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Sometime it is a builder problem and sometime it is an Architect problem. It also depend on luck. My builders are ok and responsible, cant say the same for the architect. PM me if you need more information on the architect.

If you can afford, it is better to do it now. The price can only go up. Just look at the foreign workers levy.

Anyone come accross and successful purchase of Sidelanes and BackLanes from the government?

Thanks to all. This is real helpful.

I saw 1 corner terrace for sale. Land is a bit odd shape and is located at the end of the road. Next to this house are some unused state land . Does anyone known how to check and apply to buy from the government?

Does it means that inter terrace will be cheaper since there are only 2 exterior walls to be painted, ie the front and the back. Corner terrace would have minimum 3 sides to paint (front, back and side + boundary wall).

Thank you for sharing and enjoy reading your blog

The land area is about 3900 sft. Plot ratio is 1.4. Yes the atap house is about 50 years old. The road reserves lines is ok as the neigbhours'newly constructed units are not affected.

Thanks. The plot of land should be able to be divided. The existing GFA is about 1400 sqft. This single atap house is easily 50 years old.

Hi, Need some advice here. My sister is eyeing on an old landed property about 3900 sqft ft. She plans to break the land into 2 parts. One for own stay and the other to sell after rebuilt into 2 x 3 storey inter terrace house. The agent told her that she needs to apply for 2 different land title which is obvious and also the differrent address. What puzzle her is that her friend told her that she also needs to pay development charge to URA. I thought development charge only applies if you want to increase the existing built up of a condo and it should not affect landed properties. Anyone here in this forum has the experience to share pls? Thanks

Thanks to all for the response.

My brother has and old condo and the size is reasonably big. There are 2 entrances to the house, one is from the front and the other from the kitchen. He was thiking of dividing the house into 2. He takes the master bedroom and the living room and uses the front door. He plans to rent out the other 2 bedrooms. The access for the tenants is is via the other entrance.. The only common place between them is the kitchen. He was thinking of constructing a sliding door between the kitchen and the lving room. This sliding door acts as a partition. Is this consider and illegal partitioning under the URA guideline? Appreciate your kind thoughts.

The house is completed. Only waiting for TOP. The contractor said no problem to move in. My friend and family has no place to stay as they have already sold off their old place and contractor fails to deliver their new house as promised. Contractor also refused to pay for rental, so no choice but to move in without TOP.

My friend move into their reconstructed house before TOP is obtained. The advice by the builder is that they have done it before for other owners. During TOP inspection, they will ask the owners to disappear for a few hours while they get the house prepare for inspection. Do you know what is the penalty for my friend if BCA found out.

Thanks so much

Anyone heard of this Fashion Home located at 18 Genting Road. Apparently they made a lot of leather sofa and can even modify some minor changes like length, extension. Was quoted for about $2199 for most of the 3 piece L shape sofa.

Hi Jos, The tiler just started with the toilet. You are using Granite for the Pond as well

Hi Wuga8, Just saw your blog. Things are looking really good. Can you share with me your koi pond? How many pumps needed and what is the area? Is there a water feature and biofilter and etc? Most important, how much did it cost you? Good luck on your house.

GFA to my understanding is all the floor area inclusive of car porch, air-con ledge, roof top garden,void area and balcony. So 4500 of GFA sounds reasonable. But, my understanding of total built up is all the house area under the room but excludes air-con ledge, car porch, void area. This area is what will be submited to URA and it should be smaller than 4500 sqf. Is my understanding correct as I am sometime confused with the term being used.

Mine is 1m. I have seen a project in Yishn call "shaunnesy" where the landing seems a lot smaller.

My contrator gives me something like 150 per square meter.

Hi All, sorry for the misuderstanding , I meant to say 1.6 Mio project which include the cost of the land.

MY main contractor made a mistake during the surveyor work when drawing the boundary line. We were into the middle of the construction and out of the the blue, he told me that there is a violation of the LTA road guideline. The front boundary has to be setbacked by another meter. At this point as the foundation is already done and set, there is no choice but to sacrifice the living room. During the initial drawing stage, my instructions to the MC is that the front consisting of the living room and master bed room has to be big and the rest if smaller is ok. He also agreed with me that the living room must be long and wide as this will bring up the house. This week when I went to look at the house, I was utterly disapointed by the floor layout. The living room and Master bed room is so much smaller while the back of the house looks better in term of size as compare to the front. The irony is that late last year before the house was torn down, I asked the MC why the front boundary setback of my house is so much to the front (1m) as compare to my neighbour and his reply was that the contractor for my neighbour house must have make a mistake. Under such circumstances where the MC made such a mistake due to their negligence and sloppiness, what can I do to make the MC compensate for this? The total cost of the project is 1.6M and not 160K and imagine I have to live in this dream house which now turns out not so perfect just because of this silly mistake the MC has made.

Sorry, I think the appropriate topic should be "Materials used for the Attic Structure"