Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 57Nov 29, 2006 9:37 pm So, yup, I knew about the slab. I know ours is H-class.
Didn't know about the high wind area thing, though. But, now I do, so thanks for the very handy insight. [sneakersss] Re: Porter Davis homes 58Nov 29, 2006 9:53 pm Amber - we're in Kimberly Downs, overlooking the lake. If you'd like to see photos, feel free to PM me & I'll send you a link to my gallery (it's password-protected at the moment, so can send you the password).
Tivoliboy - our temp fencing was quoted as $1918 for all 4 sides (obviously this would have reduced if we'd been able to get our fences up before they went onsite)...& our site costs & connections (over & above the standard "included" package, which includes termite protection, etc) for an H class slab in our area with virtually no fall was $3324. Re: Porter Davis homes 59Dec 01, 2006 2:53 pm Hi Everyone,
I thought I would put my thoughts in about Porter Davis South East branch. We are currently building South East and our progress. We have just gone through lock up stage and are heading onto the plastering stage. SALES Our Sales lady was sooo helpful and lovely and charming until we gave her the $600 and then she pretended to not receive emails twice over, didnt return calls and then didnt follow up what we requested with our tender person. She actually said we should "sign up quickly as the promotion will end and the prices a going up in the next week" Within a short time the price of our house went down. ADMIN HELP The adminstration side was pretty bad with errors. They have been helpful and lovely up until we signed the contract/final drawings stage. We had to get the final drawings done 3 times because of errors we had pointed out many times. And even the final final drawings were not correct. We were basically told at that stage that they would not fix anything more. Even though we had written instructions throughout the tender process requesting certain items to adhere with convenent restrictions in our estate. BRICKS Everything was going reasonably well until the bricks were laid. The quality of the bricks were very poor and in fact I would not have been suprised if they were seconds. We raised this issue and we were told this "adds character" to the house by our site supervisor. The laying was of very poor standards as well and we are currently getting a Building Supervisor (thanks for the tip about Kevin from New Homes) out to check over. My brother is a bricklayer and his personal opinion is "very sloppy". The motar joints varied greatly thoughout and there are lots of uneven joins and finger marks in the mortar. Not to mention that we ordered flush and what we have it concave. To say we are disappointed with the brickwork is an understatement. We have raised this several times with our Site Manager but he is very defensive. I think over the whole process we will come out with a reasonable product but I completely disagree with their advertising "Display Home Quality". If anyone else has some advice I would love to hear it. Re: Porter Davis homes 60Dec 03, 2006 9:45 pm Thank you very much to everyone who replied to my earlier questions.
The next question that I have is, can you get someone else to put up the temporary fence instead of the builder? reason being, I want to save a bit. Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12954 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 76106 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 106772 |