Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13745Dec 19, 2018 9:46 am doosra twolittlepeas Hi everyone! Our site supervisor invited us to visit the house today since they will be shutting down for Xmas at the end of this week. Here are some progress photos: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Happy to see the sparky in doing the electrical fit out. I turned on a tap and it works hehehe. I’ve been really nervous about our floors since everything is so white, but I really like the seamless look from our main floors (gloss) to the bathroom (matt) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We are at week 18 since site scrape so it’s been tracking really well. Off the top of my head, there’s only a few items left - flyscreens, carpet, painting, door handles and driveway.. can’t wait! Wow Maria 18 weeks already. Good process. Looks great. We got keys today and moved everything in already. More furniture deliveries this week and will start looking homely Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Congrats Doosra! Enjoy! Manhattan 52 Scrape 8/11/17 Slab 16/11/17 Handover 7/12/18 Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13747Dec 19, 2018 1:24 pm WISDOM CUSTOMER PORTAL | VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi Everyone, In 2018, Wisdom has made several improvements in timeframes and customer experience to our pre-Contract Signing processes. We now have a number of initiatives under development to improve and enhance customer experience through our pre-site / admin processes (we have been listening), each of which are planned to go live during Q1 2019. I will be sharing more details on each initiative closer to their respective launch dates. One initiative we will be launching in February 2019 is a Customer Portal. This will give each Wisdom customer online access to track the progress of their build and will be a central area for storage of relevant supporting documents. Other key features and benefits of the Wisdom Portal include:
This Portal is functional on all digital device platforms and is especially mobile friendly. When we go live with the Portal in February, it will be made available to all existing Wisdom customers except those that are approaching the end of their build, i.e. near practical completion. Prior to launching the Portal, we need to prepare tutorials to provide instructions to our customers on how to use this new system. To help us do this, I would like to ask 3 Wisdom Customers to volunteer to test the new Portal for us in January to provide feedback to Wisdom on what information is required in the training material. For those customers completing this testing, the Portal will be loaded with their existing build, i.e. all data will be real and relevant to each customer. If you are interested in volunteering to test this new system, please PM me with your Contact Details and Job Number ASAP. I will respond individually to confirm the customers that have been selected. Note: testing is planned to start during the week commencing Monday 14 January 2019. Thank you in advance! Regards, Mark Scully General Manager Wisdom Group Live Your Way Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13748Dec 19, 2018 1:44 pm WisdomHomes stevezau Quote: SejaeD I don’t think anyone is being condescending here at all. Definitely nothing wrong with a fibreglass pool at all. My point being is that I didn’t find there prices that crazy at all. I got 3 quotes from pool builders and Wisdom was actually in the middle for me. That's where my problem is. all my quotes have come in far cheaper, 20-50% mark. Your did not. A 10% premium sure, but not 20-30%. Throat to choke? 🙄 Recommend that anyone concerned / interested talks to one of our consultants for a full picture. Our prices are competitive, especially once you factor in timeframes (we build the pool within the house build time) and site costs (we coordinate the design of the house and pool together). If you would like a true apples for apples comparison, please PM me and I will put you in contact with our Head of Pools & Landscaping. Pools may be new to Wisdom but our staff have decades of experience in this space. Regards Mark Mark hope you are well. I am sure you guys build beautiful pools that are of the highest quality. I was predominately taking issue with Manhattan's comment that seemed to be denigrating two other companies and also saying that Wisdom only take on larger jobs. I also want to make the point that the all encompassing services you offer are fantastic, but other home builders do allow clients to install pools by 3rd parties after the slab has been poured whilst frames are being manufactured, or alternatively the pool can be installed prior to the slab, and whilst I cant definitely prove it here, I am sure you guys apply a 30% margin which could be saved if the client had the ability to project manage it themselves. We never did that coffee but you can come and swim in my new pool next summer Anyway, great to see you here promoting your business merry Christmas S Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13749Dec 19, 2018 1:56 pm SejaeD I’m apologise if you have taken my comments that way but it certainly wasn’t the intention at all I simply mentioned there were other options that other people on here have used if the original poster wanted to go that way ( before their build started) The question asked was why the pool quote was so expensive and my response was that I didn’t believe it was. I certainly didn’t intend on giving a negative impression about the 2 other pool builders as I have never had an opinion on them one way or another Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13750Dec 19, 2018 2:03 pm SejaeD All good S. We will have that coffee one day. If your argument is that someone can save money by project managing the pools themselves, then of course. Same goes for an Owner Builder for a home if someone has the time. However, when comparing us against other pool builder quotes, we offer a complete price (or as close to it up front). We are often compared to quotes that miss a lot of information only to be added later. Again, we offer efficiency in terms of completion within build timeframes that others can't when using a 3rd party. We also have our own internal pool design team who work with our Home drafting team to mimise on site costs and deliver the best design solution. Not just promoting my business, but promoting a unique customer solution (for those that don't have the time to project manage) Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. Regards, Mark Live Your Way Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13751Dec 19, 2018 3:39 pm Singalg - WOW we are moving in Saturday. Our fencing is almost done and landscaping is underway but due to some comm issue our driveway will be delayed! (mostly because of the rain as well). Its a pain without landscaping as all dust comes in. cardboards & long doormats!!! We dont hv any issue with the antenna, we got a new TV and installer fixed everything. However our data cable at home theatre is not working. Thank god we have NBN from the day one so we could use that for time being. call Sentinel, they seems helpful! Also for the phone port you should hv one in the garage next to data port. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13752Dec 19, 2018 6:04 pm Hey All, This could be dumb. would there be any room to negotiate on the final price after finishing all the selections. Is that possible? Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13753Dec 19, 2018 6:11 pm ASJ1981 @doosra, thank you for posting a pic! Looks fabulous How does your lounge area look amazingly in order when you only received the keys! Haha! How organised are you! Look forward to more pics! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13754Dec 19, 2018 6:33 pm kingofnowhere Hey All, This could be dumb. would there be any room to negotiate on the final price after finishing all the selections. Is that possible? Not dumb at all. I wouldn’t think so at all. If they negotiated for one it would open the floodgates and everyone would give it a go. Is it any particular supplier or just across the board? Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13755Dec 19, 2018 6:44 pm Manhattan52 kingofnowhere Hey All, This could be dumb. would there be any room to negotiate on the final price after finishing all the selections. Is that possible? Not dumb at all. I wouldn’t think so at all. If they negotiated for one it would open the floodgates and everyone would give it a go. Is it any particular supplier or just across the board? thanks manhattan52 i haven't given it a thought as to supplier or across just trying to get info on whats possible where to stay as close as possible to the budget. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13757Dec 19, 2018 6:48 pm kingofnowhere Hey All, This could be dumb. would there be any room to negotiate on the final price after finishing all the selections. Is that possible? I highly doubt it. You’ve signed a contract and lose your deposit if you pull out now so they have no reason to negotiate. The time for negotiation was before you were locked in. Landscaping you can negotiate with them once you get your final quote during construction. Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 13760Dec 19, 2018 8:00 pm MandM+4 We had handover today. Was the best feeling showing our kids our new home, they were beside themselves with excitement. It was dark by the time we got there (just hubby went to the final inspection) so I didn’t get many pictures but I’ll update you as we move in over the next few weeks. Nice to see our flooring in all its glory, it was covered at PCI. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The main bathroom I didn’t take pics of at PCI Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi, we are just picking our floors at the moment - i like your main floors - what product is that? Thank you. Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. How long are variations taking with other companies at the moment? We… 0 18473 In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 19 73522 Hi Everyone, I am exploring builder in NSW and received a very tempting quote from Wisdom home for their momentum series. 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