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And on sunday, went back to Poh Seng and bought our WC after knowing the size. Since, we bought our hob and hood and basin from them. And the other time round the boss really gives very good discount. When we went back the boss still remembered us, and it happened that there are many people in the shop. So, we bought Arino Caprio at a not bad price, which was quoted by the boss. The boss gave us quite a bit of discount. And bought bidet spray with valve as well, since hb's supplier do not have the bidet spray which i liked. I liked Arino Caprio due to the curve below the seat, i hate the dent in curve for WC. As i hate to wash WC, so lesser curve and dent will make cleaning a lot easier for me. In case, the WC in charge, my hb not free to clean. As we had agreement, WC his job. I clean the rest of the area in bathroom. If hb not free, no choice I have to do the job, so lesser lines easier for me to clean.. So, we bought 2, one in common and another in MBR bathroom. And on sunday night, asked hb to order a lot of bathroom accessories from his supplier. Includes basin. Below are just a few item. There are too many items, like glass shelves, towel rack etc.. Besides i'm lazy to post. the basin bottom trap, top left hand corner, for MBR bath. And top right hand corner for common bath. And this for common bath hand shower mixer. Hand shower set, for this i was thinking to get the 8" or this. In the end, thought that 8" is too big for hand shower.
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Updates for today. On the left, the hollow block wall up. Door frame up too. All wall tiles are up. the cabinet base and floor and wall tiles are up too. The only thing which is wrong is the hacking, they should hack the door size entrance and not that big of the entrance. So i immediately called alan and told him. So he will get the hollow blocks and cover up to the kitchen cabinet. Actually, if it is open concept, it will be nice, but i do not want to regret in future. So, i'll be a little conservative.
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Yup, that's the problem of most ID, either they are forgetful or they did it on purpose. Once, you're experienced you will identify them in a glance. Oh, and i found another, vanity cabinet in the wash rooms. For me, i didn't do them, if you have intention for them ask the ID to quote for you. Also, if you would want a customized mirror cabinet with lighting, let them know as well.
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Ceiling Fans & Downlights...etc - Trusted Supplier Since 2011
MingzhuAng replied to bro's topic in Electronics & Electricals
Hi, i'm looking for 4 ceiling fan with lighting kit, ceiling fan that comes with acrylic blade. 1 for living room and another 3 in bedrooms. The one in living room, i'm looking at the light kit that resembles 3 UFO. If you have pictures of the light kits with prices you have that would be great. Also, could you advise me the size of the fan through my floor map? You can email me at zhu85@hotmail.com or you may sent me your store's address so i may pay a vist and have a look. And i just saw that you do carry downlight etc, do you carry philips downlight? thanks!- 2,867 replies
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Hi, Maybe you want to construct back the cabinet, but for the interior or exterior instead of using wood laminate, use PVC laminate.
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Ikea Kitchen
MingzhuAng replied to snoopy2006's topic in RENOVATION IDEAS: Interior Design Themes, Space Planning
I think different people with different usage will have different comments. If you would use your utmost effort to take care of them, there are no so called product that doesn't last. Anyway, for product that would last you 20 years would be good enough, as time passes by, the design would go out of trend, by then you would want to change them as well. So this applies to ikea as well, even for built in carpentry. If you do not take care of it, even with the best material and workmanship it will wear and tear. So it depends very much on the user. I can almost say a lot of design doesn't last forever not more then 20 years, unless those simple design and color, but they will turn yellowish over time. -
Other then cabinet base, any intention to do fridge and washer base. Also, if you have intention to change wc and basin, installation fee is not included. For kitchen carpentry, if they include soft closing hinges, is there abs trimmings. If you do not mind the color of the interior of cupboards, then it will be white pvc, else you may ask what is the additional pricing if you would like to change it to another color or material. Electrician wiring and lights installtion of the whole house is missing too. Also, ask about HDB permit, they should apply for you FOC, but not stated. Do you need false ceiling or L box too? If you need, ask them to quote for you also. And any tiling needed for your house or laminated flooring etc. Type of paint used if using other paint other then emulsion paint. Emulsion paint are just basic paint. And also, is there any solid top surface for your kitchen worktop? I think that's all i can think of.
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Hi beezeebear, welcome to renotalk. For your question of using contractor or ID, i can only advise you that if you already have an idea in mind, space management done, furniture arrangements, color management and designs in mind for your whole house etc.., then go for contractor. Whereas if you are unsure, go for an ID. Since, you want Scandinavian look, perhaps i would encourage you to go for an ID in order to achieve this Scandinavian look. If you go for contractor, what they can give you is the contemporary modern look at the most, unless you already have an design in mind and know what material to use for where and the small details. All these are more time consuming and planning. Of course, some contractors are able to hand sketch for you, but the sketches are done based on your requirement. If you would really hire a contractor most probably you need to do lots of homework. You may look through pictures and magazine and show the contractor what you want also, some will be able to do a sketch for you. Perhaps, you would like to ask for quotation to decide, since budget comes into picture as well, but be prepared as some ID or contractors will want to know if you have collected your key first. If you had not collected your key, some may ask you when the date of key collection is nearer then approach them.
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Finally, after the long wait the wall to open another kitchen entrance is down. And the room partition wall is down too. Actually i wanted to do a glass wall, but it will blow off our budget further. So, we will do a hollow block solid wall, which is a lot better since in future that will be our kid's room. On the left the partition wall down, and right the kitchen wall. Another kitchen entrance. Think tomorrow they will build up the hollow block wall for the room. And we will meet my contractor on sunday.. Also to buy wc, and ask hb to order all the taps etc, since next week plumber will come.
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Oh.. Finally, HDB has approved on hacking of our internal wall! Our house has to stop work for 3 days due to this pending approval, as there is nothing to be done since this wall has not come down yet. Just hoped that tomorrow or next week, work will continue as usual. I can't wait for this whole reno to be over, as i'm someone who loses interest quite fast.
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If you find the quote expensive and have an idea what to do, go for contractor. Should be 10% to 20% cheaper. That of course includes your color management and have a design in mind already.
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Hi Dadajie, Congrats on your new house. Your house is really spacious! Will sure be fun to have friends and families to chillax together in your house. For the grout line, if i'm not wrong they can re-grout for you, but for white grout, over time it will still turn yellowish. Perhaps can request to re-grout color that is similar to your floor tile. I had the same issue with you on homogeneous tile knowing that it can't be polish but they are relatively much cheaper, so in the end i still went for marble tiles instead. As i really hate to maintain the grout lines. Looking forward to your house transformation. Happy reno-ing.
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MingzhuAng replied to MeRfMeRf's topic in Reno t-Blog Chat
Hi, welcome to RT. Your house layout is really unique and of course quite challenging. If only HDB place the storeroom elsewhere it may look easier for your arrangement. The only thing i can think of is to change the position of the storeroom and the bedroom door that is facing your living. Look forward for more of your reno pic. -
haha.. poor Dino always have to siam his junior. He must be thinking, "what's with all these junior, always almost knock unto me.. Luckily i'm agile enough..". i'm staying at 20X series.. Sure, if you do have a dog gathering let me know..
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If there is a chance i will, but be pre-empt you first, bb will be very excited and he will run and jump around. Also, he will be super friendly, some dogs are very afraid of him in the sense not that he will growl at them, but overly friendly. I'm just afraid Dino will be too shocked as bb moves really fast and a bit clumsy sometimes. Just cite one example, there is once, my friend brought her daschund to meet BB at the park, and it was at night. And BB moves too fast and i think he didn't see my friend's dog as my friend's daschund is black and quite short. So from a distance, BB came running towards us, and my friend's dog is actually between bb and us. So BB knock against my friend's dog, and her dog rolled 2 rounds, but all is fine as they were on the grass patch. The funny thing is, my friend's dog gave a cute expression of "what's going on?". At then, BB also gave an expression of "oppss..". And they made us laughing non stop.
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Hi, not sure where you stays, but i saw one of the store in ang mo kio central that sells them. The store is those store that sells plates, bowls, wok, pan, wire basket, all kitchen accessories. It is beside Jubilee and behind the store is S11. In front of the store is a playground. I saw the price before, think medium ones are about $30 or $50. It's like this -> http://www.google.com.sg/imgres?q=metal+dustbin&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=635&tbm=isch&tbnid=T2WwZhIuA_zv0M:&imgrefurl=http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/219453283/5L_6L_12L_20L_30L_Stainless.html&docid=f1CpAfpVoyiOLM&w=360&h=389&ei=GJBvTrR7zomsB_zUpO0G&zoom=1 If it is far for you, you can try searching in home fix, but i think they are more ex. When i got my dog i also bought those step open dustbin, but i bought a plastic ones, as the size i want for metal one is out of stock.
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I think for the next few days, should not have much updates on the renovation, as we are pending for HDB approval on hacking of internal wall. Not sure if the floor tiling of rooms and living can start, as it may affect the marble tiles. Also, i have decided to remove the partition wall in one of the room and built a hollow block. I was contemplating if i should do it, and after the kitchen floor tiling is almost done, i had decided to do it. Since, i saw that a lot of the false ceiling internal structure is in wood block, so i thought this partition wall internal structure should be in wood form as well. And i would strongly prefer a more solid wall also. After much struggle, i decided to do it as it will be wet work, and after reno, it will be hard if i want to do it. The door is removed for demolition of partition wall in one of the room. The store room, the other day the pic was not well taken. Kitchen flooring 80% done. Refrigerator base with tiles. Concrete support base with black tile.
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Nice tile selection you've got.. Hoping to see the overall effect when done.
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haha.. seriously yes, they should be best friend if they know each other. I love dogs a lot too.. BB is my second dog, both bb and my first dog are adopted. Just that after my first dog passed away i took 2 years to accept another dog. And bb came just in time when i'm ready for another dog through my friend. I just mentioned it to my friend at then and soon after, my friend told me there is a japanese spitz for adoption from her husband's friend's friend. They are a bunch who always helps abandoned dog to look for a home. We adopted BB at his 8th month. Happy to know someone who adopted their dog too, as i would encourage people to adopt dog then buying them. Agree that dog is a wonderful companions, ever since bb came, there is so much joy in our family, my parents are often being entertained by him, since he can be a little mischievous and playful when he is bored. And he will find people to play with him too.
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Sunday went to visit the progress, since saturday i was busy with my furkid. The door frame is up for my store room. And the floor tiles within is also done up. My refrigerator base. My concrete sink support, it will be in black. Since i will have my black galaxy kitchen worktop. Went up today, the black tile for the concrete support is up, but i was in a hurry, so i left without any pics. Will ask my hb to take photo tomorrow when he goes over, since his parents house is just 1 street away from our's. Anyway, today the tilers were tiling my kitchen floor. And i suddenly realized that the cabinet base is not inline with the kitchen sink, due to the protruding beam at the sink area. Didn't know why i didn't realized it on sunday. Luckily, i was in time to tell the tiler. And he is super kind and say its alright many times, as i feel a little apologetic to tell him after he laid the floor tile. Plus the tile at that area is already cut to fit. Nonetheless, he has good attitude and smile at me and check with me many times on the measurement, and how i want it to be done, since that area would make our bottom cabinet very deep. My dad said, maybe because we always bought them lunch snacks. So far every time i go, he will always confirm things with me, so quite thankful for the responsible tilers. And i'm pretty satisfied with their workmanship. Keeping my finger cross that this will go on till all my flooring are done. Especially, my marble floor tile, that one is super important. And the washer base, was wrong also when i went on sunday. I wanted a rectangular one then a square one just to fit my washer. And it was rectified today. Perhaps i was too overwhelm with my anger on the washer base on sunday, that i forgotten about my cabinet base. And a relieve that the rest are in order for today, i'm eager to see all the flooring is done, but i think it will take another 1 or 2 weeks for living and rooms flooring. And the HDB has not approve our application on opening another kitchen entrance. My neck is getting longer.......
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Which hardware stores you went to? If you have not visited those industrial hardware stores, they may have those. For those home hardware stores, i think they have limited items.
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No reno update today, as i'm going to bathe my dearest huggy furkid. And i'm really lazy to to get out of the house today, so i got my hb to buy coffee and afternoon snacks for the workers today. Initially, hb is against the idea, as he felt not necessary. For me, i felt we have to do it for a number of reason: 1. check progress 2. treat them nicer, they will do my house properly especially tiling portion 3. they can reconfirm what i wanted to do before proceeding and more time efficient 4. anything that is done wrongly, it is in time to rectify rather then everything is done, rectification may be too late. Or it may cause underlying problems. For buying snacks for the workers, i learned from my dad, when my dad's house which we stayed for 11 years is under going renovation, my dad did that everyday for the workers. And the result did reflect back, the workmanship is good and at handover we have nothing to rectify. Imo, this look some sort like bribing them. haha.. Just don't care, so long everything goes smoothly. Actually, same thing applies in workforce. You see, when my superior needs us to work OT, he will fork out his own pocket money to buy us meals. So, we will do it willingly and complete it on time and in better quality. And my dearest hb never learn such things, as he is not working for other people, he works for his dad only. So i guess in this area he has no experience. I always believe in listening to elder's advises with their experience, no harm trying. As the saying goes, 不听老人言,吃亏在眼前。 Well, they may not be right every time, as the time goes different working method and attitude, but no harm trying, if doesn't work i will not do it again. And buying them snacks everyday is not that costly. Imo, renovation and construction is a line that still sticks pretty much on traditional working attitude and method. So based on my dad's experience in construction, buying some goodies for the workers still works. And i also always believe, if you treat others well, other people will treat you well too. 将心比心。 So far, every time we buy them snacks they are happy and they always reconfirm things with me too. I'm happy with their work, they are happy to have snacks too. Its a win win situation. At times, i have no time to buy snacks, i will get hb to do it since he works for his dad, his time is quite flexible, but i prefer to go personally. As hb do not know my design plan and he will always call to ask. Sorry for the above ranting, was a little angry with my hb for not understanding the reason of buying snacks for the worker even i have explained to him. Nonetheless, he still does it as the other day he sms me not to do it everyday, just do it every other day, and i ignored his sms. And i guess he got a bit frantic that i got angry and rushed down to our new house, as he knows i will be there. Side track a bit, just few pic of my precious furrykid, i feel like hugging him whenever i'm out. He is a joy to my parents, as he is quite mischievous and he has some cute reaction to new things. Like my dad bought few small fishes for the tank which we placed on the floor, and when my furkid saw. He licked the tank at the spot where the small fishes are at, and scratched the tank where the small fishes were. And it brought lots of laughter to us. And my mum say, maybe those fishes looks like the small fishes which i bought for him as treats. My mum also commented to my dad that he will miss my furkid when hb and i moved to our new place. As my dad is my furkid's best friend, he always played with him. When my dad wakes up in the middle of the night to watch tv, my furkid will sit with him. We named him BB, as he is always curious, and whatever we do, he wants to take part, or else he will be sitting beside us and look at what we are doing. So we always call him busybody, in short bb. BB's 1st birthday My bro bought him a tie when he is lazy to jump up the bed, he is waiting for me to carry him up the sleepy bb
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Hi angelbutterfly, thanks! Yup, let them pay. When the bills come, they will pop their eyes like a ping pong ball.. Maybe like this -> haha.. anyway, i have warned my hb, if he insist, anything for me lo..
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And today we went to our new house to look at the progress. I was so excited on seeing that our storeroom is up... So happy.. There the tiler building up my storeroom. MBR bath floor is done. Common bath. More areas covered with kitchen wall tiles. I love the way it reflects with the lights.