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dien

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  1. Good Morning t-bloggers, Does anyone knows how much just to change Main door knob? Pricing from low to highest. TIA
  2. Pretty sad to say goodbye to old house. It's been a good 7yrs.
  3. work in progress so far so good.
  4. Beginning of the Work In Progress, Me and my ID setup whatsapp grp, so that he can update me daily progressing. So everytime he update me I update here la.. Looking good.. pretty fast looks like i'll be sleeping smiling.
  5. From my experience, when renovating resale flat, there's always hiccups after one another. This is the old Piping. As much I want to salvage, save some $$$ and wait for Hdb Home Improvement Programme, The plumber highlighted that it's leaking and definitely have to change. What to do... change lor... Quoted $850 for changing all Piping : Kitchen and both Toilet. After changing to new pipe. Is it worth it? Definitely.
  6. Thanks ricepapergirl. Though it's fast as a customer we still have to QC their work and they have managed their time wisely. You renovating your house anytime soon?
  7. Productive leh so far this ID. With time management and things are on schedule. Hope there's no hiccups.
  8. 24th - 26th November Hacking 26th - 27th Cement and Stuff came
  9. http://www.nipponpaint.com.sg/colours/colour-paint-chart/colour-my-world/earthy-neutrals-greys/2108/clamshell-3161/ as budget is very tight, initially wanted to have wall coverings for living/dining area, Instead we choose Nippon paint clamshell color instead. was quoted $1.6K for the wall coverings with installations for living/dining area (not bad). maybe KIV
  10. After back and forth with the ID, these are the final and confirmed drawings.
  11. Bought 2 sets of these at HoeKee for $99each. Was told it's copper pipe...
  12. Does anyone owned Sona Air Cooler? Any reviews on this product? TIA Aircon is too expensive. My family and I are so use to fan, but we still take Aircooler KIV.
  13. 1st proposal of the perspective drawing. As my budget is very tight, we managed to do just minimal look. There's still need to be change though...
  14. Closed to Demolition, we still preparing on the final layout. Final floor plan layout. part pf the kitchen to make way for dining will have to level up to be the same height as the living room. with partition to split dining and kitchen
  15. Time frame we're looking at: 23rd November take keys pass to ID. 24th November start hacking. Completion / Handover date by 25th December. ID have only 4 weeks to complete as i'm on contra.
  16. Items which are not in invoice are: 1. Toilet Accessories 2. WC and Basin 3. Electrical Wiring 4. Lightings 5. Wallpaper All this will have to purchase / pay separately.
  17. After back and forth with the quotation, we finally agreed on an amount of below $40K after Gst.
  18. Love at first sight. Saw the downlight at my Id showroom and decided to get the same ones Average price saw from some of the lighting stores is at $200plus. (Coconut Tree Lighting / Sembawang Lighting etc..) At last manage to get at Hoe Kee (Tanjong Katong Complex next to First Lady) at $198 each. The 3 bedroom lights are LED with control at $148 each x 3. Kitchen Light at $48 x 1. Toilets Light at $35 x 2. In total $760 nett. Ask to round off at $700 and the boss agreed
  19. Just to highlight homeowners, do check on quoatations given though price is attractive. For example : Supply labour and install...etc.This somewhat did not include materials. It should be Supply labour, materials and install. Thus minus off the materials, price will be more attractive. Unless materials would be under separate cost. Note to myself. I try myself to control on things that are not necessary like shoe cabinet, feature wall etc... However reading forums, magazines, getting ideas from posts photos...just too much poisons. My Moodboard theme samples are like French Style / Scadinavian / Traditional European / Colonial But since the price is way too high i decided to follow the flow of what my budget can do... Along the way i will try to share of any price changes and the things i bought.
  20. ...and so the amount hit above $40k. was quite frustrated but have to face reality that the amount today is not the same as 7yrs ago I did to my 3rm for $30K. A lot have change.
  21. After going through on the rough concept, our budget doesn't permits the 'look' that I wanted. But nevertherless we shall see how the id will propose base on the concept.
  22. My budget is strictly $30k. May stretch abit depending on the items we ask for. But I don't think getting and id will work on that budget. I was surprise when the the id says, best to check on the unit condition so he knows what can or not to salvage since we have a budget.
  23. This is the typical Resale Hdb 4NG We shared the id our floor plan. The Kitchen promo consist of 8ft Top Bottom Kitchen Cabinet, with FREE Aerogas tempered glass kitchen hob / hood, sink and tap for $2688. Just nice for size as I want to make my kitchen layout smaller. So while discussing, since we got the kitchen promo items, we decided to get the ids full renovation services, rather then kitchen promo by them, other reno by other id.
  24. Good day T-bloggers, I've been reading the t-blog for awhile before getting my house on renovation. Interesting concept approach with price to pay. As someone who are used to the eastside, the layout of mature estate are pretty straight forward. I also did send in for quotation and received quite a number of calls from various ids / contractors. Initially I do not wish to engage an id, just straight to general contractor. 2 of the Contractors I went to. 1. Gay World Building Renovation Contractor 2. Aspire Renovation Design As such i'm still skeptical to decide who to pick and so ids from Renotalk came around with quotation. With moodboard and concept have in mind and floor plan, most of the ids give a rough quote but on the high side. AsI do have budget, most ids prefer to visit the location to take a look at the condition of the unit, unto whether what are the things can be salvage to save costs. Time goes by and I still have not confirmed who to choose. Until my 1st appointment with Hdb, I came across RenoTalk roadshow. There's a few ids there and what caught my eye is a Kitchen Promo that one of the id offered.
  25. Hi Scarlett, Mine is about $5k plus but with hacking, cement screet for wall/floor tiles. Must double confirmed because if just laying (wall tiles), price shouldn't exceed $3kplus. Just my 2cents.

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