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  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, petetherock said:

    Electrical should be 30-40k for such a large rewiring job.

    Make sure it's a licensed person. I had a very smart chap, who even helped with the internet fibre cable. He also labelled every power socket and did the same in the DB. 
    Suggest you have a DB on each floor or at least on the three main floors...

    Thinking to use mesh router for the whole house. hopefully speed do not slow down too much when reaching level 3.

     

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    3 hours ago, snoozee said:

    congrats on your purchase. FYI, there is no 4 storey landed house in Singapore. yours should be a 3 storey house with attic.

    is yours a semi-d or inter-terrace?

    marble polish could be 1 or 2k I guess? parquet sand down and re-varnish could be 1k plus at least.

    painting could set you back by maybe 10k to 15k for whole house. semi-d got more external walls so would cost more as also need to erect more scaldfolding.

    note that after you tear down those feature walls or build in furniture, you need to do the plastering of the walls again so will incur additional cost.

    why do you want to do false ceilings? to hide the beams? by doing up false ceilings, your rooms will become "shorter" and will look smaller. unless its for fengshui or other reasons. for normal gypsum board ceilings, expect to pay about 8k to 10k for your rooms (estimated cos don't know the exact sqf required). if you need to do ceiling for toilets, then need to use calcium silicate boards which would be more expensive.

    a build in wardrobe would cost about 260 to 300 per foot run depending on height of your ceiling. so a 10 feet wide (3m) wardrobe would set you back by about 3k.

    not sure how many aircon you want to replace. but for your 3.5 storey house, I would guess at least 6 wall mount units and 2 ceiling cassette units. so expect to budget at least 30k for this.

    if you want to rewire every room, expect to pay quite a bit for this especially if the existing cables are all concealed. cos your contractor may need to hack the walls to find the wiring junction boxes and this will end up adding up the cost as then need to patch back the walls before painting.

    I would think 150k should be doable. but again i'm not a contractor so some items are guesstimates.

    You are right. is a 3 + attic.

    We dont intend to do painting on facet. Mainly internal.

    I am thinking false ceiling mainly want to install those "squarish LED light". Is there any other option? Intend to put ceiling fan in every room. For the time being, every room have only 1 x lighting point. So my idea is to have false ceiling and put upto 9 LED in every room.

    For aircon, has 7 wall mount and 2 ceiling cassette units.  I will ask my seller is there any wrong with internal piping.. Intend to replace compressor and all units less piping.

    reiwring of every rooms is mainly for the LED on ceiling. Any good idea to make it bright with less money?

     

  6. Posted

    I have just purchased a 4 level landed. Is about 9 years old. Dont intend to do major work.

    Still have some questions to ask the expert here.

    1) Costs for  polishing flooring? level 1 is marble while 2-4 are parquet flooring.

    2) re-paint the whole house.

    3) Tear door feature walls, table and platform wall in living room, master bedroom and one extra room. 2 other rooms not much work.

    4) False ceiling to be done on level 2-4.. includes wiring in every room.

    5) wet and dry kitchen cabinet looks good for the time being. Plubming should not changed since only 9 years old. No intend to touch it.

    6) Wall paper and wardrobe in master bedroom. - Just painting in 4 other rooms.

    7) Air-con replacement.

    May i know what is the rough gauge for each item? Did i missed something "big".

    Will 150K enough to do what i have listed?

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    Noted CoealHC

    1 hour ago, CoralHC said:

    If you are renting a place before the house, i suggest that you do some homework first. My uncle's house at Jalan Melor suppose to start construction like end 2017 but dragged till Oct 2019 then start work. Initially was an A&A then follow by Reconstruction but his builder found out that there is no column in the house hence delay... end up became a  New Erection. Heard him saying that initially  don't need piling for A&A but ended up with piling for Reconstruction cause adding 1 more attic. Lucky his builder is quite fast with structure works, they complete the works in Dec and now starting architecture work.
     

     

     

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    Hi Snoozee,

    Normal mode for most of us are public transport except my wife who is taking the car.

    Definitely want to avoid ABSD so has just dispose my HDB and now waiting someone to purchase my current unit. Will go to rent a place for 6 months and look for landed to purchase. Shortlisted 2 units.

    Want to get the one nearer to MRT but since it is old... will have a lots of things to do up. I have taken a look at one house last year and the owner claim that 200K was done up for the A&A. I am quite surprised that 200K can changed a 20years old house to quite a modern look. Build up is around 2500sqft in a 2 storey house. Is this normal? 

    May i get your opinion, if i purchase a house which is 20years old around 2500sqft buildup, and would like to reno it, Ie, not touching the structure, but would like the "window opening" to be bigger,changed all flooring, repaint, re-tile, what is the budget I should be looking? Is 400K enough?

     

     

  12. Posted

    Hi Guys,

    Came across this forum only yesterday. I am in the process of selling my condo and will purchase a landed in D26 within the next 6 months. Few houses came to my mind and would like to clarify my doubts.

    1) House #1 : Build in 2014. Not very convenient as far from main road and mrt.

    --> Land is around 1700sqft. Nice and well maintained house (perhaps a new coat of paint was done).

    --> Few things to be done.

    1) Kitchen too small and would like to double the kitchen area and will eat into the car pouch area. (Estimated an increase of 50sqft).

    2) changing of sanitary fittings and adding some awnings.

    3) Change of aircon.

     

    2) House #2 : Build in 2000. --> The pro is nearer to mrt but it is a old house.

    Bigger land size, cheaper in term of selling price, but need to do a major overhaul.

    1) My question is how much do i need to set aside for renovation for a build up of 2500sgft? assuming all floorings, kitchen cabinets, aircon wardrobe etc to be hack.

    2) what is the kind of budgets I should be looking for if intend to build another level to increase 2500sqft to 3200sqft?

    3) Attic or roof is better in term of maintainence for long term consideration?

    4) Roughly the timeline for the above AA.

     

    Intend to stay in this landed for the next 15 years and I am still considering.

    Thanks.

    Eric.

     

     

     

     

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