Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Provincial Homes 673Jun 04, 2022 10:14 pm Mivars Hi kiwiinoz how did you go with choosing the bricks, we took a trip to Austral and PHG and most of the selection that provincial provide us in the platinum range are discontinued. We liked a brick from the bowral range not much else to choose from when most of the good selections are discontinued and not updated in the provincial section guide. Then I get a call from provincial letting me know about the selection stage and to be ready to choose my external colours, i asked for a quote on the bowral brick and they said they cant quote me as i dont have my final plans...hmmmm.im a bit worried that we wont make the Sept deadline to be ready to build, we have done our very best to stay ready and prepared with choices and floor plans etc. Im not prepared for a price increase, any guidance or advice here? Did you sort out your bricks? When we went to Austral to look before our appointment the front desk there looked up the options available for Provincial for us as some of the roof tile colours had changed names and they mapped out which areas of their display complex were included in our builder range. The rains have held up our build but the bricks are FINALLY done and the roof is on so I am hoping it will be less disrupted from here on. Even without the bricks cleaned yet it is looking amazing and I can't wait to be in the home when it is complete and back in our street. Re: Provincial Homes 675Nov 23, 2022 8:38 pm We are (almost) at the end of our build with them. The house itself is amazing so far. Even a retired builder on our street had commented on the quality of the tradies and the build as he has been keeping an eagle eye on it (as he does everything on our street). The build has been a lot slower than we expected although as I've mentioned in posts previously a lot of the delays have not been the fault of Provincial themselves (ie COVID, excessive rain, supply shortages) and all builders seem to have had the same issues. We've not had much in the way of variations once we had locked everything in and we found the choices available to us in fixtures, tiles etc pretty good within the package we chose. Our site supervisors have been accommodating and patient, taking us through our site and answering all our questions when needed. I have my fingers tightly crossed we are only a week or 2 away from getting our house as there are only a few things left to do (that we can see). So other than the frustratingly slow build time we think we are going to get a pretty amazing home. I'll post photos once we have the keys if anyone is interested. Re: Provincial Homes 676Nov 23, 2022 9:43 pm kiwiinoz We are (almost) at the end of our build with them. The house itself is amazing so far. Even a retired builder on our street had commented on the quality of the tradies and the build as he has been keeping an eagle eye on it (as he does everything on our street). The build has been a lot slower than we expected although as I've mentioned in posts previously a lot of the delays have not been the fault of Provincial themselves (ie COVID, excessive rain, supply shortages) and all builders seem to have had the same issues. We've not had much in the way of variations once we had locked everything in and we found the choices available to us in fixtures, tiles etc pretty good within the package we chose. Our site supervisors have been accommodating and patient, taking us through our site and answering all our questions when needed. I have my fingers tightly crossed we are only a week or 2 away from getting our house as there are only a few things left to do (that we can see). So other than the frustratingly slow build time we think we are going to get a pretty amazing home. I'll post photos once we have the keys if anyone is interested. Really appreciate it. I dm'd you personally Re: Provincial Homes 677Nov 24, 2022 11:45 am Hi All, We are building with Provincial Homes and just signed a contract recently still. But now wanted to have some changes on the plan before DA lodgement. Provincial has advised of $500 amendment fee and additional cost of having basix, stormwater reports to be redone. Have anyone had this experience with this before? As it seems those reports they are getting will be delay our DA lodgement. Otherwise we are looking at to request the change during the building commencement stage... Re: Provincial Homes 678Nov 24, 2022 12:32 pm Yes that seems reasonable. When you change something it means they need to amend their reports especially if the changes external. I recommend whenever you have changes as the build progresses really contemplate if it’s worth having because every change you make is at least $500 which is the amendment fee. I’ve had a lot of amendment fees as the build has gone on due to me wanting different stuff internally. If you don’t mind me asking, what is the change that you wanted to put through? Wottsup Hi All, We are building with Provincial Homes and just signed a contract recently still. But now wanted to have some changes on the plan before DA lodgement. Provincial has advised of $500 amendment fee and additional cost of having basix, stormwater reports to be redone. Have anyone had this experience with this before? As it seems those reports they are getting will be delay our DA lodgement. Otherwise we are looking at to request the change during the building commencement stage... Re: Provincial Homes 679Nov 25, 2022 8:43 pm Wottsup Hi All, We are building with Provincial Homes and just signed a contract recently still. But now wanted to have some changes on the plan before DA lodgement. Provincial has advised of $500 amendment fee and additional cost of having basix, stormwater reports to be redone. Have anyone had this experience with this before? As it seems those reports they are getting will be delay our DA lodgement. Otherwise we are looking at to request the change during the building commencement stage... Yes. We were clearly told any changes to the plan after signed plan and contract would incur additional charges. Anything done before the contract is signed had no charge as long as it was not an external or weight bearing wall change. This seems to be standard for builders. In fact, one of the other builders we were considering charged for any alterations to their standard plan regardless so we found Provincial to be reasonable. As we did all our modifications prior to signing the contract we didn't have an additional charge. Re: Provincial Homes 680May 19, 2023 5:41 pm kiwiinoz Wottsup Hi All, We are building with Provincial Homes and just signed a contract recently still. But now wanted to have some changes on the plan before DA lodgement. Provincial has advised of $500 amendment fee and additional cost of having basix, stormwater reports to be redone. Have anyone had this experience with this before? As it seems those reports they are getting will be delay our DA lodgement. Otherwise we are looking at to request the change during the building commencement stage... Yes. We were clearly told any changes to the plan after signed plan and contract would incur additional charges. Anything done before the contract is signed had no charge as long as it was not an external or weight bearing wall change. This seems to be standard for builders. In fact, one of the other builders we were considering charged for any alterations to their standard plan regardless so we found Provincial to be reasonable. As we did all our modifications prior to signing the contract we didn't have an additional charge. The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1969 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 109740 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 26686 |