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  1. Hi all am considering buying a boutique penthouse at TK. Notice that the master bed room's bath room seems to have water leakage issues. Want to know how much would it cost to rectify it? We do not know if the leak will affect the entire floor (2 level PH with the master room and open terrace at the top, and the rest at the lower floor). If we need to redo the water proofing, how much wld it cost? p/S : We are likely to do some reno on the entire unit as well. thanks all
  2. Hi, anyone bought something from them, esp leather sofas? Any feedback with the company, quality, service, and esp their leather sofas.. tks
  3. Hi all Hv read many bad reviews of a few shops selling sofas and getting the jitters. Hv been to FC Fur______ and Ku__(Mont____) and like what I saw but the reviews in this forum....err So if I wanna buy nice design sofas along the lines of the above (and price), what are some of the better shops ard? Dun exactly like what I saw at Novena, Castilla etc even if they are good. tks
  4. Hi, wanna give the old cot a paint over. Anyone knows where to get baby safe wood varnish? tried self fix but they sell normal wood varnish even thought some were low VOC. tks.
  5. Hi Jadens, Sure appreciate that tks.
  6. TS, dun mind if I ride on your thread. If you mind I wld gladly move out. Just trying to save opening a new thread. Hi All Got a quote for the repair/reno of 2 toilets. Wonder if its reasonable. Tks 2nd Storey toilet: To hack existing bathtub, basin, floor tiles with dispose. $500.00 To apply water proofing membrane on the floor. 300.00 To supply and lay new wall and floor tiles. $3500.00 To construct new ceiling board. $300.00 To supply labour to install toilet bowl and basin. $200.00 To supply and install 1 set of tamper glass shower screen. $800.00 3rd Storey toilet: To hack existing bathtub, basin, floor tiles with dispose. $500.00 To apply water proofing membrane on the floor. $300.00 To supply and lay new wall and floor tiles. $3500.00 To supply labour to install toilet bowl and basin. $200.00 To supply and install 1 set of tamper glass shower screen. $800.00 (Optional) Additional item: To hack existing wall tiles with dispose. (1 x toilet) $500.00 To replace existing pipe. (conceal) (1 x toilet) $900.00
  7. car annualise it will be ard 4% region? seems like its worthwhile to take this collateralised loan to pay for car. savings will be quite substantial. am i missing anything?
  8. Hi Lauer, Imagine my current half of the building is a box with a car porch, back setback of 2m, front setback of at 2m and side setback (inclusive of garden) of ard 5-6m. We hope to extend it side way to "a bigger box" by occupying 3-4m of the graden (and add another storey) so that it can be sub-divided into 2 units of 3 stories; we wont seperate from neighbour since tt wld change the whole structure into Terrace House. We are likely to recentralised the gate and rebuild 2 car porch. There is no change in the front and back set back as we are only extending it sideway (and height) but not the front-back. We will leave a 2m side setback as required by URA. We tried to visualise and we think we can create 2 units of comfortable size - the length of each unit of the redeveloped building will be ard (21m less 2m side setback less ard 0.5m divider wall) 9.25m. As yoongf noted, still at least 777 sqf though we estimate shld be ard (9.25mX11*m less car porch of 5x4m) 870sqf. BTW watz this "airwell" thingy? my area is zoned for semi D, bunglow, terrace. * 18m less 2m back setback less 5 m front setback=11m
  9. Yeap only 18m but ura guideline is at least 10m. Wat is the concern here? Ok to clarify its 21 m from left to right (facing road) and 18 m from front to back (side)
  10. Hi lauer Not sure watz a party wall but it's a typical semi d joined to one another (side by side, not front back) and the external seperate by a wall. My half of the semi d is abt 350 sqm (3800 sqfeet)while neighbor's ard 330 sqm. For my side the dimension is abt 21m by 18m.
  11. Thank you all for your comments. Yes we intend to create 2 units to house my brother's and my family. @ leechaorui, wat is meant by 2 key house? We want to hv our own privacy, though we are ok to share one common address so as not to "downgrade" neighbour's semi-D status to terrace. The building structure will be divided; as for the external space/garden, we are considering a low wall (maybe just 1m high) just for symbolic segregation. Our current semi-D is 2 storey and of cos we will hv to build upwards to 3 stories to accomodate our families. I know the final output may look hidious - a bigger, 3 storey "semi-d" with a more modern design attached to a 2 storey dated design semi-D. my mum wld really like to hv the 2 families live on a piece of land we hv owned for over 30 years. Will certainly speak to a builder/architect but thought of doing some ground work here. @ Lauer, do you know if URA and BCA wld approve an "internally-divided-into-2-units" within one half of a semi-D? which I see as a way to circumvent the URA guidelines on redeveopment on semi-D.
  12. URA didnt say anything abt the increase in property tax for the "mini" bunglow but both half must be at least 400 sqm - dun even hv to seek neighbour's consent though "its good to inform them". http://www.ura.gov.sg/circulars/text/dc96-07.html. But that is moot since both half are less than 400sqm. Imagine your house is so dated in design and in need of a refresher and your neighbour not keen to "upgrade".Ideally both sides agree to upgrade but if the other is not keen, well we arent going to be held "ransom" by them - weird structure or not. We are ok to hv one prop title - will just put it tenants in common -, one address, so long there is internal division into 2 chalets. tks for your inputs.
  13. Need some advice. My mum owns one half of a semi-d both of which (unfortunately) is less than 400sqm which is the URA guidelines for "seperating" one half of semi-D for redevelopmet. We hope to seperate from our neighbour to redevelop our land into a new pair of semi-D. Our hse is almost 27-28 years old and the design is certainly very dated in the neighbourhood. Both units of the semi-D are ard 300++ sqm, missing the URA requirement (if only the Government didnt acquire our much larger land for road expansion long time back). Has anyone managed to appeal to URA or any bodies successfully? The other way we hv considered is we wld redevelop our half WITHOUT seperation from our neighbour and internally seperate into 2 units (to hold 2 families) but retaining and sharing 1 address (so in effect retaining the semi-D classification at least on paper). I know this is to " circumvent" the rules. Not sure if this wld be allowed by the BCA since I know upon completion, BCA wld do an inspection. Anyone with any experience and thoughts? much appreciated.
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