Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 16426Feb 18, 2018 2:25 pm Laura Ireland Hi All, Just started our build with PD. We are building the Charlton 33, with an extended floor plan. May 17 - Paid our deposit Aug 17 - WOS appointment Sep 17 - Contract signing Jan 18 - Site start Oct 18 - Contract end date (aware they can go over, with compensation) Feels like it has taken forever to get to this stage! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Its very exciting, It's a long process, but all worth it when you finally see the build start! Where are you building? Re: Porter Davis homes 16427Feb 18, 2018 4:30 pm Charly6s OK team, Inphaze and I have joined the RACE!!! We have temp fencing, a port-a-loo and site scrape, all in one day! 266 days and counting, ETA is 8th of November - it's going to be close! My parents and grandparents have already booked flights from NZ to join us for Christmas and I need the new house finished so I can house them all lol. Question: Should the crossover protection be that short? It looks like its missing half its length. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Yeah! congratulations! The slab goes down pretty quickly and the frame will be up before you know it! Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/853390798159713/ Re: Porter Davis homes 16428Feb 18, 2018 4:34 pm nikil Morning All, I advised our SS that we would be having at independent inspector at PCI and this was the response. "I will let you know when the pci date will be but before I book in a date you will have to get the your independent through. I must have your independent report at pci. After I receive this and we go through his items and your pci I will advise a approx. handover date, I cant give you a handover date until all this has happened. I will advise you a date to get your independent through when the house is completed" Does this seem right? The whole idea of PCI is that they are saying the house is complete, but he wants our private inspector to come through before PCI and tell him what's wrong so he can rectify it before PCI. In a way I'm happy about this as the sooner it's done the better but at the same time I think it shouldn't be our inspector that has to tell him what needs to be done. Thoughts? I'd be happy with that. It means you can go through the list together at PCI and make sure it is all complete for handover. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/853390798159713/ Re: Porter Davis homes 16429Feb 18, 2018 4:49 pm nikil Laura Ireland Hi All, Just started our build with PD. We are building the Charlton 33, with an extended floor plan. May 17 - Paid our deposit Aug 17 - WOS appointment Sep 17 - Contract signing Jan 18 - Site start Oct 18 - Contract end date (aware they can go over, with compensation) Feels like it has taken forever to get to this stage! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Its very exciting, It's a long process, but all worth it when you finally see the build start! Where are you building? We are building Lara, Vic. They have just started the framing process. Spent Thu and Friday cutting the timber (still looks like they have a while to go before they have finished cutting ) Re: Porter Davis homes 16430Feb 18, 2018 5:42 pm inexp_user nikil Morning All, I advised our SS that we would be having at independent inspector at PCI and this was the response. "I will let you know when the pci date will be but before I book in a date you will have to get the your independent through. I must have your independent report at pci. After I receive this and we go through his items and your pci I will advise a approx. handover date, I cant give you a handover date until all this has happened. I will advise you a date to get your independent through when the house is completed" Does this seem right? The whole idea of PCI is that they are saying the house is complete, but he wants our private inspector to come through before PCI and tell him what's wrong so he can rectify it before PCI. In a way I'm happy about this as the sooner it's done the better but at the same time I think it shouldn't be our inspector that has to tell him what needs to be done. Thoughts? I'd be happy with that. It means you can go through the list together at PCI and make sure it is all complete for handover. Yea you are right. Hopefully he gets back to me soon so I can organise the inspection! Re: Porter Davis homes 16431Feb 18, 2018 6:42 pm nikil Morning All, I advised our SS that we would be having at independent inspector at PCI and this was the response. "I will let you know when the pci date will be but before I book in a date you will have to get the your independent through. I must have your independent report at pci. After I receive this and we go through his items and your pci I will advise a approx. handover date, I cant give you a handover date until all this has happened. I will advise you a date to get your independent through when the house is completed" Does this seem right? The whole idea of PCI is that they are saying the house is complete, but he wants our private inspector to come through before PCI and tell him what's wrong so he can rectify it before PCI. In a way I'm happy about this as the sooner it's done the better but at the same time I think it shouldn't be our inspector that has to tell him what needs to be done. Thoughts? We made it very clear we wanted to only bring our independent inspector through after PCI as the house is meant to be “complete”. A lot of site supervisors out there “use” the independent inspectors to make them a final list which is not the purpose of them. The email suggests they have to do it the way they have suggested so that you can get a handover date but I had PCI a couple of weeks ago and still don’t have a handover date so it doesn’t seem right to me. Re: Porter Davis homes 16432Feb 18, 2018 6:44 pm Laura Ireland nikil Laura Ireland Hi All, Just started our build with PD. We are building the Charlton 33, with an extended floor plan. May 17 - Paid our deposit Aug 17 - WOS appointment Sep 17 - Contract signing Jan 18 - Site start Oct 18 - Contract end date (aware they can go over, with compensation) Feels like it has taken forever to get to this stage! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Its very exciting, It's a long process, but all worth it when you finally see the build start! Where are you building? We are building Lara, Vic. They have just started the framing process. Spent Thu and Friday cutting the timber (still looks like they have a while to go before they have finished cutting ) see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Re: Porter Davis homes 16433Feb 18, 2018 6:46 pm Waldorf_Grange_Build nikil Morning All, I advised our SS that we would be having at independent inspector at PCI and this was the response. "I will let you know when the pci date will be but before I book in a date you will have to get the your independent through. I must have your independent report at pci. After I receive this and we go through his items and your pci I will advise a approx. handover date, I cant give you a handover date until all this has happened. I will advise you a date to get your independent through when the house is completed" Does this seem right? The whole idea of PCI is that they are saying the house is complete, but he wants our private inspector to come through before PCI and tell him what's wrong so he can rectify it before PCI. In a way I'm happy about this as the sooner it's done the better but at the same time I think it shouldn't be our inspector that has to tell him what needs to be done. Thoughts? We made it very clear we wanted to only bring our independent inspector through after PCI as the house is meant to be “complete”. A lot of site supervisors out there “use” the independent inspectors to make them a final list which is not the purpose of them. The email suggests they have to do it the way they have suggested so that you can get a handover date but I had PCI a couple of weeks ago and still don’t have a handover date so it doesn’t seem right to me. That’s the way I saw it too, I think they should have it finished to a good standard without needing an independent inspector coming to check the work for them. Re: Porter Davis homes 16434Feb 19, 2018 1:35 pm We went out to our house yesterday to get a concreting quote, there was a guy installing our wooden flooring which was great to see. It looks like at least some of the taps were in as well and the tiling is presumably completed from what we saw from the outside. From what we had seen previously most or all of the power points and lights are in as well. Most importantly my wife was happy with how the wooden floors and kitchen tiles looked, although admittedly we were a fair way away so as not to interrupt the guy doing the flooring. Building a Kew 28 with Porter Davis Re: Porter Davis homes 16435Feb 19, 2018 5:26 pm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our tiles, heating and electricals are done How long do you reckon will it take from this stage to PCI? we’re doing our floors after handover so I think the only things missing are toilets, bath tubs, tapa and mirrors. Did I miss anything? We’re counting down the days Re: Porter Davis homes 16436Feb 19, 2018 6:41 pm We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI. Re: Porter Davis homes 16437Feb 19, 2018 6:42 pm nikil We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Re: Porter Davis homes 16438Feb 19, 2018 6:44 pm brucefil2011 nikil We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Exactly! Things he figured we just wouldn’t notice. I’m really annoyed by it. Re: Porter Davis homes 16439Feb 19, 2018 6:45 pm nikil brucefil2011 nikil We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Exactly! Things he figured we just wouldn’t notice. I’m really annoyed by it. see more at hoffmangoldwithporterdavis.wordpress.com Re: Porter Davis homes 16440Feb 19, 2018 6:48 pm nikil We are about the same stage and our BC told us today possible end of March!! After telling me last week early March. The only thing that has changed is that he now knows I’m planning to use an independent inspector for PCI. We got told a couple of weeks ago by our SS that they are changing their shower doors provider and it is causing holdups in PCI for some people, apparently it pushed our neighbor who has the same SS back by 3 weeks. So it may be related to that, although your explanation about more stuff needing to be fixed makes more sense. Have you not had an independent inspector for the other stages? 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 12180 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74216 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 105128 |