hi, looking to build in new plymouth… does anyone who has recently built a house...

Hi Amelia, If you haven’t built before I would suggest you try to find the time to look through all the entries on this blog. But if you think that’s too tedious at least click on ctrl F, and enter into the search box words like signature, landmark, gardner, franchise, contract, provisional, PC, although of course you would then miss out on the names of all the other builders that people have already made comments on, both bad and occasionally good, plus all the other very good advice.

Hi Amelia, we built with Signature Homes in New Plymouth and had many problems. Would not recommend them at all. Talked their way out of everything. We took possession of house two months before we moved in and did not notice all mistakes until then. Have heard now from other people that have used them that they had similar problems to what we had and also had same response from Directors of Signature that they look at ways to get out of doing remedial work. Even when company arranged to come back and correct many things on our list still did not get it right. For example plumber drilled through Girder truss to put piping through for boiler in roof. Cracks in mitres in coving. List goes on. We have since fixed many things ourselves – cannot be bothered with them.