Minerat

Is this beading a permanent fixture or is it only a preventive instrument during renovation?

This is almost rebuild already.

Just curious cause you mentioned bankers. I thought banks won't loan money for houses with less than 60yr on lease?

Huge land! Any plan for a swimming pool?

Day 19 (25 Aug 2012) A very quiet day today. Only 2 tilers were working today when we came by. So far, tiling for all toilets and the yard room have already completed. Living, and dining were also completed including the skirtings. They should finish dry kitchen today. Next week they should be working on the yard and sink stove. I wonder how many cigarette butts lie buried beneath my flooring though

60 yrs old! Wow! Do you intend to rebuild?

My tilers are very good. I am very happy with them. I didn't notice any numbers on the mosaic though. Lol

I went to a few shops but in the end confirmed my tiles from Lian Siang Heng, Hafary and Hup Kiong. You can actually check out the stretch along balastier where the whole row of shops all selling tiles. As for China tiles, i did notice that they chip off quite easily.

There's a few landed t-blog here besides Suyun's , including mine, jumbopanther's The Transformation and OnTheRoad's 1 roof 3 generations. Enjoy! Where is your place?

And dun be pressurised into choosing your tiles quickly by the contractor. We took almost 4 weeks before we confirmed all our tiles. And we got from 3 different shops.

No harm right? If you want I can PM you my ID. They also did another forummer's terrace. I was recommended them by her. Actually they do provide alot of useful feedback which a lay person like me sometimes couldn't possibly know. Cost wise, they are not the cheapest but I find them still competitive. They are also pretty honest in some of the external contractors they recommended to me and that I can engage directly. I've compared prices separately and found almost little to no markups.

Curious. Why hall and dining aircons must be changed? I reckoned these will be one of the least used aircons in your house.

Thank you very much. But I think the photo doesn't do it justice. It looks absolutely stunning in the flesh. Lol. Though this one lagi more expensive $21 per sheet of 300x300. Wait till it's your turn. Choosing tiles is the most exciting part of the reno process for me. Hahahaa

Day 18 (24 Aug 2012) Kitchen roof is finally fixed today. I can finally sleep easy now. Living and dining room tiles laid already. Tilers having a cheng tng moment... The famous cheng tng from bedok food centre. Complimentary from yours truly. This is the new wc backing we chose. Swee boh?

We thought for a very long time. But they were really very authentic. Had over 20 different running tones so that it doesn't look so repetitive. Surface also feels like wood. I can show you if you want to. Just drop by my place.

From hup kiong. $8.30psf. The most expensive tiles I had. Lol.

Luckily mine is flat all the way.

Dude, wood tiles, not real wood. I reused the yard tiles here.

I did my pest control with R. Paid 3k after the HSBC discount, and that's for ground treatment only. But their worker is pretty good and efficient. For roof, really depends on the condition of your tiles. For my case, I observed that none of my neighbours had changed their tiles, hence I decided that they must still be good. Waterproofing the joints should do the trick. Painting price is about there, as they need to erect scaffolding, which costs a bomb. But be careful to ask the type of paint they are supplying. Lousy paint is very prone to mould and algae.

Day 17 (23 Aug 2012) Slow day today. Not much going on. Tiling for living room continues at a good pace. MBR toilet floor also completed. Roofing guys were there to replace the rusty flashings but not sure were they completed or not because they covered up with canvas. Living room tiling continues Wood tiles for my bay window (no budget already )

Wah, just saw that my neighbour covered up his whole yard totally. With walls and tiles somemore!

If money falls from the sky, I will tiled it like what my neigbour did

nope. there's a drain at the yard though

Dude, sorry I forgot. 3k was without insulation materials. With insulation, is about 3.8k. Highest quote I got was 5.8k from a contractor who tried to con me into paying more for sound proofing!

I paid about $3k. Roof flows back because there is a gutter at the inner edge that leads to a drainage piping.