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Hi all renotalk forum-ers, Please give me some advice for the tiles and kitchen and toilet. This is what we intend to do: - Kitchen: rough surface floor tiles, ceramic smooth surface wall tiles. - Toilet: rough surface floor tiles, rough surface wall tiles. Anyone has problem problem in maintenance rough surface floor tiles? Someone told us it's very difficult to clean, we need to brush sometime, and it's better to change to matte finish tiles (aslo can prevent slippery). And how about rough surface wall tiles? Is it ok? Thanks so much. Poem

Hi GetFuzzy, Can you give us his your contractor contact also? I'm going to do full renovation. Thank you very much !!!

Hi Sir-dc, Could you give me your contractor contract? Basically we want to do full renovation of the house, carpentry work is only built-in kitchen cabinet (28ft top and bottom), and 1 built-in wardrobe (6ft long). And the cheapest quotation i can get from IDs is $35000 (including electrical stuff). I found it so so expensive. Could you give us your contractor and drafter contact? Will you think contractor will give us cheaper price? We are looking for <$30000.

Hi Tiler Seng, thank you so so much. I'll meet 5 IDs this weekends, will send you the best quote i have. Yup, if you are not free, it's ok. Hi NanthaDjFlexkid, $2K for kitchen and toilet accessories??? That's a lot . Definitely we need to do our own market research, and visit the shop you recommended. Like that, if i order tiles from ID, the price will be super marked-up.

Hi Tiler Seng, thanks. Since we do full renovation, most of the IDs gave us package + some additional items (per our request). Actually our first intention is that if we know the market price, we can bargain with the ID and not to be over-charged. I haven't thought of asking ID to design & provide labour only, and we buy the materials. This is a very good idea. I'll speak IDs see if it's possible. Many thanks.

Dear all, We request quotations from some ID firms. They quote material price from their suppliers, and promise to bring us to their suppliers for selection. Should we trust the price that ID firms quote? Do they usually mark-up the price? Is it advisable to do some market-research first? Where do you recommend us to visit for the market-research? We know Balestier Road has many renovation material suppliers, is Balestier good enough for market-research? We are laymen and first time do renovation, any advice is very much appreciated. * Renovation material = tiles, hard surface/marble for kitchen cabinet, doors, lighting, toilet bowl, basin & accessories, kitchen sink & kitchen accessories...