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can pm me the floor mat details too? TIA!.

my new home has no direct sunlight, and kitchen with upper floor neighbours throwing porridge; so we have to do indoor drying too (cos we don't wanna leave them along the corridor. we use UIC (gonna try TOP when we finished UIC ). it usually takes 2 days to dry. i pushed my mobile laundry rack to the living room on the 2nd day cos that's the only place with better daylight (not SUNlight) and we have a ceiling fan. i tend to add a bit more detergent cos i know what smell you guys are talking about (i experienced it during the second wash in my new home ). for sweaty/soiled clothes that does not coincide with my laundry days, i wash it by hand and hang out to dry, and then dump it into the washing machine again during the next laundry day.

buying fans now. what's the diff between 45W and 60W power consumption? higher the better? TIA.

after the musty smell bye bye, the vinegar smell will still linger? this is my first set of cabinet which i inherited from the previous owner - still in good condition except the lower cabinet have musty smell. what bad habits should i avoid to prevent future musty smell? Thirsty hippo for wardrobe is ok, but kitchen cabinet? TIA.

paisay, is ask electrician for lighting (L-box) or fan installer to check? check already can have what recourse?

Will let you know after handover k? in any case, my one is super small job nia, so to be fair, may not be representative/fair opinion in the first place with regards to workmanship and design ideas ; but work-attitude wise of workers and keeping to schedule, i give them thumbsup. if everything swee swee (beautiful beautiful) handover, my verdict will be, if i going to reno my unit again (ie revamp my toilet/kitchen which i did not do this time round), i will go back to the same people again cos 'work with unfamiliar might as well work with familiar' as renovation in itself sure will give some headaches de .

KSJL, will you be able to post your curtain pic again? thanks.

Speed 1 not much wind; mainly for circulation only. Speed 2 moderate; will probably be using it cos Speed 3 is really fast. Directly below is cooling and if stand a distance away, can only blow the feet. My living room is small, so anything more than 44" will be like having helicopter blade above our head.

yes, kdk A11ys has limited coverage and about 45degree (dunno if you get what i mean). good enuf for me cos i dont need it to circulate my whole room (for the moment) and only need it to cool the sofa location which is directly below the fan. my living room so small and ht so low, so not much choice actually.

thanks! a relief to hear that.

hi, thanks for your response. after you had installed, please share if there are any visible/exposed safety wire outside the fan unit; mine does not have.

hi, i am now towards the tail end of my reno and am looking at curtains. will you be able to share pics of your curtains that are done by jason? TIA!. was not able to send you a pm...dunno what's wrong...

most of the pic in the iphone are about defects and those swee swee (beautiful beautiful) pics are in my camera that i have yet to upload (long overdue!). quite busy cos doing spot checking almost everyday (kiasu ah! ). mine is not a big job, so quite limited pic. you revamping your whole place? didn't see your t-blog around...or did i miss it? will pm you when i done up my blog upon handing over this week. if you in a rush, you can pm me for more details.

Day 11 - Sunday As we are meeting the ID on Monday to go through our concerns, we dropped by on Sunday to do a through check. We found out another blunder which very fortunately is reversible. Ruin husband's mood totally though. Cleaners came to wash up the place. Day 12 - Monday Fan installers from our lighting people were late; punctuality is our concern cos we need to rush in-between to fetch our kids from school; luckily we had made alternative childminding arrangements earlier. They tuned our lights to get rid of the humming sound too.Adjusted our crooked downlight metal border too. However, while i rummaged through the box which they discarded when they left, i found the instruction manual and a bag of bolts/hook - did not see any exposed safety wire as illustrated in the manual, though the lighting people confirmed (via my phone call) that the safety device is inside the fan. Went through our concerns with the ID coordinator; very humble guy; not defensive. ID arrived next; ran through our concerns. As I have yet to see the workmanship of any of their other projects of similar colour scheme, i just have to conclude that my expectations are too high. Husband totally accepted their explanation on how the end product appear the way it is; I learnt a lesson on the downside of choosing a white-themed fitout. Quite surprised though that we as laymen are expected to know technical specs of materials. Am I too much a perfectionist to expect a lot for such a small job? Had some minor addition to configuration of fitting out work and informed them to replace 2 defective doors. Despite the hiccups, totally appreciate their effort in working within a tight schedule for us to move in asap. Will share my pics when this reno journey comes to a close.

for us, about 2 weeks after contract signing then we were given the perspective for our cabinet. you probably should call to fix the next appointment.

My house handing over this week; very prompt service. ID/ID coordinator can tahan me raising my voice over some reno hiccups and my too-high expectations (maybe cos i am used to seeing condo's fitting-out works workmanship standard). hope this week's handover can be smooth smooth.

those who had installed A11YS in their homes, do your fans come with safety wire? refer to the diagram as shown in the Operating and Installation Instructions Manual.

Day 10 - Saturday Supposed to go Ikea to buy some items, but husband was and called off the trip cos of some of the disappointing stuff we saw when we viewed our unit this morning. Had just emailed my ID about the screw-up among other things; let's see what can be done. Many many years ago when I was interning for a project manager, he had warned me about trusting workers; he was absolutely right! I just didn't know that I have to supervise the supervisor as well! Moral of the story: Things that will go wrong, will go wrong.

Day 5 - Mon No physical work done when we visited with the kids in the evening. Day 6 - Tue No physical work done when I visited during lunchtime; saw preparation for painting works though (protection etc). However, when we dropped by during evening time, the first/sealer coat, downlights, showerscreens were all up. Husband is very happy with the choice of lighting level (ie warm/cool white lights) that the lighting people had recommended. However, we noticed a constant humming sound when we switched on the downlights. Day 7 - Wed Contacted ID coordinator regarding humming sound. Dropped by in the evening to leave a note regarding choice of colours for main door and gate. Noticed that the lights still hummed. Noticed that some of the downlights fixtures are not alighed (product problem). Day 8 - Thurs Contacted Lighting people to notify them about humming sound and told them to liaise with ID coordinator. Informed Lighting people to bring down a few sets of the downlights cover to exchange when they come down next monday for fan installation. Dropped by during lunchtime and found 90% painting completed pending touchups of corners etc. Day 9 - Fri Contacted ID coordinator to check if Lighting people had contacted them and to find out about carpentary schedule. He told us that his carpenters going down for first installation in the afternoon. So I arranged to meet him to hand over the sanitary accessories for them to help me fix. Heavy rain late morning and Father in-Law drove me to our new place and Mother in-Law went up to view our unit with me. She remarked that we should salvage and reuse the old day curtains left behind by the seller, cos she said they appeared reusable and in good condition. Luckily they dropped by cos Father in-Law noted that the workers may have installed our shower screen wrong side up (which he is correct!), with the sliding tracks at the bottom instead of on top. Luckily again, husband managed to apply for half day leave so that he could fetch our kids while I contacted and waited for ID coordinator to come down to go through some of our observations. Painting for the whole house is completed and protection in the room were already removed. While waiting for ID to arrive, spend my time vacuuming the storeroom (no thanks to our 'salty rice' mixture ) and 'autosolling' rusty parts of the dishdrainer . By 2pm, carpentry materials arrived. Tentative handover mid next week! JIT for our first batch of furniture deliver on Saturday. Hurray!

for those with sliding shower screen, how does your bottom tracks look like? my shower screen bottom tracks have sliding grooves...like that how to drain away the water??

we have 4 corner orange downlights and 8 coolwhite downlights in the living room. when we switched on the orange lights, there is a low humming sound; when we on all the lights, the humming sound gets a bit louder. how?!

how about 'musty' smell in kitchen cabinets?

Day 4 - Sunday We dropped by to our unit in the morning to take a look at the condition of our sanitary accessories and wares. husband bought Autosol and demo to me how we can salvaged some tarnished/rusty wares. while i'm ok with wares like the 'holder' of shower head, i insisted that we need to change the towel rails for hygiene purpose - cannot imagine rust getting onto my towels and body! Went down to IMM; read that SongCho's 'chicken brand' has good stainless steel product but did not manage to get anything there. Hoe Kee's selection at IMM is wide (compared to the other 2 competitors at IMM), but most of the affordable range are out of stock. We then bought all our accessories at Sim Siang Choon - a glass shelf, 2 towel rails and a toilet paper holder. Went down to our unit again at night to scribble and paste some notes on my bathrooms wall for my contractor. saw a small lizard lurking outside our bedroom!! -__- Parents In-Law went to Ikea and bought us 2 additional shelving planks for the existing billy book cases which we will be bringing over.

Day 3 After much deliberation, we decided to get kdk A11YS from our lighting supplier cos they are able to provide 'seamless' service with our ID (cos recommended by our ID mah) although i'm sure the price is higher than if we buy from those recommended good-deal shop over at the kdk thread but husband said if want him to take leave to supervise, not worth ah ; so we rather leave everything to our ID to coordinate. we didn't take a separate trip down to the shop to make payment and will pay on the installation date itself which the supplier will confirm with me after liaising with our ID. Maybe will drop by later to take a look and also ensure that they lock up my place properly - cos yesterday we went there, although they locked the gate, they did not close the main door properly...-__- Parents bought a wooden 'trolley' for us to put in the kitchen cos we have not enough kitchen top surface; will be good to put my rice cooker and also a make shift side 'coffee table' in case we have guest; not getting a coffee table cos i don't want kids to eat or even drink at the living room near my Calypso!

Day 1 Met ID to reconfirm certain stuff and added certain minor works as well as paid for commencement of work. Tentative schedule is that my ceiling will be done up by early next week for painting to commence mid week. Shower screen will commence next week too. While our ID did mention during our signing of Agreement, about their tight workload and the possibility of getting our display feature cabinet only end next month, husband is delighted that ID told us that he will get his carpenters to do up our place by end of this month. By mid afternoon, workers already started work taking down my old cornices. Went to ID's recommended lighting shop to purchase downlights and LED lights; didn't compare any other shops cos downlights designs are pretty standard (we think ) and the recommended shop will liaise directly with ID on delivery; the shop promised to let us change our light bulb colours (eg cool white change to warm white etc) if we don't like the overall effect when the ceiling and lights are up. shop also recommend us to get kdk 56" or 60", but the costs are quite ex. they did not recommend A11YS cos mentioned that the wind 'area' is quite small. Day 2 - yesterday Yesterday afternoon, dropped by to see 2 electricians fixing our Lbox wiring. Last night after coaxing our youngest kid to sleep and leaving him with their grandparents, we dropped by to clean up our bedrooms (cos when i visited in the afternoon, the floor felt moist cos we mopped the floor on Day 1 - cos of the salt melted ah! - but did not leave the windows open to ventilate the room) which took us an hour. Did some vaccumming in the room....hope we did not disturb the neighbours cos it was already after 9pm at night.... Saw the wiring dangling from the point, but all neatly bundled up in tubes; floor are relatively debris-free (still have dust la); saw our L-box materials in the kitchen. Did some physical measurement cos realised that we did our dimensions wrong on our floor plan (we drew our floor plan on Visio ). also 'showed' my husband how a 60" kdk ceiling fan will look in our living room - it is massive!! considering our room is small. we decide to settle for A11YS and back up a tower fan if A11YS eventually prove to be not as powerful.