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Hi Hello88, Ur layout similar as mind, except for the 2nd flr common toilet, where your toilet bowl situated right at the end of the toilet which make it diff to built shower screen. Another question, does your lower floor come with toilet?

New EC income ceiling is $10K. http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10201p.nsf/WP...ubMenu=Policies

Hello everyone, What happened was the existing owner actually built the dressing table, study desk and a wardrobe before he deicded to lay laminated flooring. Therefore, when I remove the dressing table etc..., there are lobangs which required to patch up. So, these few lobangs will patch up with similar laminating flooring. As for maintenance, my contractor who did the parquet flooring for me said that the best way is to dry mop using only water (same thing apply for parquet). If u feel that the floor is sticky (maybe every 1mth), u may use those traditional floor detergent (eg. Kiwi Kleenx, wonder i spelled correctly ) Till date, I had followed his advise, so far so good BTW, my reno cost me close to 40K

meaning your utility window is actually facing part of your house, dining rm? that's interesting. actually previous owner done up both roof for the balcony and recess area, + the living rm marble floor + laminating floor for 3 rms (except I need to service them cos I remove the fixture desk, dressing table which left lobang on the laminating floor) Then I practically re-do all the rest (ie, ktichen, toilets, wardrobes etc....) Me bought at 362K, 0 COV. Bought ard Jan How much u pay for urs?

Hi WelcomeHome, The side of staircase got timber skirting and the wall is plastered. Hi hello88 yup not easy to get one, that's why we actually sacrifice the view for a corner unit....this is the only corner unit that we viewed and we secure it. for the utility rm, i knocked down the entire wall + door to build the glass sliding door. As for the walls at the original main door is remain, and the windows at the utility room is also original, juz imagine that it is a corridor unit with the utility rm facing the corridor....Then additional main entrance and roof is also erected. BTW, additional main entrance and roof was done by the previous owner Likewise, the window was done by the previous owner It used to be a round hole along the corridor. So, when the previous owner buy over the corridor, he also covered up the hole with window. Glad to hear many bro&sis saying that the marble floor is nice cos we initially thot it can be abit "old fashion"....

One of the pic I posted for my house is the staircase. What u mean by plastering at the side?

U mean your contractor quote u the parquet staircase for $3K, does it include the railing? I did my staircase with parquet for 1.8K, without railing

Hi, Both balcony and recess area roof were built by pre-owner That's also one of the reason i bought it, cos i heard roof can cost you a bomb thks for the compliment. the sliding wardrobe cost me $1760 at 220psf

Thks for the compliment. I actually tear down the store room wall and put up the glass sliding door The marble flooring was left over by the previous owner. I like it too, though it can be consider old fashion for today taste. But neva mind, can save quite a sum by merely polishing it Just went thru the quotation again, the plastering + painting is actually > 4K My wardrobe cost 220 psf. It uses the Alumix sliding door (the one that sponsor the recent channel 8 series, the one that talked about our army....) My reno cost me $38K. The cabinet in the living rm cost me $2070. Yup, the pipes can be accessed cos the doors can be opened. I have initially thot of boxing up for the mbr toilet as well, but gave up the idea cos is not feasible due to the weird shape of the piping and will make your toilet looks very small

Plastering + painting shld be ard 3 - 3.5K. My house also have this ugly stone spraying, but luckily, they didn't do it for the ceiling :-) My house ok lah, juz some simple renovation, but come to talk abt it, nowadays reno is really ex....

Hi bro & sis, Have moved in for couple of mths and wanna shared with you the pics for my new house. See below for the link rx error saying that i have posted more images than i am allowed to. more to come. Pls comment.

hi fishpond and hello88, nope, bought at value. is the stretch of EM behind the polyclinic. fishpond, can share where is your em? so i guess yours is cov?

HI Fishpond, Me paid 365. Mine also very rundown and went thru quite a reno which cost me 40k

Thks MaCe for the advise. Yup, my balcony is covered with roof and windows. But do you think HDB will fault me when i sell my house in the future? Mine is 154msq (corner unit with recess area bought). See below for my floor plan Will share the pics once I got them done

I have also put up windows and it is now kinda of part of the living rm now (just than i didn't remove the sliding doors). My concern is that HDB will fault me when I resell my house in the future. What do you think? Possible?

Hi, I have just moved into a maisonette in tampines. !! Would appreciate the bro and sis advise. My contractor overlay the floor tiles for my entire balcony. Then I realised that there is no water outlet in the balcony. My question 1) Is there one by default? 2) Can we cover it up? Pls advise. Thks!!

Hi, Need a advise. My contractor overlay the floor tiles for my entire balcony. Then I realised that there is no water outlet in the balcony. My question 1) Is there one by default? 2) Can we cover it up? Pls advise. Thks!!

Hi, Just an update. Finally got the answer for my own questions !! 1) The recommended gap is 5 - 10mm. (Checked with a couple of the suppliers) 2) The false ceiling definitely need to be re-inforced with metal support. The normal false ceiling won't work cos the glass is easily 50 - 100kg

Hi Bro and Sis, Have built a glass sliding door of 236cm (H) x 256cm (L) for my study rm. However, now the sliding door is dropping down and the glass door has less than 1mm gap at the bottom, can't even slot more than 3pcs of A4 paper thru.... Worse still, the false ceiling that is used to mount the sliding door has crack lines now (believe it is due to the weight of the glass door.....) The door has drop down abit once and scratches my laminated flooring. Although the contractor has fixed the problem but with less than 1mm gap, I am very sceptical that it will drop down again. The contractor refuse to reduce the height of the glass door and insist that it will not drop again. However, the glass door supplier claims that the measurement of the height was taken without taking into consideration that there will be laminated flooring overlaying the ceramic tiles, thus creating only such a little gap. Anyone knows the recommended gap for sliding door? Pls advise!! Thanks!!

Me using Ken - Home Trend.

I have asked my ID to provide the diff in price for with and without tiles. There is a difference of about $400 for cabinet of 38ft.

I stayed in a old hdb flat. But even with new flats having concealed piping, does HDB installed the hot water piping ready for the owner

Thks pal for the fast reply!! So, in summary, inst elect water heater will cost more in electricity bill. As for centralised gas heater, the gas bill will be lower as compared to electricity bill but have to take into consideration the wastage of water while flushing them out from the hot water pipe Besides that, for HDB since we need to expose the hot water pipe, is it hot when touched? Asking cos afraid that you will accidentally knock onto those pipes or especially kids .......

Hi, Am going to renovate my new house and is wondering betw centralised gas water heater and electric inst water heater Adv of centralised gas water heater - better water pressure - nicer because can have rain shower head and nice shower tap :-) Disadv of centralised gas water heater - Waste water. This is because everytime you will need to flush out the cold water from the hot water pipe before the hot water will flow in from the centralised water heater For utility bill $$ that will spend on inst water heater, can roughly calculate. Eg the inst water heater is @ 3KWH. The current SP charge is $0.20 per KWH. Assuming the whole household spend 1 hr / day bathing, then the bill will be $0.20 x 3 x 30 = $18 As for the $$ required for centralised gas water heater , not too sure.... Anyone can advise?? Thks!!