Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 14772Apr 30, 2017 7:41 am Liz what are the dimensions of your island bench? Your house is looking amazing! Re: Porter Davis homes 14775May 01, 2017 1:43 am sencillez Hi guys, who did you choose for your building surveyor? PD is recommending the following options: Checkpoint Building Surveyors, DJM Building Consultants, Advance Building Strategies I don't trust any building surveyor engaged by Porter Davis. I would recommend regardless of which one you pick you also engage an independent inspector to look at each stage of the build. Re: Porter Davis homes 14776May 01, 2017 8:36 am Waldorf_Grange_Build sencillez Hi guys, who did you choose for your building surveyor? PD is recommending the following options: Checkpoint Building Surveyors, DJM Building Consultants, Advance Building Strategies I don't trust any building surveyor engaged by Porter Davis. I would recommend regardless of which one you pick you also engage an independent inspector to look at each stage of the build. I think the surveyor is different to the building inspector, pretty sure they mark out where the slab etc goes and check your house is on your land etc rather than inspecting the quality of the build. We went with DJM but only for the sake of choosing one out of the three and apparently they do more work where we are building than the other two. Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Porter Davis homes 14777May 01, 2017 8:43 am Hurrow Waldorf_Grange_Build sencillez Hi guys, who did you choose for your building surveyor? PD is recommending the following options: Checkpoint Building Surveyors, DJM Building Consultants, Advance Building Strategies I don't trust any building surveyor engaged by Porter Davis. I would recommend regardless of which one you pick you also engage an independent inspector to look at each stage of the build. I think the surveyor is different to the building inspector, pretty sure they mark out where the slab etc goes and check your house is on your land etc rather than inspecting the quality of the build. We went with DJM but only for the sake of choosing one out of the three and apparently they do more work where we are building than the other two. The surveyor is different to the inspector. It's just that the law has recently changed in that previously builders just engaged a surveyor company on your behalf (free of charge) now you get the choice to use your own company if you like but you do pay the cost of that. We just went with one of the companies porter Davis use regularly so it was free, there are about 3 companies to choose from Re: Porter Davis homes 14778May 01, 2017 9:36 am thejuros Liz what are the dimensions of your island bench? Your house is looking amazing! Thank you all its 1080x2690 and the colour is Blanco Maple, it was a cat 2 at the time This is also continued in the galley Re: Porter Davis homes 14779May 01, 2017 10:09 am Hurrow Waldorf_Grange_Build sencillez Hi guys, who did you choose for your building surveyor? PD is recommending the following options: Checkpoint Building Surveyors, DJM Building Consultants, Advance Building Strategies I don't trust any building surveyor engaged by Porter Davis. I would recommend regardless of which one you pick you also engage an independent inspector to look at each stage of the build. I think the surveyor is different to the building inspector, pretty sure they mark out where the slab etc goes and check your house is on your land etc rather than inspecting the quality of the build. We went with DJM but only for the sake of choosing one out of the three and apparently they do more work where we are building than the other two. The surveyor also checks over each stage of the build and prepares a report (which is very limited in detail) and they give the tick of approval to go to the next stage of build. Our site supervisor made the concreters come back and fix a range of things with our slab after the PD appointed surveyor had already signed off on it so it doesn't give me much confidence in their quality control. Re: Porter Davis homes 14780May 01, 2017 11:04 am Waldorf_Grange_Build Hurrow I think the surveyor is different to the building inspector, pretty sure they mark out where the slab etc goes and check your house is on your land etc rather than inspecting the quality of the build. We went with DJM but only for the sake of choosing one out of the three and apparently they do more work where we are building than the other two. The surveyor also checks over each stage of the build and prepares a report (which is very limited in detail) and they give the tick of approval to go to the next stage of build. Our site supervisor made the concreters come back and fix a range of things with our slab after the PD appointed surveyor had already signed off on it so it doesn't give me much confidence in their quality control. We're getting Darbecca to do all the checking so I'm not overly worried about who PD has as the building supervisor. As you say the surveyor doesn't seem to do much in which case I don't really care which one I choose for it, the real inspection as far as I'm concerned will be done by Darbecca. It would be great if you could trust building companies and tradies to do a good job without needing an inspector but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. A couple of years ago my mother bought a just built townhouse that was built by some division of Simonds, seems that they didn't bother with waterproofing two of the three bathrooms or much of the rest of the house at all. You wonder how on earth that got past the supervisor, but apparently it did. Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 14099 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 110681 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 27027 |