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    Heaved a sigh of relief when the HIP was completed on day 10 - not too many rectifications required except for the grout. They'd used grey grout against the light beige tiles on the common toilet (had thought they'd ask us about the grout colour preference but no) - it looked terribly mismatched, so we had them re-do the grouting. Post HIP handover, we had a couple of days before the flooring guys came in to do existing vinyl removal and screeding. Had a tough time sourcing this one - 1. since I didn't order vinyl through my main con, he was super clear about the flooring company needing to do removal, levelling and laying. My main con had proposed Hafary for flooring including vinyl - but we went down to the warehouse and weren't super impressed with the sales pitch (when asked why the $7 psf vinyl was better than the $3 psf vinyl, the sales compared it to buying a $3 vs. $7 bowl of bak chor mee, and the fact that she personally has it installed for her home, no problems). Not convinced.. so decided to make a call to Evorich (their intensive marketing efforts on the web does pay off) since their warehouse was also nearby. Evorich's sales pitch was 1000x better (some find it gimmicky though) - lifetime warranty on their HERF, scratch proof, water and fire resistant, with improved acoustic quality. Sold. Made a quick call to main con to check (which was when he emphasised they need to do removal as well). Well, turns out Evorich does not do existing removal and levelling (?!?!!) but the rep could hook us up with his contact. Somehow, he never gave me the contact but that the contact would contact me... so it was weeks of following up til he actually contacted me. All good - they came for site visit and quotation, but on the actual days I think they realised they underestimated the difficulty of the job. Our vinyl is TOUGH. I believe they must have used extra-strong glue 30 years back to stick it to the bare subfloor, and over such a long period the vinyl had hardened. they basically had to scrape it off the subfloor, tearing the thick layers off slowly. Took a full day's work for removal, then they proceeded with the cement screed. They did a great job - as I mentioned our floor is extremely slanted, they managed to level it best they could.
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