Has anyone built with or purchased a Golden Homes home in Hamilton in the last...

Building with Golden Homes Christchurch has been one of the worst experiences of our lives… Everything seems all wonderful and perfect at the start until contract is signed and payments made, then it all changes. Management are just monsters! They will intimidate and bully you, threaten you with defamation if you try and expose them. Getting any warranty issues rectified has pretty much been impossible! 5 years on we are still trying to alleviate the terrible expansion/contraction noise day and night from the steel. Also overtime steel has bleed throughout our gib causing most of the interior gib to look like a Chinese checkers board…. They don’t want to know about any issues and just tell you everything is all ‘normal’ All the same product but hopefully the Hamilton franchise is different and they don’t use shoddy subbies. Good luck 🙂

Hey Rory, Like Andrew I built with GH Christchurch and had huge problems with them. I know you are after Hamilton reviews and the company up there may be better than the one in Chch but a couple of general GH things to note are that the Head Franchisees also own the company that provides their “guarantee” that they harp on about. They don’t provide any kind of independent guarantee (I know that Masterbuild isn’t the greatest either but the GH one really covers bugger all). Their contract is totally one sided and if you ask them to change anything they pretty much tell you “like it or lump it”. They took a huge deposit off of you – more than some other companies I’ve worked with (not sure if that has changed). If you do go with them be very careful what they put in for provisional sums. They stung me on it in a big way after pretty much lying to me about how those sums were handled (wish I had recorded the conversations) – unfortunately I was green about all this at the time. The one thing I will say is that the actual house was good (apart from the fact they didn’t do any of the “maintenance” after the build because of our falling out. I was pleased with the workmanship of the tradies they used.

Hi Everyone, Do anybody has build houses with Hispecs homes and how was the building process and outcome ? Please leave ur feedback, would really appreciate

Hello Rory, we are now negotiating with GH in Hamilton. Working with Tony, though. Have you proceeded to sign with them? We are considering and reviewing the contract closely. Best, N.G.

By Golden Homes Hamilton, do you mean Golden Homes TeRapa?

Ooh I’m sorry to hear that Andrew, I had a similar experience in 2012 with GH Christchurch, ended up in disputes tribunal. In my opinion the General Manager is a nasty piece of work – I really hope Karma is a thing! I hope you get it sorted – its a crap thing to be going through – they never came back and did any maintenance for me because I took them to Court and since then there have been several times when I needed information/records about the house and I can never get it because of the “falling out”. They are totally unprofessional in my opinion. Just out of interest do you have a log burner in your house? Or anything that could cause lots of dust in the air? I had what I thought was “bleed through” from the steel but it turned out the steel was attracting dust/ash from the fire onto the wall and it made a difference to wash the walls. Anyway good luck with GH.

Sounds like the experience with GI Builders. Owners are horrible to deal with. Key seat with a barge pole my advice

Hi Andrew, Can I please check if you dealt with NDM construction (t/a Golden Homes Christchurch). I think they took over in Sep 2018. We are planning to sign with them for a Turn key package so I’m scouring the internet for any feedback. And what do you mean by “steel has bled throughout your gib” please? Thank you.

Keep away with a barge pole. Stupid predictive text