Browse Forums Building A New House Re: First homebuyer - Impressions home builder 7Jun 19, 2009 11:24 pm Building with CELEBRATION HOMES @ THE GLADES in BYFORD W.A. My Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19512&p=249550#p249550 Re: First homebuyer - Impressions home builder 8Jun 19, 2009 11:26 pm I'm afraid I have no dealing with impressions but can't say I've heard good or bad things about them. Reading this forum there seems to be a fair few disgruntled people with HBC, so much so that I personally would avoid them. My wife and I are building with Celebration and can't speak highly enough so far.. but we still have a long way to go so time will tell. Building with CELEBRATION HOMES @ THE GLADES in BYFORD W.A. My Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19512&p=249550#p249550 Re: First homebuyer - Impressions home builder 9Jun 19, 2009 11:43 pm I think you will find there's always a mixture of good and bad reviews with any builder. It's hard to choose. So far I have been pretty happy with HBC. Yeah have a good ole whinge at times and not yet at the build stage so who knows. But so far minus a few issues our guys been pretty good. The best thing to do if you have the time is get a list of inclusions and a costing of all the add ons you might want with each of them and see what the true bottom line value is. Re: First homebuyer - Impressions home builder 10Jun 24, 2009 12:47 am Thanks everyone, Your informations provided was very helpful. We are in a dilemma between the ABN group and impressions. ABN being the bigger mob whom are more experience, some of their standard spec are equals to those elite spec from impressions and most importantly for us are the peace of mind. On the other hand Impressions, a young company which have decent spec with reasonable add-ons with the near perfect house plan "263" which meet our wants & needs and fall within budget. Like Chedasha had said, “there's always a mixture of good and bad reviews with any builder.” but with Impressions we haven’t been able to find a review base on home built by Impressions that are completed which gave us a sense of insecurity. Ultimately my partner and I will have to choose one or the other, like everyone else let us hope that things go smoothly. We will definately ask more questions. Many thanks We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16391 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 28085 |