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Hello all, Looking to sell a 3 room HDB corner Unit at Marine Parade. Size : 71 SQM Location : Marine Crescent, near Tao Nan Primary School. Unit Level : Second floor, corner unit Renovation : New flooring, paint, kitchen, toilet. Asking Price : $380,000 (neg) Remarks : I'm the owner. Drop me a PM if any buyers interested / have questions. Uploaded Floor plan & recent 3 room HDB transaction prices for the area. Thank you

Any comment for above price? Get it from a contractor recommended by friend, any idea for it?

Hi there! After spending months trawling the renotalk forums, and learning SO much from all you regular posters, I'm creating this t-blog to give back to the community by sharing my experience. Hopefully my 2-cents will be useful to some future home owner Renovation for our place has just started, so future updates will show progress of our home as well! Cheers, Alvin

Am a silent reader all this while on renotalk, its finally my turn!!! Stay tuned for updates on my selection of ID process and shopping, Taobao too!!!

Hi, am new to the home reno process.. couldn't find some info here so would like to clarify w kind souls please We got a 4a resale flat, 24 years old. Thinking of hacking away part of a wall, top glass bottom wall. Understand from some other posts that we need to engage a PE and hack away the whole wall, then rebuild again..? Is this true for old flats also, cos old flats don't use the prefab wall? Also, if need to engage PE, can someone advise on the cost and if any contacts pls?

Hello everyone ~ After years of waiting, finally I got my keys to our new home. We have chosen a 3 room BTO, it's small I know... but with 2 years of info gathering in this forums and other platforms, we believe we can make it into a comfy abode! Contents (To be updated soon) Shopping list a) TV b) Oven c) Cooker and Hoods d) Fridge e) Air-Con f) Bathroom accessories g) Laundry system h) Wifi remote controller i) Ergonomic furniture j) Other interesting stuff Completed Looks a) Living room b) Kitchen c) Bedroom 1 d) Master Bedroom e) Common bathroom f) Master bathroom As part of my job needs, I travelled quite abit and get in contact to many interesting home living concept that really helps make full use of space. I believe it is possible to enjoy comfortable living even with small area. Let's begin with the floor plan.

QUICK LINKS 1. Floor plan 2. Floors, doors, and windows 3. Plans, drawings, and inspiration 4. Amazon shopping 5. Post hacking photos 6. Two weeks into reno photos 7. Appliances 8. Three weeks update 9. Nearly finished update

Dear all, I just bought original HDB handle and my contractor said they don't know how to replace this handle. Could anyone advise who could replace this?

Heyya Everyone, So, just like so many fellow forumers before me, I am embarking on a renovation journey of my own. First things first, some details: Type: HDB Resale 5 room, Design Renovation for: Whole house Floorplan: Below Key collection date: Feb 2016 I have some special plans for the current master bedroom! We want to hack a wall and partition the current master bedroom into two halves and use Bedroom 2 as my eventual master bedroom. One half of the old master bedroom will be a sort of wardrobe area and the other half, we plan to use as a library/study area. For the partition, I wish to build a full height wardrobe in the middle of the room as shown in the modified floorplan below. Of course we will need to hack a bit of wall in the master bedroom and move the door more towards the living room side. Sadly, this is not going to be cheap, not to mention the complete renovation of the two toilets and the kitchen and plus the re-flooring of the whole house. Preferably parquet for the bedrooms and the library area and wood-grain plank tiles for the living room and the wardrobe area. The thing is, I do not want any IDs to give me more ideas, I would

Hi Guys, i would be interested to hire a contractor just for a simple double platform bed with a few drawers storage. Would not need an ID because it's quite straightforward. Appreciate any help i can get, thanks! Jamie

My unit below ceiling leaking not from their toilet but middle of their master bedroom. A HDB officer came to my flat and tell me my toilet flooring have to be hacked to do waterproofing, and this only after spending less than 2 minutes in my flat. Real efficient. Was told that it will be share cost of 25% upper unit, 25% lower unit and 50% HDB. Then came the official letter that states the share cost only includes fixtures originally provided by HDB. My flat is 27 years old and HDB expects everything to be the same even the hinged plastic toilet door! If the waterproofing and the structure concrete can even weaken (spalling concrete), HDB expect their original fixture since 1988 to be in perfect condition and will never be replace! For those who installed glass panel cubicles, bathtub and basin cum cabinet or marble vanity top, you gonna faint! HDB package includes hacking, waterproofing, laying only their tiles(you can choose the color only), replace with a standard pedestal. Any other things else, the upper unit flat owner...oops...lessees(I was reminded by the HDB officer) will have to bear the cost of replacing all these. If you do not want their HDB contractor to do the replacement, you will still have to pay for the removal of these fixtures not originally provided by HDB! Anyone out there experience this issue being the upper unit? By the way, was told that when replacing the 1st layer of wall tiles, I m not able to use my own color wall tiles but have to use their floor tiles as wall tiles too. Please let me know if any of you are able to use your own wall tiles (of course, you must have your own tiles available).

Aluminum sliding window lock (anti-theft/child safety). See 2nd photo for how it looks when installed. Brand new. Have 30 pieces for sale. $5 each. Please PM if interested

Dear all, I'd greatly appreciate some advice.. I'm a new BTO homeowner and currently in midst of renovation. However, my contractor pointed out that this is a problem with the already painted walls. For info - my BTO comes painted with flooring. Technical specs for internal walls is skim-coated / plastered and painted white. So my contractor painted 1 portion of the unit, and noticed that the paint was peeling. He highlighted that he is unable to continue to paint because sealant wasn't applied UNDER the top white coat. To do a good and proper job, the top white coat has to be sanded off, plastered to make the surface even, apply sealant, then paint. He had however advised to find out from HDB if the technical specs was as-is, or did they leave out the sealant coat. I did so and the HDB officer confirmed that there is no sealant. It was as per specs- plastered walls, and emulsion paint. Now here are my qns: - is this normal wall painting specs for HDB projects? - shouldn't sealant be applied before any form of paint goes on? - is it Ok to put sealant over current HDB-ready emulsion paint? Will it peel again? Any issues if i did so? Help! Advise, anyone? My renos out on hold until this painting is resolved.

Hi all I want to replace my current air conditional with new. I do have System 3 now and I plan to install aircon to my living room to avoid the haze situation (hopefully that it wont happen yearly). There is some option that I have here: Option 1: - System 4 to include all 3 rooms and living room. - Question will be what BTU is needed for living room (standard 5I HDB flat) Option 2: - System 3 for 3 bedrooms - single unit for living hall Any input is good and if you have any prefer contractor do recommend me. I'm looking in quality of work and cost. Thanks for viewing and thanks for input in advance.

Size:111 sqmNo of rooms : 3+2Asking price : 510k(Negotiable)Design & buildRenovated All Races eligible Singaporean / SPR may apply very spacious, low floor, windy, no west sun, next to park 5 mins (sheltered) walking distance to Boonlay Mrt,but interchange & Jurong point shopping mall<2min walking distance to CC,Jurong library,Medical Centre, childcare centres Open to interested Buyers & Buyers Agent only Please sms or call 9-8-6-5-7-6-56 to arrange for viewing Thanks

Serious Seller. 100% Renovated & Move-In Condition Contact My Agent If Interested. Alternatively Via Owner For More Details @ 96463424 To Arrange Viewing.

Hi guys! So we got the keys to our 5rm BTO flat in October, waaaaaaay ahead of expectation. Both of us are the rather chillax kind, so we did not really do any research on reno stuff beforehand. We are in our BTO FB group and were quite amazed that people actually signed reno packages even before they got their keys . For me, I need to have a feel of the physical space before deciding anything. So, we only started reading up on renovation stuff one month before we got our keys. Our theme for the house was unanimously decided long ago: Scandinavian with essentials of wood, grey and white. Despite being an overly-done theme, it is something that we both hold dear, and one that works for us. This is our floor plan: Living room Floor--at first I had decided on vinyl/HERF because of the nice woody look. But she was concerned whether there will be a smell from the plastic in the long run, and also whether it is truly waterproof (since they are assembled using the clicking system). A valid concern; so we decided to go for wood-grain tiles instead for the whole house (incld bedrooms). Sofa/TV console/Feature wall-- We had a long discussion about this and finally decided to put our TV along the wall adjacent to Bedroom 3. There will be a feature wall of long vertical woodgrain tiles (1.8m high each) that look like wood planks. And on top of that line of tiles, we will install a thin ledge for us to place photo frames or posters. Something different from the usual brick walls. Something like this for the feature wall, just that it doesn't go all the way to the ceiling: Example of photo ledge: Dining table-- It will be placed along the wall opposite the TV console. She wants a really biggggg dining table, so we are prolly getting a 1.8m long one, with a bench to match. Planning to place a bar table against the household shelter wall as well. Built-in storage/display cabinets-- I personally hate having storage/display cabinets in the living room, period. The HDB living room is already too small for my liking (heng we chose a 5rm), having any sort of gigantic cabinets in the living room will just make it look even more cramped. So there will be none. Except for a shoe cabinet that we are planning to build into that recess to the right of the main door. False ceiling/L-box-- None of this too. It will just lower the height of the ceiling even further. Lighting-- Planning for track lights above the feature wall area. And a black ceiling fan. Hanging "spider" lights above the dining table. Track lights along room corridor. LED near the main entrance. Kitchen We are going to hack away the whole wall facing Bedroom 3, and build a kitchen island in the middle . Both of us like to cook, and can't stand claustrophobic kitchens haha. The island will be 1.8m x 1.2m, and the side nearer to Bedroom 3 will feature a counter with stools. There will not be any glass partitions or doors between the kitchen and living room. Yes it will be open but we are not worried about the smell! We don't do heavy frying anyway. There will be kitchen cabinets on both top and bottom on the other wall, and we are planning to get either Kompacplus or Pacnel countertops. Leaning towards Pacnel tops because as of now, they have more colour choices! As for the cabinets, we prefer the surface to be less "flat", contrary to the usual sleek, contemporary laminate surface. After Googling, we found out there's actually a name for this kind of design: it is called Shaker style. An example below: We are leaning towards dark grey cabinets with light grey Pacnel countertop. Along the wall adjacent to the toilet until the service yard window, we are going to build a bottom side-board cabinet; on top we are going to put stuff like my Nespresso Pixie, toaster oven, Hurom etc. Bedroom 3 We are hacking away the whole wall facing the kitchen and replacing it with a black aluminium-framed glass wall/door, to make the whole house feel even more spacious. This will be the gaming/study room! Going to put my PS4, a 40inch UHD TV with a Yamaha soundbar in there. Master Bedroom Making a L-shaped full height wardrobe! Was contemplating the idea of a platform bed, but decided it was too expensive and the ceiling will be too low (planning to put a ceiling fan). Going to put the usual queen-sized bed frame! Toilets Going to install a vanity top with mirror box cabinet for both toilets! Prolly going to use black Pacnel top for the vainty. For the MBR toilet, there will be a glass shower panel (not door), separating the shower area from the toilet bowl. Cos I feel having a sliding door is too claustrophobic. For the common toilet, there will be a shower kerb with IKEA's shower curtain rod (no shower panel, to save costs). Panel only: Contractor We met a grand total of one contractor and one ID. We invited the contractor to our new house and told him about our plans and ideas, and to give a quote. The moment I spoke to him, I knew I could trust this guy. There was rapport, we could click, and he was clearly experienced in his field. He suggested alternatives when our ideas were not feasible. We were very comfortable with him and were eagerly awaiting his quotation. It came back to be around $48K! At first it was shocking. But after calming ourselves down and looking at the things we wanted, we concluded that it was a reasonable (though not cheapest) pricing. (We later changed some stuff and the price dropped to $46k.) On the other hand, the meeting with the ID was unplanned. I chanced upon this FB post of a so-called renovation "open-house", where various companies will be there to showcase their reno materials (kitchen tops, cabinets, tiles, lights etc), so that we can have a better idea of what materials to choose for our reno. So I thought to myself, why not? Upon reaching the place, there was a group of young people smoking in the stairwell right outside the entrance to the openhouse. Impression down We walked in, one young guy approached us, and introduced himself as an ID from ___ company, and offered to bring us around. At this point, we knew it was not such a simple affair. He brought us to see all the materials, tiles, tops etc. Along the way, he kept emphasizing on how credible and accredited his company was (rolling eyes at this moment ). At the end of the tour, he made us sit down and listen to him intro his company's reno packages. Upon first glance, the pricing looks reasonable. But upon closer scrutiny, we realised the package was super basic (plain white tiles @ $3 per sq feet etc). So if we add on the things we wanted, it will prolly add up to a substantial amount. Then he suddenly whispered to us: if we sign today and give the deposit, his boss will waive the 7% GST. Ermigawd. Are you freaking kidding me. That's like the lamest sales pitch ever. Everybody knows you have already factored in the GST into your pricing right?! We walked out without signing anything. The silver lining was that our time was not totally wasted; we learnt quite a fair bit about the materials TL:DR version : Not impressed with ID company, signed with contractor.

Limited Edition HDB Executive Maisonette in Bukit Batok Central - Direct home owner is selling. - 150 sqm area. Block is on elevated ground. Peaceful & safe environment. - High floor with unblock view & lifts landing on every floor. - 4 extremely spacious bedrooms (3+1). - 4-5 min walk to West Mall, MRT & bus interchange. 1 min walk to Community Centre & coffee shop. Easy access to nearby bus-stops & easy to find cabs. - 8 min walk to wet market. - 24hrs Amenities to supermarkets (NTUC & Giant), McDonald, confectionery shop, coffee shop, Chinese restaurant, roti prata coffee shop. - Short walk to library, park, swimming pools, bowling centre, cinemas & post office. Near to Neighbourhood Police Post, golf range, driving school, country clubs, regional library, skating rink, Science Centre, Future Jurong Lake Gardens - Next to Jurong East Central Business District such as Gateway, IMM, TradeHub21, JE Hub, JTC Building & more. - Short MRT ride to JEM, Westgate, IMM, Big Box, J Cube, Genting Hotel, Devan Nair Institute, Lot 1, Clementi Mall, Yew Tee Point, Jurong Point. - Easy access to infant care, child care & student care. - Educations: MMI Montessori, Learning Vision, St Anthony's, Keming, Princess Elizabeth, Swiss Cottage, Millennia Institute (Pre-U), Canadian International, Dulwich College, Bukit Batok Sec, Pei Hwa Presbyterian, MGS, Nan Hua, CHIJ, Bt Panjang Govt High, School of Science & Technology, Polytechnics, NUS, NTU & German European School. - Enrichment schools: Morris Allen, Berries World, Tien Xia Chinese, Yamaha Music, Shichida Method, Aspire Hub, Stalford, LCentral, The Learning Hub, MindChamps & more. - Any buyers, regardless of their ethnic group and citizenship. - Strictly no agents. Only for direct buyer. **Contact Direct Owner @ 82106729

I suppose I should just cut the story short as my BB girl is grasping at legs and exclaming "Papa, papa, I, I... I want to work!" (To her, hacking away at the keyboard in front of PC is working) As title suggests I'm trying to make my cosy 3rm be different from standard cookie cutter design. With any project, setting the budget is most important. My current cash flow allows for 50k expense. Its broken down 4 categories. 1. Electronics 10k 2. Furnishing 10k 3. iD/Reno 25k 4. Unknowns 10k Will continue update later.

So... I decided to do this. I have actually finished my reno and moved into my place. I thought I share some thoughts on this forum about my reno experience. I don't think I will write a lot of posts, but will try. My journey started about a year ago on 13 Oct 2014, when I first viewed this 4 room re-sale HDB. Made a very quick decision and issued the cheque on the very day after I viewed the place. I am actually very happy with my purchase. Near to MRT, parents, city and high floor. The flat is about 31 years old, so would need some major reno. Will show you guys more photos of the old place in my next post when I upload all the photos! Below is the layout plan of the flat. I started to look for an ID in Nov 2014. Only met up with 3 but already felt so tired! Appointed my ID in around early Jan. Collected my keys on 21 Jan 2015! That was a very exciting day! Next post I will show the photos of the place before reno, and the experience with the 3 IDs.

Hello everyone! My fiance and I have been following everyone's t-blogs ever since we decided to purchase a 5-room resale HDB flat for our first home...and now that renovations have just started, it's time to start our very own t-blog! It's also a good way to keep track of our renovation journey... We started house hunting in March this year, managed to find one which was acceptable to us and our respective parents and started the process of buying the flat. Once we exercised the option to purchase, we started looking for IDs and learnt quite a lot on renovations from reading this forum! Eventually, we settled on the ID we were most comfortable with and renovations started yesterday! So first up, our floor plan...we didn't want to pay HDB for it and so, we managed to get a copy from the previous owner! Pretty standard layout...only odd corner is in the master bedroom where there's a 45 degree angle corner right in the middle of the room...that corner gave us quite a bit of headache during the planning stage of our renovation. Initially, we had planned to put a dressing table there but after consultation with the FSM who advised us not to use that corner, we decided to seal it off with a glass door. Our poor ID had to make quite a few changes to the 3D designs after our consultation with the FSM...luckily, he was super nice and understanding about it

This t-blog chat is meant for documenting the process of both my HTB and myself on how we went about getting the resale flat with HDB loan, finding the renovation guys, the renovation and hopefully all the way till the house is ready when we get married in November. Yes, this sounds like more than a handful and very high probability of driving someone insane. I used to document all these in my "Little Brown Book" which is getting out of hand. Like literally. Scraps of paper spilling from the edges of the book and tags that no longer able to serve its purpose if i really were to tag them down. So a sneak peek of how my "Little Brown Book" looks like: I happened to talk to a previous Event Organizer which my company had engaged when i served the Company Welfare committee and we chanced upon talking about looking for a housing agent. The very nice lady, Carol recommended me Gilbert. I had told Carol to provide my contact number to Gilbert and i receive the phone call the very next day. We got to know that Gilbert is from K*****f**n*. Originally my HTB and myself were thinking, doesnt knightfrank does more commercial than hdb? But well, lets give it a go and see how well it goes. We were almost sure what we wanted and told him our requirements i.e.: Which townWalking distance to MRTMin floors and aboveOnly corner unitSizing of the flatBudgetDoor facing (with the advice from the fortune teller previously at farm mart, now at pioneer point) The next week, we met up and saw at least 7, sorry it is 9 houses that fit all the requirement in 6 hours. A marathon that got us really exhausted but we saw two houses that caught our eye. One is fully renovated but shows some signs of design fault with regards to aircon ventilation that got the wall a little murky in the Master Bed Room which i fear for. And the other one is just a plain old house with no built ins at all and it is just clean and spacious though areas that needs to be done, needs to be done say for toilets and kitchen. We picked the second option which we called it "our place" and told Gilbert to express our interest to purchase the house, the whole buying thing got a little bit exciting as there were other buyers who are interested in the place. But we got it. (HE HE HE ) It is a spacious 5I which is very boxy and filled with beams across the house.Floor plan as below: And it is time to source for Renovators....

Hey guys.. Need some input for these few queries that we have.. We are planning to renovate our Kitchen & toilet only. What is the reasonable costing for these works... If there are contractors reading this please PM me with your contact and quotation. MASONRY WORKS 1. To supply & construct 50mm cement mortar kitchen cabinet base PLUMBING WORKS 1. To supply & lay conceal drainage piping for kitchen sink. 2. Extension of copper piping for kitchen sink 3. To supply labour to install 2 nos. of instant heater or 1 no. of storage heater 4. To supply labour to install 2 sets of bathroom accessories. 5. To supply labour to install kitchen sink & tap. CARPENTRY WORKS 1. To design & fabricate L20ft kitchen cabinet using solid plywood in laminated finish c/w a. Length 10ft solid surface kitchen worktop. b. Blum hinges c. 2 tier stainless steel dish rack. d. Cutlery tray e. labour to install cooker hood & hob ELECTRICAL WORKS 1. To supply & run 10 nos. Of exposed lighting point @ living/dining. 2. To supply labour to install lightings (max of 15 nos).