Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 6801Mar 06, 2013 6:38 pm Building the Montague 21 by Porter Davis at The Estuary, Leopold. Our Blog: http://porterdavismontague21.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Porter Davis homes 6813Mar 07, 2013 7:41 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: Porter Davis homes 6814Mar 07, 2013 7:45 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: Porter Davis homes 6817Mar 10, 2013 9:41 pm Hi everyone, Had our second visit to hopetoun today and pretty sure we have most of our picks ready for the upcoming colour appointment. Have a question on an upgrade cost for you. Looking at upgrading from a tile kitchen splashback to glass but the inclusion will be cost dependent. Has anyone upgraded their tiles and what was the cost? Thanks Bel Land title: July 2013 .. Oct 2013 ... Nov 2013, Dec 2013 and now February 2014 Anticipated start date: sept 2013... Feb 2014 ...back to Jan 2014 and now March 2014 One day it might happen ... Re: Porter Davis homes 6818Mar 10, 2013 10:29 pm Hi Bel Check out the PD upgrades link viewtopic.php?f=31&t=54817 It's a great way for people to see what others have been charged and the different kinds if things that have been added or changed. The more that people add to this the greater a resource it will be.... (& it will stay up to date) We had the choice of a cat 1 tiled splash back or glass, at no additional cost, so I can't imagine there's too much difference in the price. Good luck Re: Porter Davis homes 6819Mar 13, 2013 1:50 pm NO TRANSPARENCY!! Our dream of building our first home together is very quickly becoming a nightmare! It appears that Porter Davis work under a shroud of secrecy when it comes to setting out the cost of our new home. Each stage of the process underestimates the pricing to get you 'across the line'. First our sales consultant underquoted a number of upgrades we were considering - thus luring our $1,000 deposit. Prior to tender we visited Hopetoun to get an idea of which items we would like upgraded. It's impossible to get pricing or even an estimate for these items from the staff at Hopetoun prior to your colour appointment. They are well trained and have been instructed not to discuss the price of any items. Again, keeping everything top secret. Then we got to tender - our initial tender document appeared to have similar TOTAL pricing to our quote, however many things had gone up and other things had been omitted from the document to compensate for the increases. We were methodical in our approach to the document ensuring we ticked off every item to our initial quote which is how we found all the missing items and increases. In all, $8,000+ had been added to our tender without any material value. We had also asked for the upgrade costs for a number of additional items to be sent to us prior to our tender appointment (seeing we couldn't get them from Hopetoun). We wanted to consider and make an informed decision on these items including their affordability. We asked several times for these things but we were not provided with them. We asked about our list of upgrade items again at tender and were told that the purpose of the tender meeting was not to go through upgrades but to discuss structural changes we required. Upon our insistence we were provided with an allowance in our tender document for the items we had inquired about. We were told the allowance would more than cover the items on our list and if we didn't spend all of the allowance we would be refunded the difference. So once again, we paid the next deposit payment thinking we were finally reasonably close to our final construction cost. You guessed it! The allowance is nowhere near the amount required to cover the upgrade costs. In fact, one item alone, completely utilised the full allowance. We have not yet attended our contract appointment and we are considering whether to cut our losses and walk away from Porter Davis altogether. No doubt there will be further additional costs added to the contract too. Despite what PD think, we do not have an endless supply of cash to keep tipping into this building project without receiving any additional value. If you are considering building with PD I would suggest you make sure you budget a significant allowance for incidentals and underquotes and expect to receive nothing for this money. You will also need to allow an additional $50k to $60k if you would like just a few of the upgrades shown in their display home. Re: Porter Davis homes 6820Mar 13, 2013 4:49 pm neilrosh NO TRANSPARENCY!! Our dream of building our first home together is very quickly becoming a nightmare! It appears that Porter Davis work under a shroud of secrecy when it comes to setting out the cost of our new home. Each stage of the process underestimates the pricing to get you 'across the line'. First our sales consultant underquoted a number of upgrades we were considering - thus luring our $1,000 deposit. Prior to tender we visited Hopetoun to get an idea of which items we would like upgraded. It's impossible to get pricing or even an estimate for these items from the staff at Hopetoun prior to your colour appointment. They are well trained and have been instructed not to discuss the price of any items. Again, keeping everything top secret. Then we got to tender - our initial tender document appeared to have similar TOTAL pricing to our quote, however many things had gone up and other things had been omitted from the document to compensate for the increases. We were methodical in our approach to the document ensuring we ticked off every item to our initial quote which is how we found all the missing items and increases. In all, $8,000+ had been added to our tender without any material value. We had also asked for the upgrade costs for a number of additional items to be sent to us prior to our tender appointment (seeing we couldn't get them from Hopetoun). We wanted to consider and make an informed decision on these items including their affordability. We asked several times for these things but we were not provided with them. We asked about our list of upgrade items again at tender and were told that the purpose of the tender meeting was not to go through upgrades but to discuss structural changes we required. Upon our insistence we were provided with an allowance in our tender document for the items we had inquired about. We were told the allowance would more than cover the items on our list and if we didn't spend all of the allowance we would be refunded the difference. So once again, we paid the next deposit payment thinking we were finally reasonably close to our final construction cost. You guessed it! The allowance is nowhere near the amount required to cover the upgrade costs. In fact, one item alone, completely utilised the full allowance. We have not yet attended our contract appointment and we are considering whether to cut our losses and walk away from Porter Davis altogether. No doubt there will be further additional costs added to the contract too. Despite what PD think, we do not have an endless supply of cash to keep tipping into this building project without receiving any additional value. If you are considering building with PD I would suggest you make sure you budget a significant allowance for incidentals and underquotes and expect to receive nothing for this money. You will also need to allow an additional $50k to $60k if you would like just a few of the upgrades shown in their display home. I hear you!!! We've found this frustrating too. We're still waiting for prices and info. Our contract appointment was meant to be this morning but we had to reschedule it. I hope we can get the info before hand. It's also ridiculous that pricing can vary so much between initial quotes, tender, colours appointment and contract. It's not petrol we're buying! You don't go to buy a car without doing your research and knowing all the prices for upgrades before hand - and this is much, much, much more money being spent than on buying a new car! Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12320 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74688 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 105491 |