LOL, I don't think the water usage is so much the cost than the supply charges, we had a water bill of a $150 of which $8.50 was for 5000l of water, the rest was supply and waste charges!!
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis homes 6890Mar 19, 2013 5:14 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 6891Mar 19, 2013 5:18 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 6894Mar 19, 2013 8:53 pm Some of my cabinets and doors got installed over the past 2 days. Had a chance to speak to the cabinet installer and the carpenter fitting my doors. In the spirit of giving balanced feedback and credit where credit was due, let me say this... these guys are TOP BLOKES! Here's why i think so: 1. Cabinet installer : told him about the wrong cabinets&kickboards and my concern about the cabinet borders etc. He took the time to explain why the cabinets were delivered looking the way they did. Also made the decision to not install the wrong cabinets until the last minute (even though they were 1st on his list and he is under strict instructions to install everything by the end of the day or not get paid $$) to give time for me to contact my SS who can contact the Cabinet-installer's boss, giving him permission to NOT install the cabinets (geez.. inefficient much?). He also took reassured me re: kickboards (he has to install some but will make it easy to remove without getting damaged) 2. Fitout Carpenter (doing doors & window architraves & skirtings): Arrived as he was meticulously measuring everything (doors openings etc) and checking everything. He even neatly laid everything out in each room to make sure everything was correct. He already noted that some doors were the wrong size / wrong type. He had a nice list of things that he thought were unusual and was going to call to check with my SS before installation so as to avoid making mistakes when I showed up. Had a good chat to him and he will just start with the things that are 100% correct, giving time for my SS to come back on-site and check his list of "unusual" things. These 2 guys are careful and make the extra effort needed if something doesn't seem right. These are tradespeople PD need to keep. If all the tradies working on my house are like these 2 guys, the build with PD would be so much easier and more enjoyable. Sure mistakes do happen but at least they noticed something odd.... and will call to clarify rather than blindly doing stuff... SO long post short.... chalk another score up in the GOOD column.. If u really want the LOOOOONG version, i outlined it on my blog Re: Porter Davis homes 6895Mar 19, 2013 11:14 pm jnkbids, YAY, you had a win for once that’s great hopefully you keep that momentum and your stairs get sorted out! I went to my site today and noticed that the plasters had been and plaster sheeted the entire house in one day, Geeze talk about quick! What a difference having plaster up makes, it actually starting to feel like a home rather than a frame and a roof. It was all going well until I noticed that they did not level the ceiling in four spots (games, study room, bed3 hallway, and dinning) with a really bad section above our Study door in our family having a height difference of 1cm different over 50 cm, you can see it from 10 meters away! It’s even more annoying as I keep raising these issues again and again to my SS.... One of the responses from my SS when I raised these issues last week is that they can twist the cornice to make it look straight… wtf?? Just make it straight… Then my wife spotted cigarette butts all over the floor! I know it can be all swept up and you won't be able to notice it, but I wish people had some respect, they even smoked inside when Porter Davis puts signs on the front and back that say no smoking in the house! Re: Porter Davis homes 6896Mar 20, 2013 12:59 am We'll looking through my photos of the plaster, I noticed that our door and window alignment looks redicoulus as apposed to the lady at contract saying it will be aligned at the top after spending hours on the sliding doors/study windows making sure they aligned like the display did!!..... It was further worsened when PD reliased a mistake right at final construction drawing time when they wanted to reduce the entire houses eaves from 450mm to 350mm making the window sit even higher. No matter how many times I look at it I think it looks stupid.. pretty sad about this one... Might look better with furniture and curtains but .. it still looks stupid! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Porter Davis homes 6897Mar 20, 2013 11:54 am pdkallara33 We'll looking through my photos of the plaster, I noticed that our door and window alignment looks redicoulus as apposed to the lady at contract saying it will be aligned at the top after spending hours on the sliding doors/study windows making sure they aligned like the display did!!..... It was further worsened when PD reliased a mistake right at final construction drawing time when they wanted to reduce the entire houses eaves from 450mm to 350mm making the window sit even higher. No matter how many times I look at it I think it looks stupid.. pretty sad about this one... Might look better with furniture and curtains but .. it still looks stupid! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Wow, that doesn't look right at all. Re: Porter Davis homes 6898Mar 20, 2013 12:02 pm Just got a call from my Mortgage Broker who said the house we are planning to build by PD has been undervalued by over $30,000. Has this happened to any of you? We're building in Berwick Waters, the land value came back spot on with what we paid. *Sigh*... Just when we were getting excited, another curve ball. We're going to look at another bank, however I don't really want to go ahead if we end up owing more than the house and land is worth. I've looked at our upgrades costs but if we start cutting things out there will be nothing left in the house! The total price of the house is $224,000 (Randwick 24) which I thought wasn't that bad. I may have to start looking at a cheaper builder. It's such a shame because i really like PD, and i've spent so so long planning everything with PD. Re: Porter Davis homes 6899Mar 20, 2013 12:09 pm chrystee Just got a call from my Mortgage Broker who said the house we are planning to build by PD has been undervalued by over $30,000. Has this happened to any of you? We're building in Berwick Waters, the land value came back spot on with what we paid. *Sigh*... Just when we were getting excited, another curve ball. We're going to look at another bank, however I don't really want to go ahead if we end up owing more than the house and land is worth. I've looked at our upgrades costs but if we start cutting things out there will be nothing left in the house! The total price of the house is $224,000 (Randwick 24) which I thought wasn't that bad. I may have to start looking at a cheaper builder. It's such a shame because i really like PD, and i've spent so so long planning everything with PD. Yes, I had exactly the same thing (BOM), land spot on, but building contract was over priced and the valuers excuse was that the pricing was overinflated because of the first home owners boost and that it was finishing in the next month or so at the time, so we also lost $30,000 on the house. It meant that we had to secure more of the house against another property so we didn't cop LMI. We plan to live in the house for at least the next 5-8 years, so I'm not to worried about the loss as its not a investment property anyway its our home.. Re: Porter Davis homes 6900Mar 20, 2013 12:55 pm Similar valuation experience here, total valuation came in just over 80% but that's not uncommon at the moment. If it doesn't stop you from obtaining your loan and you have enough equity in the property I wouldn't let it stop you (didn't stop me). The advice I received was that banks are being a lot more conservative lately with their valuations, largely because of the sheer number of houses going up. There are also quite a lot of people defaulting on their loans, which pushes the values down a little (over-supply). Check into what the mortgage insurance cost will work out as before getting too freaked out, in my case it was so little that it made no difference to my overall budget. Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12182 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74219 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 105129 |