Porter Davis homes

tlblhayward · Feb 02, 2014 4:29 pm

Question: What are the options for "kickplate style" for the Hopetoun Interiors selections?

hocm · Feb 03, 2014 8:54 am

tlblhayward

Question: What are the options for "kickplate style" for the Hopetoun Interiors selections?

From memory no option. Either you have it or not. It just matches the stove colour.

sliick · Feb 03, 2014 9:36 am

Scott2233

Thx BP for share the infor, we are planning on the Brooklyn , all we want to know is whether the promotion of upgrading ground floor to 2740 including raise garage ceiling as well? Or we need to pay extra to upgrade the garage

Since all our ground door are 2340 high, it means we have to leave the garage internal access door to be the only 2040door if not raise garage ceiling height

That might looks odd........

Hi Scott, I'm interested in this too! We got told the garage access door is the only door that we can not raise to 2340 because of this!

Make sure you check through all your drawings for the right heights because we had a few left out. Just fyi, we are also making our mirrors, shower screens, bulkheads, and windows line up at ~2340.

Scott2233 · Feb 03, 2014 10:35 am

sliick

Scott2233

Thx BP for share the infor, we are planning on the Brooklyn , all we want to know is whether the promotion of upgrading ground floor to 2740 including raise garage ceiling as well? Or we need to pay extra to upgrade the garage

Since all our ground door are 2340 high, it means we have to leave the garage internal access door to be the only 2040door if not raise garage ceiling height

That might looks odd........

Hi Scott, I'm interested in this too! We got told the garage access door is the only door that we can not raise to 2340 because of this!

Make sure you check through all your drawings for the right heights because we had a few left out. Just fyi, we are also making our mirrors, shower screens, bulkheads, and windows line up at ~2340.

Hi Sliik

Regards Garage internal door, I think the only option is to raise the garage ceiling to 2590mm from 2440, so it may allow for the 2340 door been fit in (depends on the garage drop etc).

P.S. some member here got Garage 2740 high as standard while other only get 2440, I have a big question mark on this.

P.P.S regards line up, we only do door / bulkhaed / window, interesting to know you want to line up shower screen/ mirror as well, I guess this will cost some $$$ to do

sliick · Feb 03, 2014 11:15 am

Scott2233

sliick

Scott2233

Thx BP for share the infor, we are planning on the Brooklyn , all we want to know is whether the promotion of upgrading ground floor to 2740 including raise garage ceiling as well? Or we need to pay extra to upgrade the garage

Since all our ground door are 2340 high, it means we have to leave the garage internal access door to be the only 2040door if not raise garage ceiling height

That might looks odd........

Hi Scott, I'm interested in this too! We got told the garage access door is the only door that we can not raise to 2340 because of this!

Make sure you check through all your drawings for the right heights because we had a few left out. Just fyi, we are also making our mirrors, shower screens, bulkheads, and windows line up at ~2340.

Hi Sliik

Regards Garage internal door, I think the only option is to raise the garage ceiling to 2590mm from 2440, so it may allow for the 2340 door been fit in (depends on the garage drop etc).

P.S. some member here got Garage 2740 high as standard while other only get 2440, I have a big question mark on this.

P.P.S regards line up, we only do door / bulkhaed / window, interesting to know you want to line up shower screen/ mirror as well, I guess this will cost some $$$ to do

The shower screen looks really short in the elevations when everything else is raised. Am waiting for quoting on this.

The mirrors, I have actually lowered. They are meant to go up to the ceiling by default but they leave a hideous (imo) tiny gap (~3cm?) to the cornice that is not tiled. Lowering the mirrors to 2340 means I can tile above it.

Back Pocket · Feb 03, 2014 11:41 am

Scott2233

sliick

Scott2233

Thx BP for share the infor, we are planning on the Brooklyn , all we want to know is whether the promotion of upgrading ground floor to 2740 including raise garage ceiling as well? Or we need to pay extra to upgrade the garage

Since all our ground door are 2340 high, it means we have to leave the garage internal access door to be the only 2040door if not raise garage ceiling height

That might looks odd........

Hi Scott, I'm interested in this too! We got told the garage access door is the only door that we can not raise to 2340 because of this!

Make sure you check through all your drawings for the right heights because we had a few left out. Just fyi, we are also making our mirrors, shower screens, bulkheads, and windows line up at ~2340.

Hi Sliik

Regards Garage internal door, I think the only option is to raise the garage ceiling to 2590mm from 2440, so it may allow for the 2340 door been fit in (depends on the garage drop etc).

P.S. some member here got Garage 2740 high as standard while other only get 2440, I have a big question mark on this.

P.P.S regards line up, we only do door / bulkhaed / window, interesting to know you want to line up shower screen/ mirror as well, I guess this will cost some $$$ to do

The people who had the garage raised to the same as the internal ceiling height are people building a single storey house, as the garage is actually framed at the same time as the house and therefore the roof trusses go over the garage as part of the roof. Double storey houses usually have separate garage roofs and some of the walls are entirely brick, no framing. We currently live in a single storey PD house with 2750 ceilings and the garage ceilings are the same as the internal ceiling, otherwise they would have had to drop the ceiling in the garage. Out garage door is 2340 high from the entry into the garage. I hope that this makes sense.

We are building a double storey and cannot raise the ceiling height because of the roof trusses. It would mean that the garage roof is higher and we would only have a tiny window above in the room that looks over the garage, otherwise all we would see is roof out of that window.

Scott2233 · Feb 03, 2014 12:07 pm

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The people who had the garage raised to the same as the internal ceiling height are people building a single storey house, as the garage is actually framed at the same time as the house and therefore the roof trusses go over the garage as part of the roof. Double storey houses usually have separate garage roofs and some of the walls are entirely brick, no framing. We currently live in a single storey PD house with 2750 ceilings and the garage ceilings are the same as the internal ceiling, otherwise they would have had to drop the ceiling in the garage. Out garage door is 2340 high from the entry into the garage. I hope that this makes sense.

We are building a double storey and cannot raise the ceiling height because of the roof trusses. It would mean that the garage roof is higher and we would only have a tiny window above in the room that looks over the garage, otherwise all we would see is roof out of that window.[/quote]

Hi BP

Thanks for the explaination, it do make a lot sense to us now.

Also, understand the issue of raising garage height might block upstairs window .

Back to Sliik's question, if say standard is 2590 Ground floor + 2440 Garage

Now the ground floor been raised 150mm to 2740 , the garage should be able to raise 150mm to 2590 without blocking the upstair window.

It could be an option of putting a 2340mm internal access door then , am I right? ..........

Back Pocket · Feb 03, 2014 12:42 pm

Scott2233

The people who had the garage raised to the same as the internal ceiling height are people building a single storey house, as the garage is actually framed at the same time as the house and therefore the roof trusses go over the garage as part of the roof. Double storey houses usually have separate garage roofs and some of the walls are entirely brick, no framing. We currently live in a single storey PD house with 2750 ceilings and the garage ceilings are the same as the internal ceiling, otherwise they would have had to drop the ceiling in the garage. Out garage door is 2340 high from the entry into the garage. I hope that this makes sense.

We are building a double storey and cannot raise the ceiling height because of the roof trusses. It would mean that the garage roof is higher and we would only have a tiny window above in the room that looks over the garage, otherwise all we would see is roof out of that window.

Scott2233

Hi BP

Thanks for the explaination, it do make a lot sense to us now.

Also, understand the issue of raising garage height might block upstairs window .

Back to Sliik's question, if say standard is 2590 Ground floor + 2440 Garage

Now the ground floor been raised 150mm to 2740 , the garage should be able to raise 150mm to 2590 without blocking the upstair window.

It could be an option of putting a 2340mm internal access door then , am I right? ..........

I think so, but I have no idea of the garage roof profile or window sizes on the brooklyn. It does sound right though. Sorry I cannot be more help.

sliick · Feb 03, 2014 1:26 pm

Scott2233

Hi BP

Thanks for the explaination, it do make a lot sense to us now.

Also, understand the issue of raising garage height might block upstairs window .

Back to Sliik's question, if say standard is 2590 Ground floor + 2440 Garage

Now the ground floor been raised 150mm to 2740 , the garage should be able to raise 150mm to 2590 without blocking the upstair window.

It could be an option of putting a 2340mm internal access door then , am I right? ..........

You would think so! Considering I have also raised upstairs to 2740 AND had to keep their tiny facade windows so it should be at least 30cm higher!

I think they are just lazy and tend to go with their standard answers for everything non-standard . ie 'no'

Unfortunately, this is one of those ones where we decided not to push harder.. so now we have that one odd sized door.. hopefully not too off putting

tlblhayward · Feb 04, 2014 6:04 pm

Hi everyone... just got our soil report sent to us. We have had our own independent report done in approximately the same spot and the two reports are dramatically different.

Thoughts and advice?

Serenity_Now · Feb 04, 2014 6:31 pm

Did anyone choose the Nexion Vision mechanical lockset for their front door? I've noticed that our passage set can be unlocked without a key from the inside which means its the single cylinder version.

If I had known, I would have asked for the double cylinder version and there is a distinct lack of details regarding the model number on the Hopetoun selection list.

Its really quite frustrating that these options are not fully explained during the selection process.....

Just to add to frustration - for most insurance policies, you need a front door that has a deadbolt. So its baffling that Porter Davis would provide an option that just causes more headaches down the road.

Filthyfil · Feb 04, 2014 7:05 pm

tlblhayward

Hi everyone... just got our soil report sent to us. We have had our own independent report done in approximately the same spot and the two reports are dramatically different.

Thoughts and advice?

Let me guess, PD soil test came back with "H" classification?

sliick · Feb 04, 2014 7:25 pm

Serenity_Now

Did anyone choose the Nexion Vision mechanical lockset for their front door? I've noticed that our passage set can be unlocked without a key from the inside which means its the single cylinder version.

If I had known, I would have asked for the double cylinder version and there is a distinct lack of details regarding the model number on the Hopetoun selection list.

Its really quite frustrating that these options are not fully explained during the selection process.....

Just to add to frustration - for most insurance policies, you need a front door that has a deadbolt. So its baffling that Porter Davis would provide an option that just causes more headaches down the road.

What?? You would think double cylinder is standard!

Have u put the snib position to 'secure mode'?

Manual: http://mpc.assaabloy.com/lockwoodfile/Fetchfile.aspx?id=2749&dl=1

Scott2233 · Feb 05, 2014 11:08 am

tlblhayward

Hi everyone... just got our soil report sent to us. We have had our own independent report done in approximately the same spot and the two reports are dramatically different.

Thoughts and advice?

Hi T

interested to know what is the difference , do you mind share?

tlblhayward · Feb 05, 2014 12:58 pm

Scott2233

tlblhayward

Hi everyone... just got our soil report sent to us. We have had our own independent report done in approximately the same spot and the two reports are dramatically different.

Thoughts and advice?

Interested to know what is the difference , do you mind share?

Our report and PD's report came back as identical soil type, stiffness and plasticity... however ours comes to M-class and PD's to H1-class. The only difference is the moisture: PD says extremely moist, ours says extremely dry, which is weird seeing that the holes were within 1m of each other. I have email our BC (who has been great) and they have said that they will follow it up. I have PD them the report that we commissioned.

By the way... I'm not actually that worried because stronger footings would be good for a 2 storey house!

Mali02 · Feb 05, 2014 1:09 pm

tlblhayward

Scott2233

tlblhayward

Hi everyone... just got our soil report sent to us. We have had our own independent report done in approximately the same spot and the two reports are dramatically different.

Thoughts and advice?

Interested to know what is the difference , do you mind share?

Our report and PD's report came back as identical soil type, stiffness and plasticity... however ours comes to M-class and PD's to H1-class. The only difference is the moisture: PD says extremely moist, ours says extremely dry, which is weird seeing that the holes were within 1m of each other. I have email our BC (who has been great) and they have said that they will follow it up. I have PD them the report that we commissioned.

By the way... I'm not actually that worried because stronger footings would be good for a 2 storey house!

When we had our tender, our tender presenter told us that PD rarely put a house on an M class slab anymore.
She said that a number of years ago (3 or 4 maybe) when Melbourne had a drought then all that rain (or the other way around, I can't remember!) a lot of standard slabs cracked and there were many engineering companies that went broke because they had to pay out lots of warranty claims for the slabs.

ant22 · Feb 06, 2014 2:24 pm

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if anyone happens to know who installs PD's Brivas heating? We are in Melbournes outer North west. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Sambogirl81 · Feb 06, 2014 6:32 pm

Feeling really annoyed right now so just going to vent a little. We are about three weeks off completing our build which to date once it hit the site has been pretty much drama free. Today been advised by our next door neighbors fencer that we need a retaining wall fair call, we do. Porter Davis after signing contract advised us that we need a retaining wall towards the front of the property went ahead and arranged and did it (charged us) We have now been told that the remaining property boundary needs a retaining wall as well. We have been told by the council that as it is on the boundary we need an engineers/surveyers report to have this wall extended!! Why oh why didn't Porter Davis pick this up.and just do it????? They have completed all the elevation reports / engineers reports so one would assume hat they would have picked this up. We have emailed the BC late this afternoon so don't have an answer so I guess we will stress over it tonight!! Thanks for listening I feel better

ajd78 · Feb 06, 2014 9:43 pm

Sambogirl81 - I hear you! We had the same thing.... PM to follow

Serenity_Now · Feb 06, 2014 11:12 pm

ant22

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if anyone happens to know who installs PD's Brivas heating? We are in Melbournes outer North west. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Hi Ant22,

We built in the east and we had Executive Heating and Cooling install our aircond. I had a look at the New Home Care Manual and it lists the following companies under the "Heating and Cooling" section:

Executive Heating and Cooling - 9702 4224
Frazier Air - 9465 3533
J&J Heating - 9773 5565
Pulbrook Air Heating - 1300 369 580
Specialised Heating and Cooling - 9743 7633