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Ya. They could have mixed the paint with water or other solutions to paint my house walls, so if I buy the paint from off shelf of the color I want, the new coating might be too thick and darker than the current paint color.

So far the other walls which are newly plastered in our house do not surface hair line cracks (touch wood). Only the concealed wall has hair line cracks. Like what May and taichipanda said, hollow brick walls cause hair line cracks. Hopefully repainting the wall can patch up the crack line.

I am good at picking mistakes, and today I found a problem in the toilet. The hook hanger "leaks" water itself! Actually, the water comes from outside the house?! Yesterday it was raining heavily, the water sipped in from the hook hanger?! My clothes hanging on the hook hanger were wet. I suspected something was not right ever since we moved in. For the past one month, it has been raining heavily, and couple of times my clothes hanging on the hook hanger were wet all the time. Initially I thought the rain came in from the toilet window that caused my clothes to wet, so I ignored the problem, the most I just close my window, don't open it. This morning after the rain, I already knew my clothes would be wet, but the toilet window was closed, so I should not expect my clothes to be wet this time. Unfortunately, I still found the clothes wet, and this time, I saw water sipping in from the hook hanger. Did the plumber drill too deep into the wall when installing the hook hanger, and cause the wall to damage? We don't know yet. This is based on our assumption (for now). Aki will unscrew the hook hanger and see what is the problem tonight. We will use silicon to patch any hole found first. If it is a very serious hole damage or the water sipping issue persist, we will then contact our contractor to come and rectify.

Let's hope he don't glue to his seat, sitting in front of his PC and play D3.

Why don't you collect the lights from them, do a one to one exchange, ask your ID to call the electrician to come to your house to fix the lights? Remember, you have paid a premium price for electrical work leh.

(sulking) I am waiting for Aki to take the initative to paint the wall

He never tell us anything about this. No paint was spared. They left us empty can tin in our store room. When we wanted to patch something, we then found that the paint tin was empty.

Oh I see. Use silicon to patch the crack not easy leh... Do I have to aim very carefully into the gap line to fill up the gap? We share the same thoughts too, thinking that maybe the new wall has caused the cracking problem. The other walls are okay, only except this new patched up wall. The paint color for that room has used finished, the painters did not leave any remaining paint for us. Not sure if this color was pre-mixed by the painter, if we buy from off shelf, we may not achieve the same color. Then like what May said, we may need to repaint the whole wall if the color is different from the existing wall color.

Problem starts to surface after moving in a month: This was previously the MBR old door entrance, but was covered up with hollow bricks, cement, plastering. Hair crack lines starts to surface around this area, but part of the wall is covered by the built-in wardrobe, so I can't see if the hair line starts from inside the wardrobe, or just outside the wardrobe, but this line looks like started from the wardrobe, so I think there are more hair crack lines inside the wardrobe. How do I resolve this? Can painting the wall resolve this issue?

Just when we got our Technogas stove serviced two weeks ago because of the faulty knob or inner part, I don't know which, the problem arised again. The faulty knob got stuck whenever I tried to turn on the gas to cook something, and it got so serious that I tried more than 5 times, the fire could not lit up. When the stove fire lit up, less than a minute the fire will automatically turn off itself. We totally gave up, called Technogas, and screw them up. Knowing that they will not change a new hob for us, and guess what? We accommodate the wrong item delivery by Hoe Kee, to accept the hob which comes with safety valve. We placed order for non-safety valve hob, but they deliver the wrong item to us. It was the Technogas service man who told us our hob comes with safety valve then we know Hoe Kee delivered the wrong item to us. Otherwise, who knows the hob is safety or non safety for the valves. The Technogas service man still yaya say we "tan tio", got an "expensive" hob. But guess what, the hob with or without safety valve costs the same price. Don't know whether Technogas really knows their product well or not. So we complained to Technogas to demand to change to non-safety valve hob because that was what we ordered in the first place. In the end, they have no choice but to change the hob base for us. They can't simply remove the safety valve from the existing hob we are using. I'm not sure if the valve is that easy to just put in and take out from the hob or not. That's the risk we are taking, to complain about the wrong delivery, to get a new replacement. Today, Technogas showed up with a replacement base for the hob, to change our hob to a non-safety valve unit. I'm not sure if the base is a new set or not, it does not bother us because we can't see the inner parts anyway, but I see that the base is quite new, so we proceed to change. If anything goes wrong again, will call Technogas to make them inconvenient to come to our place and replace/service the hob again. After changing the base, I can easily lit up the fire when turn the knob. It is so convenient to lit the fire than the safety valve hob. I don't have to keep retry and retry to lit the fire. It is so tiring and troublesome to cook a meal. Though the service man said non-safety valve is dangerous if there is kid around, but I don't care. I just want a hob that is easy to use and quickly cook food, not a hob which I need to spend 5 minutes to turn on the fire. I don't have such patience to wait, and previously one of the stove is really spoil, I can't lit the fire at all. Anyways, the service man who came to our house today was the same service man who came 2 weeks ago. First he said the stove no problem, new hob is like that, knob very difficult to turn as it is new, after some time will loosen up. Today he told me "I came to your house to service the hob before right? The stove knob got problem, now change new base, isn't it easier to lit the fire?" So... conclusion is, he knows that the knob is faulty, but told us different stories. So dishonest!

I'm worried this lock may not last longer than you wish it to happen. My main gate lock uses this, and it start to turn rusty after a month. The lock got stuck, it's very difficult to push up and down, and hurts my thumb. Since your renovation not yet complete, you should speak to your contractor to change the lock to different lock. Especially toilet area which is the most humid area, the lock turns to rust faster than expected. Can't do sliding glass door for MBR. The entrance right hand side is the basin. Glass swing door is expensive too, bi-fold is cheaper. Wait till got spare cash then change the bi-fold door to something else. I like this, didn't know PD door got this design. I want to "persuade" my hubby to install this door for our toilets, but I prefer your half louvre door. More privacy for toilets. $400+ is it?

I can't wait to see the final product. I also like wood floorings, but I don't like to do special maintenance to the floor. Wood flooring look-alike tiles are really a good alternative option for homeowners who love to have wood floorings but don't want to do special maintenace to the floor.

I also do agree, the normal bi-fold doors (which we have for our home too) are really very lousy quality. Whenever there is big wind, the bi-fold door will push open itself. Sometimes it will open close itself during rainy days, so noisy. Temporary use for now, I may want to change to PD door, but not sure if change to PD doors I will face similar issue or not.

Must the half-louvre bi-fold door use that type of "lock"? You should change the lock to a knob or something easier to turn right and left. This lock is filmsy and after some time, the lever will slant or get stuck, very difficult to lock and unlock. My new main gate use this type of lock, and after some time, the lever is stuck and difficult to push up. It is a waste to have such nice classy door, but with the lousy lever. You should request for a different kind of lock

Well done! Very nice The study room looks too small to accommodate a mahjong table unless you move out the TV console.

Hi Raymond. Thank you for dropping by our blog. I have pm-ed you.

What sink is that? Just ignore the water puddle. It will dry up naturally. Your kitchen looks good. Looks like your kitchen cabinet L-end looks longer than mine.

There is no Cat6e in the market, not sure who comes up with Cat6e this term. This actually confuse many people. There is only Cat6, then Cat6a. The next better grade is Cat7, even better for fiber usage, but Cat7 cable is not cheap. So far only some branded cables carry Cat7, but China-made cables are not available at this moment. For home use, Cat6 is good enough - the distance from living room to each bedroom is only less than 20mtrs. Cat7 is mainly for office buildings which require pulling the cable to a distance.

Can't move the sofa back anymore. Need at least 800mm distance away from the main door. Anything further will block the shoe cabinet and the main door from opening.

I realised that too. My TV console is a little too high. I have to slouch on the couch to watch tv. I will experience neck pain after awhile.

Fabric sofa may also cause itchiness to people who have sensitive skin

Who knows maybe Neoby every night go happening leh?

Definitely not our house. Ours flat is already 27-28 yo, but the ceiling height is low. My parents' house is also 27-28 yo, but their house ceiling height is high.

Good to see your review for your contractor. As long renovation completes within the time frame you want, and problem-solve for you, then everything is good.