Porter Davis homes

New Home Care Coordinater? I didn't get one of those. I was just calling the maintenance line. They said they were very busy because they work 9am to 3.30 and get hundreds of calls a day.

Anyway today I got through to a wonderful lady who called me back (!) twice (!!). I think she is filling in for the normal lady. She managed to sort a lot of it out.

Thanks for your offer and if we have any more issues I will let you know. I would like to know if I was supposed to get a person to look after me though so I didn't have to call the maintenance line all the time.

Hi everyone
I have my tender appt on Monday and am really looking forward to findout out what my "wish list" is going to cost me.

I do have a question I was hoping someone may be able to help with though.

I am building a Prestige Home and with the upgrade package I could pick 2 of 3 options. I chose the flooring anf the kitchen - and then paid the additional $5500 for the airconditioning.

Now I have decided to add timber floors throughout all the living areas - so it doesn't seem worth it to select the flooring inclusion? or does it?

So my real questions is....what is going to cost less

The air con at an additional $5500

OR

Flooring...carpets to bedrooms and tiles to bathroom and laundry.

By the way - I know I could probabaly do flooring cheaper after handover but I really want all the costs included in the mortgage so want PD to do it.

Any ideas and suggestions more than welcome!!

Hi Audreyand Oscar, we're also doing a prestige home and found the tile range pretty limited.
They only really had one or two types of ceramic tiles and we upgraded almost all tiles to porcelain (it's what we always wanted).
What I would suggest is taking yourself into a National Tiles store, pretty much one wall will be dedicated to PD, see what you like there and make your decision based on that.
We're building a 30sq home and tile upgrades (wall and floor cost us ballpark $6k).
Aircon would also cost close to that.
Another thing to take into account is if they do a crap job of the tiles you will generally have the "protection" of a large builder to fall back on.
If you have any specific questions feel free to PM me, happy to help

I must say i'm pretty quick to jump on bad customer service but my CSC has been awesome today after a very rocky week.
I made a little impromptu visit to find out why council are being difficult and she told me (umm ridiculous much) so I did a little legwork myself and gave her a little bit of ammunition to help, praying for site start before Christmas (but not holding my breath).
Just let me cut through the red tape!

Hi All,

A little off topic however i did a search for Porter Davis and came across this thread. I am hoping that someone from Porter Davis will read this and actually get things sorted out FOR ONCE!.
We built a Cremorne 35 in Sandhurst and have been living in it now for 5 weeks... Yes we still have cracked tiles, privacy locks that dont work, cracks in the brickwork, missing mortor in places, green? mortor when we paid for "off white", Weather seals on almost every external door were taken off for painting and were never put back on, several large DANGEROUS nails sticking out from the floor (about 2 inches) in one room, a door not hinged properly, tears in the carpet, loud floor boards etc. etc. etc..
Thats a short list from our PCI... that still exists. I work in the construction industry and the usually the time between PCI and handover is to arrange all hands on deck to get the place perfect to present to the client. Well, following our PCI i went past the place every day and not a thing was done (besides the painter who did a couple of touch ups and simply took the rest of our little red circle stickers off the walls!!!...

During this PCI I was promised by our supervisor:
- Yes you will get 2 recycled water tap turners (did not get any. Cannot use taps!)
- He would install window restrictors to all upstairs sliding windows to prevent the little one falling out (i think this is a regulation?)
- He would install a push type sink plug for our powder room (the same as all other sinks).
- He would have all the mortor patched up, then the brickwork to the WHOLE house would be cleaned, as it looks to have only been cleaned on the upper level (this has actually been picked up by other trades and friends/family).
- They left a strange and dangerous sewerage outlet slightly covered by a round disk in the back yard. Thankfully we havnt started landscaping the backyard as yet so the little one isnt allowed out there.
- A rep would attend to inspect the large chunk of wood missing from our bifold doors (they seem to throw around and scratch up most of the cosmetic fittings before they are fitted).
- Was promised spare down lights aswell, as our supervisor advised many will go within the first few weeks.

So as far as being promised ANYTHING, dont believe a word until it is done!. I often stand out the front and look at our house in comparison to others being built in the area and seriously cannot believe the quality difference, not to mention the cleanliness difference (the house currently being built opposite ours is cleaner!!!!!).. If i could recommend one thing that our builder did differently from others that makes a huge difference, is to construct a BIN or somewhere where RUBBISH goes while the house is being built... i dont remember random (lots) of concrete blocks, and bricks, smashed up roof tiles scattered around the place in our building contract!!!!. that i simply dont know what to do with!!!!! TAKE YOUR RUBBISH WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!

So Mr. Porter Davis, when are you going to FINISH this job before starting a new one??? I hope your house fills with bugs everynight aswell because you forgot to put the weather seals on your doors and one of the flyscreens fell off the top storey and hit you in the head!!!! (yes this actually happened!)

Also, i was under the impression that lines for solor panels should have been ran while the house was being built so that they are UNDER THE BRICKWORK not installed later on, running uncovered down the side of the house... looks ridiculous, not to mention the very crooked ******* looking solor panel.... hhmmm, hope that doesnt fall down and hit me on the head....

Thanks all if you have made it this far in reading this post... sorry for the length, just wanted to vent some (5 weeks worth) of frustration... I really dont think that some builders realise that the money people spend on their homes is usually every thing they have saved and is probably going to take them a life time to pay off... so it is VERY important, a new house is supposed to be a NEW house.... I feel like they have simply damaged our nice peice of land.. NOT HAPPY , hope the maintenance guy is prepared!

Good Luck! hope it all goes well! Take your time and make sure they have cleaned up all the mess they may have left outside the house, its very difficult to clean up afterwards! (we didnt have a site bin at our place during the build!!!!)
Also check the ventilation for your ranghood and exhaust fans, as the bricky does his work before the electricians wire in and doesnt know which bricks to remove in place for grates. They forgot to arrange the bricky to come back to ours before we moved in...

Yeah.. tiles, that reminds me... i moped the tiles the other day (full bodies porcelin) and alot of mortor came up... awesome, now i have these nice dark brown/grey tiles with white grout, and a heap of black gaps between them.. not to mention the cracked one!...
i totally agree, if you have the time, just get the builder to do the basic build, then organise your own trades to do things more specific... at least you can supervise them...