Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 2Mar 14, 2009 8:45 pm No experience with Glenville, but I believe they are a franchise setup like National Builders Group or Hotondo etc.
Sometimes, certain franchise builders buck pass to head office, who buck pass back to the builder. Careful. Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 3Mar 14, 2009 8:51 pm Do a search on here to find more info 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 5Mar 15, 2009 5:09 pm Looks like they have been taking many trips to VCAT, which would make me run as fast as I can more then anything else imaginable. Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 7Mar 19, 2009 6:37 am we looked at them. found their designs to be not suitable, but once they told us the price we looked at each other and thought they were really expensive. so much better out there for the money.
Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 8Mar 19, 2009 1:49 pm We have signed a preliminary agreeement with Gl*nvill (and paid them more money which we were told was fully refunded) in order to proceed with town planning. They had a pre-application meeting with the council to discuss the councils strict requirements and it seems that they completely ignored or misinterpreted the information that the council gave them re our design. As a result we were told we needed to completely redesign the house (who knows how much that was going to cost us!), and if we didnt sign the contract by Feb then we would also incur a$16K price increase. There would also be a $3.5K cost for redesign. Their prices were already expensive for a fairly standard house so we could not afford to continue. If you proceed, do everything via email - even doing this I have had issues with them trying to get money refunded. As a result, my trust in them has completely gone and we are exploring other options. Re: Is anytbody building with this builder? 9Apr 23, 2009 4:09 pm seb you are absolutely right! Its been a nightmare with the sales person we are dealing with at Glenvill. It was a mistake we signed with them. The sales man cannot even get the variations right and always making mistakes. We started the process since December and they haven't got into construction yet. Its really really sad. I hope they would build eventually build a good house... Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 21087 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14473 |