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lol and i realise we have the same metal gates. haha

Choosing sofa is very headache. Sofa is the first thing i went shopping for and is the last thing to confirm. haha Good luck in your sourcing too!

yes you are indeed very KIASU. lol what you storing there? the top basket how to reach?

isn't best tech sell aircon de? you change your deposit to lightings ah?

oh collecting keys soon? excited boh?

is it Mega at kallang leisure park? from ACE ah?

i bought my frosted stickers for privacy at UBI. the a lot of mod car garage there. beside a coffee shop there have 2 shops selling stickers. bought mine there for $6 per metre. width is standard at 120cm. downside is paste yourself. haha.

nah, they did cut a space for the blower when installing L-box

Yesterday went to confirm purchase from this shop in Furniture mall regardless of all the bad reviews in forum. got not much choice elsewhere as only this sofa suits prefectly to what we want. let's just pray hard that sofa will arrive nicely and smoothly. :bow:

lol funny guy

nowadays singapore weather are too hot. i doing aircon and ceiling fan in living room. might have to add standing fan later cos i simply cannot stand sweating.

hey i got the same metal gates! thanks for your recommendation ah. but my dad see liao straight kpkb say why the horizontal bars doesn't look very safe.

then are you ready for your DDMBCSLBSS reno. get ready bullets liao, it will be a fun and agonizing process. the only down side is the waiting time for completion

wahahaha paiseh i more to hokkien style

these few days doing painting lor, still got electricals and carpentry. i believe can move in end of this month?

Before i say anything, i would like to say i'm sorry for ranting here about your works. I hope this will not affect anything between us. To be fair, i am satisfied with the rest of works given to me so far. Good tilers attitude and did not give me any problem at all. Some rectification was made promptly too. To be fair to me also, there are also many other additional work which i gladly agree to your price given to me without making any noise. And yes it's true that we have talked about the extra charges yesterday, from our conversation it seems to me that you knew about these charges might be a bit too much for me to accept and was just trying your luck. I am just not very happy with that. For example on LAN point issue, you call me explain say need cabling and patch up of the already existing L-box. Cost $ and by how much. I agree to do. Simple as that. Although you might have forgotten about it, but i am still willing to pay that cos it's partially my fault not to remind you and L-box was already there at that point of time and true that you need to dig a hole in it which confirm will occur more cost. As for the L-box to cut corners for aircon blowers, my thinking is that you already knew had to cut those corners before L-box was up. It is just doesn't seem correct to me to pay for those corners which used a bit less materials to make and a bit more work to do. For the entrance ceiling to Walk-in-Wardrobe, the entrance was already slanted. Even if the aircon trunking was not there, you would have to redo the entrance ceiling to water levelled. If the entrance is even but the aircon trunking is protruding, i would have to pay for the additional cost cos no one would expect the trunkings to be that low in the first place. And since you will have to redo that ceiling, how can you charge me for the cost to rectify mistake done by your side? When i questioned you about it, you just say if i not comfortable about paying for those then will take the charges away. Does this mean if i did not notice it then i will still be charged? I cannot endure this kind of tactics cos it was suppose to be trust from my side that you will not anyhow charge me for things like this. Give and take line was crossed over here. Try putting yourself in my shoes and you might see my point of view. I chose you to reno my flat cos of good reviews here in this forum, i believe it is correct to give my own review to other future potential flat owners who might think of engaging you for their flat also. Through this forum i learn that if can give and take, things will move more smoothly without much hiccups, upsets and issues. These are just minor errors or miscommunication that some might say between you and me. Let's not get upset about these issues. Overall you are still doing a good job for creating a ideal home for me and my wife. We might not been able to progress so far without your help but due to the huge piling cost coming up everywhere for this new home, we would like to keep cost(s) at a low and reasonable level. Hope you understand our situation. Case close or i never meant to make such a case cos forum was meant for rants, reviews and feedbacks right?

yes additional work i will pay but at a reasonable price. just calculating the price ratio to amount of works added compare to original work is a big diff. but alterations to proposed work have to pay? is the same as asking electrician to change lighting point from A to B. also have to pay or same same just pay for a single lighting point although electrician will have to cut a few more casings to point B? L-box in living room have no cove lighting. just normal plan L-box. gas pipes were done before L-box is up. the L-box guys should have seen the gas pipes were there and lowered the original L-box to cover the gas pipes. i already can accept the extra weird looking L-box without asking to redo the whole thing liao. i gave in chin chai but was charged $... aircon trunking was there way before the floor tiling works were done. it was even before L-box ppl came up to take measurements. aircon trunking did not have much problem with the L-box, only the blowers does. which is also another example case of moving lighting point from A to B.

yes it's true that his quote got no FOC items at all. it's when the above things were told to me did not say that it cost money to do. those were more like alterations to not yet done works than add on works. but was charged and billed to me. there was also some things he did say that need to pay. those he charged and i did not say a word. yeah i understand the meaning of give and take, but i got a feeling that the line has been crossed more to my side.

Today i managed to sit down and look through revised bill for my reno. Saw something(s) which i think is buay gam. I paid $1390 for doing L-box in my living room and MBR. After Hong Tar came to install trunking, they mentioned that i have to make sure L-box is done in a way that the two aircon unit have space to fit in. Aircon unit cannot be installed lower than the L-box as it will hinder the water flowing to drain. already told Ronald about this and expect him to instruct workers to take note of the aircon units position. yes he did a good job as to properly "siam" the positions of the aircons and charged to my account for another $80! Called him and was told cos L-box siam here and there need more angled L-box boards or something like that. my arguement is that i already told him to siam the aircon units before L-box installation took place. is not like L-box is installed liao then i ask to change, if like that i LL have to pay. but now is not lor. is like i paying more for doing less. Second thing, after aircon guys installed the trunkings. i realise the trunking is not aligned with the top entrance of my doorway. asked the aircon guys on the spot and they showed me with the water leveller that their aircon trunkings are straight and is the entrance top not straight. Hence told Ronald about the entrance ceiling and he said will do some patching up there. this time at my expense again. for another $150 cleverly split into two separate item in bill. Bill states 1) to construct lintol above entrance of Walk-in-wardrobe --- $100 2) to construct plaster box up above entrance of walk-in-wardrobe --- $50 if the entrance ceiling is straight and aligned with aircon trunking but with the aircon trunking protruding out, i would gladly pay for the mistake in calculations or should i say unexpected cost. this entrance ceiling is already slanted and not aligned with the aircon trunking with the aircon trunking protruding out, Ronald already have to rectify this slanted ceiling no matter what. but instead, this was billed to me at $150. and also, one whole big MBR false ceiling is $540. 1 small small slice of plaster box up cost $50, one small small lintol which may well be those disposed off small small piece cost $100. quite ridiculous i would say. called Ronald about this and argued to him. he say if i mind then take out lor. WHO DUN MIND??? Third thing, at first was thought that L-box in living room should be able to cover the citigas pipes running through living room to kitchen. when installing L-box (i was not around), Ronald call me saying that L-box in living room gas pipe area need to lower a bit to hide the pipes. say just a little bit, asking me if i was ok with the small protruding part. i say fine since bo bian mah, gas pipe block then what can i do other than lowering the L-box by a bit? he did not tell me about charging on the phone, nor the day after L-box was fully done. instead just conveniently list inside the bill again this time for $200 then on another instance was calling me about the boxing up of the pipes in kitchen for the gas pipes. he say can box up, look better. even suggest to me paint black look better. i was thinking "wah good service hor" BUT was also charged to me for $150 :curse: I mean if dun wan to do for free then kindly just mention that do this cost $ and ask if i am fine with it before proceeding. And also not to charge for something which is not my fault. i will pay if things turn out to be my error in communicating. For instance, i specifically told him that i wan to do networking in the house from living room to MBR at the very first meet-up. I remembered very clearly i told him cos i need that badly as i need the networking, very certain that i did not miss that. After L-box was up and i realise that LAN points was not set up. He say have to pay for $40 for cutting hole in L-box for cabling purpose. At this time, i already was very sure he forgot about the cabling i told him in the very early stages. I just aiya ok lah, chin chai $40 pay liao dun wan argue so much. BUT NOW IT SEEMS TO ME THAT I CHIN CHAI BUT HE KEEP JIA JIA JIA!

lol, i wan to buy one i wun regret and dislike de mah

roar at that bugger i mean ROOOOAR!

now is not the time, busy busy busy and yawn yawn yawn.

wow i can still remember the puppy months, small little terror. yeah hope tonight will work out something for the sofa.

lol also true about dogs they always give you the innocent look. mine even whines to make my father come to his rescue...... that is a very nice sofa, wil buy that one if no other sofas work out for me. hope tonight will work something out

i gian Canon in D after a youtube video made by a guitar fellow. he use electric guitar to play this song, very nice. although i can play guitar as well but i think keyboard sounds nicer for this song and practicing on guitar will make the finger tips grow hard painful skin. other songs you mention i dun recognise leh. haha. i dun really listen to songs now liao. my keyboard have been sleeping non-stop inside the warm storeroom for a few years already as for the youtube video, you go search in youtube "canon in d guitar" by guitar90. Superb!