Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 14, 2023 10:25 am Hi All, Hope you are well. I am a First Home buyer and would want to get your feedback based on your experience with Sherridon and the journey till now. My budget is a bit tight but noticing that Sherridon's base pricing is competitive and lesser than other builders and it seems they offer more squares for a price which other builders offer at lease 2-3 squares less. Eg: They offer 38sq house for 384k and for the same price Carlisle offers 35sq, Henleys offer 34sq house. I can see that they have good reviews plus some 1* reviews as well in productreview.com. Is their build quality, workmanship, transparency, timelines and support are good enough? Or is it that we need to be very cautious and alert as otherwise it may lead up to difficulties later? These days I can see every builder has all types of reviews so it really is difficult to asses anyone. What do you think about their inclusions and upgrades? Is it worthwhile to consider them , what would you think. I dont know how it worked for others who has good remarks on them, but based on standard pricing and house sizes, the titled land discount of 16k, it appears to be competitive. Request your feedback and your experience. Thank You. Kes Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 2Feb 14, 2023 12:22 pm dont get too caught up in the base price/square equations. You're better off asking for the price lists (adenda) for the display homes you're interested in to see what has been done over and above standard to see how much the stuff costs. No one ever buys the base price home. Each builder will have varied pricing in their upgrades and you might find yourself paying more than you expected on a cheaper home because you got stung on upgrades. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 3Feb 14, 2023 12:26 pm Yep, I agree. Thanks. I will see how it all stacks up after adding our list of upgrades. If you have experience with them, how was it, the entire journey from choosing them to completion. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 4Feb 14, 2023 12:29 pm Ks7 Yep, I agree. Thanks. I will see how it all stacks up after adding our list of upgrades. If you have experience with them, how was it, the entire journey from choosing them to completion. i dont have experience with them. but ive built a few houses and the value propositions isnt always black and white. For instance many builders offer double glazing throughout and brick above windows as standard. But you expect their base to be slightly higher. Some will offer you 20 downlights included, but youll find you want +80 etc. So costs ad dup quickly. The better view you have of the cost of each of the upgrades as they appear in the displays, you'll have a much clearer picture of whats better value. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 5Feb 14, 2023 12:40 pm Yes, Ok. few other queries pls, Refrigerated cooling is so expensive compared to Evaporative cooling. Is the cooling facility can be dealt at a later point after the house is built, if yes, would doing it externally with a tradie/supplier cost comparatively lesser? Is that better or is it good to install it during the build itself. Is getting a three phase power supply will be good futuristically ? Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 6Feb 14, 2023 1:04 pm Be very cautious about the 'verified' builders' reviews in ProductReview. You just don't know who is behind the anonymous avatars there and what their purpose is. Consider asking the builder for a list of some relevant recent customers that you may speak directly with, only speak in person or on their identified mobile phone number. No build process is perfect and its telling to learn what key issues arose and how the builder resolved them. If the builder cannot or won't provide you with a good list of such referees thank them for their time and walk away. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 7Feb 14, 2023 1:21 pm Ks7 Yes, Ok. few other queries pls, Refrigerated cooling is so expensive compared to Evaporative cooling. Is the cooling facility can be dealt at a later point after the house is built, if yes, would doing it externally with a tradie/supplier cost comparatively lesser? Is that better or is it good to install it during the build itself. Is getting a three phase power supply will be good futuristically ? ahh good question. The builder cooling prices are classic price gouging. My builder tried to sell me an actron advance 24kw system for 32k. The wholesale for just the system to an installer is ~10k, and i got quotes form two installers for post hand over for between 16-18k. I took these to the builder and asked them to do better. In the end, they gave t to me for 20k, which is a premium i was happy to pay as the post hand over install would have required my roof sheets to be taken off, battens and sarking cut and the system to be craned in. It can be done after hand over, but as mentioned above its a process, but the installers have been doing that for years. So its not a problem, its just worth noting any problems down the track with the roof and the builder could have a get out of jail free card. in my view its better to get the builder to do it. less grey area about liability when something goes wrong. Refrigerated is far superior evaporative in almost all use cases. My recommendation is get some quotes from several installers for the same products that the builder offers and show them that their pricing is not even competitive with the market. You should get a better outcome. My argument to the builder was "you can either make some money on this (even though its less than you were planning to) or you can make no money on this". The logical conclusion is for the builder to do it cheaper given you have cheaper quotes in hand. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 8Feb 14, 2023 2:04 pm Kippers01 Be very cautious about the 'verified' builders' reviews in ProductReview. You just don't know who is behind the anonymous avatars there and what their purpose is. Consider asking the builder for a list of some relevant recent customers that you may speak directly with, only speak in person or on their identified mobile phone number. No build process is perfect and its telling to learn what key issues arose and how the builder resolved them. If the builder cannot or won't provide you with a good list of such referees thank them for their time and walk away. Thank You for the insight. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 9Feb 14, 2023 2:07 pm ponzutwo Ks7 Yes, Ok. few other queries pls, Refrigerated cooling is so expensive compared to Evaporative cooling. Is the cooling facility can be dealt at a later point after the house is built, if yes, would doing it externally with a tradie/supplier cost comparatively lesser? Is that better or is it good to install it during the build itself. Is getting a three phase power supply will be good futuristically ? ahh good question. The builder cooling prices are classic price gouging. My builder tried to sell me an actron advance 24kw system for 32k. The wholesale for just the system to an installer is ~10k, and i got quotes form two installers for post hand over for between 16-18k. I took these to the builder and asked them to do better. In the end, they gave t to me for 20k, which is a premium i was happy to pay as the post hand over install would have required my roof sheets to be taken off, battens and sarking cut and the system to be craned in. It can be done after hand over, but as mentioned above its a process, but the installers have been doing that for years. So its not a problem, its just worth noting any problems down the track with the roof and the builder could have a get out of jail free card. in my view its better to get the builder to do it. less grey area about liability when something goes wrong. Refrigerated is far superior evaporative in almost all use cases. My recommendation is get some quotes from several installers for the same products that the builder offers and show them that their pricing is not even competitive with the market. You should get a better outcome. My argument to the builder was "you can either make some money on this (even though its less than you were planning to) or you can make no money on this". The logical conclusion is for the builder to do it cheaper given you have cheaper quotes in hand. Cool, I would want to validate my thinking and your response gives more context and idea as how we could go about it. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 10Feb 14, 2023 3:12 pm Kippers01 Be very cautious about the 'verified' builders' reviews in ProductReview. You just don't know who is behind the anonymous avatars there and what their purpose is. Consider asking the builder for a list of some relevant recent customers that you may speak directly with, only speak in person or on their identified mobile phone number. No build process is perfect and its telling to learn what key issues arose and how the builder resolved them. If the builder cannot or won't provide you with a good list of such referees thank them for their time and walk away. last time i posted a builder revie won product review, i was asked to provide proof to product review of being a client. They were after an executed contract or recipt of deposit/stage payments etc before they would post my review. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 11Feb 14, 2023 3:51 pm Easy for an offshore 'online reputation management' review writing service with multiple anonymous gmail accounts etc. to attach a template based evidence of contact document or something else to their review. How much attention to you think ProductReview's offshore processing centre's lowly paid workers pay to these documents? Did anyone from PR contact you, or the builder? Just asking reviewers to attach a document does not constitute actual 'verification'. This label on builders, removalists and demolition company reviews may be misleading i feel. Take care! Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 12Feb 14, 2023 4:18 pm Kippers01 Easy for an offshore 'online reputation management' review writing service with multiple anonymous gmail accounts etc. to attach a template based evidence of contact document or something else to their review. How much attention to you think ProductReview's offshore processing centre's lowly paid workers pay to these documents? Did anyone from PR contact you, or the builder? Just asking reviewers to attach a document does not constitute actual 'verification'. This label on builders, removalists and demolition company reviews may be misleading i feel. Take care! You're overcomplicating it. The reviews are largely genuine. The bigger problem with product review is incentivised reviews, not fake ones. You'll find most positive reviews are pre start, which is consistent with most positive builder experiences- ie great sales process. Not a surprise. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 13Feb 14, 2023 4:46 pm Agree that multiple incentivised pre start 5 star reviews are a good way for builders to 'bury' negative reviews and maintain a high average star rating. Don't share your confidence in the credibility of the other 5 star reviews on PR however. I remember for a while the highest rating gourmet restaurant on UK trip advisor was actually just a backyard shed! Follow the money! Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 14Feb 15, 2023 6:20 am Kippers01 Agree that multiple incentivised pre start 5 star reviews are a good way for builders to 'bury' negative reviews and maintain a high average star rating. Don't share your confidence in the credibility of the other 5 star reviews on PR however. I remember for a while the highest rating gourmet restaurant on UK trip advisor was actually just a backyard shed! Follow the money! Yes and that was a litteral set up that took months. I've seen the video. It would be naive to assume that's happening wholesale on PR. It's not worth the effort on the builder part when they can just offer a 100 buck freedom voucher to people to review. Occam's Razor. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 16Feb 15, 2023 7:12 am Like I said, you're overcomplicating it. Firstly a 500k sale doesn't translate to 500k profit, secondly there's no need to do all of this when people are still $tupid enough to build with builders who have bad reputations, bad reviews, bad customer experiences etc in DROVES. Just take a look at this forum. Theses even somone on this forum that's still wanting to buy furniture from an online furniture shop that has publicly gone into administration because their website still has the shopping cart active.... People are still building with metricon AFTER they've been punched in the face with all the data, articles, disapointed homeowner stories, evidence of all sorts of poor outcomes and expressly told not to. They think it will be different for them because they get an inspector. When this is the case, you quickly realise that reviews on a site play less of a part in most people's decisions than the emotions they get when walking through a display. Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 17Feb 15, 2023 7:26 am A $500k sale does however translate to a $500k cash flow, which is pretty important don't you think? Volume builders put a lot of resources into online reputation management, particularly the questionable customer reviews because both the research and practical experience tells them its a very important influence on buyers' decision making. There is a saying in marketing 'perception is reality'... Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 18Feb 15, 2023 7:46 am Kippers01 A $500k sale does however translate to a $500k cash flow, which is pretty important don't you think? Volume builders put a lot of resources into online reputation management, particularly the questionable customer reviews because both the research and practical experience tells them its a very important influence on buyers' decision making. There is a saying in marketing 'perception is reality'... Ok bud. builders pay russian and chinese troll farms to post positive reviews on PR. lol Re: Need your experience with Sherridon Homes 19May 08, 2024 9:42 pm Ks7 Hi All, Hope you are well. I am a First Home buyer and would want to get your feedback based on your experience with Sherridon and the journey till now. My budget is a bit tight but noticing that Sherridon's base pricing is competitive and lesser than other builders and it seems they offer more squares for a price which other builders offer at lease 2-3 squares less. Eg: They offer 38sq house for 384k and for the same price Carlisle offers 35sq, Henleys offer 34sq house. I can see that they have good reviews plus some 1* reviews as well in productreview.com. Is their build quality, workmanship, transparency, timelines and support are good enough? Or is it that we need to be very cautious and alert as otherwise it may lead up to difficulties later? These days I can see every builder has all types of reviews so it really is difficult to asses anyone. What do you think about their inclusions and upgrades? Is it worthwhile to consider them , what would you think. I dont know how it worked for others who has good remarks on them, but based on standard pricing and house sizes, the titled land discount of 16k, it appears to be competitive. Request your feedback and your experience. Thank You. Kes Hi kes We are also planning on going with Sherridon homes. Did u go with them, if so plz share your experience. Thank you So it seems like they just take on a lot of projects to get the cashflow for their own builds. 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