Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Metricon 8207Dec 16, 2018 10:10 am Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building with Metricon 8209Dec 16, 2018 11:23 am Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building with Metricon 8214Dec 17, 2018 12:32 am Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building with Metricon 8217Dec 17, 2018 6:21 pm No way they would have negotiated, I found Metricon have a "take it or leave it" mentality madj-m dany Wild Hi All, for those who signed the contracts. M emailed to set a date to sign the contracts in Jan, CSC said they will issue the contract 5-7 business days prior to appointment for us to review and then on the appointment date, Signing of contracts + 5% deposit will happen. Since doing it for the first time just feeling nervous and wanted to know, If its normal and anything to look for signing of these contracts. Thanks heaps guys. There are few areas that you should closely look : 1. Building Period : this is the total duration of the build after they go on site . Not after signing the contract . Try to negotiate 26 weeks. ( almost 6 months ) and this will start after they are ready to go on site which could be anywhere between 6 to 12 months. 2. Initial Period : Here you should emphasize to put a number , like months , days or weeks . Here Metricon has put conditions such as studio selections, bal report , acoustic report etc which means your documentation will take ages. By default it is 15 days. 3. Liquidated Damages : Negotiate 150/ day 4. look at Item 15 : notwithstanding any other provision : this clause has been added by Metricon in case of discrepancy between your understanding or their technical plans which will take precedence. 5. Progress Payments : 4 equal payments if you can . Cuz reality is that first two payments ( slab and frame ) will be done in 2 weeks. lockup another 2 month. Then the most important part which is the internals will only be 10% of total which is no motivator for them. Good tips Dany, were you able to negotiate these in your favor? Re: Building with Metricon 8218Dec 18, 2018 12:02 am PharmaG Hey everyone. We have been in admin phase with metricon since March 2017 and still haven't started our build. It's been extremely frustrating so far but we are hoping to be on site very soon. I'm a bit concerned reading all the negative reviews online... people saying run from M at all costs etc. There is even a Facebook group for disappointed metricon customers! What does everyone think of these negative reviews? Are most of you happy with your experience. Feeling nervous Anyway it was on ok experience , just expect to wait a very long time to get stuff fixed and be extremely patient with head office because they never answer the phone and never return calls!!!! Re: Building with Metricon 8219Dec 18, 2018 3:15 pm We were just informed we cant get OC without the lattice instslled on top of the neighbour's fence even though we got a no objection from them Did anyone have this issue, do u have any contacts to do this and did anyone attempt this themselves? Any assistance on contacts of anyone that you used and approx how much it cost will be very helpful. Thanks in advance https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... are_type=t Re: Building with Metricon 8220Dec 18, 2018 3:26 pm excited_builders We were just informed we cant get OC without the lattice instslled on top of the neighbour's fence even though we got a no objection from them Did anyone have this issue, do u have any contacts to do this and did anyone attempt this themselves? Any assistance on contacts of anyone that you used and approx how much it cost will be very helpful. Thanks in advance https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=ht ... are_type=t Why do you need a lattice for the OC? Just wondering, thanks. Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 3846 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 1101 We don’t live in VIC so want to know the exterior colours of Lumiere display so we can see it at the paint shop. Not building with Metricon so my request went… 0 1285 |