Also, has anyone had any experience with Homebuild Homes

Hi Laurie, Seems a little unfair that you’ve asked other people to give negative as well as positive comments on builders, but you’re not willing to say who you built with before, who was not very good, and why! The whole point of this blog is to contribute information as well as to obtain it.

Hi Laurie, Yes I have and it wasn’t a good one. One of the most stressful times in my life. They are the most un-proactive, unprofessional company I have personally dealt with, it felt like we were project managing, prompting and managing everything.

Hi Laurie, Was wondering if you got any comments back about Homebuild Homes?

Ours was more of a personal clash with ‘friends’ who had started a company and we were their second build in, so i don’t think it is fair to publicly slander them for what happened when they were very new. However, if there is someone looking at building in my area and wants to contact me privately i’m happy to talk lauzanne15@hotmail.com. I have already been contacted by them once when i put a comment online that didn’t even name them, but they knew it was about them – and i’m not going to go down that road again. I’m sorry if you don’t agree but that is how it is.

Can you say which company you had this experience with? Sounds like it wasn’t a great one?!

Hi LK. I haven’t had personal experience with Homebuild but Me2016 did comment up a bit further ‘Yes I have and it wasn’t a good one. One of the most stressful times in my life. They are the most un-proactive, unprofessional company I have personally dealt with, it felt like we were project managing, prompting and managing everything.’ And i haven’t heard great things from others either. We built 5 years ago with the same people that now have Baillies construction. I believe they are a very different company now to when we built (they were just starting out) but to be honest again what i have heard from others isn’t great. Our neighbours-to-be were at contract signing stage with them and pulled out…. I’ve never heard of Origin Homes. Hope this helps somewhat. Its a very hard process to begin with and as nice as it is to ‘keep it local’ its not always that easy. You will often find some of the bigger franchises are also locally owned.

Hi Me2016, were you happy with the finished product thought?

Hi Laurie, OK, I understand, and you’re forgiven. But you did say ‘started a company’, not just helping you out as friends. So I hope that these people are not still in business as builders, and practising on other people’s houses. Because ‘Oh, sorry, we don’t have much experience of doing this.’ isn’t good enough when you’re playing around with other people’s life savings. Luckily heart surgeons aren’t allowed to use the same excuse!

Thanks LM but do you know what exactly these people did not like about these respective businesses? Because if it’s things like the time the build took, or not communicating enough, then some people will be prepared to overlook this if they can deliver on the things like quality, affordability, energy efficient and sustainable.

unsure whether you will get this but could you please elaborate as to what happened with Baillie construction? we may be in a similar position