Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 5Dec 18, 2018 9:52 am MBP I've built with them. Happy to answer your questions. Which plan did you go for? How was your experince with them? How was their build quality? Did you face any issues? Most of the volume builders seems to be a hit and miss affair, when it comes to build quality . Some of them don't even care to fix issues during maitainace period, let alone the extra costs and charges during the build. Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 7Feb 19, 2019 11:03 pm MBP I've built with them. Happy to answer your questions. Hi MBP, we are planning to build with them, but there are no reviews online. It would be great it you could share.. - how your experience with them was in general ? - if you would recommend them ? - if given the opportunity to build again, would you go with them without thinking twice ? Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 8Feb 20, 2019 7:59 am Hi baronx, weren't you going with Urban Edge at one stage? Did you change? Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 9Feb 20, 2019 8:45 am brokenstick Hi baronx, weren't you going with Urban Edge at one stage? Did you change? brokenstick We were going with them, but we pulled the plug before contract. We found them extremely unhelpful when we had any issues about their "process". They are not following the law set by the VBA which dictates that the builder should let the owners nominate their own choice of Building Surveyor. On top of that, at tender they agreed to increase the cost of delays based on the rental valuation of the house. We've seen multiple houses from UE being dragged on for 2 years. But before contract they refused and all we were told is that "Management says No" Having built with another big builder before, whenever we had any issues with our previous builder, someone from the management was just a phone call away. But with UE, it was always the admin or their team-lead who was in touch with us, even when we left a bad review and hadn't even signed on the dotted line. Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 10Feb 20, 2019 11:58 am Sorry to hear it didn't work out. We have just about finished our build with them and overall the experience has been positive - there have been some issues, but they have dealt with them and we haven't had to escalate to management (yet, touch wood!). Also, looks like they will finish several months ahead of schedule, which is a nice surprise Re: Anyone built with Hotondo Homes (Darvale Homes) Melton? 11Jan 12, 2020 2:40 am Iamlama The Hotondo Homes Wallan builder seems to have some nice reviews. Has anyone on this forum or anyone you know hired Hotondo Homes Wallan (Shop 1A / 45 High Street, Wallan VIC 3756) or Hotondo Homes South Morang (Level 1, 106 / 2 Murdoch Road, South Morang VIC 3752) to do their house build? How do their prices compare to a basic build of Carlisle , Boutique , HomeBuyers , DennisFamily , Henley , TrueValue , SJD , Eight , G.J. Gardner , Orbit , & then Porter Davis (true final price) , Metricon (true final price) , Burbank (true final price)? I haven’t. But have a Lowe Design home. Not only did I find Matt Lowe patronising and a bully, but the home is NOT TO CODE. I have water coming through the bricks… 1 15664 Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 1743 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 14460 |