Browse Forums Building A New House Re: building with 8homes. 29Jun 04, 2014 1:49 pm Cl1ck Hi Holliemc, I'm pretty sure we had the same Sales Consultant, Celeste, we didn't get bad service from her, she was great and went out of her way to help us; the issue was/is communications between departments, one department would tell us one thing then the next would tell us another, and in the end it was more money coming out of our pocket, we just didn't feel like there was any 'love' given toward us the customer, it was all based on how much money it would cost us... not how much money they could save us, I just feel like their approach to the sale is completely wrong, the customer needs to feel like they're getting a great deal, like we're winning. We didn't raise our ceiling height, would have loved to but we couldn't justify it as it does add a fair bit on to the cost and already we have spent almost $100K on upgrades; I think the windows would look fine at the standard size, find out how much it costs to have the brick infill, but bare in mind that the cement sheeting is only to the sides and back of the house as the front should be all brick, and to be honest nobody ever takes notice of the back and sides of a house, it's all about the front... you might be best to keep the cement sheeting and spend your money else where? honestly I think you'd be best to get the cement sheeting infill above the garage door done in brick... that's what I'm thinking about doing. We've made a heap of changes since signing our contract, we've changed our whole facade and i have to go back in to redo the external color selection... they do charge you for contract variations which is annoying considering how much we've already spent with them. oh that's a shame, I feel that good communication is one of the main factors a builder should have. If they don't know what's going on, how are you meant to know. I agree you should leave knowing you have got a good deal, rather then second guessing whether your money was well spent. really does ruin the excitement of building a new house. Raising the ceiling height was quite expensive over $6000, but I felt because our house is only 24 squares it will make it feel much larger. The brick infill will cost us an extra $2127 don't really want to spend the extra money but i feel it will look much better. I'm not worrying about the garage because it will all be render so you cant tell it has cement sheeting, it cost an extra 1500 just to get the brick infill above garage which I find very expensive. Re: building with 8homes. 30Jun 04, 2014 1:54 pm arnoldsabode Oops that was meant to say interested not treated!! I went to have a look today I like the old ones better. The reason for the change is a change in brick and carpet suppliers. Which means our rustic manor may have to change bricks because by the time we build they could be out of supply and I don't like the new red brick because it's just flat red the old one has grey through it. The only interior we might have to change is the carpet but that's ok they are the same colours. Off to contract signing tomoz will let you all know how it goes. oh ok I didn't know that, I thought that the schemes were quite similar to the old ones. yea I don't like the new red brick either, the old ones much nicer! Oh good luck! look forward to hearing how it goes! Re: building with 8homes. 32Jun 04, 2014 5:10 pm Holliemc just curious, does anyone know how much extra the feature tile in the bathrooms are? I'm thinking about adding it. Depends which category you decide on. I got cat 11 feature tiles in my 300mm x 600mm shower niche and that was $110 each. Re: building with 8homes. 33Jun 04, 2014 5:27 pm Holliemc just curious, does anyone know how much extra the feature tile in the bathrooms are? I'm thinking about adding it. We got feature tiles in our 300x600x90 Niche's same as they had/have in the showroom on display... called 'Porcelain Mosaic Crossover Steel Grey' at $99.00 each. Re: building with 8homes. 34Jun 04, 2014 6:08 pm Hi everyone All went well. Was given wrong Info on the supplier thy haven't changed, so our brick will not change yay!! Picked up a couple of errors while reading contract, one being charged for cat 2 laminate floors that we hadn't asked for. But there was no issue with changing them back. Also the nbn is an extra $600 than on our sales quote. All in all we came in at budget so we are happy. Just need to wait on soil test and energy rating, fingers crossed. Just need to wait for land to settle now before we can do anything else. Re: building with 8homes. 35Jun 04, 2014 8:51 pm arnoldsabode Hi everyone All went well. Was given wrong Info on the supplier thy haven't changed, so our brick will not change yay!! Picked up a couple of errors while reading contract, one being charged for cat 2 laminate floors that we hadn't asked for. But there was no issue with changing them back. Also the nbn is an extra $600 than on our sales quote. All in all we came in at budget so we are happy. Just need to wait on soil test and energy rating, fingers crossed. Just need to wait for land to settle now before we can do anything else. Congrats arnoldsabode!!!! Same thing happened with us for the fibre optic. Just that the sales person put it in wrong. It's a different type of package. Re: building with 8homes. 36Jun 04, 2014 9:30 pm arnoldsabode Hi everyone All went well. Was given wrong Info on the supplier thy haven't changed, so our brick will not change yay!! Picked up a couple of errors while reading contract, one being charged for cat 2 laminate floors that we hadn't asked for. But there was no issue with changing them back. Also the nbn is an extra $600 than on our sales quote. All in all we came in at budget so we are happy. Just need to wait on soil test and energy rating, fingers crossed. Just need to wait for land to settle now before we can do anything else. congratulations! I hope it wasn't too stressful. that's good! I think our package is a bit cheap I think it says $680 on quote so I'm guessing they have made the same mistake always good when your in budget! Re: building with 8homes. 37Jun 04, 2014 9:49 pm It wasn't stressful at all. Yeh then another $600 added to that so $1200 approx. for the nbn! Yep all going to plan so far!! We also got a choice of another colour for the blinds that we decided on. Re: building with 8homes. 38Jun 19, 2014 7:29 pm Just reading all the posts in this topic, We have just signed our contract with 8 Homes and will be starting to build shortly. We took the 40mm reconstituted stone option, however there was limited samples available to see the actual stone they would be using... has anyone had this put in their kitchen when building with 8 Homes? Also, we've yet to have our energy assessment done, and at contract they said that because we modified the design, that we may have to pay extra for upgraded insulation, but were not sure... anyone had any experience with this? we didn't upgrade the ceiling height, but did add a larger stacker door to the alfresco and an additional sliding door to the side of the house... so far 8 Homes have been very attentive, but I do get nervous reading some of the more negative posts... would love to hear from people who have gone through the whole process. Thanks Re: building with 8homes. 39Jun 19, 2014 10:05 pm Homeinthewest Just reading all the posts in this topic, We have just signed our contract with 8 Homes and will be starting to build shortly. We took the 40mm reconstituted stone option, however there was limited samples available to see the actual stone they would be using... has anyone had this put in their kitchen when building with 8 Homes? Also, we've yet to have our energy assessment done, and at contract they said that because we modified the design, that we may have to pay extra for upgraded insulation, but were not sure... anyone had any experience with this? we didn't upgrade the ceiling height, but did add a larger stacker door to the alfresco and an additional sliding door to the side of the house... so far 8 Homes have been very attentive, but I do get nervous reading some of the more negative posts... would love to hear from people who have gone through the whole process. Thanks Welcome to the post and congratulations on your contract signing! We've upgraded to the 40mm ceasarstone, so wouldn't be able to help you there. We're starting build tomorrow and we've gotten the energy assessment yesterday! I had to ask for it and they sent it through saying no upgrades are require. We scored 6.2 star rating We upgraded the ceiling heights, 2 larger stacker doors, extra windows and extra lighting. My administrator is attentive but you just have to poke them an email here and there because they forgot to mention something in particular. Re: building with 8homes. 40Jun 20, 2014 9:51 am Thanks RoseN, That's encouraging news regarding the energy assessment. Good luck with your build, would love to know you are getting on throughout the process. Cheers Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11917 Elvis has left the building... The site supervisor quit after 2 month on the project. I guess he was just instructed to bark at people, but didn't like when he was… 26 21792 |