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3 January 2012 - Aircon Installation Works After reading so much bad reviews of the Aircon installation by Gain City, I was pretty much keeping my fingers crossed on this day. Although the guys from gain city was late for half an hour's time, they were polite enough to actually call us to inform. When they arrived, the "in charge" and our ID (who turned up at 9am with us) ran through how they each wanted to run the trunkings. Some proposals by our ID were not advisable by the GC guys but reasons were clearly explained (i.e. water can't flow properly, there's a wall hindering etc) which was reasonable enough for us and our ID to compromise some aesthetics of the home to accommodate. Mitsubishi Invertor System 4 Seriously the way the GC guy explained, made me feel at ease in leaving the home entirely to them to commence installation. All of us (HTB, Me & our ID) left the premises and left the expert to do their magic. Returning with their lunch (we decide to treat them lunch), we were surprised to find that most of the penetrations required has all been drilled/punctured, trunking laid and the Aircon unit to our study has already been mounted in position! Fast working! Work done by lunch time After passing them the lunch, we left the home & got ur ID to check on them near evening & sign off the installation after testing.. We didn't check on the house till 2 days later and although the trunkings were really an eye sore, they are still pretty much well done in terms of the penetration didn't damage ur wall, protection properly done, joints well patched etc.. Infact, our ID had even started doing u the false ceiling to conceal the trunkings! Site condition 2 days later (5 Jan 2012) - Box up done at Service Yard to hide trunking too! Overall am still please with the work by GC! (the sales person even call up after the day of installation to follow up with us to see if we have any comments to the work! Great after sales too)

25 December 2011 - Cabling Works As mentioned earlier, cabling works was being carried out while the HTB & I were overseas... Here are the pics taken by our ID : Personally I'm still pleased with the works so far... Air-Con installation was scheduled on 3 Jan 2012... Check out the next post!

23 December 2011 : Cardboard Laying

After waiting for 2 long weeks for HDB to rectify the defects that we found in the flat, we finally got "clearance" to began our renovations on 22 Dec 11! 22 December 2011 The HTB contacted our ID to inform him that he can begin working his magic at our place the next day. I had very much wanted to be around when our ID begin his cardboard laying on 23 Dec 2011, but the HTB and I got to be travelljng back to his hometown in Msia to prepare for our wedding and so had no choice but to tell my ID to take lots of pics for us and whatsapp us the progress from time to time. 23 December 2011 Our ID was quite fast in his prepatory work! We were still on the Msia highway when we began receiving his whatsapp messages filled with some photos of the nicely laid cardboard! 25 December 2011 Thanks to the technology, we were kept in the know of the progress of our renovations via whatsapp by our ID. We received photos of our electrical works all done up within a day! I must say, I'm impressed by my ID's "performance" so far! Can't wait for more pics from our ID! (p.s. having problems uploading the pics to photobucket... Will post the pics here soon!)

Kitchen/Service

Master Bedroom Bedroom 1 & Bedroom 2

Finally gotten the keys to our flat last Fri! & here's a glimpse of it all! Main Entrance Living Room

Hi, can u take a pic of ur dimmable down lights? Is it squarish or roundish? And is ur fitting also from Philips?

I have already bought most of the stuff for the rooms.... Serta Diamond Suite King size bed for MBR, Sealy Queen size bed for Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2 will be our study which our ID suggests that it's cheaper to get off-the-shelves book shelves, study table,etc. so we heeded his advice. Now what's lacking for the home will be Kitchen Sink Kitchen Mixer Tap Storage Heater & Water ionizer System to be installed at the Kitchen sink area By the way, where's your BTO?

Our ID has actually been sms-ing us every now & then on when we will get to collect our keys.. Looks like its not only us who are getting excited & impatient! Looking forward to key collection on the morning of 9 Dec 2011!

continue from previous post... Samsung 7kg Washing Machine (WF-8692) @ S$449; Harvey Norman Electrolux Dryer (EDE-77550W) @ S$649; Harvey Norman

continue from previous post... Kitchen/Service Yard Electrolux Hob (EGT-9435) @ S$430; Harvey Norman Electrolux Hood (EFP-9520X) @ S$293; Harvey Norman Samsung Refrigerator (RT-72KASE) @ S$1,049; Harvey Norman Bosch Built-in Oven (HBN-331E2) @ S$680; Harvey Norman

Despite not knowing when the keys will actually be released to us, we actually went ahead to purchase these items for the home last Sunday:- Living Room Samsung 46" LED TV (UA-46D5000PM FHD) @ S$1,469; Harvey Norman Philips Soundbar (HTS-9150) @ S$990; Sitex@Expo

After a loooooooong wait, am finally getting the keys to my dwelling on 9 Dec!!!! So excited to start our renovations!

if i remember correctly, it was S$3719 (free 5 years warranty of S$439). Can't remember details though...

Its been a while since i last login. At this moment, everything is just pretty much the same. 1. No more updates from ID (waiting for the keys before he can do measurements) 2. Waiting for HDB to release the keys to us so that we can literally kick start everything However, as the date draws nearer to our key collection, the HTB & I have actually confirmed the following:- Mitsubishi Electric Inverter - System 4 (From Gain City, AMK) WMF - Palmer Series Utensils (From: Robinsons Closed Door Sale) WMF 7 pc Cookware @ $169 (From: Isetan Atrium Sales] Additional WMF Non-Stick Pan (From: Isetan Atrium Sales) Really hope the keys can come sooner. So tempted to start buying my refrigerator, TV, Sound Bar, Study Table, Sofa Bed for Study Room, etc

Hi Mei Lin, we bought the WMF 7 pcs cookware @ Isetan Atrium sale on Monday! I think OG also have the similiar sale..

Hi Zaiyo, I'm staying with my parents for now. Will be getting married beginning 2012 so was thinking to have the house ready so that we can move in right after we get married... SK location is fine for me

Hi Mummymantras, ID have gotten back to us already.. and amend those items that we commented. since its more or less the same pics with minor amendments, I didn't post the pics up yet. For my ID, he seems really busy. But since for now i've not gotten my keys, so am in no hurry too. Just hope he will be more responsive when actual renovation starts... good luck to your home reno too!

i got mine via Sales of Balance Flats in Aug 2010... =)

Hi Zaiyo, 435A is one of the first block to get keys right (End Nov)? I'm at 435B. My first home, so more "gan jeong" about it lor... how i wish keys can be collected earlier..

the HTB isn't too pleased with the "speed" of the ID. a week after we met the ID at his office, he sent us 3 3Ds showing the Living, Kitchen & Dining area. (a) Living Area we didn't have much comments with the living room in the first place, but during the meeting with the ID, the ID has mentioned that he will do away with the cove lights surrounding the ceiling fan, and have the cove lights at the edge of the living area & the dining area. guess his idea was to accentuate the passageway between the living & dining that leads to the rooms (better definition of spaces, maybe) but apart from our request of changing the initial sofa into an L-Shaped Sofa that we have already bought, nothing was changed. (b) Dining Area this part of the house was pretty much left at it was as per the ID's 1st draft and we don't have much comments after the ID in corporated our 3-Pendant lighting & also added a little detail to the shoe cabinet (HTB found the initial design a little plain) © Kitchen Area Kitchen is one place that is very important to me. I love baking and so, everything about the kitchen must be correct. And this is the exact one area that kind of pisses me off too the ID did not incorporate his proposal of changing the colour of the laminates between the ceiling and the top cabinet doors to BLACK even though this change was his idea the also did not changed the colours of the drawers to BLACK as per his proposal too the HTB has smsed him after our discussion to incorporate the built in oven below the cooker hob, though he acknowledge the sms, the change was not made one thing he made right was, the tone of the RED that we wanted. from the initial maroon (due to the computer rendering) to a RED that I can accept anyway, after his email, the HTB sms him again to "remind" him the things that were "missing" from the discussion but after a few days, nothing really got underway... a lengthy email was sent to the ID yesterday reiterate our items discussed additional items that we wanted (i.e. kitchen sink, MBR sink & tap) the ID immediately responded & assured us that he will look into it and get back to us soon...

just wanted to share on my shortlisted Counter Lavatory & Basin Mixer for the MBR toilet:- Counter Lavatory Basin Mixer side note: no much progress with the ID as yet... but we gotten an update from HDB (via the website) that we should be receiving our keys by end Dec 2011!

what's ur feedback on the fridge? which capacity you bought? I still can't decide whether its Panasonic or Samsung