Building with 8Homes??

Hi all,
Where are you building with 8homes?

We are considering them too. At Armstrong Creek - Warralily Development.

Happy to exchange notes.

Hi All.

My husband and I are building with 8 Homes too They have been absolutely SENSATIONAL with everything. We have had no issues at all... What issues have you had so far? We had the most wonderful streamlined, no stress process. Though we liked everything about the plan as it was, so really didn't need to make any changes - just the odd upgrade here and there

We are building at Armstrong Creek too What stage are you in?

Meowsy, have you been to any of their display homes? They are fairly upgraded so you can see what most things look like and maybe just ask the sales consultant to go through the upgrades on display for you, just so you know what's standard and what's not! Are you building with them as well?

We're having some troubles now, they have tried to more than double the site costs on us, unless we shift the house more towards the centre of our block in which case they are only adding an extra 50%. They also haven't been able to even provide a good explanation as to why to the sales rep either.

I thought I'd update - Site costs are back down close to the original amount and the house is back to being sited on the boundary. We weren't able to get any answers except that the computer automatically calculated it because of a batter at the front of our property. Pays to double check things!

They are still claiming it needs a retaining wall, however we are yet to see a pic showing where this would go - hopefully today.

Hi Everyone,

Had problems trying to log back into this site.

Firstly, I've purchased the d-three and made some minor changes such as separating the toilet and bathroom upstairs and adding internal access for the garage. Putting a few doors in like to block the pantry from the laundry and from the ensuite upstairs from the WIR.

I've also signed a NSV during my sales consult that I wanted to extend the kitchen bench but not as long as the display in Mernda. I just want it slightly shorter but still able to place the island bench in the middle as oppose attached to the wall like the display. Weeks later when I went to meet and sign the contract, I noticed that my kitchen bench extension upgrade was not included in my tender. I asked about it and they seem to have lost and didn't add it in and found it later when I told them that I did sign the NSV. So, that was fine and they added it in. So I re-read the contract and noticed that it says 'to attach against the wall' and I told the consultant at head office that was not what I wanted as I wanted as a standalone in the middle of the kitchen area. But she didn't want to hear what I had to say and just said that's impossible and cannot be done even though my sales consultant back at the sales office said I could if I didn't do the full extension.

Long story short, I went home upset knowing that I'll be getting a kitchen I didn't want..went back to look at the display home again to see how it looks but wasn't happy in getting it. I checked their other display homes and noticed that you can extend the kitchen bench but not to the full length which allows you to place the island bench in the middle as a standalone. I took pictures and measurements and sent it to headoffice and asked them to look at this again and re-do my drawings etc. At the end they allowed me to do it...phew.

So all good now! =)

Hi,

Yea during the appointment, you see everything that you can upgrade and they'll tell you the cost of it all, so by the end you'll know how much you're spending which is good. You'll be able to take samples home too.

Any idea what you wanted to upgrade?

Hi purple_le24,

It's so exciting to see someone else is building the D-Three, we will have to keep in touch during our builds and compare notes

It sounds like we upgraded similar things, we added the internal entry door from garage also, a sliding door between the kitchen and WIP, a large sliding door to the theartre room and also a sliding door between the main bedroom and WIR as well as upgrading the alfresco sliding door to a stacker door. We also upgraded both WIR's to mimic the Mernda display. Hubby is a chef so we upgraded to the full length of the kitchen bench in the Mernda display, I did like the idea of an island bench and only doing a partial upgrade to make it longer like yourself but hubby wanted the whole 9 yards so i let him win that battle Being a chef he also wanted pot draws so that was another upgrade and the kitchen/bathroom cabinetry we upgraded to a semi gloss also which was Category 3 i think. We added a split system to the meals/family area, added overhead cupboards to the laundry and after much umming and arghing we decided for the sake of our forever home we would cough up a little extra cash and upgrade the stairs as well. We upgraded to the open cut stairs like the Mernda display, but instead of the glass we have just gone for stainless steel barristades which was much cheaper!

Upstairs we upgraded to a double vanity in the ensuite and extended the shower to 900x900, we would have loved a seperate toilet but unfortunately it then wouldn't fit. Also in the main bathroom, we had added the seperate toilet with our sales guy BUT when we got to our contract appointment we were told that we couldn't have it as it wouldn't fit due to a void being located in the bathroom corner where the sales guy had drawn the seperate toilet. Damn...i wish i had fought for it more as from reading your post it seems you have been given the green light...

Have you started building yet? We are locked in to start on Friday but that seems wishful thinking as the last thing i heard they didn't quite have the building permits yet either :s Once they get them they still need to pass this onto our bank to approve the first payment prior to Friday - seems unlikely??? Hopefully if we don't start on Friday it should only be a few days later - we can not wait to start

Wow, i am glad i came across your post regarding your upgrades purple_le24 because i then questioned 8homes about why we couldn't have the seperate WC to the main bathroom and they have now decided we can It will mean the upstairs WIL will be smaller to accommodate for having the void in there instead of the bathroom but that's a small sacrifice for the sake of a little toilet privacy

I loved the Mernda staircase too but ours already cost about $7500 and i couldn't justify another $10000 just the glass so we sacrificed there. It is a good idea you have though about changing it down the track - it will probably work out cheaper for you too. Our alfresco door isn't quite as grand as the Mernda display, it's still just a sliding door but we have paid like an extra $800 to turn it into a stacker door. So instead of having the 1 panel that slides back into the other, it will have 3 panels which 2 of them will slide back into the remaining 1 meaning when we open the door it will be wider. Definitely the french doors would have been well and trully out of our price range so we didn't even bother.

Thankfully we just signed up in April and at that stage the D-Three already had the promotional $8,000 off it (probably helped us justify spending extra on the upgrades?) I'm sure they should be able to transfer you across to the new deal though, it seems only fair and if you were to cancel and start again (saving you money still) it will create more work for 8homes, re-doing paperwork etc, so it makes sense that they just allow you to switch to the current pricing. Let me know how you go though and my fingers are crossed for you

Our new site start is scheduled for Friday, yup this Friday coming - EXCITING! Can you tell i can't wait? I can't wait to start seeing the progress of the build, hopefully they stay on schedule because i would love to be in by Christmas When is your land due to title? Hopefully it's not too far away for you!