Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1747Aug 13, 2018 12:08 pm My building experience https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91499 Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1753Aug 17, 2018 9:18 pm My building experience https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91499 Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1755Aug 20, 2018 8:49 pm My building experience https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91499 Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1758Aug 31, 2018 10:38 pm @nada17 My experience with Kurmond home office people suggests they have mixed bag of people. Some really work hard and try to help people at their best, while some people even tend to blame their customers for their own delays and issues, and have "ball passing" attitude. For example, our color selection lady seems overloaded with work, but she always displays a positive attitude toher customers and tries to help them in a way or other. I can't yet comment much about our CO lady, not much work yet done with her. But some people try to find a way around passing the blame to their customers, but not giving any positive influence to make things faster. My building experience https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91499 Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1759Sep 06, 2018 2:13 pm An update on my build: We had a pre-lining inspection last Tuesday. Everything looked very good. We had couple of comments. It appeared the SS didn't have signed electric plans and the construction plans he had didn't have all the info on them. 1) cabling for the feature lights on main facade was on wrong height (we needed it higher). the height was specified on signed electrical plans but it seems it was not there on the construction plans they used. 2) we have requested a conduit going from next to the main electric box to the roof space (for future solar panels installation). it was specified on the signed electrical plans but somehow they have decided to start conduit from the garage wall, inside and behind the main electric box (which is outside). That would require future drilling the wall to connect the solar electrical box to the main box and we of course wanted to avoid it and therefore requested what requested. We also had a few comments on locations of the control panels for A/C. They put it where they think it is the best so if you have certain locations in mind, ask them to put in on their mark-up that they send you to sign. We didn't do that though we discussed it with them. Anyway, hopefully they will fix the issues quickly. We asked them for pictures but haven't received any yet. They have to start putting plasterboard today and they estimated that it would take a week or so. The stairs are scheduled for middle of September and lock-up at the end of September. Oh yes, we had an issue with the stairs. briefly, the stair contractor suggested that top of the stairs will not look good and proposed a new stair layout. We hated it at it included 5 turning treads on the middle landing instead of 2 square ones that we had initially. Thankfully everything was resolved in one day but again we have spent so much energy to have everything the way we wanted it. Re: Building with Kurmond Homes 1760Sep 14, 2018 7:46 am nada17 How is your work progressing at the moment? We had very stressful time with Kurmond homes. Kurmond CO is "complaining" us there are 8 jobs in front of our jobs to be finalized therefore our job will take at least 6 weeks to prepare the contract! The way she putting up things is like its our fault that they have a mess in their office and process, and she basically "blames" us that it will be unfair for the other customers to prioritise our job. CO attitudes seem like she is totally fine even if a customer walks away! She doesn't seem to care of a loss of a business which Kurmond homes has done a significant amount of work. The feeling I got is some people in Kurmondd staff have built up an attitude to just get around with a customer escalation rather honestly willing to resolve the issue. No wonder why they have so much complains about their office process. I was thinking to escalate the matter to Kurmond owners (Mr Peter Kulakovski and Mr Michael Kulakovski), but then I thought it will fair for Kurmond staff to first escalate this to their management. So I escalated the matter to someone in their managment, she didn't reply but she had got our CO herself to response, which she now has committed to finalizing the final tender end of this week (today) and then to finalize final construction plans end of next week. I hope she will keep her word on her commitments. My building experience https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=91499 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74715 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 105589 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! 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