Building with Dechellis homes

Final build · Jun 09, 2020 8:15 pm

Hi all,
This is my first post here so hoping to get some good feedback
I am looking at building with Dechellis homes in Adelaide, we have picked the house design but have not hit the contract stage yet.
Any feedback on anything to look out for would be much appreciated

Thanks

stonesthrow · Jun 10, 2020 10:51 am

Final build

Hi all,
This is my first post here so hoping to get some good feedback
I am looking at building with Dechellis homes in Adelaide, we have picked the house design but have not hit the contract stage yet.
Any feedback on anything to look out for would be much appreciated

Thanks

Search in the SA threads. I think there's quite a bit on them.

Donga · Dec 01, 2020 11:55 am

Hi! Did yoi have any luck witbmh Dechellis? we are also looking for some further advice as almost at contrct stage.

Donga · Dec 01, 2020 3:47 pm

Final build

Hi all,
This is my first post here so hoping to get some good feedback
I am looking at building with Dechellis homes in Adelaide, we have picked the house design but have not hit the contract stage yet.
Any feedback on anything to look out for would be much appreciated

Thanks

Hi!
Did you end up building with Dechellis?

Final build · Dec 01, 2020 10:09 pm

Hi Donga, yes are going ahead with Dechellis, what stage of contract or plans are you at

Donga · Dec 01, 2020 10:54 pm

Final build

Hi Donga, yes are going ahead with Dechellis, what stage of contract or plans are you at

We are just about to sign contract...but have concerns re final costs after selections etc. all adding up fast...how about you? how have you found the process?

stonesthrow · Dec 01, 2020 11:51 pm

Donga

Final build

Hi Donga, yes are going ahead with Dechellis, what stage of contract or plans are you at

We are just about to sign contract...but have concerns re final costs after selections etc. all adding up fast...how about you? how have you found the process?

What are they adding up to and can you share the plans?

Final build · Dec 02, 2020 5:28 pm

Hi Donga, we are also at the final contract stage and we included most of the upgrades along the way through the different stages of plan issues, they were great and the final price was not much different to the variations price throughout the plans etc
Still have the selections but they also gave us a voucher to spend at selections so that should cover any additional add ons
Cheers

269Stella · Feb 13, 2021 3:00 pm

How you going with Dechellis?

Final build · Feb 13, 2021 7:30 pm

Hi Stella, all good so far, just finishing off selections so hopefully will get started with the construction soon
Are you building or looking at building with them

269Stella · Feb 13, 2021 7:31 pm

How exciting. We are currently building with them now. Start date on 1st of March!

balazaml · Feb 28, 2021 11:03 am

Hi Stella

Please read what I have written to Donda.

Hi Donga

I previously wrote.

Yeah, We built with Dechellis, wouldn't recommend them to anyone. We had a contracted term of approx. 6 months that instantly turned to 12 months due to a series of woeful errors by them. Their response to any compensation for lateness is 'NOT IN HIA CONTRACT'. The poor quality of the finished home is beyond a joke. We have been in the house for 11 mths and nothing from our pre-handover or handover has been repaired. Guess the loose term of within a reasonable time frame that is all over the HIA contract protects them !. We have 5 pages of faults that include non-compliant bathroom tiling to floor tiling that over 70% is either hollow, chipped, cracked, and uneven. They bullied us into taking handover of the house and even have bullied me to sign the letter of compliance certificate saying HIA has advised us of a $4000.00 fine for not doing so.
So my definite answer is NO I would not recommend Dechellis to ANYONE!

PM Me for more details.

As an update to this, we have gone past our 5 years "statutory warranty period" with Dechellis making no attempts at any of our warranty concerns. They have in fact over the period entertained us by sending staff to inspect then never report back, even after countless attempts to have any items repaired.

They even had the nerve to write back at the end of this period to tell us they had actioned everyone of our requests.

Good luck if you have signed up.

Kind Regards
Michael Balaza