Our experience with Stroud was very satisfying. The prelim with the design was handled very professionally. Stroud have a detailed specification of the build BEFORE the contract is finalised. plumbing fixtures; external and internal wall colours; type and area of tiles; external cladding; floor coverings etc. etc. This process turned out to be a major advantage in getting the build completed on time. All the difficult decisions are finalised before the build. Stroud started the build in April and finished in early December. Being a retired builder I was interested to see how the build would progress. I noticed the site was always kept clean and the workmanship was above the normal standard. The Stroud supervisor kept us informed every Friday which was appreciated as we lived about 1,000klm away. Once we moved in there were a couple of minor problems but Stroud did get onto these issues immediately. A point of improvement would be for Stroud to allow the client more time when going over all the specifications which we had to complete in 3 hours. Their inclusions of standard fixtures were above average so no problem there. The final cost with some changes along the way was kept close the the estimate. Quite reasonable. Overall we were very satisfied with our decision to use Stroud. There can be a lot of difficulties when building a home but with Stroud we seemed to sail through the build with very little drama.