Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Provincial Homes 379Dec 10, 2015 8:45 am kageanrage I guess I'm keen to know - if you all agree that these delays are extreme, and if you have any advice. I've spoken with my SS and with the person we signed contracts with, but not getting any acknowledgement of even any slowness on their part, nor assurances as to the future. Thanks In my opinion as long as they are in the contractual period, let them work to their own pace. I agree it probably has taken a bit longer than I would have thought to get a roof on, but having said that. Once the roof does go on things do move along pretty quickly. No reason why they can't get it done in time I would think. Haven't had a chance to update my blog, but have had a lot done over the past month or two since moving in. Extremely tiring to be honest. Here's the short notes version since my last update. • House repainted on the inside, once we moved in we really were surprised at how bad some of the spots were, we redid it with Wattle ID and it is amazing how much better it looks. Fortunately we have a friend who is a Licensed Painter. • Retaining walls done around the front and back by myself. • Lot leveled with the help of a bobcat driver over 2 days. • Areas to be paved filled with roadbase (15 tonnes !!!!), should be paved this week • Some drainage put in, more to come after paving. • Lots of small things done internally. • Walk in wardrobes all fitted out. Didn't cost as much as we thought for the whole house !!!! Just wish we didn't have the shelf and rails. Pulling them out was a nightmare and meant patching and repainting. • Getting NBN connected was a nightmare, the electrician apparently didn’t hook it up to the street so an excavator had to come in and redo it. Not sure if it was NBN or the electrician at fault here. They blame each other. I'll be preparing my list for Maintenance to send through to Provincial after the break so we shall see how that goes, they came out and fixed the leaking gutter which was great. Adding to the list I mentioned previously. • Door trims coming off front door, and the draft protector doesn't work which means we get soil and dirt coming in, and more recently water under the front doors when we had some sideways rain (thankfully we were home when this happened). • Articulation joint foam has come out in some spots. Going to see if they will just sikaflex them for me like every other house in our area. • Garage door rattles like no other, so much so that we don't use it anymore. • Front door handle is stained with the same stuff that is on the tiles. Whoever they got back to stain the side door trim really did a sloppy job. There are runs all through the paint... it really is just shockingly terrible. Our painter friend says it needs to be sanded back and be redone properly. • Kitchen tap blew apart one night spraying water all over the ceiling. Not fun cleaning up that mess. We had it replaced the next day and will be requesting Provincial replace the piece of crap one that fell apart so we can use it in a laundry fit out one day. The quality of tapware is not that great I feel. The feel of the bathroom taps is not consistent, they all feel either hard to turn on or normal. I guess everyone is different but things I would pay more attention to next time are. • Kitchen drawers only 42cm deep which means no inserts actually fit into them because the standard size seems to be 50cm. We are seriously considering seeing if we can retrofit some standard sized drawers into them. • We didn’t opt to get fly screens at our tender, and finding someone who will come out and do them has been a nightmare. • We were told our water tank couldn’t go on the other side of the house because of the outlet. Well they stuffed this up and our outlet is on the side we wanted it on. This also means getting a side gate has been hard because of the placement of pipes and windows finding a place to mount the gate to the wall is not ideal. • Tapware is questionable, and the wonky toilet is a real pet peeve. Will we build again ? Yes one day, this is our first house after all. With who I don’t know, let’s see if they can fix up the little things. They failed with the brick clean which annoys me every time I look at the bricks above our garage. Re: Provincial Homes 380Dec 10, 2015 9:03 am kavehman In my opinion as long as they are in the contractual period, let them work to their own pace. I agree it probably has taken a bit longer than I would have thought to get a roof on, but having said that. Once the roof does go on things do move along pretty quickly. No reason why they can't get it done in time I would think. Thanks very much kavehman for your advice, and congratulations on all your progress! Exciting times. I'd be interested to hear others' advice also if you have the time, as my wife is strongly of the opinion that we should be writing VERY assertive letters and I'm not so sure. Thanks again The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1612 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74701 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 105551 |