Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 05, 2016 5:41 pm Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 6Jul 06, 2016 8:11 pm Home Blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 8Jul 06, 2016 9:16 pm Home Blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 12Jul 06, 2016 11:38 pm Home Blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 13Jul 06, 2016 11:41 pm Home Blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 15Jul 07, 2016 7:05 am aj1234567 Waldorf_Grange_Build aj1234567 Thanks for the reply. I do agree choosing the prestige range will save you some money in upgrades. What packages have you been offered? We have been to Wos twice too and yes it's tricky to get pricing before tender as the staff at Wos don't tell you how much the upgrades actually cost. I like your idea of having a rustic stone laminate. That should keep the cost down and give you an opulent look. Hope your selections at Wos goes as intended. Thanks again for keeping us updated. We have just had our two day colour selection appointment at WOS. Here is what we have chosen so far https://waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.co ... elections/ Your blog is amazing so are your selections. Can't wait for the pricing of your tender. My land is titled already. Haven't signed up with PD yet. I have a budget of 500k-525k not sure if I would be able to cope up in that price range. I have been given a quote by PD which is less than 500k but I know there so many upgrades to be considered post the quote and I don't want to get surprised with another 100k on top of the quote. Are you upgrading your heating and cooling? We didn't upgrade the heating or cooling on ours but instead added zoning (just 2 zones) and we also upgraded the controller as well as adding a vent in the master ensuite so I think about $1500 all up. We came in under our sales quote so far as the consultant put in a guesstimate for flooring, cabinets and electrical. After we got those three areas selected at WOS we were $25,000 less than the sales quote. If you choose lots of their 'quality inclusions' you actually don't pay extra. For example for splash backs in spare bathrooms and tiles for balcony and portico we just picked from the standard range and it came up as $0. Same for laminate flooring throughout bottom floor. Carpet we went up to category 3 and will pay a price difference of $7/sqm. The only reason we did this is I wanted a grey and the colour selection in category 2 were creams and browns. If you want the cabinets to have the profile doors in kitchen and galley etc this can be pricey. But you can choose plain doors and come in under budget. So my question to you is how much of 'the look' of the display home do you want in your house versus how much do you like the floorplan and are happy to compromise on the decorative extras etc. We still may have some surprises at tender as we do not know if we will be forced to get all the windows double glazed (to keep the 6 star rating) as others have had to if they have made structural changes to the floorplan. Hope that helps. Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 16Jul 07, 2016 8:33 am bd3watson aj1234567 Waldorf_Grange_Build We have just had our two day colour selection appointment at WOS. Here is what we have chosen so far https://waldorfgrangebuild.wordpress.co ... elections/ Your blog is amazing so are your selections. Can't wait for the pricing of your tender. My land is titled already. Haven't signed up with PD yet. I have a budget of 500k-525k not sure if I would be able to cope up in that price range. I have been given a quote by PD which is less than 500k but I know there so many upgrades to be considered post the quote and I don't want to get surprised with another 100k on top of the quote. Are you upgrading your heating and cooling? I cant say how other peoples prices have gone however between our initial sales quote (our consultant said said it wouldn't increase much, if at all) and contract the price of the house went up in the order of $60,000. I am not sure what Waldorf_Grange_Build has done and i don't want to hijack their thread however to shed some lights on the upgrade costs i can tell you that. We got the refrig cooling included as part of the promotion which meant they had to upgrade our heating to a medium efficiency unit (Brivis SP535IN.)This was due to the zoning requirements as no cooler could cool 50sq house efficiently... If we wanted to go High efficiency they were going to charge us an extra $1400 and that was only for a unit that was 5.6 stars as opposed to the 5 star already included. We opted to go for 4 zones instead of upgrading to the 5.6 star unit, this set us back ~$2200. we also got 2 of the new Brivis touch controllers ( http://www.brivis.com.au/controllers ) instead of the included network thermostat and they were $500 each (they are a lot simpler for my wife to use and just seem much more intuitive.) By all means hijack the thread as everything we post here could help others considering building a Waldorf Grange. Another thing I love about the Brivis touch controllers is we were told they are bringing out an app in the next few months where you can turn your heater on and off from the app on your iPhone or iPad. So if you are out at dinner you can turn on the heater when you are 10 mins from home and it's nice and warm when you get home. Or you can go to bed and read a book and then turn off from your app instead of using the control pad in lounge/hallway. Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 17Jul 09, 2016 4:39 pm Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 18Jul 09, 2016 5:34 pm That does look quite good, i want to go have a look its just a matter of getting time when my wife and i are off together (both shift workers.) Waldorf_Grange_Build We didn't upgrade the heating or cooling on ours but instead added zoning (just 2 zones) and we also upgraded the controller as well as adding a vent in the master ensuite so I think about $1500 all up. We came in under our sales quote so far as the consultant put in a guesstimate for flooring, cabinets and electrical. After we got those three areas selected at WOS we were $25,000 less than the sales quote. If you choose lots of their 'quality inclusions' you actually don't pay extra. For example for splash backs in spare bathrooms and tiles for balcony and portico we just picked from the standard range and it came up as $0. Same for laminate flooring throughout bottom floor. Carpet we went up to category 3 and will pay a price difference of $7/sqm. The only reason we did this is I wanted a grey and the colour selection in category 2 were creams and browns. If you want the cabinets to have the profile doors in kitchen and galley etc this can be pricey. But you can choose plain doors and come in under budget. So my question to you is how much of 'the look' of the display home do you want in your house versus how much do you like the floorplan and are happy to compromise on the decorative extras etc. We still may have some surprises at tender as we do not know if we will be forced to get all the windows double glazed (to keep the 6 star rating) as others have had to if they have made structural changes to the floorplan. Hope that helps. unfortunately you don't get energy rating information until contract appointment. It has something to do with the fact that it is expensive and you could make structural changes at the tender etc. Also i finally put up our blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Please excuse the mistakes etc. i have just had my wisdom teeth out and i'm on a lot of pain killers! Home Blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 19Jul 09, 2016 6:48 pm bd3watson That does look quite good, i want to go have a look its just a matter of getting time when my wife and i are off together (both shift workers.) Waldorf_Grange_Build We didn't upgrade the heating or cooling on ours but instead added zoning (just 2 zones) and we also upgraded the controller as well as adding a vent in the master ensuite so I think about $1500 all up. We came in under our sales quote so far as the consultant put in a guesstimate for flooring, cabinets and electrical. After we got those three areas selected at WOS we were $25,000 less than the sales quote. If you choose lots of their 'quality inclusions' you actually don't pay extra. For example for splash backs in spare bathrooms and tiles for balcony and portico we just picked from the standard range and it came up as $0. Same for laminate flooring throughout bottom floor. Carpet we went up to category 3 and will pay a price difference of $7/sqm. The only reason we did this is I wanted a grey and the colour selection in category 2 were creams and browns. If you want the cabinets to have the profile doors in kitchen and galley etc this can be pricey. But you can choose plain doors and come in under budget. So my question to you is how much of 'the look' of the display home do you want in your house versus how much do you like the floorplan and are happy to compromise on the decorative extras etc. We still may have some surprises at tender as we do not know if we will be forced to get all the windows double glazed (to keep the 6 star rating) as others have had to if they have made structural changes to the floorplan. Hope that helps. unfortunately you don't get energy rating information until contract appointment. It has something to do with the fact that it is expensive and you could make structural changes at the tender etc. Also i finally put up our blog: https://waldorfgrange.wordpress.com/ Please excuse the mistakes etc. i have just had my wisdom teeth out and i'm on a lot of pain killers! Great blog! You've made me reconsider some things for my build. Even simple things I didn't think of such as switch for WIR light to be on wall at entrance to robe instead of at bedroom door. And two way switch for facade lights in master bedroom. Re: Building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis 20Jul 10, 2016 11:22 am Waldorf_Grange_Build Hi all, we are building the Waldorf Grange by Porter Davis and I thought I would start a new thread for those building the same house too. http://www.porterdavis.com.au/homes/pre ... f%20grange We have our World of Style colour selection appointment in early July so we are trying to spend weekends visiting display homes to get ideas in advance. Planning on doing the Classic Hamptons theme. We are thinking of doing the bottom floor in Rustic Stone laminate but no display homes in Victoria have it so it is hard to decide from a small sample. We aim to start building in September but our land hasn't titled yet so we will wait and see how that goes. It was meant to title in April but has been delayed, which we knew would probably happen. I cannot wait to follow the progress of your build, your home will be absolutely amazing. I am building in Greenvale and drive past the PD displays and really love the look you are going for. Your blog is awesome too, and I can't help but feel I am on the journey with you! J My Phoenix by Metricon in Melbourne viewtopic.php?f=31&t=83584&p=1570829&hilit=my+phoenix+by+metricon+in+melbourne#p1570829 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12337 We spent close to 2 years in a process with TA. It was horrible..... we got to tender, and the first cut was 50% over our budget which "they care such about meeting ". We… 18 27283 |