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Nope don't need you can just buy it anywhere in Singapore. However I bought spares for all the lights from the same seller in case

Same as what I paid for

Hello, I have no idea how much yours would cost - perhaps you should get your quotation directly from the contractor. Anyway my renovation costs under $20k, I am doing: 1. Top/bottom kitchen cabinet one side, bottom cabinet right side 2. Box up of aircon piping and boxup of gaps for my TV console 3 Full height shoe + storage cabinet 4. 10SQM craftstone 5. Aluminium black frame walk in wardrobe 6.Plumbing 7.Electrical works I have a china professional painter contact where he paints an entire 4-room for $550 (paint you need to buy yourself, I got mine from Winly Paint at Lavender) so I didnt use contractor J's painter. Apart from this, my service yard windows and grills are done via bulk purchase with my estate's facebook fanpage (much cheaper) than going to ID/Contractor Hope this helps. Also, till date I have not shared Contractor J's contact with all of you - mainly because I am waiting for the kitchen/living room to be done up before I review the entire renovation with him however so far, all is been going very smoothly except afew minor hiccup (e.g. I bought wrong door bell and toilet lights) but hiccups are inevitable as I read from many reno-talkers However during this renovation process, I've learnt that coloured internal laminates such as internal kitchen drawer laminates and wardrobe/shoe cabinets costs way more. And also, contractors prices are only if you want shelves in your kitchen. Every additional drawer costs $40+ due to the cost of the tracks. I personally prefect drawers so I opted to have my entire kitchen's bottom cabinet on both side with drawers. Back splash of the kitchen wall also differ from glass backing to kompacplus backing or even stainless steel backing. These are costs which you may not realise at the start and during planning when you want to have this and that, the price of the reno increases

Hello guys, many of you posted PMs to enquire the links for my TB items. I appreciate if you guys could read the posts before this because I've posted them up Some updates: Today Contractor J's electrician came over to do up my electrical wiring - he finished up the walkway tracklights, 3bed rooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen and service yard within a couple of hours. Tomorrow he'll be doing up the living room which is more complicated. For those who have the same layout as me and you'd like to use tracklights too, the trick is to buy 1metre tracks if you don't want to mess up the ceiling with too many conduits and tracks. You don't even need a connector to connect 2 tracks (1metre + 1metre). Simply get your electrician to place the tracks side by side and you can run them straight without going round the living room or wasting money buying track connectors. I'm not sure if you guys understood what I meant - but feel free to question further as it was a new idea thought by contractor J and the electrician as I told them the original conduits and tracks were too messy and complicated in the ceiling. Eventually we tried it out today to see if placing 1metre tracks side by side works without a connector and it does the trick indeed Bedrooms and kitchen light with remote control and colour of lights are interchangeable to 3 different shades (white, off white and warm) OUR BEST BUY - HUBBY AND I LOVE THIS LIGHT SO MUCH!! Walkway track light - using 7watts, its perfect! (My neighbour is using 3watts, too dim. And my friend bought 12watts, too big,bulk & bright) Service yard wall light (had to change the bulb to bigger watt in LED as the original one provided was way too dim)

Mentioned previously, Im using Oops.sg - I think they charge reasonably for forwarding services however when it comes to customer service, its really difficult to get them unless you email them (takes awhile to reply) or catch them when they are online for live chat. If you want an agent that checks for all your items and repacks them properly for you, many would recommend Peeka - however of course they are more expensive as you have to pay agent fee on top of your GST and freight charges.

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Hi can I find out if there is a gap for the spoon and the cover for the sugar holder? Im thinking of getting the same one but it looks like there is a gap and ants will slip in. Thanks for sharing!

Here's a visual of the Taobao loots I received filling up my living hall and one of the bedrooms- 99% in perfect condition or exceeded my expectations. Most are crated up if not boxed up very well. Small items are all consolidated together by Oops into a big bag. Just to share, I purchased my craftsbrick from TB too and they look amazing. Can't wait for it to be up! Oops made a mistake saying they shipped out 22 items but they only shipped out 21 items. When I asked them where was my last item, they found it in Guangzhou's warehouse. Thankfully I have one more shipment coming in so they will ship it together for me. Solid kitchen tap from a good seller. All my bathroom accessories are from them. They even packed with dustbag, gave gloves etc - it feels like a $200+ tap

Honestly we have no idea how long the battery lasts but the battery is the samsung type of battery and they gave two batteries. So when one battery is flat, you can swap to the other battery. Anyway I bought extra for my mum and she says its too advanced for her to understand - she rather look through the peephole so I have one set extra. Anyone is keen to take over at cost price?

Hi my husband has played around with it and its indeed good! The screen is sharp and you can see the person clearly outside. Its easy and fuss free to install yourself one thing for sure. Its exactly as what you see on the seller's description. Very well packed when it came (in sturdy double carton boxes). Recommended!

Received my first taobao shipment today, looked very impressive. All came in good order except one of the metal shelving (bombshelter sort) that had a scratch as it was not packed properly. Otherwise the taobao shipment was perfect. Here are some items I particularly liked - quality was superb too: Kitchen Tap ( heavy and solid) http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.1.uAYsXh&id=18787934487&ad_id=&am_id=&cm_id=140105335569ed55e27b&pm_id= Clock (Fabulous workmanship) http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.0.0.g2E6p4&id=18846714355 My door peephole with videography and photography http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.9.aiGQmV&id=25159128471&ad_id=&am_id=&cm_id=140105335569ed55e27b&pm_id= Super good and solid toilet roll holder http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.389.BwCbOT&id=18716219000 Very heavy and solid bidet spray (sg selling $80> ++) http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.1.gyWz2x&id=19931296608&ns=1 Very responsible and good track + tracklight seller http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.139.XYGfEg&id=12611507766 Awesome watch winder for hubby - well packed + good flawless leather http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=14070231876&spm=2014.12193480.0.0

Updates: Contractor J came to lay flooring protection for the entire house. He said he gave me a more expensive protection rather than the typical cardboards so thumbs up! Also, I found out that the uneven tiles in my entire house wasn't fixed by BSC - they removed all my tapes and just swept my house (I took it for granted that they fixed it) but when a neighbour came over he told me my tiles was so uneven and I got a shock. Then I had to get them to come over again and this time told the in-charge I want them to hack away all the uneven tiles and redo them - really a waste of my time cause now I can't do my toilet kerbs! Well, reno has ups and downs isn't it

Hello here you go : http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.240.t1pJMm&id=19263817562&ns=1#detail Hello, here it is : Clock: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.0.0.g2E6p4&id=18846714355 One seater sofa : http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220o.1000855.0.0.uNhRQF&id=18326683192&rn=&acm=03054.1003.1.67386&uuid=F63KQFLf&abtest=_AB-LR32-PV32_503&scm=1003.1.03054.ITEM_18326683192_67386&pos=1

Hello, have found out why the topup came up to $1k because the remaining amount was for topping up for domestic shipping. I found out that items not from Guangzhou that required domestic shipping to the warehouse was charged separately. Especially bigger items such as my dining tables and chairs, domestic shipping was not cheap. I really hope all goods arrive well since I've paid so much eventually. Anyway, as I'm overseas are the moment, Oops told me that if I topup shipping late, they would charge me 10% additional on top of the $900+ , sounds crazy so I had to call home to get my husband to transfer. I also found out that this $900+ shipping includes domestic shipping for items I have yet to ship too. For e.g. I ordered 50 items in my first order but only shipped 47 items, I am also required to pay domestic shipping for the 3 items not shipped so they can 'close' the order. For those who asked for the links, I will update when I am back!

A quick update on my Taobao items - I used Oops as my freight forwarder and got a shock today when I received the top-up for shipping. Oops charges 500RMB /CBM which is very reasonable and my total first shipment was a total of 3.31 CBM however I received a hefty bill of almost $1,000 for shipping + GST (few hundred dollars). Am awaiting for the breakdown of why my shipping was costly from Oops. I estimated I have 1 more shipment to go which is about 2.5CBM so hopefully the first shipment won't set me back too much.

Thanks! I bought 10SQM

Love your sink!

LOVE THE SOFA!! Its from Hommage? Awesome home!