Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 7Oct 08, 2016 11:25 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 11Oct 10, 2016 9:17 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 12Oct 14, 2016 6:35 pm TheGirlie So I've gone from excited to horrified in the space of a few days! If anyone has had similar experience or has advice on my situation it would be greatly appreciated! All over the news in the last two weeks has been stories of Huxley Homes in NSW and Ashford in Vic having major delays and defective work, some builds taking over 100 weeks! Now it looks as though Huxley isn't going to get their license renewed due to outstanding cases with Fair Trading. Homestead are owned by the same company, which is all owned by the senator Bob Day. We have now found out that he has had a caveat put on his home because the company owed more than $300K to a concreter, and the bank is chasing him too. It's starting to affect SA now, and the state manager admitted to me today that they are having trouble getting good suppliers and trades due to the issues. Our main concern is that we are going to get part way through this build and the company will go under, leaving us in a mess. We are also worried that if they do go ahead with the build we will get substandard tradies cause no one else will work for them I don't know if we can break our contract or not without incurring substantial costs, but we are considering pulling the pin and starting from scratch with another builder. Are we overreacting? We are in the same position but with Newstart the qld one, Contract signed and colour selection done but feeling like we should cut our losses now, I have a feeling the companies are about to go down, don't see Huxley recovering from this at all and thinking it might take the rest of them with them.. So hard to know what to do isn't it Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 13Oct 14, 2016 6:52 pm Ladybugs2 TheGirlie So I've gone from excited to horrified in the space of a few days! If anyone has had similar experience or has advice on my situation it would be greatly appreciated! All over the news in the last two weeks has been stories of Huxley Homes in NSW and Ashford in Vic having major delays and defective work, some builds taking over 100 weeks! Now it looks as though Huxley isn't going to get their license renewed due to outstanding cases with Fair Trading. Homestead are owned by the same company, which is all owned by the senator Bob Day. We have now found out that he has had a caveat put on his home because the company owed more than $300K to a concreter, and the bank is chasing him too. It's starting to affect SA now, and the state manager admitted to me today that they are having trouble getting good suppliers and trades due to the issues. Our main concern is that we are going to get part way through this build and the company will go under, leaving us in a mess. We are also worried that if they do go ahead with the build we will get substandard tradies cause no one else will work for them I don't know if we can break our contract or not without incurring substantial costs, but we are considering pulling the pin and starting from scratch with another builder. Are we overreacting? We are in the same position but with Newstart the qld one, Contract signed and colour selection done but feeling like we should cut our losses now, I have a feeling the companies are about to go down, don't see Huxley recovering from this at all and thinking it might take the rest of them with them.. So hard to know what to do isn't it For me, I don't think it's worth the gamble, I couldn't live with the stress and uncertainty. Hope it works out for you Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 14Oct 14, 2016 8:24 pm Thanks everyone. It's been great to vent on here to people who understand! We sent our request to terminate the contract to homestead yesterday. For our peace of mind it was the right thing to do. Two separate people from homestead have now told us that the Vic and NSW companies are as good as dead, and there's a high chance people in other states could be left with half finished builds. So we're starting from scratch! This weekend will be spent going to displays and getting quotes from other builders, hopefully because we know exactly what we want and have a lot of things already done the process can be sped up a bit Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 16Oct 14, 2016 8:35 pm Yes thanks guys I have made the decision to not go ahead. I have read and seen too much to give it the benefit of the doubt and even if we lost our $6000 it's better then the stress of building with them, Wow the thought of starting all over again is a bit scary though lol We have our plan and what we want like you TheGirlie but no idea who to go through now as Newstart sounded great ? Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 17Oct 14, 2016 8:38 pm Good luck to you guys, it's a daunting thought to be starting again but it's for the best I'm sure Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 18Oct 14, 2016 8:42 pm Ladybugs2 Yes thanks guys I have made the decision to not go ahead. I have read and seen too much to give it the benefit of the doubt and even if we lost our $6000 it's better then the stress of building with them, Wow the thought of starting all over again is a bit scary though lol We have our plan and what we want like you TheGirlie but no idea who to go through now as Newstart sounded great It's quite overwhelming isn't it!! I think we've narrowed it down to two after lots of talking and research over the last couple of days, we spoke to a lot of builders before deciding on homestead so we had a fair idea of who we liked. Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 19Oct 14, 2016 9:22 pm I think it's the right thing to do hon. If it makes you feel any better, we spent over 2 years with a builder dragging a house to site only to be so frustrated with the process we terminated our contract. We'd lost all faith in them and just couldn't be patient and loyal to them any longer. Now only a few short weeks with another builder (the right builder) we are pretty much at the same place it took the other company 2 years to get to but this time with a perfect floorplan and someone who can actually build what we want 😊😊. The process has been how it should have been right from the beginning!! Even though this is stressful for you, it may work out to be a blessing in disguise. Fingers crossed. Re: Our Modified Rio Grande in Blakeview Grove (SA) 20Oct 14, 2016 9:31 pm Thank you so much, you are so right! And omg wow 2 yrs that is crazy! Who did you end up going through? I am looking at plantation and DR homes arm but once again not sure. Hi everyone, Looking for some advise. We are about to build an above ground pool in our backyard. There is a private sewer line running under the pool at 1.6m… 0 12014 Much a do about nothing. You can see the fall heading to the actual drains. 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