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Hi Aron, Can you quote me the Mitsubishi Electric Starmex MXY-3A28VA system 3 (9000 BTU) including labour and material for installation? Also to dismantle my existing system 3 units. Can you also indicate the piping size and type of insulation to be used. Thank you.

The ID did not really specify the cost in details but quoted us one lump sum at about $8K-10K which I strongly believe it was an under-quoted amount based on my engineering background. There were many works involved:- - welding and fabrication of the c-channel as the bracket to hold the glass (this is the most time consuming and labour intensive work) - 13 pcs of parquet wood for the steps - parquet wood for 2 step landings + the foyer at level 2 - 10mm tempered glass - wooden handrail - polishing and lacquering of the parquet It turns out to be very nice and probably the icon in my home.

I did the glass railing c/w with parquet steps for my stair ... alot of work involved ... and my ID underquote me I guess ... Photo 1: taken from the level 2 landing Photo 2: taken from the living room

In Sembawang, the only block you can find EM units are at block 310. Two years ago, I have wanted to buy an EM unit in this block. However, all the main entrance does not having the direction I needed based on my "8-characters". In the end I shifted to Woodlands (near Admiralty MRT station). The floor plan for this block 310 units is almost the same as mine ... if you do a search, you can find my EM floor plan posted sometimes back in this EM thread.

When I bought my resale EM 2 years ago, my service balcony alrready comes with the aluminium roller shutter installed by the previous owner. So far, I have not encounter any of the "banging". In fact, I enjoy having this roller shutter as I can fully open/close and any opening positions I like.

Your EM layout is exactly the same as mine, 144m2 ... this is the last EM design to be built by HDB.

It has been a very long time since I log-in to this forum. Let me share my feedback since I'm staying at the highest floor EM ... I compare now and previously while staying in a 5-room (not top floor), I found that now insects esp lizards "intrudes" into the house very often till I need to shut off all my windows after 7pm. I believe at the roof, the insects are free and easy making their own design to their own nest without threat. When night time, they just merely crawled to the nearest household to feed on other insects and left over foods. My unit is very windy in the day time but not night time. I guess it depends on the monsoon winds. My block is only 10yo and so far, no signs of roof leak. The unit hot or not also depends on direction on the flat, esp whether afternoon sun will penetrate into the room which you will be occupying in the night. Lastly, whether rain will splash also depends on the wind direction. My neighbour did not install those motorised roller shutter at the service balcony and I guess their service balcony will be wet at time when rain splashes into it.

How come all the EMs mentioned here valuation so high? I bought mine at 348K, 4K below valuation at high floor facing garden. I have been staying in my resale EM for past 12 months and till now I still grumble when I forget to bring something down and got to climb up the stairs again Another minor issue is that there are no bamboo poles for me to hang my laundry to dry in the sun. Keeping my laundry in the service balcony sometime not effective in drying.

Can show us your floor plan also??

During a CNY visit to a close friend this year who stay just across Sembawang MRT station (mid floor, living room facing the station platform), I heard no less than 10 announcement of "for your own safety, please stand behind the yellow lines during my 1.5 hours of stay there. He mentioned he get use to it already. Some days during pre-dawn hours, the MRT will carry out some track maintenance work and sometimes the noise generated will really annoy him.

You can get one from the HDB area office for $5. You have to contact them first to source for you before picking up the floor plan from the area office.

I did that (check out my avartar) ... it looks nice, outstanding and stand out from the norm ... but the siong part is cleaning ... however, i did it only once a month, not so much of stains and finger prints afterall as I have a wooden hand rail ... It is ex. to do glass railing ... my ID underquote me the job ... they uses U-channel (not the Mediacorp TV ) as the mounting bracket for the 10mm thick glass. There is alot of work involving this installation ...

The difference between a gas heater and electric heater is the media to heat exchange the heater coil where the water passes through. The timing for your water to get hot depends on your setting of the flame intensity, the knob on the gas heater is for you to adjust for that purpose. Adjusting it to the "maximum" will allow you to get really hot water. In order for the heater to supply you the hot water, the water need to flow through the heated coil. As such, the balance water AFTER the heater coil need to be flushed out in order for water to flow through the coil to your shower taps. If the piping distance of your shower taps is far from the gas heater, you will need sometime to flush out thus wasting the water, unless you dun mind to shower intially with cold water. Typical domestic gas water heater has a safety requirement to meet. As such, the capacity available in the market might not be able to cater for flowrate and pressure to cater for usage at 2 different locations at the same time.

I signed up the free gas heater when I got my formal new flat in 1999. I have installed the gas heater abit far away from the shower room which I normally used resulting water balanced in the pipe has to be drained away initially causing water wastage. My gas heater is situated nearer to the kitchen sink. As such, if you turn on hot water from the kitchen sink tap, the hot water will flow to there without reaching to the mixer taps in the shower room if you happen to be showering that moment. This free gas heater broke down after 3 years. I spent $250 to purchase a Rinnai one for replacement. The advantage of gas heater is only the unit cost of gas as compare to electricity, thus making some savings in your utility bill. I'm now using an electric heater water storage tank in my resale flat. Turning it on only for shower. Surprisingly, the water in the tank is still warm when I use it 24 hours later.

wow 50K, some people's 1 year salary I dun think i can afford to give such amount to buy a HDB flat. I bought mine back in January 2007, $4K below valuation.