Home Group WA - appliance quality?

Wellard2ndTimers · Jun 02, 2014 10:45 pm

Hi everyone,

We've been umming and ahhing over house plans for our new build at the Village at Wellard but we think we've finally found "the one" - a new plan by HGWA called the Monza

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Looking at their inclusions, it seems they've brought in their own brand of things - sinks, toilets, some kind of bench top stone - and appliances. I know there are lots of HGWAers out there - has anyone had experience using the products yet?

What's it like?
Apparently they offer a free standing 900mm oven - anyone know if this is upgradeable if we wanted an under bench oven instead?

Thanks in advance, I've started stalking all your threads and have picked up some great tips so far - I need to go through them again with a pen and notepad!

CC

asha · Jun 02, 2014 11:04 pm

Welcome to the HGWA family!

We changed our oven specifications numerous times.

From memory its 500ish to upgrade to 900mm underbench westinghouse oven, we then changed this to two basic westinghouse 600mm wall ovens with cupboards instead of pot drawers under for no cost. We have since upgraded those ovens to side opening doors for anoother $550.

Hope this is not too confusing

2-cupcakes-pls · Jun 02, 2014 11:34 pm

congrats on finding the ONE

we are putting in our own ovens.
Westinghouse ok.
I love the look of French cloud Q-stone

Marcia · Jun 03, 2014 12:18 am

The Westinghouse freestanding that comes with the resort specs has really good reviews, if it didn't we would have changed it out. Happy to stick with it and given it is freestanding, we can change it later if we need.

As for the other stuff (bench tops etc) I'm not a fan, but apart from the benchtop the other stuff is fairly easy to change later if needed.

belzey · Jun 03, 2014 3:21 am

Welcome to the forum seems more and more HGWA people are joining everyday, I love it

I just went with the westinghouse freestanding cause well it is a cooking appliance and I do not really care for them hahahaha!

Marcia · Jun 03, 2014 9:52 am

belzey

Welcome to the forum seems more and more HGWA people are joining everyday, I love it

I just went with the westinghouse freestanding cause well it is a cooking appliance and I do not really care for them hahahaha!

Wellard2ndTimers · Jun 03, 2014 7:14 pm

So its a Westinghouse oven and not their own brand?

We were in their new Torquay Platinum display on the weekend and I thought I read Della Vita on either the cooktop or the wall ovens - can't remember!

If it's Westinghouse that's fine as I'm going to be putting in a second 600mm oven after handover anyway.
Cupcakes - how did you convince them to let you put in your own appliances?

asha · Jun 03, 2014 10:14 pm

wellard2ndtimers we were allowed to supply our own ovens if we wanted to. You will get a credit back for the deleted oven and then they charge a fee for owner supply. You just needed to know the models and specs at prestart so they could draw the plans up accordingly.

Home Group WA · Sep 17, 2014 6:01 pm

Hi Wellard2ndTimers!

Dylan here from HGWA. Just subscribing to your build journey, so if you need anything just ask and I will try my best to put you in touch with the right person here at Home Group WA.

Cheers,
Dylan

Wellard2ndTimers · Sep 17, 2014 8:10 pm

Hey Dylan
I have got a build thread as well but seeing as you're here - can you please tell me the model number of the freestanding Westinghouse that comes with your homes?

Thanks, W2T

Marcia · Sep 17, 2014 8:33 pm

Hey W2T ... I can answer this one for you because we asked ... so unless it has changed since we were given the info, the model is a Westinghouse WFE914SA and the range hood is the WRF900CS.

Oh now I wonder, we are resort specs, are you the same level of spec?? I would imagine if yours is the freestanding oven then it should be the same. The reviews on it are pretty good though.

asha · Sep 17, 2014 8:42 pm

Marcia, yep same oven for both specs

Home Group WA · Sep 18, 2014 2:15 pm

Marcia

Hey W2T ... I can answer this one for you because we asked ... so unless it has changed since we were given the info, the model is a Westinghouse WFE914SA and the range hood is the WRF900CS.

Oh now I wonder, we are resort specs, are you the same level of spec?? I would imagine if yours is the freestanding oven then it should be the same. The reviews on it are pretty good though.

Thanks Marcia!

Wellard2ndTimers - I can confirm Marcia is 100% correct there

Wellard2ndTimers · Sep 18, 2014 6:47 pm

Home Group WA

Marcia

Hey W2T ... I can answer this one for you because we asked ... so unless it has changed since we were given the info, the model is a Westinghouse WFE914SA and the range hood is the WRF900CS.

Oh now I wonder, we are resort specs, are you the same level of spec?? I would imagine if yours is the freestanding oven then it should be the same. The reviews on it are pretty good though.

Thanks Marcia!

Wellard2ndTimers - I can confirm Marcia is 100% correct there

Thank you - googling it now!

Lauraphil · Mar 16, 2015 12:49 am

If it's a free standing oven will food and sauces and stuff fall down the side and attract ants ?
Or is the bench top literally made so there's no gaps ??

Natalie92 · Mar 17, 2015 10:17 pm

Lauraphil

If it's a free standing oven will food and sauces and stuff fall down the side and attract ants ?
Or is the bench top literally made so there's no gaps ??

Hey Lauraphil

My friend has just build through home group and I am currently building myself
The top of the free standing oven has no gap with the bench but then there is a slight gap down the sides of the oven to cupboard, she now hates her oven as she says she can't keep down the sides clean from the small gap, I am changing mine to the built in oven

Hope this helps