Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 2Nov 06, 2014 10:23 pm Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 6Nov 07, 2014 11:45 am Small footprint in Eliza Ponds, Spearwood WA Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 7Nov 07, 2014 11:48 am Small footprint in Eliza Ponds, Spearwood WA Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 8Nov 07, 2014 12:26 pm My build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68002 Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 13Nov 07, 2014 5:59 pm We met with Dale Alcock, Redink, Ross North before deciding to build with Visionone Homes which is part of Novus Homes. All of them quoted much (much) lower than DAH. Most of the "salesman promises" were consistent in regards to quality of their trades, build time etc etc.... How are we going so far with Visionone? We shall see and I will be updating the build in my thread So far, so good.... Our Build Thread: The "Extended" Marina by Visionone Homes Our Inspirations: Frank Lloyd Wright | Houzz Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 14Nov 08, 2014 12:19 pm Builders use the same trades across their brands. This is what I've been told by a SS (not ours) and trades themselves. The difference in price between brands come from the specifications or inclusions. Quality of build? Inspect your place very often or as much as you can. Don't rely on SS. Get a building inspector too for added peace of mind. Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 15Nov 08, 2014 2:10 pm The quality of a home is NOT solely dependent upon the trades that work in them. Agreed, it is very important, but people forget that materials in a home are also extremely important. To clarify: our house cost us 300k to build, the house next door is approx. half that. They have a 25 ceiling hardiflex alfresco, ours is 33c plasterboard. Their doors and windows are lowest quality Jason Windows, ours are high quality with low e glazing. We have sarking under our roof tiles, they don't. We have insulation in our double brick walls, they don't. And the list goes on and on. It's things like that that make the difference in price too: a more expensive builder simply adds more and better stuff in your home. (not trying to bag my neighbour, they have a lovely first home, but quality wise it doesn't compare to ours). @ Tristanium: You are right of course to say that is is odd that DAH is considered high quality when there are builders of MUCH higher quality still. I suppose this is because DAH often sits at the top of that 'normal-people income' bracket - houses of 250k-400k. Go one step beyond that and suddenly you're looking at 500 or 600K+ houses. There's this odd 100k-something gap between the usual project builders and the premium builders, and I guess DAH just sits at the top of the usual project builders, price-wise and quality-wise. Whether that is warranted is a different matter of course (though I think it is). Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 16Nov 08, 2014 3:51 pm Tristanium D_rail I'm sure they all use the same tradies as they use on their premium spec homes I do not believe this is the case. The 'brands' are kept quite separate and run as independent businesses. We are building with New Generation and so far we have had all the Summit Homes tradies. I can't fault them either, New Generation have been great for us so far. Skydroid, if you want details of the great salesman we used let me know. Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 17Nov 08, 2014 11:42 pm We are building with New Generation Homes in Heron Park, Harrisdale. I think Piara Waters is just across the road of Heron Park. My experience with NewGen Homes so far is very good. Currently we are at lockup stage. The quality of build is good as well as the communication from builder is timely. Aveiling is also a good builder, one of my friend build with them lady year and the overall process was good. If you need contact details of my sales agent then let me know. AB Building with New Generation @ Heron Park, Harrisdale, WA My Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70662&p=1167117#p1167117 Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 18Nov 09, 2014 2:34 pm seabreezewaikiki Try Genesis Home Builders based in Baldivis WA. I wish I had known them before signing up with our current builder. Mind I ask why the recommendations? Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 19Nov 09, 2014 2:41 pm Raytia The quality of a home is NOT solely dependent upon the trades that work in them. Agreed, it is very important, but people forget that materials in a home are also extremely important. To clarify: our house cost us 300k to build, the house next door is approx. half that. They have a 25 ceiling hardiflex alfresco, ours is 33c plasterboard. Their doors and windows are lowest quality Jason Windows, ours are high quality with low e glazing. We have sarking under our roof tiles, they don't. We have insulation in our double brick walls, they don't. And the list goes on and on. It's things like that that make the difference in price too: a more expensive builder simply adds more and better stuff in your home. (not trying to bag my neighbour, they have a lovely first home, but quality wise it doesn't compare to ours).. So Raytia, who did you build with? Cheers Re: Good builders in Perth without "dale alcock" price tag 20Nov 09, 2014 2:45 pm Althom Don't be sucked in by the quality comes at a price argument. The pool of tradies in Perth is very shallow so they are all transient and who you get is purely luck of the draw. DAH charge more but they don't deliver any more than builders who are charging significantly less. This is the exact argument I have in mind. We're definitely in shortage of tradies in WA, but the demand for houses is so high now..you can see why I'd rather not just go with the more well known builders as I don't think they can control the situation in the industry too even though they charge more. 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 21618 Hi, I contracted a Builder to do a Garage to Bedroom + ensuite conversion (Class 1a), the Builder engaged the Certifier and Engineer and received BDA from the Certifier… 0 5650 1 2897 |