a very regional build and quite a distance away from everything, so hopefully they'll try to get it all right the first time, as it will cost them to come back to the build for fixes each time. This is our 3rd time building and we were victims of the Avonwood Builders going bust about 18 years ago, so we are no strangers to stress and things not being as they should. Fingers crossed on a good experience this time around. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 430Apr 27, 2017 7:57 pm We're going to contact head office again tomorrow coz we sold our house on the impression from our ss that our house will be complete by end of April. We are now going to have to live with my parents and shift everything into a storage unit. Im just over their incompetent tradies who keeps stuffing things up. They still havent even begun to fix the living room, bedroom 1 and kitchen spashback window, which requires moving as they are in the wrong position. Our laundry door has a massive gap at the bottom about 30mm more than the standard. Our stacker door has been installed incorrectly and the tracks are being completely scratched. One of our external door is swinging the wrong way. The tiling around our ensuite niche is done poorly and there's raised tiles. One of the back panel on the island bench has a small hole in it. Some walls and cornices are bowed. The vanity sink hasnt been installed correctly. Now the mirror in the bathroom. Our plaster in the garage hasn't been properly nailed down and can be pushed. Our planter box is missing a course of brickwork. They gave us rolled mortar instead of flush. Several plumbing stuff ups which they had to cut into our slab and we still yet to see the engineers report which our inspector requested. They didnt waterproof wc and laundry after being advised that it needs to be. There's a hump in our roof and lots of roof tile debris left in the gutter which can block the pipes. They haven't graded away the soil so water is pooling around the slab. They haven't put flashing in a few spots in the roof so parts of the roof is exposed. Our alfresco pillar is not straight. A few windows is not leveled. All i can say is make sure you know your plans and check everything. We've had a lot fixed along the way but these are the ones on my priority list. Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 431Apr 27, 2017 7:58 pm rattleAU Feel so bad for you rtforresters. So much of your money, time and feelings are invested in this and it would be horrible. Really do wish you the best of luck with moving forward and getting things sorted. In regards to your question the other day, we are building the Devonport 363. Hopefully we'll get a good bunch of tradies and supervisor who is on top of things. We are a very regional build and quite a distance away from everything, so hopefully they'll try to get it all right the first time, as it will cost them to come back to the build for fixes each time. This is our 3rd time building and we were victims of the Avonwood Builders going bust about 18 years ago, so we are no strangers to stress and things not being as they should. Fingers crossed on a good experience this time around. I wish you all the best for your build. Im just the unlucky few that this happens to Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 432Apr 28, 2017 1:09 pm rtforresters rattleAU Feel so bad for you rtforresters. So much of your money, time and feelings are invested in this and it would be horrible. Really do wish you the best of luck with moving forward and getting things sorted. In regards to your question the other day, we are building the Devonport 363. Hopefully we'll get a good bunch of tradies and supervisor who is on top of things. We are a very regional build and quite a distance away from everything, so hopefully they'll try to get it all right the first time, as it will cost them to come back to the build for fixes each time. This is our 3rd time building and we were victims of the Avonwood Builders going bust about 18 years ago, so we are no strangers to stress and things not being as they should. Fingers crossed on a good experience this time around. I wish you all the best for your build. Im just the unlucky few that this happens to RT I feel so so sorry for you. I had no idea your list was still so long. What compensation do you get if they go over time? I'm sure it won't cover your costs or emotional stress. As an aside, we are loving our house! Still waiting on a couple of fixes but nothing major. Ducted heater is very loud. KDR Under the Flight Path - Dennis Family Homes (Hawkesdale) Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 433Apr 28, 2017 10:35 pm rondy rtforresters rattleAU Feel so bad for you rtforresters. So much of your money, time and feelings are invested in this and it would be horrible. Really do wish you the best of luck with moving forward and getting things sorted. In regards to your question the other day, we are building the Devonport 363. Hopefully we'll get a good bunch of tradies and supervisor who is on top of things. We are a very regional build and quite a distance away from everything, so hopefully they'll try to get it all right the first time, as it will cost them to come back to the build for fixes each time. This is our 3rd time building and we were victims of the Avonwood Builders going bust about 18 years ago, so we are no strangers to stress and things not being as they should. Fingers crossed on a good experience this time around. I wish you all the best for your build. Im just the unlucky few that this happens to RT I feel so so sorry for you. I had no idea your list was still so long. What compensation do you get if they go over time? I'm sure it won't cover your costs or emotional stress. As an aside, we are loving our house! Still waiting on a couple of fixes but nothing major. Ducted heater is very loud. It has been very stressful and after the end of contract all you get is $250pw. It won't even cover the rent that we now have to take up. I have heard about their heaters being loud. We got a credit for it and will be installing one post build. Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 434May 06, 2017 11:06 pm Just found out the other day when i was getting security screen and flywire screens fitted that they need to build extra tracks for boutique sliding doors. So if you are considering having the boutique sliding doors and want security screens on them, you can't do it or you need to tell DFH what you intend on doing and they need to build the wall out. Also, if you want security screens on pivot doors, this is also additional costs as they need to build a new frame Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 435May 06, 2017 11:13 pm Any news with you Lenz? Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 436May 07, 2017 1:01 am rtforresters Just found out the other day when i was getting security screen and flywire screens fitted that they need to build extra tracks for boutique sliding doors. So if you are considering having the boutique sliding doors and want security screens on them, you can't do it or you need to tell DFH what you intend on doing and they need to build the wall out. Also, if you want security screens on pivot doors, this is also additional costs as they need to build a new frame Oh, really? Hmmm..... We have boutique sliding doors on 2 sides of the alfresco (double glazed) and there was no mention of this when we said that we will put security screens on ourselves later. We are also putting a security screen on the front door later. Just sent off our signed estimate on Friday. Looks like I'm making a call on Monday. Thanks for the heads up. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 437May 07, 2017 7:44 am rattleAU rtforresters Just found out the other day when i was getting security screen and flywire screens fitted that they need to build extra tracks for boutique sliding doors. So if you are considering having the boutique sliding doors and want security screens on them, you can't do it or you need to tell DFH what you intend on doing and they need to build the wall out. Also, if you want security screens on pivot doors, this is also additional costs as they need to build a new frame Oh, really? Hmmm..... We have boutique sliding doors on 2 sides of the alfresco (double glazed) and there was no mention of this when we said that we will put security screens on ourselves later. We are also putting a security screen on the front door later. Just sent off our signed estimate on Friday. Looks like I'm making a call on Monday. Thanks for the heads up. Yeh, no one told us this as well so im not sure what we're gonna do now. Ive attached a pic of the outside of the sliding door and the brickwork. As the boutique doors are quite large, it doesnt leave much for the new tracks to sit on so it will stick out. I had 2 separate companies come out to tell me the same thing Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 438May 09, 2017 4:47 pm Thanks for the heads up! We had no idea either. We are also having 2 sets of boutique doors and a laundry slider to which we were going to add security doors and we were advised to do it post handover as it is much cheaper! No mention whatsoever about needing an extra track etc! How frustrating RT. No news from us still. Meanwhile the house we are knocking down (in which we are still living) must have caught wind of our plans cos one by one, things are starting to fall apart and need attention! Hopefully not too much longer and in the meantime, hopefully the woeful bandaid solutions will get us through! Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 439May 10, 2017 10:33 am Lenz88 Thanks for the heads up! We had no idea either. We are also having 2 sets of boutique doors and a laundry slider to which we were going to add security doors and we were advised to do it post handover as it is much cheaper! No mention whatsoever about needing an extra track etc! How frustrating RT. No news from us still. Meanwhile the house we are knocking down (in which we are still living) must have caught wind of our plans cos one by one, things are starting to fall apart and need attention! Hopefully not too much longer and in the meantime, hopefully the woeful bandaid solutions will get us through! I wish we didn't get the boutique sliding doors now coz they were an additional cost too. If i had known id probably just go with the standard. It's always the way lenz. We had the same drama when selling our house. Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 440May 12, 2017 5:49 pm So they have finally fixed 2 out of the 3 windows at the wrong height. Fixing all the plumbing works next week and our ss is estimating 3 weeks til PCI. We have shower screens Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And bath has been delivered. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We would have door handles too but they were stolen Building with Dennis Family Homes Hi everyone, Newbie renovator here, after some advice for combining our family room in the picture and the alfresco and make a larger family room. There is a flush sill… 0 4891 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74708 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 105564 |