JonsMom

sorry, too busy these few days. allow to upload some pics after back to office.

not really a lot of dust. we put a set of broom and dustpan in the house. workers usually use them to clear the dust after they finsihed their works. also, all our furniture delivered yesterday, I scare the cleaning workers might not take care of them when cleaning. I tend to take one day off to clean the house. As for packing, just dump most of the things into boxes for moving, but I'll take 2 days off for unpacking.

Hi Lady_R, joyous and adidaem, I think you all very smart, shd bring them there when reno almost done, nothing can be changed! I must learn not take it to heart, we pay so much for our house and yet have to listen negative comments, so sian!! I guess MIL opposed us when we're viewing EM was becoz that time her legs pain. Anyway, like joyous, she might move in to stay with us when she's old and needs someone to take care of her.

the general cleaning is in the reno contract. but our ID said actually our house is quite ok, just need sweeping and mopping. Even after the general cleaning, owners usually still clean once more (I sure will, feel clean if I do my own). He suggested us to cut down this item to save $$. We'll only have few days btw hand-over and moving, so no choice but to take leave to clean up and pack up. Yes, can foresee your next 2 weeks will be very busy, I started stress up last week. add oil!!

Good choice of granite! Yes, it's considered fast, about 5.5weeks. And we have some delays on electrical works as we wanted to source outside if got cheaper one. But we checked with 2 more (recommended in Renotalk), still about the same. So we let the electrician introduced by our ID to do, at least he can coordinate the workers. And in case of hiccups (there're some minors), our ID would talk to the boss. You'll have about 1 week time for cleaning, that should be more than enough. We asked our ID to hand over to us this Friday. So we'll have 3 days to clean up.

Hi gnipihz, Thank you! We got various quotes on feature wall (laminate finish) upto $1.8k (expensive ID); our ID suggested to use partition/box-up with wallpaper (Length: 9ft) and we provide our own wallpaper. He said wallpaper has more designs and easier to change if we like in the future. This helps us save up about half of the price on feature wall. We like the way he helps us save some cost but keep to our requirements. Yesterday he suggested to get his supplier to box up the kitchen stainless steel water pipe FOC (not in contract). Her supplier approached us, the offer is attractive. However, the granite top is on the contract we signed and our ID lastly offered us to upgrade to Indian Black Galaxy, how can I ask for more??!! When I talked about my renovation with my boss, he said his contractor ran away after the last 2nd payment. He still have 2 doors left unpainted for many years. He said getting a good and reliable ID/contractor is a blessing.

Hi joyousonline, visited your t-blog b4, very very nice Lovenest! Seems you and your hubby have well planned on your renovation! WC, basins and sinks, all these fittings got different designs and prices. It's better for customers to choose their own. Saw your kitchen top, we also picked Indian Black Galaxy, hope it's as nice as yours. When are you moving in? We booked movers next Tue, hope our ID could solve all the big n small problems this week. We know he's working hard, a very responsible person. We glad that we chose him to do our dream house.

Thanks, mummymantras! We like the layout too, if the living hall is wider, even better!

Hi DOEL0303, PMed you.

After a long period of sourcing IDs/contractors, we took some of their advices, especially from our ID. To save cost, we didn't want to do the ceiling, but many IDs and contractors said the old ceiling design is out-dated. Most of the quotations quote us a feature wall is about $1.5K to $1.8k, we found it very expensive, so we dropped out the idea of getting a feature wall **** room. In our 3D drawings, you can see we have feature wall, but it costs about half less. We like our ID's idea of not using laminate but wallpaper (easier to change in the furture). 3D Drawings Dinning Area (near entrance) Living Room Kitchen MBR Toilet

yeah!! When we first time saw the house, we couldn't beleive that's already 15yrs old renovation. The house owner kept very good maintenance. We like the house and we're lucky that the seller family are very nice persons, they cleaned the house after moved out. I couldn't find the photos I took after keys collection. Some photos taken after we signed the OTP. Entrance ceiling Study area (previous owner used it as dinning area) Kitchen Common toilet

Thank you for all the help! Let me test on uploading photos. Floorplan & layout

very very nice house, sis joyousonline! we'd like to buy an EM also, love it's spacious, but like you, hear many comments... MIL also opposing EM, staircase and scares her son has to do alot of houseworks. so we end-up bought a resale 5rm... then when she first saw the toilet floor "where got ppl have black tiles...." and my parents also say the rooms' floorings are fine, no need to waste money to overlay laminate flooring, this no need to do, that no need to do..." ... btw, someone refered me to see your t-blog about the granite top, any comment?

thank you, Rover!

thank you! I saw that topic before, but forgot where... it's under forum tblog. just created an account and photobucket, will upload some photos soon.