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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes - appliances? 8912Jan 16, 2014 6:58 pm jnasebastian Hi all, What's the go with specifying your own kitchen appliances as part of the design? Our sales guy indicates that we can only specify Blanco and no other brands. The alternative seems to be to specify "no appliances", get a credit back and we will get a capped gas point and an electrical connection where the future appliances will go - this will also allow for the Certificate of Occupancy to be issued. Has anyone any experience with successfully getting PD to install other brands of appliances? How good are their tradies on providing accurate cutouts in benchtops and cabinets for post-handover installations? Or are people who are currently building just accepting Blanco appliances? Any responses appreciated. Albert We had PD credit back the oven and we have specified the size required to be left open for our own choice to be installed after handover. I would never have blanco in the house. We know the range we want and got the specs and advised PD of the size and electrical requirements. I would not get any builder to do this as they get special deals on the appliances they provide and will not get the same sort of discounts on what you want. They are spend time sourcing it etc and then they put their margin on top. In the same way, we want a fairly detailed kitchen. PD are putting in cupboards everywhere. We are getting these carcasses changed over to drawers and other things added after handover. Same with robes, PD are putting in basic and we will change after handover when we are ready. Re: Porter Davis homes 8913Jan 16, 2014 7:35 pm Hey everyone happy new building year!! Does everyone have things happening on site after Chrissy closure? We were told tiles would be delivered and started on the 13th, no waterproofing has even been started. Anxious to get the work moving again. On a positive note with all this hot weather our new house has stayed nice and cool, that's due to the hebel construction I think. Re: Porter Davis homes 8914Jan 16, 2014 8:25 pm So excited! Our cabinets are in!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We didn't think any work would happen this week due to the heat - but we got the fixing invoice today so went and had a look. Very excited! Can't wait to see them up close! Wish we could see the bathroom and ensuite cupboards but that'll have to wait till we can go inside. Re: Porter Davis homes 8915Jan 16, 2014 8:49 pm looks great ingle wood, i cant wait for our build to start has anyone used the hawksburn bricks, if so do they look good, when done to a whole house? also a kitchen question, black or white shadow line? Re: Porter Davis homes 8916Jan 16, 2014 8:54 pm inglewood So excited! Our cabinets are in!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We didn't think any work would happen this week due to the heat - but we got the fixing invoice today so went and had a look. Very excited! Can't wait to see them up close! Wish we could see the bathroom and ensuite cupboards but that'll have to wait till we can go inside. They look beautiful Ingle Re: Porter Davis homes 8917Jan 16, 2014 10:00 pm inglewood So excited! Our cabinets are in!!! We didn't think any work would happen this week due to the heat - but we got the fixing invoice today so went and had a look. Very excited! Can't wait to see them up close! Wish we could see the bathroom and ensuite cupboards but that'll have to wait till we can go inside. Looking good Inglewood, love a white kitchen! So frustrating piering in through windows ( dirty and covered in plastic too) once it is really locked up! We could see our tiles were delivered today I feel so sorry for the guys working on the steel frame house at the end of our court. At 43 degrees, the steel must radiate heat and they were putting a Colourbond roof on it today Poor buggers, the block does not even have a tap so they have been coming down and filling their water bottles at ours. Re: Porter Davis homes 8918Jan 17, 2014 7:12 am Looking great Inglewood, exciting stuff. Time should start to go quickly now. Re: Porter Davis homes - appliances? 8920Jan 17, 2014 10:44 am Back Pocket We had PD credit back the oven and we have specified the size required to be left open for our own choice to be installed after handover. I would never have blanco in the house. We know the range we want and got the specs and advised PD of the size and electrical requirements. I would not get any builder to do this as they get special deals on the appliances they provide and will not get the same sort of discounts on what you want. They are spend time sourcing it etc and then they put their margin on top. We also opted to install our own appliances post handover but we didn't receive a credit for the supplied Blanco appliances. When we asked about the credit we were told that it would only be ~$100+ ! And this was for a rangehood, oven + cooktop and dishwasher! So we decided, if that was the case, we would ask for the appliances to be supplied but not installed and we'll try our hand at selling them on eBay/Gumtree etc. Surely we'd get more than $100+ for the lot! I would advise though that if you are thinking of supplying your own appliances that you are very certain about which model you want as this would impact the benchtop cutout for the cooktop, the cupboard cutout for the oven, if you are having a glass splashback behind the rangehood then it would impact where the rangehood mounting holes need to be drilled etc. Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12341 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74709 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 105579 |