Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 2785Jul 29, 2011 9:51 am My building thread : viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36059 Paid initial deposit 24/7/10 Tender appointment 20/8/2010 Flooring and tile appointment 25/9/10 Colour and Electrical appointment 13/9/10 December site start delayed Site start (YAY!) 17/1/11 Slab pour 1/2/2011 Re: Porter Davis homes 2786Jul 29, 2011 9:52 am My building thread : viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36059 Paid initial deposit 24/7/10 Tender appointment 20/8/2010 Flooring and tile appointment 25/9/10 Colour and Electrical appointment 13/9/10 December site start delayed Site start (YAY!) 17/1/11 Slab pour 1/2/2011 Re: Porter Davis homes 2787Jul 29, 2011 11:10 am Porter Davis Homes Questions? Call 1800PORTER Mon - Fri 9am-8pm Sat - Sun 10am-4pm info@porterdavis.com.au http://blog.porterdavis.com.au/ http://www.porterdavishomes.com.au Re: Porter Davis homes 2792Jul 29, 2011 9:20 pm Does PD always charge you if the build date has to be delayed as the developer has delayed land settlement or do they understand the situation and cut you some slack. Has anyone been through our kind of a situation. We have been informed by our developer (no reasons given at this stage) that our land settlement has been delayed by 6 months. Re: Porter Davis homes 2793Jul 30, 2011 6:31 am eli-kay123 Wateman Hi All, Just a comment RE the huge mark ups on certain things.. The sales person my partner and I had been dealing with was very honest about certain areas where the mark up was quite substantial. He explained it saying something along the lines of 'As a volume builder, there are some things we would prefer not to do, so we mark those things up much more than others. If people are prepared to pay the price then we will do it for them, but there are a number of things that are certainly cheaper to do after handover'. We happened to be talking about driveways at the time. Just thought I would share that.. whether it's true or not, I thought it was a fair explanation. Our sales consultant was great, my partner and I was sad this week when he said he now had to pass us on to a building co-ordinator. I hope the BC will be as good! Just wanted to endorse this. We're doing our carpet through them as well. We're doing the better part of a 41sq home installed for $5100. Would of cost us a lot more through either the builder or majore carpet chains. Hi Waterman, I agree with you 110%. PD do mark up pricing. We were charged an extra $5K to lay and supply Timber Top floorboards and we dealt with the same flooring company as they do. Obviously we are doing the floorboards after handover. When I asked why the high price the response was we have to make money somewhere, in otherwords they've given it a high price because they don't want to do the job. As for carpet, we are also doing this after hand over as we have picked the Redbook range and PD don't offer this range. We were quoted a few different prices highest being $7000 after we dropped it from $7300 to the the cheapest being $5300 from Western Distributors for the exact same carpet. For anyone wanting to do carpet after handover maybe have a look at Western Distributors in Sunshine and compare quotes with places like Carpet Court etc..... They also do tiles and floorboards if anyone is interested. They've been in the business for 40 years, so they must be doing something right. Land Deposit - 18/12/2009 Became a land Baron - 21/12/2010 Site Start - 27/1/2011 All moved in!! Re: Porter Davis homes 2794Jul 30, 2011 6:57 am [quote="rammy"]"building1" wrote: "tstr1a" wrote: My experience so far with PD has been exceeded my expectation and it’s all due to having a brilliant building coordinator. My SS is also fantastic and is on top of things. I must say that at the sales process I nearly walked away as it was difficult trying to get prices and estimating costs. Building a house can take it’s time and definitely raises your stress level. I found dealing with PD to be quiet fluid and easy. I sure that I will experience situations during the build which will stress me out but I have an excellent SS which will resolve problems which come along the way. Best of luck with the build and once you start Wonder if you have the same SS we did?? Hi Guys, I have been following this thread and its very helpful. Thanks to all. tstr1a and humble: your thghts have been very helpful. keep'em coming. I have made few mistakes for not doing enough research before contract....and now PD doesn't agree to make any variations....so frustrating!! The process at PD has to change...no clear visibility over prices and keeping all the surprises till the contract day. The whole process is clearly to lockdown the customer. Not happy with the process till contract, partly coz of lack of information and not doing enuf research. I don't want make the same mistakes again, so jumped on the web. It clearly looks the building quality will be dependent on the SS. So question out of ignorance (for PD team too), can we get to chose the SS?? Any good SS in melbourne west? I am waiting for the council permits and will be assigned an SS in 2 weeks time(hopefully). Will be watching this space....[/quote] I can say that I didn't like my build process, I wasn't kept informed at all; and that was because of my SS. He barely calledme, and when he did it was to fix a mistake! PM me if you want to know his name, I built in the west... Re: Porter Davis homes 2795Jul 31, 2011 8:28 pm Victoria_g06 I can say that I didn't like my build process, I wasn't kept informed at all; and that was because of my SS. He barely calledme, and when he did it was to fix a mistake! PM me if you want to know his name, I built in the west... plus one on that comment, my SS comes highly recommended by my neighbours. but unfortunately i didn't have a satisfying experience. SS can be replaced by a construction manager as in my neighbour's case. They had repeating issues with crumbling mortar. lowcocustomz Hi guys, Im building the regatta 23 at the moment and we are at lockup. We have been at that stage for a while with not much movement. I have a couple of questions regarding the fixing of the frame before plastering and how do you know that they have fixed it if they wont show you the report? It also seems that everytime well at least counting about 10 times that I have visited the house recently there has either been no one there and the ss never seems to be there very often. Has anyone else had this problem as it has been since fri the 15th that they finished painting.. and nothing has happened on the inside, only just put on the garage door this week.. I abit worred since the csc told us that tiling was to start on mon the 19th... its now 27th july and nothing has happened... no one has let us no... nothing has been mentioned when talking to the ss... im worried.... Your thought?? Thanks hey lowcocustomz, I had a similar experience- from lockup to pci, there was a standstill period. Apparently I got a new SS around that time (not sure when exactly since there's no communication) When I asked my SS, he pretty much blamed it on the previous SS. If you are not in a hurry to move in, I suggest you let them do their jobs and don't feel pressured if they want to rush you through the pci/handover stage. Also have you tried contacting you CSC? If SS's not communicating, CSC might be a better choice. magicjen17 Can someone please tell me that they have had moments during their building process with this company where they just wanted to give up? Surely I can't be the only one?!? I am honestly not sure whether we should continue down this road any further but if there is light at the end of the tunnel I would love to know! I don't want to throw in the towel but am losing faith. Good news stories anyone? At the end of that tunnel, you get to see your chosen plan mapped out in reality. you know everything's new and don't need to worry about maintenance or renovation. It's an opportunity to start our fresh, to create a world of your dream, and be who you want to be. yes it might also come in with ceilings with circles, chipped skirting boards, windows and doors not sealed properly, termite protection that doesn't work...(i try not to complain to much ) but it should be worthwhile at the end. let's face it, buying a house could be equally daunting. are you a first time builder? I know how that feels like, the experience can even be intimidating at times. Talk to people on this forum, they are the most amazing bunch! maybe start a building thread, sure people would help you out with queries or simply support Re: Porter Davis homes 2796Jul 31, 2011 10:03 pm Hi All, Just a quick question.. We are about to sign on to build with PD after finally securing our block. We have paid our $1000 to hold our start date for September but now our sales assistant wants us to talk to Choices Home loans. Do we have to speak with them? and if we do how much information do we have to give them? We already have our pre aproval for our mortgage so why do we have to give all our personal/financial details to a stranger?? I really don't want to have to talk to a broker... Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Porter Davis homes 2797Jul 31, 2011 10:13 pm cattycatcat Hi All, Just a quick question.. We are about to sign on to build with PD after finally securing our block. We have paid our $1000 to hold our start date for September but now our sales assistant wants us to talk to Choices Home loans. Do we have to speak with them? and if we do how much information do we have to give them? We already have our pre aproval for our mortgage so why do we have to give all our personal/financial details to a stranger?? I really don't want to have to talk to a broker... have you told your sales assistant about the pre-approval? sounds like he/she presumed that you haven't got your finance in place. Re: Porter Davis homes 2798Jul 31, 2011 10:16 pm cattycatcat Hi All, Just a quick question.. We are about to sign on to build with PD after finally securing our block. We have paid our $1000 to hold our start date for September but now our sales assistant wants us to talk to Choices Home loans. Do we have to speak with them? and if we do how much information do we have to give them? We already have our pre aproval for our mortgage so why do we have to give all our personal/financial details to a stranger?? I really don't want to have to talk to a broker... It's not so bad if you tell them you have approval already. When I did this recently they just asked some ballpark questions like how much are you looking to borrow, how much do you have saved, how much do you earn. You don't have to be specific, they just want to make sure you are capable of servicing the loan. If anything I think they just make sure you are aware of what is required. The Choice broker I spoke to was great and didn't push me to use them, just got the figures and said yep I can see you will be right. He then proceeded give me some further information, about how to lower the insurance etc. I even rang back later on to get more information from them, and ended up going with them as they were 1000 times more helpful than the broker we had already seen(this broker also recommended their own loan which is why I was glad to get some info from another party) Anyway in short, don't worry about it if you are happy with your own finances. They won't check up on anything you tell them, it's just a formality Re: Porter Davis homes 2799Jul 31, 2011 10:26 pm bobbie cattycatcat Hi All, Just a quick question.. We are about to sign on to build with PD after finally securing our block. We have paid our $1000 to hold our start date for September but now our sales assistant wants us to talk to Choices Home loans. Do we have to speak with them? and if we do how much information do we have to give them? We already have our pre aproval for our mortgage so why do we have to give all our personal/financial details to a stranger?? I really don't want to have to talk to a broker... have you told your sales assistant about the pre-approval? sounds like he/she presumed that you haven't got your finance in place. Our sales person made a suggestion to us too to use choice home loans, we mentioned to him that we will be going through our broker and do not want to go through choice at the end we had to provide them with a few details though. Looks like it is a PD process just to ensure you can get a loan from the bank so that they can be ensured of a sale. 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