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6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis Upgrades

In our experience the sales consultant will be able to give you upgrade costs on structural items. Any upgrade costs to kitchen, tap ware, fixture you wont know till you…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

Hi all,
Opinions needed, we just had our oak engineered flooring installed post our PD build and not happy with the knots filled in with this grey colour.
What are your thoughts?…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Were hoping to settle before Christmas, but won't actually move in till January as we are doing our own floorboards and carpet post handover.

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Wow that was quick! I don't have an idea what our delay was we started building late March.

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

we had our PCI over 3 weeks ago and still waiting for our defects to be corrected. When did you start building?

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

Great, thanks for your help, will go to the house tonight and have another look.

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

so do we! and our friend who is a carpenter also came to our PCI and try to fight this with our SS, but it literally turned into a screaming…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

We had our PCI yesterday and noticed the nail pins in the skirting around our windows is visible, anyone else have this issue where skirting is not smooth. Our SS…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Good question! I would probably say a combination of maybe our SS and availability of tradies. Weather hasn't been much of an issue. They powered through the first 3 months,…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Wow that's quick! Can you believe we started late march and our PCI is on Thursday. If all goes well, still feel like there is so much left to do…

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6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

Sure is!

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Sure is! We choose monument

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

We have alpine stone in our bathrooms, wish I choose something else. There are a lot of variations in the tile. I feel like ours look dirty :(

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6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

So glad I just saw your facade, I noticed your window above the theatre is different two ours, I've just looked at our plans and should have the same window…

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Bricks are industrial char and front door and garage are both monument

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Looks good, we just kept the standard render inclusion as well, didn't pay any extra

6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis homes

Yes I bought the Clipsal ones online and will do after handover, check out agmelectrical.com.au cheapest prices online.

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6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

here is our bronte facade for anyone who may be thinking of the same.

Porter Davis - Madison 40
6 years6 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Were building the Madison 40 and choose not to go with Birk, as they quoted 10K for 4 sheer curtains. rip off! we've gone else where and getting 4 sheer…

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7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Were approximately 5 weeks off from finishing!! getting so exciting now, but we have so much to do post handover.

Porter Davis - Madison 40
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7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Battle of the garage access door, I had the exact same issue! I didn't want to spoil the look of the entrance as we also have the open staircase. At…

Porter Davis - Madison 40
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7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Its easy to do, we visited WOS a few times before our selection appointments. there is so much to look at. Good Luck!

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

We upgraded our stairs as per display, see below prices that we were quoted in 2015. Our stairs below,.
- Contemporary stair…

Porter Davis - Madison 40
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7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

We opted for refrig cooling, as we have heard evaporative cooling is not as effective.

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

We choose the Bronte facade, what is the issue with your refrig cooling?

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Let me know how you go, would be interested to see if you also have the same issue.

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

i'm not to sure how it all works, i'm pretty OCD can could notice the different heights. this is one thing we were very specific in all our appointments that…

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Hi Gio,
We are also building the madison 40 an upgraded all our door/window heights to 2400mm height to match the stacker doors.
However once the windows and stackers were installed we…

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis - Madison 40

Nice, they work quick trust me! our slab was poured on the 27th March and we are already up to fixings stage. Also building the Madison 40.

7 years7 yearsdc_1985dc_1985 posted:
Porter Davis double storey

Once you sign and attend your WOS appointment you start seeing actual prices for your fixtures. Based on your choices.
Were building the madison 40, happy to share prices of anything…

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