This blog is purely based on our personal experience with this builder, which will hopefully provide more information to up and coming families and investors on what it is like to build with them.
To be fair, I have read some great reviews on Plantations Homes, saw their award-winning display homes and thought we had landed on a solid and reputable builder. Their sales staff were extremely helpful, professional and persuasive, which was what convinced us to build with them. Our due-diligence at the time indicated no they were the way to go. How I wish that were true!!!
The house from the outside seems to have all the trappings of a well-constructed and well-designed structure. With the help of the inhouse Plantation Homes Colour Selection Stylists, the end result is - on the surface - pleasing to the eye. However, look close enough and live in the house a couple of months and you will start to find where the corners have been cut (an admission straight from their subcontractor's mouth too!).
The building phase had its fair share of challenges, which I will retrospectively blog here in the future. However, for now - fresh off the bat, I would like to treat readers to the lovely maintenance phase.
As with a lot of new build owners in the last couple of years, we were renters. The end result of having your own brand new house still looks like a palace compared to the dingy, under-maintained renter's hovel that we came from. We were desperate to move in (largely due to financial pressures of maintaining a mortgage and a rental property) which I think builders take advantage of - rushing through the handover inspection and placing the onerous task on us, the owners to find all the defects during two hours what Site Managers are paid for 6 months to do.
The house from the outside seems to have all the trappings of a well-constructed and well-designed structure. With the help of the inhouse Plantation Homes Colour Selection Stylists, the end result is - on the surface - pleasing to the eye. However, look close enough and live in the house a couple of months and you will start to find where the corners have been cut (an admission straight from their subcontractor's mouth too!).
The building phase had its fair share of challenges, which I will retrospectively blog here in the future. However, for now - fresh off the bat, I would like to treat readers to the lovely maintenance phase.
As with a lot of new build owners in the last couple of years, we were renters. The end result of having your own brand new house still looks like a palace compared to the dingy, under-maintained renter's hovel that we came from. We were desperate to move in (largely due to financial pressures of maintaining a mortgage and a rental property) which I think builders take advantage of - rushing through the handover inspection and placing the onerous task on us, the owners to find all the defects during two hours what Site Managers are paid for 6 months to do.
So...welcome to my little piece of cyberspace vent-piece, designed for people like me that have a bone to pick but don't have the money or the resources in order to do something real and tangible about it. For the "little people" that has to suck it up and bear what builders have to dish out because what else can we do about it? Especially when they refuse to fix the house that you spend good money for them to build and industry bodies refuse to regulate them or keep the public/consumers informed (and continue to award them medals for the terrible privilege).
I also welcome anyone that had experiences with either Plantation Homes or any other builders to contribute to my blog. I welcome all views as long as they are not derogatory or a direct attack.
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