Thanks very much for the replies.
This has become an issue only my TV wasn't fitting properly. It was requested as a variance through the tiling company and the builder quoted…

Any help on feedback would really be appreciated, thanks.

Hi All
We recently moved in our new house and due to the knowledge of fellow H1'ers we have built a very decent house, thanks to everyone on this…

Hi All, We received our keys on Wednesday. Apart of couple of paint touch ups there is no issues that we could see. All the issue that were identified during…

Hi All,
We had our PCI on Friday and most of the issues were related to paint patches. There were also issues like unfinished painting on couple of places, a broken…

Hi All, We have received our final invoice from WH and the PCI is this Friday followed by the keys mid next week.
Double check any costs associated with landscaping. There…

Thanks for all your replies. I will go with the solution of installing a retaining wall (preferably treated pine of ACQ grade) right next to the fence and fill in…

Hi MT70, We went with grey for both wall (1 side) and the floor. The rest 2 and a bit sides are white and it turns out to be a…

Hi chonancy
Below is the picture of the niche in our shower. The place where you can keep your soap, shampoo etc,.
http://i515.photobucket.com/albums/t356 ... 4twcop.jpg

For our backyard we did the Heron block retaining wall (45m) and pine retaining wall (30m) through WH and it was expensive. Since there was a promotion of 5k from…

Hi am99,
As Matt1 has stated he charges $595 and recommends 2 inspections, one after the frames and the next one closer to PCI.
Yes, the brick…

Hello All,
We are building our new house and the driveway was poured recently. Below is the picture of one side of the driveway where
there is…

Extreme is right on the money. We engaged HKRyan after the frames are done and he picked up few things which were happily rectified by WH. We would be engaging…

Hi Nat and Dan
I half heartedly choose Orpheus and it turned out to be a fantastic choice. BTW, we are building with Wisdom Homes and in a…

Hi LouR
Congrats on signing the contract. We used State Demolition and they did the job well. I got 4 quotes and went with the cheapest.
Good Luck!

Please check carefully for any unwanted items. In my quote for the driveway and crossover they had "Traffic control for crossover" valued $1500. When I questioned WH apologized and removed…

Hi All
Would you be kind enough to PM me if you know any good brickies please. This is for the front masonry wall.
Have a good weekend.

Hi ugly99,
Similar time frame here too, it took us 2 weeks to receive the construction plan. Having said that they took almost 5 weeks to do the slab.

Hi Sheilzy, Ours is a KDR too but at Strathfield.

Hi Sheilzy
They have just completed the gyprocking and on to cornices now followed by staircase this Friday.
http://i515.photobucket.com/albums/t356 ... qi4krg.jpg
Same here, we didn't…

Hi Sheilzy, We are building a Manhattan through Wisdom Homes. When my wife choose Orpheus I wasn't happy and wanted a different color. We went with her selection and the…

Hi All, For this of you who are worried about admin being slow, WH compensates by their build time. We are building a Manhattan 39 and the slab was poured…

ANZ didn't have any problem as well with the progress payment.

Hi LouR, Welcome to Wisdom Home build. We signed our contract in Aug 2013 and our build started last month. The slab has been poured 2 weeks ago and…

We covered 3 appointments in 1 day to reduce the time off from work and was bit daunting. In spite of taking lots of notes from H1 on what I…

Hi Millie11, I got 4 quotes recently and went with the cheapest which was from State D. No dramas or surprise calls saying they have found something (which is usually…

Same here Matt1, Ours was around 95K and I've engaged them to do the driveway and the walkway. Even then I had to pay 3k more like you. Now I…

Hi Extreme, Sorry to make it worse for you. It is initial on every page times 2 copies
Same here twhjc2014....got a call from the…

Same here, its been 10 months since we have signed the tender and they said they will do the excavation today but not sure whether it has happened or not.…