Our Simple & Functional 4 Room Bto.

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The purpose of creating this post is to contribute back to the renotalk community as we have been learning massively from the generous sharing of the users in this forum.

It is also to document some pictures on the progress of our renovation for future reference.

We hope to be able to help fellow readers, sharing the positive encounters we have with contractors, companies and individuals.

Our house as the title says all is a Simple & Functional 4 Room BTO.

We spend most of our waking hours on work and hence we require a easy to maintain & practical home.

Our choices are based on genuine expertise recommendation, user experience, our parents & friends suggestions.

We are not particular on big brand names as you can see from our pictures. Perhaps Song Cho is one of the more costly investment which we shall see how it pays off.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them and we will do our best to help.

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Finally dong tu today.
Aircon was done by Starcool Air Condition Engineering, commonly knows as Ah Boon/ Aron.
Checked their raw materials, everything is in good order.
Good working attitude, pipping efficiently done in 2-3 hours.

Edited March 27, 2015 by ongal

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Our dong tu date is set around mid March and our FSM advised us that once dong tu, we must do our best to get our renovator to do work consistently.

This is the challenge. We didn't engage ID, we work with a contractor and thus he can't ensure that work can be done daily since our project is rather small.

We engaged this contractor

• to build our bottom kitchen cabinets,
• a shoe cabinet,
• a living room divider shelving cabinet,
• MBR full height cabinet,
• install and supply shower screen,
• install lights,
• build cement base for kitchen cabinets,
• build a cement structure for sink,
• install a quartz table top
• install the bathroom accessories,
• install window grills.
• do a box up of aircon piping along the walkway and MBR

That's about all.

We understand from him that the cabinets require the longest waiting time of at least 2 weeks but we can work around it by deciding the design and start work right now so that we can install the cabinets by the second week of renovation.

As of now, we have paid 20% deposit, 25% of "start materials" fees to our contractor before any physical work is done.

This practice is atypical and seems like a risky situation for us but we trust that he does a good job.

Once there are any updates, I will post up the pictures here.

The contractor we are working with is Nam Hin Bee Kee Contractor

Edited March 27, 2015 by ongal

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Song Cho

1) 2 Tier Dish rack 450mm width $407
Name: 5253S Double Deck Dish Rack
Dimension: 700mmL x 280mmW x 450mmH

2) 2 Tier Shower corner rack $105
Name: 9237 2-Tier Corner Rack
Dimension: 225mm x 360mm

3) Installation $53.50

Edited March 27, 2015 by ongal

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Kong Tai Electrical Trading

1) Joven storage water heater JH25 (25 litres) $250
Installation cost estimated $80-$130

2) KDK standing fan with remote control M40KS for master bedroom $188

3) Hitachi Fridge R-SG37BPS Stainless Steel $920

4) Hitachi Front Loader BD-W85TSP 8.5kg $800 *BTO units must change the tap for front loader.

The prices are very competitive as the mode of payment is by Cash or Nets. Credit card is not accepted. The savings is passed on to buyers. Please note the shop will not be offering the lowest price for every item when you compare to other similar retailers but we like the frank and honest opinions and friendly service.

They even advise us not to buy TV until we are moving into our new house since prices for TV are highly fluctuating. We will be making another trip towards end of March to purchase our TVs.

Edited April 8, 2015 by ongal

[benetay 14]

Looking good and good choice of fridge. didn't know fans are so expensive, i have not got mine, parents want to give me their dyson fan but i didn't want it previously.

Thanks for sharing

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Thank you.

Our fridge was shortlisted based on dimensions as BTO kitchen is really small. So we chose one which won't protrude too much yet still fulfil our capacity.

I bought 3 fans (non remote) from Tampoi JB. Msia model of KDK fans don't have remote at our time of purchase. Since MBR fan is used daily we bought the remote model in Singapore.

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Box up air con piping along walkway and in MBR.

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Star Cool Air Condition Engineering Ah Boon Starmex System 4

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Ceiling mount Joven 25L water storage

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Classic White Door By Siong Door Enterprise

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Edited July 1, 2015 by ongal

[benetay 14]

Looks like your reno is well under way!

Thanks for sharing. Any closeup on the carpentry and how is it?

[Val 0]

Hi Ongal,

Ur aircon is very nicely done! Is it done by Star cool (Ah boon)? Were u charged for the boxing up or is it provided in ur air con package?

Edited March 18, 2015 by Val