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My previous condo is granite, now the HDb 5-rm I insisted on all flooring -granite, kitchen top also granite. I've a stone-bench outside the house, also covered with granite. I like the little little "diamonds" at night. Everyday use damped cloth to mop the floor, after abt 3-6 months, the water "slowly eat into" the stone and become not so porous. Prevent putting oily can/tin granite top, oil soak in, difficult to "suck out". - I've even used flood light(very hot light) to spot on the granite floor near the tiolet entry, too much water eat into the stone, the color become odd.

Why fabric? Collect dust easily, warm too.

1. The full-teak console is specially made-in Indonesia, I order from the furniture mall, I sketched the drawing, 8' long, 26' dept, cost me 2k+. The glass-doors are fitted by another contractor. The initial "slide" doors seemed not "blend" in with the design. 2. FW (inside hollow)protrudes out abt 3 inch. TV console went in first. FW sits on top, sealed up the gap between console top & FW. Cut round hole on FW, TV mounted onto wall & cover the hole. All cabling went into this hole. The console top where FW sitted cut a hole, all cabling came in from this hole. Woofer cable went into a hole on console top, all the way to soundbar. Total 3 holes on console. One hole on FW. 3. The blueray soundbar(have many functions, but small) work with the TV and woofer. TV comes with internet connection. 4. 4 men carried the 1-piece console from ground floor all the way up to 23 floor. 5. So far I have seen one HDB unit somewhere in Toa Payoh, havin the silimar 2-bar grille. 6. The window contractor called by ID. 7. I know the ID since 2006, Baroque Design. Can check www.baroquedesign.com.sg, speak to Miko, 91089519. Office in Joo Chiat. Boss is Jason. 8. The contractor did not know my requirement at first, I've once rejected the proposed bar, see a few samples, & picked the present one. First time they installed the bar-grille like this. I think more HDB owners will follow such.

Magnetic door stopper no good lah, when open door, make loud sound. - Further more, need to drill here & there. When wind strongs, and magnet not so strong......BANG! - Just get a rubber stopper placed under the door will do, secured, cheap & practical.

First you sure is granite, not marble?. "Sticky" feeling is usually cause by the waxing. Granite requires no waxing. - New granite is rather porous - its absorbes liquid very fast & leave a patch mark, take quite a while to disappear if liquid is clear. - At night, switch on light, use naked eye, look at flooring at abot 30 deg, 1 feet between eye & flooring, can see many "diamonds" reflective dots. - When weather is hot and high humidity, stone cools, human feet warm, therefore form condensation, especially true for those ceramic tile with gloss surface. - Granite mopping - normal detergent, mix with 2 small caps of dettol in a 5 litres p will do. Granite tile take about 6 months to reach "saturation" depending how frequent & amount of water used.

- Mine. Simple TV FW with 3 pilers at left. 1-piece 8-ft customised full-teak console. 42" TV with soundbar, woofer. Granite flooring with false ceiling, PLC downlight. - 10 ft shoe cabinet below casement window, original balcony with sliding door -knock away. Actually not so many shoe to keep, as a bench for sitting. Worth mentioning about the 2-bar "window grille"- 3mm thick hollow rectangular aluminium, back-screwed. Follow my last condo's style. 56' KDK RC ceiling fan. - MBR, 2-bar "window grille".

Wow Piang, why bother to look for so many IDs. I just "use" back the ID 3 years ago who did my condo. "Know you, know me" is the key. The trust & rapport already there, just tell your ideas, some specific materials, then come with some graphic sketches, colors matching is important. Materials kept changing, good IDs must catch up with time & new systems. Dakato Residence pretty ex, just downloaded the price with unit numbers:

Try Polyart marble www.polyart-marble.com 284-286 Changi road They do customisation

At first thought of just to wash dirty cloth in backyard, since you ask, tell you more: - This BIL has quite some hard-to-die "bad habits". - He molested the newly-arrived(3 wk) maid at home, one night. Maid called SIL (she's a licienced tour guide as well as mini-bus drive, work odd hrs). - She rushed back home, found her husband drunken. Called BIL's 3rd brother. He arrived & suggested her to make police report. She did on the spot (near mid-night). SIL informed my wife this after police took BIL & maid away (mid-night). - Both of them released the next day. BIL (coach driver) instructed not to leave Si'pore. Poor maid back to Agency. - Report will be out in abt a month's time, if convicted of molesty, SIL will proceed to lawyer to cut off the relationship. - Before this maid, SIL has a maid worked for them abt 9 months and one day, she "suddenly" run away to the agency and wanted to be back home in Indonesia.....something fishy somewhere......sigh, as the chinese saying: "water get frosen to 3 feet ice not within a day".

- False ceiling/L/rectangular box. help reduce "horizontal beam effect". Best is 4'' thick, not 6". - Always install "downlight", could be PLC. LED or halogen, with false ceiling. White & warm light to choose from. -Caution: warm light no good to human eye for reading, thought it marks ambience "soft". - Recommend to install "Legrand switches" with curve surface. - Think carefully the "grouping" of lighting with switches. - Never like standing fan or lamp, very obstructing- when mopping floor. - Avoid "suspended" carpentry works, not sustainable for long, thought look nice. - Try not to have more than 4 main colors for hall(flooring, sofa, wall, carpentry)-same color with different tones is ok. - Wall/flooring colour try to contrast. - Folyer is important, pay extra attention to it. - Try not to install "fixed" stuff, after 3-5years, you will get "tired" of current design and want to change. - Ceiling fans also important, unless you install to switch on aircon all time.

Gap is unavoidable, wall not straight. Contractor should have installed a kind of rubble sleeving which provides elasticity in contact with wall, as well as applying silicon Gel to make it water-tight.

Hi ngunadi! Can help ask yr friend the address where he bought u the wc, i'm interested, especially those "big" ones, 4-5', solid tube. PM me, thank a lot. Want to test to see if can break "negative energies". Saw some in stationery shops but look not grand, more like "toys". Have been in Japan & Taiwan, saw many of these, saw some tubes arranged in "one row". Saw some Japanese temples hang such at corners of roof below. Taiwanese's very "cute", colorful as well. Too bad did not buy.

Yes, burn in the cage first. Or call "temperature-rise test". The contraction & expansion forces are terriblly great, can bend metal.

- Actually, many "angmo" houses built with "down" staircase directly link to main doors. - Saw many private house got back yard got staircase "down" all the way road. Thomson, Anglican High area, Chai Chee industrial area, whole strench of private opposite RJC.....so many... - No wonder malay cannot get rich, because their "raised" up wooden houses got direct staircase all the way "down". - Houses built on slope always got steps all the way "down" - Best to build houses in valley, so when go out, all the way "up", when go home, all the way "down". Before going "up", downpour, get "drown" first. Impression kills. Imagination makes one go mad.

"High grade" in cohesion (bonding force between 2 different material) force? - Epoxy glue so far is the best for bonding. All homogenous tiles have been "heat treated". The tensile strength is pretty weak, layman called "fragile". If u "must" put oven within the cemented cage, "season" the cage first by blowing air to "burn in" , making cement dry and some cracks (patch up the cracks) then apply tile externally and blow air to see if tiles still "stick" to cement or crack together with cement. I lived in Kampong when I was young and the stove (burn by wood) made of cement and with ceramic tiles on walls. All tiles had fine cracks.

Wood with rib-stop sail ? 2-meter long with stand? Try Rotor Hobby Blk807 #02-?? French Road Speak to Michael

Pity U. Can't do anything besides saying bye bye to owner.

I like your style, straight forward ! Late Dr. Goh also did things like that.

- Reason 1. Many years back, "kitchen" is really a "kitchen" for cooking, so flooring/wall tend to be dirty, oily, smelly. To "save" time, or to do flooring cleaning more effective is to pour water with detergent and just brush here & there. - Reason 2. The "levelling" of kitchen flooring to the floor trap must be correct, water flows "automative" towards the FT. - Reason 3. Older generation(like my late parents), especially Chinese, have this "pour in" & "pour out" concept. Kitchen is the place (no store rm) where all natural resources (food) are stored. Once cabinet doors are open, food "pour out" from high to low. This is pretty much the same as our main door step, always higher, symbolising house full of resources which can be "pour out" once main door is open. This is a belief, not a science. Modern kitchens in HDB require no pouring of water for cleaning, therefore water flowing towards floor trap is not a concern. The "pour in" & "pour out" is a belief related to feng shui theory, is subject to ones' believe. Hope these clear your doubts. - Anyway, my frig & w/m have no 50mm, but the cabinet yes.

My "new resale" 5 rm done with no traditional grilles (those hollow alu cross here & there, can slide..) but just two horizontal rectangular hollow alu bar (one" by 1/2", 3mm thick). At first, the contractor fitted with those 1mm thick, hollow bar fitted with rivet, when I inspected the house, I just applied "karatak", bars dropped. Gave ID 2 days to find suitable bars, otherwise I would engage my own contractor to do the job. Finally done, fitted with screws - back drill-in. - Hammer can do job already, cannot apply karatak. - Cast spell to the house - Pour acid on floor, pvc sanitary pipes, etc. Destruction is much more easier than construction... Just joking for the above, don't take them. Selling-buying should be an happy event, and will be remembered for life. Happy & sweet is better than sad & sour, right?

I expect resale tx to drop further the next half yr, more bto, dbss, more ura lands out for private, etc. For buyers, if can hold, just hold till end of year. COV is a mock to valuation report, in a way or another. Report should have been inclusive of all the factors determining the price. Before buying the resale last yr, I already had plan to renovate the whole unit, in other words, I would "knock" down everythings - so I told myself, the most cov is capped at 30k. Don't tell me thing like "move in" conditions, I don't buy the idea. I spent 90k on reno for the 5-rm, having my own ideas on the reno themes and materials used.

Some 17 years ago, HDB offered me some units there for selection, before exercising, jalan the whole area for about 4 hours, wow, saw many grandpaps & grandmams & one funeral.

If you did not sign any checklist for 2 parties tp agree upon, by all means to remove/damage whatever you like, just left the walls & ceiling behind. -spoil the locks -damage the floor -bend the windows/grilles -make water pipes leaks -choke wc/floor trap -cut the electrical cables here one, there one What else?

Dean, sound like yr floor has a layer of thick wax. May need machine polishing to get rid the wax. Solvents can't help. May be you can try to test this: burn a knife till hot and rub the hot surface on the floor surface, quickly see got any "wax-like" residue.

Remember - you will get "tired" about those once has been "very nice feature wall" - Simplicity is the key, next better keep some money in the pocket for the next "feature wall".