Any recommendations, please

Out of those three Peter Ray would be the best. We have built with PR before and my husband used to sub-contract for them. They are very nice people and they are very honest and customer was always right. Their quotes are pretty much spot on too – we didn’t have any unexpected costs. I don’t know many builders in that area but one I would always avoid in any area would be Golden Homes – haven’t had good experiences with them.

We recently built with Stonewood Homes in Nelson and while the quality of work by all the subcontractors has resulted in a beautiful home our dealings with Stonewood themselves was less than satisfactory. The expectations re timelines & cost vs reality did not match up and the project management was severely lacking. We had to micromanage the entire build which was both time consuming and stressful. We love our new home, it’s exactly as we planned and made happen, but we would not use the same building company again or recommend engaging in a building contract with them.

Thank you for replying Sally. That’s really helpful information. Sue

Hi vic I also have just built with stonewood and feel the same as you we suffered a lack of communication most of the way through the build and when we started questioning things that were wrong as in things in the wrong place from the plan they decided to lock us out…. we have finally had painters back fixing some walls that had stripes on them witch we complained as soon as it have but stonewood told us it was normal it took the master painters to get it sorted Also 2 months after we moved in and had paid finally bill in full the decided to send us another bill (apparently p.c sums never end with them) can send a bill when ever they want so we are fighting that atm ‍♂️‍♂️