PD Experience!

Well, compared to the experience what i had with Henley, this was a really good experience. The sales consultant did go through the display home for a walk through, explaining what is a standard and what are the upgrades done to the display so as to get a understanding of what is standard, then giving a options list to most of the common upgrades what people normally do and also giving a pricing even though it is approximate...

It was a good starting experience with the PD and gave a deposit of 1000 straight away.

Difference a display home makes...

When going through the PD access range, looked at the Randwick plans. Even though not entirely happy with our visualisation of the plans and having heard PD being a expensive builder, we had our reservations as to whether we should check it out. 


Finally decided there is no harm in checking it out, and since there was a display home in selendra rise which was close to us, we decided to have a look as to how the home looks.


To be honest, the display home blew us out. We are not talking about the upgrades what they do to make the house beautiful, the open plan living and easy access to the rooms which we could never have visualised.


Now we need to decide between the henley home which we have only visualised and a display home which we like. Its back to the drawing board again. Time to see a PD consultant. Also at the back of my mind is the PD homes/upgrades expensive? Worth it? Will it fit my budget? 

Henley Experience

Went to the display homes in Lyndhurst, spoke to one of the sales consultant.  One thing that became evident immediately is the consultant i spoke to was arrogant in nature and certainly not helpful. There was no houses built for display in breakthrough series which was a bummer as its hard to visualise everything from the drawing.After pondering with my wife and trying to visualise most of the plans from the drawings we decided to go ahead with them even though the consultant was not up to the expectations.


Paid a deposit of 850 and booked in the house.


Now its time to visit the Cosham interiors for having a look at the range and see what options we had for our build. The people over there were helpful and knew what they were talking and had a price for all the upgrades we might end up doing. 


Tried to communicate with the consultant for the options list and made no progress as he was not helpful in any way.


At this point of time, fed up with the consultant thought of looking at other builders for a plan which we might like...  

Selecting a Builder

With the deposit for the land made, its time to start looking at who is going to build our dream home.


The Building cost to be around 200-215K.


With a initial mindset of going to build my home with one of the big volume builders as i had seen the experiences of my friends building with lesser known builders the choice narrowed down to Henley, Metricon, Porter Davis, Simmonds and Dennis.


My first choice was Henley as one of my friend had already built with them and had a good experience and also we liked one of the plans " Maya " in the breakthrough range. 

Piece of land

After 6 months of looking for a existing property, its time to start looking for a piece of land where we can build our dream home.


Started off looking for land in SE suburbs with a budget of 165-180K and the only place where i could get a decent piece of land within my budget was in Edenbrook estate in pakenham. It was a 448sq m of land with a 14m frontage.


Handed out a deposit on the 15th of Feb 2012 with the titling to be in the month of March-April.