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KF

If anybody is even considering Sentinel Homes in Nelson/Tasman or Marlborough, please reconsider before it is too late. The owners Anna and Ruary own both Sentinel’s Nelson, Tasman & Marlborough franchise as well as Ultraspec building systems. I paid my deposit nearly 3 years ago, and have only just had my build finished now. They have thrown price increase after price increase at me as well as changing works without even consulting me. We have failed council CCC inspection 3 times (for which they blame the inspector of course). My build is very poorly finished, as well as having many errors that were not on the plans or specs at all. Ultraspec has been known to only do insurance repairs, and they should keep it that way. Please please please take it from me, avoid this company at all costs.
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DM

I see most of the Ruary & Anna’s companies went into liquidation this week and Sentinel dropped them ages ago. fair to say the writing was on the wall for a long time with their poor company mismanagement.
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WJ

Under the Ultraspec umbrella they unfortunately couldn’t even get insurance repairs right. Were now fighting with our insurance company to reimburse us for expenses incurred to rectify faulty workmanship and damages.
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