Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 21Aug 30, 2009 6:53 am Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 23Aug 31, 2009 8:49 pm Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 27Sep 05, 2009 6:22 am Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 29Sep 28, 2009 4:03 pm Just thought id give you the heads up on how places are. Just got to lock up stage on the house and all looks good. Got a building inspector to look thought it and he was pretty happy. few small thinks, like tiny problems that places agreed to fix straight away. Workmanship wise, got to say spot on. Building inspection report mention the brick work as some of the best hes seen in 12 months. Seem to be building a nice house and fairly organised. A few of the doors and windows needed to be leveled but that was picked up by their own building inspection people. Got new SS temp one until we get a new one. he seems pretty good. Still a bit ** off thou with yet another change to come. Can't see why they don't just keep this one. Overall there building us a nice house. Thats what matters certainly a lot better quality then any other house I have built. Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 30Sep 28, 2009 6:00 pm great to hear how good its turning out even with ss drama's, you must be stoked to have an independant inspector say its some of the best brickwork he's seen! hopefully the quality is thier forte when they start mine in dec. Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 31Oct 01, 2009 9:59 am I am really happy that your house is going well Octain, hopefully quality is their forte! However starting their houses on time is definately not their forte. Our site start was Aug, it's now October still no start, it is really frustrating watching the months go by when our land sits there bare! They have all the permits so this is not the issue. All I can say is beware when you are quoted a site start month, don't take it too seriously as you probably won't get it! We are also building the Glendale 28, well eventually!! Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 32Oct 02, 2009 11:30 pm giraffee I am really happy that your house is going well Octain, hopefully quality is their forte! However starting their houses on time is definately not their forte. Our site start was Aug, it's now October still no start, it is really frustrating watching the months go by when our land sits there bare! They have all the permits so this is not the issue. All I can say is beware when you are quoted a site start month, don't take it too seriously as you probably won't get it! We are also building the Glendale 28, well eventually!! Sorry to hear about that. Ours started a little late too but it was due to estate and building permits coming back to slow .Once they had them they started right away. However I know they have taken on a lot of projects recently and obviously lossing an SS has prolly put things back a bit. Nice choice on the House btw which facarde did u choose? when U get some pics chuck them up if you can interesting to see what other people are doing and how different one design can look. http://brendanlouise.blogspot.com Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 33Oct 23, 2009 4:49 pm Hi Does anyone have any working drawings for the Glendale 28...something that i can get measurements from...wifey and i are building in brookfield...but we live in the Northern Territory....we have not seen the house but think its the best floor plan for us fingers crossed we made the right choice...we switched from PD to a bigger house...we were going to build the lisbon 24 in the access range but glendale came across as better value for money...Does anyone know what selection choices you get from hopetoun and how different they are from the access range in PD. We are trying to do everything via email and post so things are getting tricky....we dont know what choices you get. We cant leave the NT because of our isolated location and work commitments so this is going to be challengeing to say the least but we are hopefull of getting things right. Anyway all the help we can get would be appreciated. You can also email me as well chriswall001@hotmail.com Thanks GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 34Oct 30, 2009 8:59 pm DSon't think they will give you copies with messurements on them. Understanably thou. They spend alot of money getting them just right I suppose they just don't want people coping them. Hopetoun selections for PD vs PLaces is very similar from what i could tell PD people have a bigger range to choose from but the only difference really is they use different brands but i think all the stuff is pretty much the same. Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 35Oct 30, 2009 9:14 pm Hi Octain Got them thanks from our SC...just waiting for the hopetouns pack to come via mail...to make our selections...thanks again GOING SLIGHTLY MAD Glendale 28 Check out our BLOG - complete photos of all disasters and progress http://ourglendale28.blogspot.com/ Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 36Nov 05, 2009 6:37 am Hi guys We are very close to signing with Places to build the Glendale 28 also. We don't seen to be making too many changes. Everyone happy so far? Any blogs I can follow? Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 37Nov 09, 2009 4:14 pm just got an email today from Places, "In November Places Homes are excited to launch our NEW 24seven customer portal. As the name suggests, the unique 24seven portal provides all our customers access to complete progress details for their new home, at any time 24 hours per day, 7 days per week." very exciting indeed its not up and running yet but hopefully will make the whole process a little easier (aslong as it does'nt make things frustrating). Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 38Nov 09, 2009 8:10 pm gemmaandlilly Hi guys We are very close to signing with Places to build the Glendale 28 also. We don't seen to be making too many changes. Everyone happy so far? Any blogs I can follow? Just had my second last inspection yesterday house is close to being finished. building the glendale and got to say am really impressed. Their has been a few small issues. But on the whole they have been really good. On my inspection I noticed our site supervisior had gone around made the plaster replace a whole heap of cornices that had bowes in them. I had previously been though and no picked them up and prolly won't have. It just shows their level of quality. He also pointed out a number of things I missed and explained to me they would be fixed. Been getting regular updates from my administrator as to the progress of the house. They like to say they will give you a call once a week but often, it's once every 2 - 3 weeks I found. Which is fine with me because sometimes there is alot to tell if their waiting on parts to come in or something like bricking to get finished. Ive built a few homes and got to say so far this is the best experience ive had with a builder. i got a blog brendanlouise.blogspot.com its not always update but im getting there lol Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 39Jan 01, 2010 1:25 pm Hi guys iv bought land in heritage springs in pakenham and building with places site started 14 sept 09 had a bit of a delay with bricks being out of stock for 3 weeks at lock up by 20 nov and fix 23 nov nothing happening since we are building the deacon 28 how have your experiances with places been. Anyone building in pakenham Re: Anyone heard of PLACES HOMES LAND LIFE builder??? 40Feb 24, 2010 6:55 pm Hi Can anyone list out the standard range of bricks and roof tiles used by Places Homes ? Thank you You should pressure clean your roof first and make sure the paint you buy also is anti mould. 4 21250 Sounds like rubbish to me. Ask for the contamination report which I doubt they have. If it's part of a normal subdivision it would have had a contamination report done… 9 5984 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 22342 |