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  2. Posted

    Hi i am looking for an electrician who can do those metal type industrial style wiring for my whole house.pls see attached pic for what i am looking for.

    http://imageshack.com/a/img197/876/79e9.jpg

    So far not many electrician who does this. Those who did their house in industrial design pls recommend. Electricians who can do this may also contact me directly. My contact is 83221762.not too ex pls.

    Tks.

  3. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    Hi all,

    I have just done up my kitchen cabinet. And the outlook of the laminates i have chosen did not turn out ideal.

    Because its a brand new cabinet i just need to relaminate a top cabinet about 5ft plus a few doors to white.any ideas or lobang for this?

    Another problem is, if i change all my cabinets to white, i wish to change my solid top too. Its also brand new, the thin 12mm type. I am looking for a solid wood solid top and i found it at ikea. But my challenge now is:

    1)my contractor has installed the cabinetry but not the solid top and fittings yet. But i cant cancel it already so i still have to take it.if i installed it now and just use first, can i remove it in say a few mths later without damaging the cabinet?

    2) ikea solid top needs fabrication and installation.

    Are there any one or carpenter who can help me relaminate someparts of the cabinet, and remove my solid top and fabricate and install the ikea wooden solid top for me over 16ft of bottom cabinets.

    Any help,suggestions, contacts or direct carpenters are welcomed. I am open for items to be done seperately or better still altogether.

    Josh

  6. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    Hi,

    I am going to do a renovation for my existing home as many things are worn out and it looks dated. so i want to revamp it. Thus i require the following services. I am ok to do ala carte as i do have other contacts as well. I am looking at around mid sept to start and to end in end sept or early oct. These are the services I require:

    1) flooring - plain concrete flooring (light concrete colour) for industrial look. for dining, kitchen, 2 toilets and maybe living room as well. toilets to do skirting as well.

    2) wall feature - brick walls design for one to 2 walls (may be white or brownish colour) pictures will be provided. may also do concrete wall feature for 2 to 3 walls.

    3) false ceiling or concealment for toilets for the big fugly pipes

    4) kitchen cabinet about 10 ft bottom only with open concept shelves for top + small dry kitchen island/pantry cum breakfast table about 3-4 ft wide. I am looking at matt white carpentry with wooden top. (not sure any wood top that is durable) .can discuss.

    5) electrical wiring - for lighting points and electricity points. Need to change the wire tube covers as well. I will buy the lights.

    6) plumbing - need to pipings and plumbing works as all are old or may want to conceal.

    Notes

    - for flooring, I just need this person to do the flooring service for me and just tell me what you need. I can then get the raw materials and haulage services myself as I know where to get cheap. I am doing it this way as I almost got ripped off by a contractor who wanted to charge me $1200 for these 2 items. I got them ala carte for $480 only ($80 for materials and $400 for haulage) and it was no trouble.

    - and please ensure you are really good in what u claim. no need tip top but ensure you are worth your asking quote. I have paid a floor tiler once to do tiles and was he bragging to the sky about his workmanship. End up my homo tiles gap were some big some small and some tiles high some low. My wife was pissed off with me for many days as I was the one who engaged him. He was very lucky I did not post his name here.

    So see it as an advice or warning. If your works suck, prepare to see your name posted here. but if you deliver what you promise, I ensure that I will do a good write up for you.

    so please pm me and we can keep in touch so we may work out a quotation.

    tks!

  7. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    II bought a new mini fridge from Courts and wanted to put in the master bedroom however decided not to do so anymore due to space constraint. Packaging unopened. Willing to let go cheaper than first bought.

    Retail: $198.00

    Selling $170.00 Aprx 30% cheaper

    Ps google for pictures Model: TFR61 Brand: Techno

    Cash and carry at Queenstown area.

    Interested please SMS 96850075

  8. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    hi all,

    those doing flooring, i would like to share some learning which I myself have gotten from my whole flooring saga.

    as I am, like maybe many of you, hoping to tighten our renovation expenditure due to budget. So I hope what I have learnt, some of you may find it useful.

    generally renovation contractors or tilers do a complete package, meaning, get tiles for you, materials and then labour.

    Tiles - needless to say is mostly from those big players like LSH, SBH, harafi etc. Please take note, that usually, when contractors get from them, they will offer a slight discount. sometimes when you try to haggle with them, they may or might not give you the same discount, so this is an area you cant save alot. Initially my tiles was $2.90 psf including GST. after haggling, we got it at $2.70. based on our floor area, we only saved $60.

    Materials - when tilers or contractors getting for you, I dont know if they will "eat" a chunk. but all i can say is I went to buy my own materials and I tell you its super cheap. for a floor area of 300sqft, i only paid $260 for my materials. so if a contractor or tiler charge you for $400 - $500 for 300sqf then you know they eat you how much already.

    Labour - standard in the market so far I ask around is $2.20 (lower end) to $2.50 (upper end). at this range you can get good workmanship already. so those above $2.50, you are just paying extra for no reason. then skirtings labour is separate and standard charge is about $1.50 per foot run. anything higher, then you better hold his head to ensure the workmanship is top notch.

    Haulage - this comes in if you planning to do all ala carte. hdb used to charge around $200+ region which I am not sure of the exact amount. this service must be engage if your contractor or tiler does not carry up and down your materials. so take note. my case: my contractor provides tiling service but he does not do haulage, so he got a 3rd party haulage and materials supplier to quote me, $1200 for haulage and materials! somemore the haulage person can say to my contractor, if want to find $900 service slowly wait.. because he said that, I was more determined to find my own. In the end, I went to buy my own materials and engaged my own haulage person (take note that at $400, my haulage guy already earns a decent margin), so can you imagine the haulage guy my contractor recommended was planning to earn from me $1200 - $266 materials = $934 for haulage? i also suspect that my contractor is in cahoots with him. and my contractor has abandoned his agreed flooring work for my house when he knew I have my materials and did not use his 3rd party. He has not called me since.

    so in the end:

    if I went with my contractor and his 3rd party rip off haulage bugger:

    tiles - $940

    materials + haulage = $1200

    labour - $780

    = $2920

    I did it all ala carte:

    tiles - $940

    materials + haulage = $260 + $400 = $660 (vs $1200!!?)

    labour - $780

    = $2380

    so you can see, its more than $500 saving and its from haulage and materials, lucky I did not use that bugger who quoted me $1200, I should have thanked him for being so greedy and charge me so high which made me wake up. and if you are like me whom already have tiles and materials, no wonder no tiler want to do my floor for me cos they are missing the chance to rip me off. so when they want to buy for you tiles, materials or provide haulage, don't think they are doing you a favour, because that's when they will insert some "extra" charges to your bill. Some will chop abit some will chop a **** lot of bits. Dont be taken in by the "my materials are good quality etc" . FYI the materials I bought myself I asked for all the best and its only $260. so remember and beware.

    Anyway I have already found some one whom can do just flooring for me. so all in all I saved about 20% from my flooring works. Whoever interested to know where and how I got my stuff i got my materials from kai lim and my tiles from SBH. haulage person contact i got from one of the kai lim staff, so if you need it just pm me. now just pending the tiler i got see whether he is good. so far all my own contact, their service was excellent.

    all these tilers here giving so called low rates and "good" service are too busy to serve you anyway, so don't waste your time and money unneccesarily already. you will end up paying more and get sh*t service from those whom advertise here. I kena until I sian liao. all business very good until they dont even bother to reply you nor give a **** attitude.

    generally i know all busineses need to earn, but dont get so greedy and over chop carrot la or ya ya papaya la k.

    cheers

  9. Posted

    Hi can share contact?

    if its not too much trouble, will you be able to share one or two of your cabinet pics to see? My email is zzx_23@hotmail.com

    tks!

    hi all,

    just did some carpentry work at my own place and find that their workmanship is good and cheap compared to those ID firm and contractor...

    painting is also good and fast, finished my EA within 1 day with 3 worker, and the workmanship and price is cheap too...

    just gonna share these deals with you all who are interested, as i got friends who engaged those ID/contractor and their workmanship cant be compared to mine.....

    im not in anyway getting any commission from the above company,but just recommanding to bros and sis here

    mod, if this is not allow, please trash the thread...thanks

  10. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    Hi, im looking for a floor tiler urgently!

    My contractor supposed to do it for me but he last minute got issues then keep delaying.

    Im fed up oredi, im switching out. My contractor has quoted me $2.20psf for floor + $1.50pfr for skirting. So im looking for the same quote.

    Materials are all ready. So just need the contractor to provide his labour.

    Anyone who has interest to do or any lobang for tiling service please contact me! Need to start asap! my contact is 83221762

    Nowadays, flooring contractors all hang up and sell already, ask me send floorplan then no reply and waste my time sending the email. all choosing business and all claiming very busy no time to do. these are the ones always posting their flooring services in this forum. postings got many, but service and attitude cannot make it.

    to identify these contractors, just search under "tiler" and these will come up.

  11. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    Hi, im looking for a floor tiler urgently!

    My contractor supposed to do it for me but he last minute got issues then keep delaying.

    Im fed up oredi, im switching out. My contractor has quoted me $2.20psf for floor + $1.50pfr for skirting. So im looking for the same quote.

    Materials are all ready. So just need the contractor to provide his labour.

    Anyone who has interest to do or any lobang for tiling service please contact me! Need to start asap! my contact is 83221762

  12. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    we were looking for a laminate that is chocolate in colour and looks similiar to timber colour, like what we see in most Condo and DBSS showflats.

    We searched high and low but cant find any colour we liked. Either that or we found the colour but the price was way off. We wanted that colour type, european made and price range from $3 - $4. many said it was not possible.

    then by chance I managed to find a flooring specialist dealing with wood flooring. I went down to take a look and told them I wanted a flooring like in most showflats and DBSS. The Boss and staff were very friendly and very humble and they heard my needs and they said they have the exact laminate for a DBSS as they supply them with the laminate! :good: and its made in belgium..

    so we managed to get it at our target price, euro made and with original thick underlay. as they said they usually do projects, but since i went to them direct they gave me at contractor price. :D

    this is the laminate that we selected:

    laminatefloor.jpg

    i will only be able to install it after my tiling work in the living/dining area

  13. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    I also dont know why they use this colour. At least Ghim Moh Valley is all white which is much better.

    and the thought of us needing to spend more $$$ to overlay the tiles really quite sian la.. :bangwall: dont know if there is a better way to recolour the tiles without overlay.

    some update on the screeding done by HDB (FOC). I did a standard 40mm as I am planning to do laminate flooring for my bedrooms only.

    MBR

    mbr1d.jpg

    Guest room

    bedroom2guest1.jpg

    Study Room

    bedroom3study1.jpg

  14. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    cont...

    MBR (view from room entrance)

    masterbedroom1n.jpg

    MBR (View towards room entrance)

    masterbedroom21.jpg

    MBR Toilet

    mbrtoilet1.jpg

    Its the orange tiles again. I think hating it is an understatement. Seriously, I dont know why they selected this colour for our estate :bangwall:

    And like some forumers face, our doors are very wide and it nearly hits the sink. All I can say is that its the worse design feature of all.

    Common Toilet

    commontoilet1.jpg

    I will provide updated pictures of the ceiling works in my next post

  15. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    We decided to break the reno into 2 stages or maybe 3.

    1st stage reno list

    1) Homogenous flooring for living/dining and passageway

    2) Laminate flooring for 3 bedrooms

    3) False ceiling for whole house except Service yard and Household shelter

    4) Cove lighting for living/dining and all bedrooms

    5) Spotlights and PLC lights for whole house

    6) Electrical works for whole house

    7) Service yard window

    8) System 4 aircon for all bedrooms and living/dining

    Bare flat pics

    Living room (view from main entrance)

    livingroom1q.jpg

    Kitchen (view from kitchen entrance)

    kitchenfromentrance1.jpg

    Check out the "tasteful" orange colour. Swee right? :rolleyes:

    Kitchen (view from the yard)

    kitchenfromyard1.jpg

    Bedroom 2 - Planned Guest room (view from room entrance)

    bedroom3study1.jpg

    Bedroom 3 - Planned Study Room (view from room entrance)

    bedroom2guest1.jpg

  16. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    Hi all,

    Am glad we can finally do some sharing in this forum and also hopefully get some advice and contacts along of reno project.

    .

    We applied for a SOBF at queenstown in sep 2011, and we got unlucky with an outrageous no. of 61X/423. We were so disappointed initially. But in the end, thanks to many who gave up, we managed to get a chance to select a low floor, park facing unit and NS facing. We have already collected our keys and we are now starting on reno.

    I have recently posted a thread about my reno budget of 20k for a list of items which I wanted to do in my reno project. To advice of forumers here, my list was not realistic based on my budget and they were right. In the end, we have to do our reno in stages. And as we have quite high expectations, we wanted to accomplish a nice reno without blowing our pockets (typical singaporean) - must be cheap and good. :notti:

    so of course we did a lot of sourcing, whether from this forum or other resource channels and gotten quite a lot of good leads so far. some we found on our own. and we will be happy to share here. and to save cost, whether we can get any direct source, our even DIY possibilities, will be in our considerations.

    our floorplan:

    floorplanr.jpg

  18. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    i believe with regards to the new ruling of the 1year ban, I clearly heard that the ban will be imposed to those drop out after "booking" their flats. i.e. paid the booking and exercised the OTP.

    so:

    1) if you drop out before you booked, you wont be imposed the 1yr ban

    2) a 4 room flat booking fee is $2k in cash, refundable upon Signing of the S&P stage when they collect from you the 10% or 20% deposit depending if your loan is 90% or 80% respectively.

    3) if your flat is about 450k, the CPF is 45k (if 90% loan) or 90k (80% loan). I suggest you take the 90% loan and see if you can squeeze out the 45k if you really want the flat.

  20. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    I am now sourcing for a contractor to fulfill by target budget.

    I see alot of people raving about kow yee and its price and quality. But I do not want to constrain myself with only one choice.

    does anyone know who will be the other close competitors for Kow yee that can offer the same range of prices & workmanship? if there are any that is even better than them are most welcome as well!

  21. Posted · Edited by zzx23

    thank you for all your valuable inputs.

    yes, wallpaper does seem like something we should seriously reconsider and replace with paint.

    - in general is it cheaper to get all the things done separately eg wardrobe by one company, then flooring by another company and kitchen cabinet by another etc? i dont mind slight hassle if i can save a substantial amount of $

    - yes I may have not put enough for flooring labour. usually how much does it cost for homogeneous flooring labour?

    albertchng, you have put in red your comments for the kitchen cabinet, I need to clarify, when you put 20ft cabinet, i thought its 10ft on top and 10ft below? thus shouldnt the table top be 10ft? can clarify because if its 20ft for solid top then I will need to stretch my cabinet budget already.

  22. Posted

    Hi Reno-talkers,

    Im new here and I have just got my 4rm flat and now the next step is to reno. My flat does not have flooring for the living and 3 bedrooms.

    But I'm on a very tight budget, so its pretty challenging. And my the challenge my wife and I are to face are the below list of reno but within $20,000! I have put down the estimate cost based on research, so if anyone can help or got neat ideas, please help us..

    Living, Dining & Walkway

    homogeneous flooring - $1200

    Build in TV console - $500

    L-Box for living & dining - $800

    lighting - ??

    wallpaper for living, dining & walkway - $1500

    total - $4800 + ??

    Bedroom 1

    build in wardrobe - $1500

    bay window cushion - $500

    laminate flooring - $500

    build in side table x 1 - $250

    L-box - $500

    lighting - ??

    wallpaper whole room - $1000

    total - $4250 + ??

    bedroom 2

    laminate flooring - $500

    Master room

    build in wardrobe - $1800

    carpet flooring - $600

    build in side table x 2 - $500

    L-Box - $500

    lighting - ??

    wallpaper whole room $1000

    total - $4400 + ??

    kitchen

    20 ft kitchen cabinet - $2000

    kitchen top - $1200

    L-box - $500

    built in oven, stove & cooker hob - $1200

    lighting - ??

    total - $4900

    2 x toilets

    cabinet - $800

    mirrors - $300

    basin - $300

    glass swing door - $1200

    false ceiling - $400

    lighting - ??

    total - $3000 + ??

    grand total - $21850 + $2600 (aircon) + lighting (don't know estimated costs) = $24450 + lighting

    way exceeded already..dont know how and where to cut costs.. :help:

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