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I remember your post about your Tender appointment. Hopefully your contract appointment goes smoothly, come back and let us know how you go?
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 6730Feb 27, 2013 4:21 pm tstr1a Can't blv that staff just go home when they are in the middle of a $$$$$$$$ deal... Totally agree Its frustrating as we now have to take additional time off work and reschedule leave again for all the other appointments. If our second tender appointment does not complete on time I will certainly be making them well aware of my dissatisfaction! We have already asked for them to send through the tender documents (unpriced) so that we can check over all the details and hopefully then spend the time in the meeting effectively. Re: Porter Davis homes 6732Feb 27, 2013 4:32 pm Last week I had my 12 months maintenance inspection and the inspector was a top bloke, every defect I mentioned he agreed and organised to fix. the maintenance team called me promptly and organised all the trades for next week. Really happy with my PD experience so far. Re: Porter Davis homes 6733Feb 27, 2013 4:36 pm tstr1a Last week I had my 12 months maintenance inspection and the inspector was a top bloke, every defect I mentioned he agreed and organised to fix. the maintenance team called me promptly and organised all the trades for next week. Really happy with my PD experience so far. That's fantastic news, you've had a great run with PD the whole way through - it's great to read how responsive they have been with your build... I'd love to know what kinds of defects you have to be fixed???? Re: Porter Davis homes 6734Feb 27, 2013 5:17 pm madhouse1 tstr1a Last week I had my 12 months maintenance inspection and the inspector was a top bloke, every defect I mentioned he agreed and organised to fix. the maintenance team called me promptly and organised all the trades for next week. Really happy with my PD experience so far. That's fantastic news, you've had a great run with PD the whole way through - it's great to read how responsive they have been with your build... I'd love to know what kinds of defects you have to be fixed???? -switch for exhurst fan not working -gap in door jamb on pivot door -cloak room door not working -crack in quad -little mortar patchup around air-con other small such which I can't remember now. Re: Porter Davis homes 6735Feb 27, 2013 9:17 pm Serenity_Now tstr1a Can't blv that staff just go home when they are in the middle of a $$$$$$$$ deal... Totally agree Its frustrating as we now have to take additional time off work and reschedule leave again for all the other appointments. If our second tender appointment does not complete on time I will certainly be making them well aware of my dissatisfaction! We have already asked for them to send through the tender documents (unpriced) so that we can check over all the details and hopefully then spend the time in the meeting effectively. We really should have insisted on a second tender appointment rather than just pressing on and trying to fix everything afterwards. Our tender was such a bad experience. Still, the staff at PD did rally in response to my very forceful and vocal complaints resulting in a much better contract experience. The contract meeting took just under six hours and aside from a handful of concerns it was actually reasonable. It took a lot longer mostly because we had to fix a few leftover issues from tender and make sure nothing slipped through. There were a few bits and pieces that annoyed me that could have been avoided, but our BC did an admirable job of moving past those past challenges. A couple of biggies though... Our network pack for NBN was either incorrectly selected at electrical (pretty sure it wasn't), incorrectly built into our house & land package (possible) or just poorly understood by PD (probable) which has our price bumped up by about $2.5k. It'll get fixed in a few days as a post-contract-variation, but I'm not pleased. The option to include a spa bath in the ensuite turned out to be a waste of time and money. We've been pushing for drawings and details for many weeks now without success, but now we have the full details it turns out that the designers failed to leave any space for a towel rail in the ensuite! Every single wall is covered, excluding a short 50cm stretch behind the shower door which happens to be right beside the toilet. So we've had to revert to the standard bathroom design. This is a shame, because we really wanted the spa, but is also a serious financial issue because we now have to pay for the drawings to be updated and a fresh 6 star energy report to be put together. The spa upgrade was $1,800ish, and apparently the re-draw back to standard configuration will cost us $1,200. So we'll be spending almost as much to remove the spa as it cost to put it there in the first place! Grrr! Oh, and still no commencement date. A ballpark indication (verbally) but nothing firm to rely on. Beyond those few hassles things went well and we're signed up. My feeling is that things have to go more smoothly now since there are fewer opportunities for confusion. It's all on paper, nice and clear. I'll post a new thread in a minute to see what ideas people have about towel rails just to keep us on topic in here. Re: Porter Davis homes 6736Feb 27, 2013 9:21 pm tstr1a Last week I had my 12 months maintenance inspection and the inspector was a top bloke, every defect I mentioned he agreed and organised to fix. the maintenance team called me promptly and organised all the trades for next week. Really happy with my PD experience so far. Ugh u have been really lucky so far... mine has ranged from excellent to bad to excellent to bad.... repeat cycle endlessly the plasterers came in today and plaster the walls and ceilings even though there are still outstanding issues from pre-plaster report. has anyone gotten PD to remove plaster walls to show evidence of defects being repaired? I highly doubt any tradespeople came to fix things between 4pm yesterday afternoon and 7am this morning to enable the plastering to happen at 8 am this morning Re: Porter Davis homes 6737Feb 27, 2013 9:24 pm jnkbids tstr1a Last week I had my 12 months maintenance inspection and the inspector was a top bloke, every defect I mentioned he agreed and organised to fix. the maintenance team called me promptly and organised all the trades for next week. Really happy with my PD experience so far. Ugh u have been really lucky so far... mine has ranged from excellent to bad to excellent to bad.... repeat cycle endlessly the plasterers came in today and plaster the walls and ceilings even though there are still outstanding issues from pre-plaster report. has anyone gotten PD to remove plaster walls to show evidence of defects being repaired? I highly doubt any tradespeople came to fix things between 4pm yesterday afternoon and 7am this morning to enable the plastering to happen at 8 am this morning just had a look at ur blog. I made sure that the butlers pantry rangehood vented outside as well. Re: Porter Davis homes 6738Feb 27, 2013 9:28 pm tstr1a just had a look at ur blog. I made sure that the butlers pantry rangehood vented outside as well. Yeah.. that was the plan.. until some "genius" decided to place the pipe almost 1.5metres away from the external vent so now the rangehood vents to NOWHERE!! You know HEAPS about construction,do you know how PD would ensure the toilet exhaust fan for the downstairs bathrooms actually connect to the external vents? it seems a looong way to randomly shove a pipe and hope for the best when the ceiling is already installed Re: Porter Davis homes 6739Feb 27, 2013 9:30 pm they will only listen to their inspectors reports. per building regs the stages which must be approved are: pre-slab slab framing compliance at the end, roof plumbing, plumbing, electrical, water proofing and energy rating. the rest are the other inspections are irrelevant to builders (pre-plaster, fixing, PCI), actually not required. As a customer you need to ensure that work is per the regs and 2007 standards & tolerance. Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 13889 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. 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