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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 17134Aug 08, 2018 7:59 am Instagram blog: https://www.instagram.com/ourforevertonhome/ Re: Porter Davis homes 17136Aug 09, 2018 3:50 pm Hey all, A quick update of our build- We were contacted by our Site Supervisor on the July 31st to advise that Framing Stage had been completed. We were pretty excited as we're close to day 100 of a 308 day build and it's been pretty slow going. An unusually wet winter here in Geelong has apparently been to blame. Another story for another time... Trusting in the information that our SS provided us, we paid the invoice and arranged Darbecca to complete an independent inspection. Upon arrival onsite for our independent inspection we found up to half a dozen carpenters still installing roof trusses! Darbecca walked off site and told us to re-book our inspection when works had actually been completed. As you can imagine we were devastated. I attempted to contact our SS, leaving both voice and text messages for which he finally replied to at the end of the day after which we had forwarded the Darbecca cancellation fee invoice. He wasn't very apologetic and blamed the sub-contracting carpenters for not telling him the truth about actual completion. I would have thought that a visual inspection or drive by inspection would have been completed before actually advising us and sending the Framing Stage invoice. Anyhow, a week later we've finally had the Framing Stage somewhat "officially" completed and our independent inspection completed. Further disappointment as the report came back with 42 pages of defects! Everything from out of plumb doorways, to walls being in place where only bulkheads are supposed to be, to roof trusses missing, to voids not being framed up, framing hanging over the slab to the slab having not being vibrated enough, even having steel reinforcements exposed in the edges slab and having damaged window & door frames due to them being left out in the elements for nearly 3 months. We forwarded the report to Porter Davis and have asked for all items to be rectified ASAP. We are yet to have a response however today we received notification via email from our Building Co-Ordinator (which grammatically did not make any sense at all) that they were working with Darbecca to have the cancellation invoice paid. Nothing about rectification works. I'm wondering if there are any other forums members out there going though similar experiences with Porter Davis? Re: Porter Davis homes 17137Aug 09, 2018 4:14 pm this is quite normal with PD (though abnormal for the customers), you should have hold the control by not paying the invoice for the unfinished job or jobs done with defects.. learn it the hardway.... nevertheless, you now need to work along with your SS and constantly follow up to get the issues rectified asap.. the nature of build process is such that any advancement on the construction may mask the earlier problems.. the key here is to get the high priority structural defects to get corrected asap...Darbecaa sometimes put silly defects in the report which you can put in lower priority... so in summary work with your SS and show the urgency and held him accountable.. if nothing works, you may have to escalate.. Re: Porter Davis homes 17138Aug 09, 2018 4:17 pm sammo79 Hey all, A quick update of our build- We were contacted by our Site Supervisor on the July 31st to advise that Framing Stage had been completed. We were pretty excited as we're close to day 100 of a 308 day build and it's been pretty slow going. An unusually wet winter here in Geelong has apparently been to blame. Another story for another time... Trusting in the information that our SS provided us, we paid the invoice and arranged Darbecca to complete an independent inspection. Upon arrival onsite for our independent inspection we found up to half a dozen carpenters still installing roof trusses! Darbecca walked off site and told us to re-book our inspection when works had actually been completed. As you can imagine we were devastated. I attempted to contact our SS, leaving both voice and text messages for which he finally replied to at the end of the day after which we had forwarded the Darbecca cancellation fee invoice. He wasn't very apologetic and blamed the sub-contracting carpenters for not telling him the truth about actual completion. I would have thought that a visual inspection or drive by inspection would have been completed before actually advising us and sending the Framing Stage invoice. Anyhow, a week later we've finally had the Framing Stage somewhat "officially" completed and our independent inspection completed. Further disappointment as the report came back with 42 pages of defects! Everything from out of plumb doorways, to walls being in place where only bulkheads are supposed to be, to roof trusses missing, to voids not being framed up, framing hanging over the slab to the slab having not being vibrated enough, even having steel reinforcements exposed in the edges slab and having damaged window & door frames due to them being left out in the elements for nearly 3 months. We forwarded the report to Porter Davis and have asked for all items to be rectified ASAP. We are yet to have a response however today we received notification via email from our Building Co-Ordinator (which grammatically did not make any sense at all) that they were working with Darbecca to have the cancellation invoice paid. Nothing about rectification works. I'm wondering if there are any other forums members out there going though similar experiences with Porter Davis? That is horrifying. Our experience has been nothing like that, we have generally had a pretty good run so far and we are about 170 days into the job. It seems to me that the quality and timeliness of the build depends heavily on the SS. I would be making a serious complaint about the Site Supervisor to senior management and asking for a competent SS to be assigned to the job. Not much respect for the dream going on there. Re: Porter Davis homes 17139Aug 10, 2018 8:09 pm Hi, Had an interesting chat with our SS today. He advised us that in future all independent inspections eg. Darbecca etc can incur a 7 day delay to the build. Personally, it hasn't swayed our decision to continue using them, but will add up if you have a tight timeline. Just thought we'd share this on the forum. Re: Porter Davis homes 17140Aug 10, 2018 8:25 pm Madison40_PD Hi, Had an interesting chat with our SS today. He advised us that in future all independent inspections eg. Darbecca etc can incur a 7 day delay to the build. Personally, it hasn't swayed our decision to continue using them, but will add up if you have a tight timeline. Just thought we'd share this on the forum. That’s true they have it in the contracts now Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 13924 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 109208 Hi there! 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