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  2. Posted

    hey hey is there a lot of patchwork needed where they removed n installed?

    Hi Butters.... they will do cement of the frame for the window to fit in nicely... after install the windows & grills... they will patch up around the window wall.

    Every window will have that.. depend you have how many windows. :D

  3. Posted

    Windows & Grills Completed :D

    Only 3 person came to remove and install the windows & grill for the whole day on 1 Oct 2010.

    Reach at 10.30AM and finish at 4.30PM. All the workers did not took their lunch so that they can finish their job ASAP... which incl of my hub too who is the supervisor of the day.

    Patch work was done on the frame of the windows & grills..... No painting is done thou... so that means that we have to find time to do painting on the affected wall. Which have not beed done till now.

    Photo of the windows and grills... I will find time to do it ASAP.. I hope :P

    New Washing Machine Bought

    Our 2 years old of Samsung Washing Machine of WA95VP have giving out noises during the spin cycle.

    1yr ago when the warranty is still ongoing we got the technician and have a check but he could not find anything... than he say change the motor for us since moto still got warranty *even thou motor is still in working condition* Imagin on every wash during spining time the washing gives out a "Eeeeee" sound... so most of the time we try to wash early so that no to disturb the others :) I call to Samsung to check on the transportation price and it S$70 just for the transportation fee... thats pretty ex.

    I had no intention to change the washing machine untill hub say since we are at Redhill can go to Hong Liang and check out... So we got Sharp ES-A900 a 9kgs washing machine. Price at S$480 incl GST and delivery. Not sure if its cheap as we did not do any homework before hand.

    Here is the new washing machine:

    ES-A900_washersharp.jpg

  4. Posted

    We will be doing our windows and grills fm Jit Sheng, Total Damage S$4800 incl of GST, HDB permits, floor protection and minimal dust as the person in charge say so sayang if no need to do can or not... cause he felt so painful for our nicely reno place... we say got to go le... cause its very bad liao.

    We will be doing the whole house windows as follows:

    Living Room: 4 or 5 panel 180 degree type (powder coated dark brown)

    Study/Cozy Area: 3 panel 180 degree type (powder coated dark brown)

    http://www.jitsheng.com/index.php

    Bedroom 2 & 3: 4 panel sliding type (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    MBR: 2 panel casement & 1 panel casement (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    Service balcony: 4 panel sliding type (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    Windows to be flush with the walls as much as possible.

    Expected date Windows & Grills change: 1st Oct 2010.

  5. Posted

    Hee .... we did not do up our windows & windows grill becos when we bought the house back then, we replaced all windows with what you see in my reno pics... all windows + grills were white powder coated and contractor says the condition is still good..... but our contractor did quote us on the windows + windows grill for the very first quotation that he presented us with lor and the price is $6500 for the whole hse if I remembered correctly... Also my windows that I installed 10years back is about 5k+

    Thanks Hippobb.... at least I know the contractor are not offering sky high price.

    :o windows & grills are very very ex to do.. now I know its ex... think I got to spent the rest of the day wiping the windows and talking to it.. :P

  6. Posted

    Zerochristy dun feel sad lah... and sorry I din mean to rub it in lah... just sharing only as I personally feel that electrical works is not as simple as tiling lor ....also I am no reno expert lor .... am sincerely sorry...

    anyway since u found a good electrician on hand.. do check it with him to see if its necessary for the testing ...

    Hippobb> No worries just have to pour out my thoughts here... cause once something breakdown or got problem it look like the house going to fall apart *mayba I too kua zhang already*

    The elect I dun want to put my hands into in since my hub say small issue.. wait big issue than he kan chong la :P

    Now we are looking into redoing our windows and grills... btw did you do up your windows and grills?? May I know how much??? Cause I ask around no answer le..

  7. Posted · Edited by zerochristy

    Zerochristy,

    Yes, ours is our existing flat ... been staying in it for more than 10years liao and we recently then only renovated our house .... and during reno, we re-run, replace, re-install all electrical wiring in our hse ... a major overhaul, when the house is completed, our contractor arranged for PUB testing for electricals in the hse.

    For ur case, you can go to any licensed electrician, best is those with a registered company, let them know of ur problem and request them to help u arrange for official PUB testing by PUB personnels. This is very important because you do not know what the contractor or electrician has done and you do not know if what that has been installed is up to standard... electrical stuff can be dangerous if there is any leakage anywhere...

    wifey was around when PUB came the first time for our testing after our reno was completed lor.... she says its very intensive testing carried out by PUB, switched off every devices in our hse, they remove all plugs from sockets, open up the main DB box and tests all sockets + lighting switches and a few lighting points using meters. They also open up sockets and switches that they find issues with... for us, our testing failed the first time because of grounding points and they informed my contractor on the issues and then arranged with contractor another date for the testing to be carried out again... contractor rectified the issue and pub eventually conducted a re-test (they go thru another round of intesive test) at our hse and they issued us a test certificate.... will take a pic of the cert to show u...

    Siao liao if I have to go thru that and the amount to be spent :S

    I dun think my hub want to go thru this.. unless it really is a problem.. like every week trip or trip a few time before elect can generate.

    First time I heard PUB pple come in for testing of elect le... aiyo I feel very sad for my house after hearing this from you :'(

  8. Posted

    Here's the breakdown of the renovation!

    Overall Renovation Contractor: $8300, excluding the below mentioned

    Kitchen, toilet wall and floor tiles: $1500

    Tiling Contractor: $1800

    2 room doors & 2 toilet doors: $1245.48

    42 dual-downlights & 3 dual-ceiling lights: $1037.90

    All windows, including installation: $1800

    Electrical reinstallation of entire house: $1250

    Glass shower screen & kitchen sliding glass door: $350, $850 respectively

    Home Fittings

    Kitchen sink: $299 (Ikea)

    Kitchen & bathroom mixers: $581.75 (Grohe)

    2x bathroom toilet bowl & sink: $650 (Balestier)

    Home Appliances & Furnishing

    Fridge: $908 (Fisher & Paykel, Courts' display set)

    Fans: $900 (KDK, includes self-installation, Malaysia)

    Washing machine: $529 (Electrolux, warehouse sale)

    Mattress: $663 (Seahorse GSS)

    Air-con: $3000 (Mitsubishi Inverter Sys 3, includes installation)

    Free standing cooker: $1234.05 (Ariston, Mayer)

    Bamboo blinds: $94.50 (for all windows, Spotlight)

    3 super-big Bookshelves: $1800 (Helping Hand)

    Teak bench: $290 (Helping Hand)

    Ikea miscellaneous overall: Approx. $5000 (Ikea)

    Hi Duckie, Welcome to RT. Nice place you have :D

    I saw your quote for the "All windows, including installation: $1800" did you do grills? Cause I am about to do my house windows but ex sia the windows.

  10. Posted

    Hi Zerochristy,

    Did PUB come and do electrical testing for your hse?

    Just to share..

    We encountered a similar circuit tripping once after all lights was installed and it was before we shifted in, for no reason that particular night the main DB box tripped many times... that was before our contractor arranged PUB testing was carried out. When PUB finally came and do the testing after we shifted in, the pub personnel faulted issues at the PLC lights - according to the pub report, some of the grounding points for the lights were clamped between the false ceiling and the metal structure... and they say this might causes some intermittent circuit breakers tripping... our lighting electrician eventually came and rectify the issue and pub was here to do the testing one more time to certify everything good... additional grounding points was added by the electrician...

    Our reno contractual quote included the PUB electrical testing portion which is abt 200 bucks... do check if ur contract includes this item... cos some of the reno quotes we received the last time while looking for a suitable id/contractor does not include pub testing lor...

    Hippobb,

    No le PUB did not come to our place for testing. Ours is a resale flat.... I dun know if you are refering to only new or resale flat that need to do the electrical testing.

    For our case after we move in 1 mth later than got trip. If I count... maybe trip 5 to 6 time since we move in. Its a once in a blue moon case. Our contract did not indicate the PUB testing and our contractor is no where to be found.. MIA. So asking him to come back is not possible.

    So you mean that if we want to solve this got to ask PUB pple to come and check than get electrician to fix it than PUB pple recheck again one more time??

  11. Posted

    If you all have been following my T-Blog, I did highlight that we have some problem with our elect. We call up an electrician and he explain to us the real problem :)

    Problem 1: Power Trip in a bluemoon when we swith off the switches, mainly it come from the living room only.

    Due to: PLC lights. Yes its PLC lights thats the cause there is something in the PLC light which will cause power trip. So cannot do much on this but at least we know the real reason.

    Problem 2: Portable Oven when started to use and in heating mode the power trip.

    Due to: The oven itself... Yes less useage of the oven will cause the house power to trip. Its due to the water vapour in the oven itself so if we use the oven everytime than there will not be such problem.

    At lease we found a good electrician who is willing to explain the facts to us and not wasting each others time and spending $$ for no reason.

    Those who need Lic. Electrician can go to http://elise.ema.gov.sg/elise/homepage_public_menu.jsp

    Search under "Search Lic Worker" than click "Electrical Worker who offers services to consumer" can still see the electrician's photo too :P

  12. Posted

    yalol....always wanted to buy de...but silly hubby....scare his wall got ugly by the decal....:angry:

    here's my wall:

    Eiffel.jpg

    Very nice le just fit onto your wall space nicely :D show your hub this post LOL... hahah

    Oh I got the estimated quote for the windows and grills from Jit Sheng.... so ex S$5300 not incl of GST.

    We will be doing the whole house windows as follows:

    Living Room: 4 or 5 panel 180 degree type (powder coated dark brown)

    Study/Cozy Area: 3 panel 180 degree type (powder coated dark brown)

    http://www.jitsheng.com/index.php

    Bedroom 2 & 3: 4 panel sliding type (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    MBR: 2 panel casement & 1 panel casement (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    Service balcony: 4 panel sliding type (normal aluminum oxidize - the dark brown colour)

    May I know is this the normal price??

  13. Posted

    maybe mine has to do the earthquake too... haha... the cracks are from walls where i sealed up doorways mostly plus my storeroom where i rebuilt... anyways oredi repainted the whole of my master bedroom where most of the crack were n other patches here n there... hopefully dun crack anymore.. the plaster guy left me a packet of powder, also the grouting guy.. tink i very free plaster/grout here n there.. :P

    hey u must drink more nourishing soup to 'pu'....

    my place no grills leh... but i dun open my windows very wide tho, not much view anyways, so not very dangerous bah.. only next time when hv kids then maybe hv to do lah... but in the meantime i like without the grills... less things to clean.. :rolleyes:

    Butters> You want to mead your wall??? Very troulbsome de le... plaster liao than got to pain the whole wall again :o

  14. Posted

    Yup yup .. also recommended another forumner BangBang middle curtians too... we deal with grace, janice's sister lor... for that price, they are willing to come all the way out from jb, see ur hse design and colours and then recommend u base on the colour scheme and take ur measurements and do the sewing and then bring the end product out from JB to u without any additonal taxes + setting up the railings and putting up everything... we got no complains lah...

    hey his (bangbang) hse is also pretty well done up by his ID mr Yeak... so maybe u can gather his id contact too...

    reno thingy is like tat - u gather more good id contacts so tat u have a spread of choice rite? hee hee

    Hahah actually a few forumer ask the contact of Middle fm me than I sent to them... I think spread and spread LOL :D

    Mr Yeak ah.. Its Rondy's ID... heard than he is very very bz so I will drop him.

  15. Posted

    Hi ZeroChristy,

    Was reading ur tblog after u pm me for id contact... I also did my curtains for my hse with middle curtain from JB!! :D overall very satisfied with their service and also quality of the curtains are very good... and the price is also very reasonable..

    Hi Hippobb, so qiao ah :D

    Ya Middle service and quality is very good :P until now I have been in contact with them... my 2 SIL recently made curtain with them

  16. Posted

    don't u find them frimsiy....i just can't wait to unscrew them n take out....but hubby say no grills on....seem very dangerous....

    Christy...i bot my wall decal from www.creativealldecal.com waiting for delivery...soo excited....also finally persuaded hubby to agree on wall decal...he had been against on using wall decal....scare his hardworked painting gone when remove the decal but after showing him the wall decal i like....hahaha...he finally agree to get it.... :dancingqueen:

    Hmmm mine very secure le... maybe I should take a photo of the current window grills and let you see if the same :D

    Must have grills la cannot don't have grills I open the windows and pull back the windows I also scard I fall down one day :jawdrop:

    You buy liao ah... whahaha I should not show u mine hor... now u waste $$ for the decal :P Well sometimes got to find something to so if not very sian at home le :notti:

  17. Posted · Edited by zerochristy

    hey hey... how r u gers?

    feimei> i hope u are doin well.. i jz read singaporebrides forum a couple days ago..

    christy> u gonna overhaul ur kitchen n bathrooms? gonna be messy leh... lots of dust.. but ya, i think when u change the windows n grills will prob hv to paint the walls again.. but ur wall decals at the dining area is nice.. :D

    my ID getting contractors tmr to repaint some parts of house cos had to plaster again due to cracks on walls.. also some grouting came out so gonna repair tt as well... dunno why the plastered walls keep cracking ard same area some more... :huh:

    anyways, our place still work-in-progress cos still unpacking hubby's toys to put into display cabinet. cleared half of it d... gv him deadline b4 christmas to finish everything.. :P

    Hey butters :) glad to see you here... hope you are doing good.

    Ya lor cause the common bathroom, kitchen & windows + grills we did not redo during our reno. No $$ mah... so no choice now that can do...

    I tell my ah lao that either do it at 1 go but we have to see got enough $ or not... if not enough than got to do in stages :( the 1st got to do is the windows and grills.... cause that one the rubber tubing gone le.. and old.

    Than CNY coming soon got to have some cash to pao ang pao too.. so cannot anyhow spent :P

    Wall crack ah... there is one time Indonesia got earthquick than I saw a huge crack on my wall *super sian* that wall last time got door and the ex owner patch up so bound to have the hairline crack. I think unless u bandage the hairline crack *with a sort of bandage netting for mending wall or celing* than plaster it...

  18. Posted · Edited by zerochristy

    Woww....another exciting journey to begin..... :rolleyes:

    me oso thinking of changing whole hse windows grills but the current grills are in funi pattern...they r pertruding out de....soo i think will need to change the windows as well in order to put the grills....if u got the best quote of the grills, do share with me....at least i hv a rough fig on how much more to save up....hahahhahaa.... :P

    If you say your grills are pertruding out most likely is like mine... but it look okie to me le...

    We wanted to change the windows cause got 2 case of window leaking... the very first time is at our MBR... we put silicon all around the window rubber black tubing so no water came in anymore...

    2nd time is just recently.. it was raining heavily usually we did not ledge our windows so we just do the normal closing.. just put the windows inwards and secure it with the window "L" shape looking lock... came back at night than I saw a pond of small water on the floor... than did some CSI... found that the wind blow open the window than some water came in.... so basically that one our fault.

    I did some check the black rubber tubing around the window could no longer be use... cause I can see algae in the black tubing under the strong sunlight....

    If I change the windows only I would also need to patch up the sides of the affected area so I think painting also is a must for at least the wall of the windows.

  19. Posted

    Hi Feimei,

    Sorry than only now I reply to you.. cause did not log in very time :)

    I have sent a PM to you regarding the wall decal, yes your wall have to be even to paste the decals up if not its very difficult for the decal to cling onto the wall with uneven surface.

    I think I going for a 2nd wave of reno very soon le :) we wanted to redo our whole house windows & grills, kitchen & common bathroom area....

    Now starting to get quotation... so now I am back to zero again :P

  20. Posted

    Its been sometime and our DIY corner is all done up. Totally forgotten to update here.. so as promise here are the photo

    Our custom made dining chair cushion:

    DIY-WallFrame-Cushion-Collages.jpg

    Our final DIY look:

    DSC00803.jpg

    Decal Close Up:

    DSC00806.jpg

  21. Posted

    Wa.. Your dad is FSM , you never recommend :)

    Anyway.. ya.. I am trying to get the assistant to change it but Master Hui is too packed.

    And my parents not too pleased with having to wait between 7-9pm for the Master's arrival. That's what the assistant told me but I am going to call her tomorrow to get a more definite time.

    And the $1488 is only for 1st visit. 2nd visit is another $1088.

    Haha I dun really recommend my dad to the forum la later pple say I use forum to make $$$. Anyway my dad just retired this year. I still get advise from him if I want to do something to the house... just a call away for me and I learnt. Good to know the basics thou. For our house my hub is a Christian so did not get my dad to audit... but since I am the FSM's daughter I know some on my fingertips :D my dad came to visit my place and he say "good good... hmm ok ok" so I pass with flying colours LOL Whahaha

    Well after sunsets it will be more "ying" evil so not recommend to have audit... + if you are concern or yor family members are concern than get it change... well you are paying them a service to make u happy mah... so make the $$ worth while. Hehehe

    Har 2 payments ah... my dad last time offer 1 price (not incl of items recommended to buy) He will go 2 visit... some times only 1 will do. Than he will draw a floorplan layout with the furniture layout... colour of the house & room to your ba zhi. Give you dates to move in & reno all in the packake.

  22. Posted

    Just got Master Hui Jie (Huimaster.com.sg) for audit of my home.

    Funny thing is he does it only on MOn-Fri and there's a night session at 7-9pm and I got that! No choice, I am getting my keys on thursday and friday is the only day Master Hui is free before flying off for overseas audit.

    Now I have to go buy portable lights to light up the place during the night.

    Also, I've signed up with Chew Interiors to produce 3D design for the house for $1500. Will be expecting it to be good since I'm paying for it. Will let you know later whether it was worth paying $1500 for design by Chews.

    Really strange le cause my dad is a FSM and he told me that not surpose to do audit after the sunset. So I think if you are concern on this its best that you take the day slot.

  25. Posted

    how much did u pay for the Paris decal ah?!

    EXACTLY the same as mine lah!

    and u know?i paste on top of my bed headboard!

    And the building is not enough to paste,so i go to Diaso and cut and paste,diy some myself!

    hehe...i bot mine at $10 now G-market having sales around $5!

    :bangwall:

    I buy mine from Decorette le S$70.. hmmm dun know if its ex or not... we found one from US but after calculating Decorette is still cheaper incl of shipping. You got the same one ah... :D so qiao

    We got the measurement for the website at Decorette it states 60" wide x 22" high. We believe thats its from the tip of the Eiffel tower to the bottom of Eiffel tower... so its rather big for my wall which we are going to paste.. remember I have a wall depression (wonder if I spell correct) where we install the OpenNet.

    Diaso go sell this kind of decal ah... :o

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