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ilmare612

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  1. Hi, Ho Bee is a contractor as mentioned on my thread. Perhaps you can call them up to check. They may be able to give some ideas but I will not associate them as ID. Hope it helps.
  2. Thanks for the compliment. We bought it at quite a bargain. I think it's a light shop near Rocher Canal and we paid less then $600 for it I think Been awhile. hehe
  3. Hi all, it's been almost 2 1/2 years since we completed our renovation and we have not been active on this forum since. However, we felt compel to contribute once again. We had some issue with one of the hinges of our bomb shelter which is mainly due to wear and tear. Today, we called our contractor Ho Bee and they were fast to arrange for someone to come by to have it fixed. Note, we were prepared to pay them a service fee as the loose hinges it's not entirely their fault. It was only 1 hinge that gave way but they tightened and fixed up all the hinges for the 2 bomb shelter doors. In addition, we requested for a door stopper to be fixed at our main door and they did it obligingly. What really shocked me was that they did not collect a penny from us. We felt bad but was truly touched. Our renovation was so long ago and they are no longer obligated to do all these for us. This is what we call responsibility and also after sales service. Till date, we have not regretted our choice to choose Ho Bee as our contractor and will continue to recommend our friends for their service. http://www.hobeereno.com.sg/
  4. Not the magnetic type...
  5. Anybody has any good recommendation on this. The gap between my main door and the floor is really small. Most door stoppers cannot go through smoothly. I bought a weighted door stopper from Zone but it doesn't seems to hold my heavy door well. Please let me know if you have a solution for me
  6. Hi, I have a thread at Boutique Design Home...our Dream Segar. Happy reno...
  7. Hi, yes the knife was purchased from Europe. For seeing if it matches or not, you have to cut out the picture of that furniture and 'paste' it on your plan to see the match. That can be done with a computer of course. Have fun on your process...
  8. Sorry for the late reply as I am not so active in this forum now. The dimension is about 5.5" for the width and 7.5" for each shoe space. Height and width can be done according to your space available. Hope it helps.
  9. Hi, thank you for your compliments. ID or contractor? We "designed" the place ourselves and had a contractor to built the things for us His contact is on the thread above. You may scroll up to see
  10. I just wanted to comment on Neo Garden's poor marketing skill. They entice customers with the 1st time "no transportation" charge offer. How about their returned customers? Ok, I take it as they are only interested in a one-time business kinda deal. To top it off, the vouchers and promotion offers they gave away are with tons of terms and condition. Either: (i) valid on Mon-Fri only ~ how many of us here have the time to organise for buffet parties on Mon-Fri? Even if we do, how many can make it? As if we do not have to work. (ii) valid with a minimum order of $350 and above ~ ya right!!! To me, if you are not willing or generous with your offers, might as well don't give. Anyone have any good caterer contacts? Someone who can cater to smaller groups say 15-20 pax. I am talking about a few groups of 15-20 pax. Come on, we are all leaving in the newer generation of smaller flats these day. Splitting your groups is the way to go when hosting. No?
  11. I just wanted to comment on Neo Garden's poor marketing skill. They entice customers with the 1st time "no transportation" charge offer. How about their returned customers? Ok, I take it as they are only interested in a one-time business kinda deal. To top it off, the vouchers and promotion offers they gave away are with tons of terms and condition. Either: (i) valid on Mon-Fri only ~ how many of us here have the time to organise for buffet parties on Mon-Fri? Even if we do, how many can make it? As if we do not have to work. (ii) valid with a minimum order of $350 and above ~ ya right!!! To me, if you are not willing or generous with your offers, might as well don't give. Anyone have any good caterer contacts? Someone who can cater to smaller groups say 15-20 pax. I am talking about a few groups of 15-20 pax. Come on, we are all leaving in the newer generation of smaller flats these day. Splitting your groups is the way to go when hosting. No?
  12. Give me a break please. Your very first posting...
  13. Hi icekitten, lemme try to recall what we did. May missed out some stuff thou... - electrical works - plumbing works - painting of whole house - kitchen cabinet - washer and fridge base - kitchen glass sliding door - 3 panel of glass mirror at dining hall - 2 TV feature wall (MBR + LR) - 1 TV console (LR) - False Ceiling - L Box - Box up pipings in both toilets - 2 vanity cabinets and tops for both bathrooms - 2 Glass doors for both bathrooms - 1 full mirror for MBR bathroom - My (precious) bomb shelter - Raised platform for MBR Erm...that's all I can remember for now. Hope it helps thou.
  14. Hi, joschia. $21K does not include the tiling as we took the HDB main tiles for our flooring. We top-up another 1.2K for both our toilet wall & floor tiles, done by HDB. The $21K was during the first closure of the reno with Ho Bee. We added some work along the way. By the end of our reno, our final invoice was an additional $1,760 (after discount) for our wardrobe and additional $800 for our shoe rack. Fixtures and fittings refers to taps, sinks, curtain, etc etc
  15. Hi All, Thanks for the contribution. We are begining to see 'light' now. Why we put our laundry in that room is purely because the sun shines into that room. We thought the sun will be helpful. What we did not do is probably because WE DID NOT OPEN THE WINDOW...for fear that the rain (if it rains) will come in and wet the clothes and room. That's probably the reason why it created that smell...I guessed We are experimenting now to have the top part of the window open and hopefully this will make those smell go away. If it's still so difficult, I will resume to use the dryer more regularly bah Pinklady, that method of airing the clothes on bamboo pole outside the window in the night is what we have been doing too. The next morning, we bring it into the room to dry indoor, near a window where the sun shines in. What we did not do is open the window. So got smell lor.
  16. Hi leen & yoongf, I have checked...I am also using TOP laundry detergent but it's the blue packaging one for coloured clothing. I walked pass that room this morning, you can really smell it boy! Think my unwashed laundry also dun have that smell. You think if I put the air dehumilzer thingy in that room will help?
  17. Hi, thanks for the advice. We do use softener as well. But I cannot remember my detergent brand as it's been transfered to a smaller tin. Shall recee and find out tomorrow. Btw, do you close your windows fully when you air your clothes indoor?
  18. With immediate effect, PUB will be increased by 7%. We are happy with our city gas dryer so far but I am trying to cut on small little areas as such. As both me and hubby work in the day and will be back when the sky turns dark...how do I air my laundry? I can't possibily hang my laundry out of the windows as it's been raining almost every afternoon. By keeping the laundry indoor (which we are doing now...we converted one of our bedrooms to a 'laundry room'), our laundry gets a funny smell each time. The kind of smell your mum will tell you "Girl ah, lack of sun lah. Must sun it". Is there a solution to prevent these smell? Even when I don't get to sun it?
  19. Before they have their webby, there are two emails which they have been operating from. Patrick admitted that he is not that IT savvy. His wife is assisting him with all the IT and admin related stuff. It doesn't matter to us as we needed a contractor to fix our place, not a IT gig. Suppose he knows the power of technology and is hoping to move towards that direction...which is good. You have to be patience with Patrick as he is really super busy. What we needed was a contractor to be good and reliable. I do not mind being patience to get my work done well. Although we just had our shoe rack done by them, our reno is way done about 2 months ago. There were some small issue that needs addressing and he gladly took on his responsibility to have them fix for us.
  20. I would think so...judging from the contact details When we engaged them then, there were no website
  21. We have been putting off having a shoe rack due to the tiny space of our home. But we came to a conclusion that we cannot do without one recently. Next question was…to buy or to make? After shopping around, we decided to call our contractor; Ho Bee, describe and drew to him what we want and wala! Our new shoe cabinet is born. It blend in so well with the design of our place that both my hubby and are happy we took the plunge.
  22. We have been putting off having a shoe rack due to the tiny space of our home. But we came to a conclusion that we cannot do without one recently. Next question was…to buy or to make? After shopping around, we decided to call our contractor; Ho Bee, describe and drew to him what we want and wala! Our new shoe cabinet is born. It blend in so well with the design of our place that both my hubby and I are happy we took the plunge.
  23. Hi hairypawter, To be honest, this is the 1st time we own a dryer so I have no comparism to make from. But we bought this with the understanding that it's less expensive then using a normal dryer as this is a gas dryer. I have not much of complain about it so far accept that it is noisy at some point of time. But not disturbing to the extend that it gives us any stress. hahaha. Hope these comments help The s/steel back splash is S$400.
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