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upzz for the day...

Any one interested can contact: Nine 2 2 Five 2 Four Four 2

The craftbricks is $65 per box and cater to 1m^2 of wall.

Brick wall and Kitchen Tiles are up! but we had an extra box of craftbricks unused as the contractor had miscalculated the total number of boxes needed for the whole wall... putting it up for sales in the garage sale... interested can PM me... pictures of the walls!! >.< hope that it will look great after the carpentry is up! more updates as we progress...

Hi, Selling a box of craft bricks which I bought extra. ID estimated the wrong number of boxes thus the extra. Opened but unused as we want to check the color of the bricks. Bricks as per this link: http://www.craftstone.com.sg/product/old-used-bricks (Austin, CSI 093) SGD$65 per box. Thank you.

To our surprise, ID R’s tiler came in on Day 22 to start on the kerbs, washing machine base and kitchen cabinet bases. We only learn about that when we visited our home to say ‘good bye’ to our kitchen wall (abit of drama here..haha) And so, Day 23 wall hacked HDB is really very strict on hacking. They have people coming in to check on the work around 1 week after hacking. Bags of sand and cement coming in.. the workers took N-number of trips to bring in the materials ID R told us that he will start screeding on Monday, Day 27. We were super ganjiong as we could contact the electrician that we appointed (we didn’t not use ID R’s electrician as his charges were kinda high to us). The electrician was hospitalized and so we have to find a replacement who can work over the weekends. To achieve the effect that we are looking for, we decided on wooden like tiles for living hall and vinyl for rooms. we were affected by the removal of free cement screeding as such, our contractor will be doing the screeding for us. Good thing is, its faster and smoother (heard about bad workmanship from hdb) but down side is that $$$$$... It cost us nearly 1k to screed the 3 rooms. our neighbors screed his entire house for about 2k. Lucky we were in time before the implementation of the new eco-screeding rule (december 2014) or else the cost will be double of even triple! For carpentry, we will be using spray paint instead of laminate so that we can create the country style look. Lucky ID R’s carpenter includes inner laminate for all carpentry work with no additional charges. This is good so that we wont see the white laminates turning yellow. But we are also not sure if the colored ones will turn yellow or not. He has showed us the difference b/t the laminate that they are using VS those normal white laminates. We think that this is a bonus for those who are doing open concept wardrobe. We will be using Quartz kitchen top for durability. Although kompacplus will be more suited for our theme but we feel that the wood thickness is not there to give us the look that we are looking for (Ikea ones are much better but quality-wise is a big ??) and this material is also relatively new, not sure about the durability although we have seen those burning videos of kompacplus. Another concern is the selling point of the house in future. So we have decided on white/off white quartz top. Actually grey will suit the theme well too..but Mr prefers white… Day 27 - Tiling and screeding begins~ After looking at the day time picture of the tiles, we went to have a peep at the tiles at night! One piece of tile sample VS one room of tiles looks so much different.. kinda like taking risk..and we were really satisfied with our choice Tiling was completed in 2-3 days. Day 30 - Plastering of kitchen walls + preparation of wall for tiling of subway tiles Day 31 - Delivery of subway tiles and brick wall tiles We supplied ID R with the subway and brick wall tiles while he provided us with the labor. Our initial plan was to use the tile shop’s labor as well..however, they were not willing to accept the job as we have already engaged tillers for flooring. Our experience with this tile shop was not really pleasant as the contact person was always busy, we arranged for a meetup at our place to do the measurement; he was late for 2-3 hours. After that, I had to call him every day to chase him for the quotation and he only get back to me on the 5th day. We went down to his shop on the 6th day to make payment and arranged for delivery. Delivery was prompt though. Actually, for our 3m wall (9.7 ft), ID R’s quote was not expensive – 1.8k. Mr K quoted us 2.5k. So, with all these hassles, we saved around $500 from ID R’s quote.