Leaderboard

You can usually maintain your granite tiles by using something called HCL89. I usually get it from http://hcl89.byethost10.com or http://hcl89.atwebpages.com What it does is that it removes any stains as well as cleans your granite tiles. It also helps to create a protection for it so that your granite tiles always remains new. Hope this helps you out

Plan to use the HCL89 from http://hcl89.byethost10.com for the after renovation cleaning for my brother's new flat. Product looks rather good, and did some testing on a small area and product works rather well. Will keep you guys posted after i use it to to clean my brother's flat after the renovation

Yes i think that what she probably means, which is the skirting

You talking about the ceramic skirting?

S$250 is daylight robbery, just get the chemical yourself and you can it yourself, no need depend on these contractors You can get the chemical called HCL89. I usually get it from http://hcl89.byethost10.com or http://hcl89.atwebpages.com What it does is that it cleans your wall tiles/glass and also helps to create a protection for it so that always remains new. Hope this helps you out

That is normally the case

what tiles are yours? mosaic, marble or etc?

From what i know the gap is normal, even mine also has this small gap

Synthetic rubber better avoid, seems to degrade fast also

If pure latex rubber gasket should have no issue unless its synthetic rubber type, in any case just use making tape cover it like what i did and remove when done

But using black silicon just "hides" the problem, does not solve it i feel

Tried using the hcl89 from http://hcl89.byethost10.com to try to get rid of the mould and so far the mould seems to be gone. The mouldy smell seems to also be gone as well, and so far that i have used it for more than 2 weeks ago, the mould seems to be gone for good So far product seems to have done it for s the mould is nowhere to be found for now

Thats why its called mould

You are talking nearly 1/4 a century ago, i think the sellers also maybe no more already, haha

Used the HCL89 from http://hcl89.byethost10.com before and it really helped to clean my tiles, recommended

I have some granite flooring in my home, but after many years, i see that the granite stone is losing its luster and it is also abit stained My question is how do you guys normally maintain granite stone floorings? Thanks

I had some issue with mold in my bathroom especially near the sealant area and so i gave the above HCL89 from http://hcl89.byethost10.com a try One issue i always had with the mold in the past was that it always seems to come back no matter how many times i cleaned the area After using the HCL89, the mold had totally vanished and did not reoccur, the product seems to have settled the reoccurring mold issue for me

I too have some mould in my room area and the HCL89 product from http://hcl89.byethost10.com looks rather promising and i also intend to use it as i feel that the mould in my room area is spreading, hmm

Probably by seeing the cheapest quote, lol

Ha, like that must include air freshener when purchase HDB

You really nagged at him, lol

That seems like how the town council works, hmm

What an ambience it must be, lol

Had same mould problem same as TS, so decided to purchase the HCL89 thing from http://hcl89.byethost10.com as recomended I used it about a month back and so far the mould seems to be gone Looks like it worked out well for me, thanks

Seems like it also, dunno how they select those hip contractors also

Arghhh thats disgusting, people faeces and urine overflowed into your unit, yucks

It stands for Home Improvement Programme, short form HIP

Pardon my ignorance but what is Hip ??

Sorry to ask what does hip stand for?

Actually how do you tell if a certain cement is used is low quality cement? Is there a way to tell by looking at it?

Did you feedback to the town council on this? What did they say?

No, it will danage your tiles

Hahaha, disclamer, lol

This really made laugh, lol

Contractor of the year award, lol

You can use something called HCL89. Its strong enough to clean the mould as well as kill it I usually get it from http://hcl89.byethost10.com or http://hcl89.atwebpages.com One thing i like about it is that is creates like a protection like on my wall/tiles so that it prevents future mould or etc Hope this helps you out

15 PAP town councils to increase service and conservancy charges from June 1 http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/15-pap-town-councils-to-increase-service-and-conservancy-charges-from-june-1 "Phased over two years, the first tier increase takes effect from June 1 and ranges from $0.50 to $9 per month for HDB one- room to executive flat home-owners. The second tier increase will take effect a year later, with HDB flat owners paying $0.50 to $8 per month. The 15 Town Councils are: Ang Mo Kio, Bishan-Toa Payoh, Chua Chu Kang, East Coast-Fengshan, Holland-Bukit Panjang, Jalan Besar, Jurong-Clementi, Marine Parade, Marsiling-Yew Tee, Nee Soon, Pasir Ris-Punggol, Sembawang, Tanjong Pagar, Tampines and West Coast. Last year, one- and two-room HDB households received a total of three months of rebates, while three- and four-room households got two months of rebates." ------------------------- during such times, I am happy that I am a mere 2-room owner

You can check out the Jalan besar area, there are alot of carpentry workshops there, they would probably have such service there

1. Charging you $1,500 for design, project management... It's definitely not a market standard, 1 ID firm quote me that also and that's 1 sign that they are not going to be cheap. 2. All your carpentry pricing is 20-30% above market rate. $130 per feet run for kitchen cabinets, $280 per feet run for sliding wardrobe. These are market rates. 3. Your counter top is using kompacplus which at $120 per feet run, is also too high. It should be around the $90 mark. 3. Your flooring is around $9 psf which is too high, $7 psf is more reasonable for evorich herf. 4. Beware of hidden costs. Some stuffs are not included in your quotation. For example, cement screeding. Are you getting HDB to do it for you? Hood, hob, kitchen sink installation, bathroom accessories installation, heater installation etc are all not taken care of in your quote.

Hi there, I have just done my renovation with a contractor recently and I am happy with the work and the price was actually pretty reasonable. I have seen your quotation and after compare with some of the furniture I have done, I believe the price is on the high side. what I mainly compared was the sliding door wardrobe the price is $350 per foot run but the contractor quoted me $260 per foot run. Oh yea this contractor has their in-house designer as well so they actually provide design and build service. The contact of the person who served me is 9133 5408,his name is Kit, you may say my name Kaiyin.

Thanks for that, now i know what it meant, hahaha

Contractor Selection - The choosen One As you can see from the previous post, we have shortlisted 4 contractors. 1) Contractor N from R******* 2) Contractor K from H*O 3) Contractor E from C* R*** 4) Contractor E from D* I******* During the month of Aug, we did not meet up with any contractor. We have met up with all the ID /Contractor in the month of Jul and anyone who has gone through this stage will agreed with me that meeting different ID / Contractor and repeating the whole process again and again can be quite tiring. Wifey and I decided to give ourself a break and Aug will be our cool down period So in Aug, we decided we should do something different. As wifey is a Taobao addict, I decided to assign her what she like to do best. Source for items that we need for our new home at Taobao. As for myself, I will be taking care of all the electrical appliances, aircon and furniture. More to that later in my next post. Although we are not in a hurry to move in cos we are staying with my parent but we wish to spend our CNY at our new home. So we plan to decide on which contractor to use in the month of Sep in order to move in before CNY. 2nd Appointment & Viewing of their projects Contractor E from C* R*** We have seen their project during our 1st appointment therefore we decided to skip this and meet J at his office. J has his own carpentry at his office and that could be the reason why the workmanship of his carpentry is so good. We are not taking loan for our reno therefore we have to strictly work within our budget. The inital quote was over our budget therefore in order to stay within our budget, we have to take out certain things. One of the thing that we took out and wifey is very reluctant is the overlaying of tiles for both toilet wall and floor. Final quote was a few hundred off our budget. After a few days of consideration, we decided to sign up with them and called J but wifey can be quite stubborn sometime, insist J revise the quote (discount $350) to meet our budget since she has already compromise on the overlaying of tiles. J refuse to match our budget and in the end wifey give in because we really like their carpentry work. We tried calling J & E the next day but both of them did not pick up. We were thinking they could be busy with their projects therefore we try again the next day. Same thing, no one pick up our call and not even a return call from them. In the end we decided to drop them cos we think they are not interested to take up our project. Contractor K from H*O Met up for 2nd appointment at his office. His office is nicely done and we get to see all the different type of material and laminate. Final quote was within our budget but same thing we have to take out the tiles overlaying. K is the only contractor that give us blum for our kitchen cabinet. We went to view his project and really like his flair for design. Although final quote is within our budget, wifey still couldn't get over the fact that we can't have the toilet overlay, therefore KIV. Contractor N from R******* We met at one of his project, workmanship for carpentry is quite good but wifey pointed out that the tiling work is not up to her expectation. Final quote was within our budget and include overlaying of tiles for both toilet. Although we could overlay the toilet and keep it within our budget, we feel that we do not have the chemistry with N to see us through the reno for the next 2 months, therefore KIV. Contractor E from D* I******* E is the last contractor we met out of the 4. Went to one of his project at Sengkang. Good workmanship for carpentry and tiling which wifey and I are pretty impress. We decided to go to his office to discuss on the final quote. Final quote is within our budget with overlaying of toilet tiles plus we get to choose the color for all internal PVC for carpentry instead of the usual white color which we don't like. We decided to sign on the spot with E and he was taken aback by our discussion We spend close to 3 hours looking at the different material and laminate and chit chatting. Reasons we sign with E: 1. Chemistry - Easy to communicate with, he's quite easy going and we feel he's quite honest. 2. Acceptable workmanship - Wifey and I think that his workmanship is pretty good. 3. Reasonable quote - Within our budget and willing to compromise example certain things he forget to quote but give us FOC. 4. Contactable - He set up a group chat on the day we sign up and so far he always respond to our queries within an hour our within the same day if he's busy with other projects. 5. After sales - Can't really comment on this point but heard from some t-bloggers that some of his projects that he done 1 year ago having issues, he still take ownership. Enough of all the long-winded writing, I shall be posting more pictures on the progress of our journey. Stay tune! Lastly just to clarify that our experience with all the ID / Contractor is solely our own observation. Your mileage may vary. One man's meat is another man's poison