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hiya, wow,$700.... okie, that is incentive enough..... let me check out the rest of the options out there first....

hi, yeah, depends on which option makes sense. any good ready made ones to recommend ?

Hi, I basically have a high ceiling balcony and that's where we hang our clothes. So far, what we do is to buy those cloth hanging stand and place it in the middle of the balcony and we do the drying there.... it's a big waste of space..... with 3 kids, the balcony becomes a useless area about 60-70% of the time since we are drying something almost everyday.... now... I can mount some kind of cloth hanging rack that can be lowered and raised.... and that should free up alot of space... any recommend suggestions ? products ? this might be the wrong forum to post..... but at 1 point, I was thinking of doing some DIY of some sort......

hiya, thanks for the tip...... it's a first time project for me so I guessed there's still alot of 'best practises' for me to find out....... Luckily, the runners were not out by much.... I have a new respect for our friendly carpenters..... they must have years of experiences to make perfect alignment all the time... I need the trimmer to trim those irritating laminate and would be good to carve out the grooves for the drawer bottom..... yup, the jig saw was the first thing I bought (well, not exactly, everyone starts with a drill). you sound like a professional at this...... what's your vocation ? oh yah... 1 more question to add..... do people normally laminate to the board, then fix to them together ? or fix them up (like what I do) and then do the lamination ? right now I'm using 2" screws to secure board to board. If I do the laminate first, then I would need to use glue and those short wooden pegs ? I think what my cabinet maker did was to pre assembly and laminate them, bring to my house, and do final round of lamination for the edges where these pre-fab pieces are joined together....

hi, I bought it in the East, at simpang Bedok.... welcome to share experiences and ideas....

thanks thanks for everyone who gave comments... I'm trying to improve the next cloth drawer unit that I will build. Went crazy and bought myself a trimmer....... now I can cut grooves at the sides of the drawer for the bottom piece to slot in..... also can trim laminate perfectly...... nice nice....

Hi, refer to post #11 of this thread for address. Yes, Formica needs some skil to cut and apply. Wallpaper I'm not sure of any shop recommendation.

hi hi, just still learning..... so fumbling along the way.... share share experiences lah... dun say teach....

Hi, I uploaded some of my DIY stuff onto my facebook.... anyone in the Singapore region will be able to see if they have facebook account... hoped you guys have no problem accessing... http://www.facebook.com/photos/?ref=sb#/al...mp;id=758294681

hi, formica are hard sheet (you need a formica cutter to cut them) that you need to buy glue to stick it on.... if you walk past some shops doing renovation and smells the 'glue sniffer' high, that's the stuff they use. For a good bond, you always remove any existing laminate. by comparison, stickers are much cheaper and personally, I'm tempted to use that to lower the cost of some of the stuff that I'm doing.

hi, Let me write down the info from my most recent receipt. the place is Li Fong Hardware Enterprise, 373, Bedok Road, Changi Complex, Singapore 469550, phone 64446220, 64446231, Fax 64431449 The fella whom I talk to is Ah Hong, quite a friendly person, you can get the whole catalogue from him, there are alot of different type of formica, some expensive, some cheap. You can buy the cutting tools from him as well... cheers and good luck...

hi, last time I had leaking ceiling.... that was becos the house upstairs had something leaking down... what the contractor did was drill hole, pump some special compound in... which expands and fill up all the gaps in the ceiling... I suggest you look for professional help on this..... very hard to DIY.....

Hi, I went to a tmber merchant and ask about pine wood... apparently, they say that IKEA sells them the cheapest... although IKEA would sell them as part of the shelving etc and not for DIY purposes.... any comments ? basically, where to buy big piece of pine wood for DIY cabinet....

hi, I bought my fomica around $38 for a 8 feet by 4 feet piece... cutting is challenging......

hi, as in get them to see if they would have any extra spaces to house the DIY club ? Might be view as contraction to their own business isn't it ?

they might, but there's no reason for them to let us use it. plus we might damage their tools and that's gonna be a complicating mess to untangle. even if we know some ITE lecturer, eventually, he might be 'faulted' for holding personal woodwork party..... the school will do something mean to him.

hi, basically, it's practise practise practise.... *agreed*..... applying glue without too much mess is an art.... table saw is kinda slow in cutting laminate..... I think I've got some way to go as far as formica is concerned.......

hi, was sticking up my shoe cabinet... wow, not easy, each time I cut and snap it, the edge is jagged..... have to use a small file and sand them off slowly, but is this the common approach ? because it takes too long.... I tried cutting formica with a pair of scissors, amazing, it worked. But I got into trouble when I tried to cut too long a piece, it starts to crack. I was told that carpenter have a special device just for trimming the edges of formica..... what do us DIY people use ?

most timber mechart will sell... I just bought mine from the sempang bedok place. Am building a shoe cabinet.... as for price, I don't have it right now..... the standard size is 8 feet by 4 feet although you don't need so much...... smaller pieces will depend. What size are you looking for ? I got some, but not very big pieces.... you can have it... it usually comes 1 side laminated white....

hi, the problem is that even for a run down warehouse etc, the rental per month is gonna be quite high.... suppose we get lucky and manage to get a place for $500 a month, even if we have 20 members..... we will be paying $25 a month, which is $300 a year. The best is to find a simple location to start off.. or which brother have a big yard, can sit there and drink coffee.. share some experiences...

hi, where do you think I can get a piece of fancy titles.... you know, with nice pictures etc..... some of them are used as a strip across the bathroom..... they even have a story sequence etc.. I'm living in the East..

hi, yeah, I've been thinking about this for quite some time myself... started my little DIY projects for my shoe cabinet and thought it would be a great idea to do something like this. Right now, the place is the biggest headache because I don't think we can afford paying high monthly rental for the place. Tools are actually not that bad, since each of us who are into DIY would already own the basic drill, jigsaw etc... we can even do some side rental business like renting drill for people (non diy) who needs to do that occasional 1 or 2 holes. well, if I can a disused corner of some factory that some people are nice enough to allow us to use, that would be the first step... meanwhile, if there's way to subsidies the rental by some other ways, that's also something we can think of... "holding classes" ? not bad...

Hi, I am just wondering if it would be a good idea to have such a place in Singapore. Basically, can be a old warehouse etc, where people can come over, and do DIY stuff over the weekend or during their off days. good points will be :- - use the tools available (including some tools that no one would buy in their right mind for personal use) - tie up with transport company to transport our creation back to home - wife always complain noisy at home, dangerous for kids, this will solve it - we are mostly free after office hours and weekends, but those hours, cannot do too loud, neighbors will complain. warehouse no such issue, can do any time. - can have joint project and share experiences - can pool resources for bulk purchase of material like wood, etc, they will deliver to us. - spend our leisure time building something that can be used in the house. So far, my search on the web doesn't turn up such a place in Singapore. Teck Chye

hi, I think what he meant is 1 side laminated white... like those wood used for the interior of cabinet.... there are those that are 2 side laminated as well... like those that are used as the divider of the cabinet... yes, price is pretty okay..... but not the cheapest..... if the lamination is actually formica laminating, wow, then I stand corrected, they are cheap..... I was enquiring over the weekend, a piece of formica is $30+. Teck Chye