Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 20, 2017 9:47 am Please, could anyone help me to find the perfect builder for my new house in Rochedale? I checked with metricon, plantation,and coral. Re: Perfect builder for a new house 2Nov 20, 2017 9:54 am Coral homes is a headache and a big one more like a big fat migraine. We are nearly at the end of our build with them and would never recommend them to anyone. We are looking at going over our contract. Re: Perfect builder for a new house 3Nov 20, 2017 6:50 pm Have heard good things about stroud, bad things about coral, good and bad about plantation and metricon My friends built with Clarendon and have only good thing to say, both about the build and the follow up after. Re: Perfect builder for a new house 6Nov 22, 2017 9:49 pm I agree with Obi. There is no such thing as a perfect builder. There are so many factors to consider. I think things can go wrong with every builder but it’s how they d al with them that sets them apart. Are you looking to chose a house off the plan or a custom build. I recommend having a look at G&P Builders as well. We are dealing with one of the owners and he is such a straight shooting genuine guy. Building our first custom dream home. https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_ ... are_type=t Re: Perfect builder for a new house 7Nov 23, 2017 12:29 pm I think that the build comes down to the quality of trades that are hired for the job... I've heard amazing things about Coral, I've also heard awful things about them... Same applies to plantation, metricon, GJ gardner... Unfortunately unless you owner build there is always the chance that the hired tradies don't do work up to scratch. Re: Perfect builder for a new house 8Nov 23, 2017 3:25 pm ^ This is all very true. The other factor is regarding some branches of the same company - some are great some are not. Theres heaps of factors, you just gotta do as much research as you can. Re: Perfect builder for a new house 9Dec 06, 2017 4:01 pm I think there are good and not so good experiences with all builders. We have had 2 flawless builds with Coral yet others have had nothing but trouble. Some recommend metricon yet we just rented a brand new metricon that had terrible workmanship. Some swear by GJ yet the people building across the road from us have had communication issues and they are extremely slow. We used a smaller qld builder who went bankrupt about 12 months after completion of ours. It was a shame as they were good and relatively cheap and I would have used… 3 5318 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 20737 |