Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 7646Jul 18, 2013 12:28 am Porter Davis Homes Questions? Call 1800PORTER Mon - Fri 9am-8pm Sat - Sun 10am-4pm info@porterdavis.com.au http://blog.porterdavis.com.au/ http://www.porterdavishomes.com.au Re: Porter Davis homes 7655Jul 18, 2013 9:27 pm MummaDJ Hey Mirz - thanks. There is just a piece of timber holding up the timber roofing on the right hand side - this will later be removed. Only one Hebel pillar on the left will remain. I am expecting that over the next week or so the roof of this portico, garage and alfresco will be started and completed. SS thought the carpenters might have started back yesterday, but haven't seen them yet. The whole house is rendered, but only the top storey has the coloured render. They concentrate on getting everything on the top storey done all at once (render/roofing/evap cooler/solar panels) so that they only have to hire the scaffolding for a limited time. The bottom level will be rendered at some stage - don't know when. that makes sense, but what about the Hebel pillar? its 3 quarter Hebel and then timber. would it stay like this or Hebel pillar will go all the way up? asking this question we have picked same facade. Cant wait to see whole house completed looking awesome. How much did you pay for eval cooling? is this only upstairs or downstairs as well? Re: Porter Davis homes 7656Jul 18, 2013 10:05 pm mirz MummaDJ Hey Mirz - thanks. There is just a piece of timber holding up the timber roofing on the right hand side - this will later be removed. Only one Hebel pillar on the left will remain. I am expecting that over the next week or so the roof of this portico, garage and alfresco will be started and completed. SS thought the carpenters might have started back yesterday, but haven't seen them yet. The whole house is rendered, but only the top storey has the coloured render. They concentrate on getting everything on the top storey done all at once (render/roofing/evap cooler/solar panels) so that they only have to hire the scaffolding for a limited time. The bottom level will be rendered at some stage - don't know when. that makes sense, but what about the Hebel pillar? its 3 quarter Hebel and then timber. would it stay like this or Hebel pillar will go all the way up? asking this question we have picked same facade. Cant wait to see whole house completed looking awesome. How much did you pay for eval cooling? is this only upstairs or downstairs as well? Sorry if I misunderstood your question first time around. Yes, the pillar is Hebel for first 3/4 and timber the rest of the way, this is as per the facade - which can't be changed. I guess the only thing is that on most of the facade pictures of the "Balmain" Facade, they have stack stone on this portion of the pillar. We were quoted around $2,000 to stackstone just this pillar by sales consultant, and thought no way. We can do post handover if we want to. Evap Cooling - $6146.00 to whole house - 8 points Re: Porter Davis homes 7657Jul 18, 2013 10:21 pm Thanks for explaining that for me. I still can't figure out why they are making 1/4 in timber? Did you ask them as an option to build whole pillar in Hebel? Have you seen a house with belaire facade? How it looks finished? $2k for stacker stone on that one 3/4 pillar, lol. Loving PD pricing already. Aircon pricing seems good. Do you know make and model #? Sorry for being pain with all these questions Re: Porter Davis homes 7658Jul 18, 2013 10:33 pm Didn't know about the rebel garage wall thing and as our construction drawings are Monday we will just learn to live with it too i guess. My hubby hated the wood pillar look so we upgrade the facade to the dalgety . We didn't op for Ducted evap either as the humidity in melb and evap drives me crazy so we will get split systems post handover will probably cost us a ill more but that's ok Re: Porter Davis homes 7659Jul 18, 2013 10:55 pm mirz Thanks for explaining that for me. I still can't figure out why they are making 1/4 in timber? Did you ask them as an option to build whole pillar in Hebel? Have you seen a house with belaire facade? How it looks finished? $2k for stacker stone on that one 3/4 pillar, lol. Loving PD pricing already. Aircon pricing seems good. Do you know make and model #? Sorry for being pain with all these questions Re Pillar - we actually asked to have no Hebel and just timber posts as this matches what we are having out the back, but told "Absolutely no changes to the facade!" So we are fine with it, we don't mind the timber post. The Evap Cooler - we were originally quoted on the Bonaire system, but now they have changed supplier to Brivis, so unfortunately don't have the model number of this one. Someone else out there might have it - ours is whatever 'standard' is. Belaire Facade - no I haven't seen this one. Any pictures on their website? You can also ask the Sales Consultant if there are any in the estates. We were able to drive past some specific houses actually built. Re: Porter Davis homes 7660Jul 18, 2013 11:11 pm I'm pretty sure it would look good, as these are designed by professionals. Sorry I meant to write Balmain facade not belaire. I haven't seen Balmain yet, may be yours would be the first one for us to see. We use evaporative cooling a lot in summer, and mostly suggesting to get it done during construction. We will check with BC further details on cooling. Are you doing driveway post handover? Wow that is terrible about the insurance! 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