Hi all,
I'm in Stage 19 on Blanchard Ave
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 31Jul 10, 2014 1:53 pm Anocha Hi Emily, I would ring the developer and find out exactly what's going on. What is BC? Building contractor? Sorry I'm still learning with all the technical terms as well lol! Can't they tell you more than just waiting for approval? It's been over 4 months and did you go ahead with the upgrade at the time? Sorry yes it means building coordinator. Yes we paid the extra money and upgraded to the ones they said. I'll try and ring the developer. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 32Jul 25, 2014 7:40 am Hi Emily, Any luck on finding when your build is going to start? Hope all is going well Building Prescott-Burbank Land Contract: 4/9 Land Settlement: 24/4 Colour: 21/5 Slab: 10/7 Frame: 15/7 Lockup: 13/8 Fixing: 2/9 PCI: 18/11 Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 33Aug 29, 2014 7:55 pm Hi Anocha, We have still not started. I am SOOO over porter davis and my building coordinator who does not know how to coordinate anything. I don't believe anything she says. It's literally delay after delay. Everyone else seems to be building around us. How is yours going? Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 34Aug 30, 2014 1:27 am Haven't posted in quite a while! So we settled on June 30th and also have not started building yet .. same as above ^^ seems houses are popping up all around us. It took almost 5 weeks from when we settled for Metricon to tell us that the council required some other permit which can take another 30-60 days to approve before building permits can be issued. It seems that there was a lack of communication between the developers and Metricon as to who was supposed to organised this permit. Anyhow Metricon will be paying for this permit and have waived the $2600 kitchen upgrade fee which is better than nothing but we'd obviously have much rathered our frames to be up at this point in time *shakes fist* Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 35Aug 30, 2014 8:38 am Phoenix, I feel your pain. Our dream to be in before chrsitmas has been ripped away. At least Metricon have given you some discount. Porter Davis has given nothing. They also told us last week that they accidently put in a drought garden instead of a formal garden on our plans. If we wanted to change it then we would need to go through developers approval again. Might I add it took the developer 4 months to approve our roof tiles that we had to upgrade to. They told us which ones we had to have and it still took them four months to approve it. I feel that since porter davis stuffed up that we should get a discount or not even pay for the garden that we did not want in the first place. You are off church road aren't you???? At least i'm still at home and am not having to rent. From memory I think you were saying you were living at your inlaws. You poor things hahaha. Lets hope we start building this week. I did email my building coordinator but of course no reply. Do you know of the delays over christmas? How long they are closed for? I am a teacher and am hoping to move in over the christmas school holidays. Don't know if that will happen. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 36Aug 30, 2014 10:04 pm Emily that's terrible... I can't believe that they won't waive any amount at all from their garden stuff up. Metricon initially declined our request for compensation but then approved it when we complained again a week or so later. Yes we are on the corner of Church and Cherryfield. Where abouts is your block? I haven't asked Metricon specifically about the breaks over the holidays but from what I've heard from others they usually stop a week or so before Christmas and begin again mid January. We've got no hope of getting in before then so I'm sort of deflated and don't care anymore. This last permit requirement has been a kick in the guts. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 37Aug 30, 2014 10:05 pm Oh so what will you do about the garden? Quite a predicament they've left you in! Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 38Aug 31, 2014 10:52 am Phoenix, I am feeling the exact same way. I don't even care and am not interested in the build anymore. We can't do anything about the garden stuff up. We just have to live with a garden that we don't want. I'm not going to change it and then have to go through the approval process again. it is just way too complicated. I am very annoyed that we still have to pay full price for something we didn't want and that they stuffed up. We are just a few streets down from where the old display homes were. So are you still waiting for the permit or have you been handed over to construction? I really hope you guys can start soon!!!! Well hopefully one day soon our houses will both start and then we can update with happy points and progress photos hahaha. Keep us updated with how it is going. Re: Somerfield Estate - Keysborough 39Sep 01, 2014 9:21 am Omg what have they done to u guys Phoenix & Emily!??! I'm so sorry to hear this ((( I don't understand why u guys have to keep going back to the developers 4 approvals? We r building with Burbank, and they already did all that b4 the land settled, the only thing that held up our building commencement was the build permit from the council (took 8 weeks). Did u wait long between signing the land contract and the settlement? We waited about 7 months, maybe that's why it gave Burbank heaps of time to get all the approvals from the developers. Emily - does it say on the build contract what ur original garden was? U should put the complaint through or maybe say something like ur gonna pull out or something? Sorry I'm not an expert, just really think it's unfair! We r building with Burbank so far so good (fingers crossed), we r coming up to the fixup stage (cabinetry, painting, tiling, etc) hopefully finishing b4 Xmas. I was in the same situation like u guys - waiting for the build to start and everyone said once it's started it's very quick, so hang in there guys.. I think if u didn't wait that long between the land contract signing and settlement maybe that's why ur still waiting for the developers/council approvals.. All the best for both of ur builds.. Keep us posted ) Building Prescott-Burbank Land Contract: 4/9 Land Settlement: 24/4 Colour: 21/5 Slab: 10/7 Frame: 15/7 Lockup: 13/8 Fixing: 2/9 PCI: 18/11 |