Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a Waldorf by Porter Davis 401Aug 26, 2011 12:53 pm Building Waldorf 44 with PD Feel free to follow our build progress - http://melnrobsknockdownrebuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Building a Waldorf by Porter Davis 405Aug 29, 2011 12:00 pm 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: Building a Waldorf by Porter Davis 420Sep 07, 2011 10:40 am No progress will happen this week as the brickies are away waiting for the scaffolding to be erected before they can continue working on our house. I went to the site last night and to my surprise scaffolding was delivered ready for installation today. Brickies are scheduled to come back on Monday to finish of the remaining brick work and couple of weeks after I will be in lock-up, which mean that a major invoice will need to be paid. At lock up we would have paid PD 70% of the construction costs but it doesn’t look like the house is 70% complete (PD manages their cash flow very well). The risk is if PD goes broke right now I would find it extremely difficult (actually impossible) to find a builder to finish off the remaining works for 30% of the total contract price. Also, imagine the nightmare dealing with insurance to pick up the bill; it would set us back at least a year. Also delivered were the plaster boards (Gyprock) and our 75mm cornices. I noticed that the plaster board were 6 metres long which means less joins and hopefully no cracks in the future. Going upstairs I am fathomed on how they managed to get the plaster boards up there (still scratching my head) they couldn’t have carried the boards on by one as this would be inefficient. My new lovely pivot door frame was also delivered, SS managed to fix this error swiftly. So far I have had a trouble free build and I’m extremely happy with the quality of the build. Keep it up PD. I’ll post some pics up on the weekend for those interested. Wow that is terrible about the insurance! I guess ideally proof of insurance should be provided prior to first deposit but I'd imagine they would refuse to be out of… 17 14230 There isn't any need to. As I wrote previously, there isn't a set term, there is just commencement based on earlier of contract signing or building permit issue and… 24 13383 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 6491 |