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thnx jeffcraze, love your curvy & "layer" living room false ceiling with downlight :)

Thanx! :D Tat was left by the prev owner.. A bit dated thou.. :P

 

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Day 25 (Friday) - aircon installation

No activities last 2 days ... awaiting glass/mirror fabrication to be ready plus some carpentry rework

But aircon installation was completed today by my babysitter hb :good:

Nicely wrap up aircon to avoid dust.

MBR

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Study room

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Kids room

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Next week, full of activities - glass/backsplash/mirror stuff, kitchen cabinet , kitchen & mbr countertop, dining room feature wall, washroom , rainshower, storage heater, grilles, solar film installation/completion. Hopefully not much problem arise. Plus existing flat handover to new owner (will rent for 2 extra weeks).

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Move-in Countdown - 14days

Day 26 (Monday) - glass/mirror & carpentry work - 90%

wf & me drop by immediately after hdb 2nd appointment of old flat. So officially, I am no longer the flat owner of my tampines home ... paid rent for 1/2 month sob sob ...

anyway, felt good after seeing the reno progress today. Most glasses, mirror is up. ID fixed my mbr vanity to sliding door. ok, picture will tell the story better.

Dining room feature wall with bronze tinted glass a.k.a bombshelter concealment ;) Luckily can have 1 piece of full mirror as can fit into lift

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Kitchen top hung sliding glass door. Both side laminate are different, follow theme of dining room & kitchen cabinet

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Kitchen top frosted glass cabinet, song-cho dishrack at last cabinet & glass backsplash still missing :(

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Songcho pull-out basket below hobs. Finally :)

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photo of day 25 continue

Living tv console, pull-out entertainment system compartment for my htpc, scv box, dvd player (to be replace with soundbar :) )

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MBR dressing - completed

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MBR vanity - in progress of converting to sliding door. ID fixed promptly after I reported :good:. Anyway, still awaiting sliding door & mirror.

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Incorrect old vanity design with swing door. Awaiting Departure .. this wednesday, as that when rubbish collector come :P

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Move-in Countdown - 12days

Day 27 (Wednesday) - fixing vanity, downlight, kitchen boxup gap plus solar film installation

Suppose to be on-site today for solar film installation but urgent work need to be address ... so boh pian, need to activate wf.

windowcool (llumar) appointment set at 1-2pm, workers arrive at 2pm :good: Whole installation for 3 bedroom plus living room took about 2 hrs. Gave a 7 years warranty letter as well. Advise not to clean with water for at least 2 weeks ...

At the same time, ID arrive to fix downlight alignment, kitchen boxup gap & mbr vanity sliding door. Electrician came as well to install new switches, mbr hair dryer plus fix my final lighting that is my dining room.

Downlight alignment fixed for tv feature wall

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Kitchen boxup gap sealed up

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Mbr Vanity sliding door installed

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But wf catch another problem ... the dining room mirror turn out to be not tinted type. Good job ;) ID quickly called up contractor to change.

 

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Move-in Countdown - 11days

Day 28 (Thursday) - window grille, switches, t5 lights, kitchen dishrack, bathroom bi-fold doors, granite countertop

A bit kan cheong ... so monitoring progress everyday now. Took half day to scrap stubborn masking tape on window frame. fyi, my previous owner stick some mosquito netting on few window frame, so I got quite a lot of black ugly masking tape stuck on the silver window frame :( Surprising the tip on howto remove old/stubborn masking tape really work like a charm.

The recipe :)

Hair dryer + blank cd + alcohol solution (for this I bought googone from home-fix)

So apply heat on the masking tape for about 10-20seconds, then start scraping using blank cd. Finally use googone to wipe away the remaining glues.

Very fortunate though, as grille contractor arrive around my final removal of masking tape in mbr. So get uncle to start installing the living room window grille 1st. Didnt know they come today, been told it going to be tomorrow. Manage to remove all in time phew phew .. :sport-smiley-003:

photo taken after 2nd trip back at 8+pm

cage is up

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clipsal wide switches installed

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mbr hair dryer, t5 down light, wide mirror & bifold door (on mirror reflection) installed

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Surprisingly, there still some workers installing my final blum aventos + songcho dishrack in kitchen. Didnt wanna to disturb them, so doesnt have chance to check my granite countertop. Will get wf to do it tomorrow ;)

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Move-in Countdown - 10days

Day 29 (Friday) - bathroom wc, rainshower, taps, mixer, storage heater, towel racks, toilet paper holder, mbr vanity countertop installation

ID and workers arrive at 2pm to discuss on position of toilet accessories. Then wf & me when for late lunch at sengkang then go back to check out in 1-2hr time. Within 1hr received a call from ID, bad news - one of the wc is leaking. So quickly rush back around 6pm to see & called up Lite fusion to rectify, crizto contractor will come & check next tuesday :(

Earlier ID informed me that there will some potential customer drop by today at 6pm to view his work. So might as well hang around for while to show ID the wc leakage problem. Surprisingly customer drop by 1st before ID arrive. Chit chat & found out that they are one of pinnacle duxton 4rm owners. Once ID arrived, leave it to him to start his sales talk, I'll continue checking today works.

Photo time !!! ... will start posting 800x600 size today. Then upon completion much bigger size

My long awaited granite black galaxy indian countertop. Btw, my glass backsplash is still not in place, suppose to be today. ID called me, about the bad news, the glass broke in factory during processing :( see beh sian. So delay till next week.

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Reginox double sink in installed

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MBR Bi-fold door

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Common bi-fold door. See the cement wall, my existing old tile broke during hacking, so will just paint it.

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Soft closing mechanism provided by ID for kitchen cabinet.

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Common bathroom wc, song-cho towel rack/shampoo holder, rainshower & joven 25l storage heater. Was worry on water pressure for rainshower, fortunately work well ... I got "rain" ... of course dont end up flooding like orchard road :P

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common bathroom mirror cabinet with songcho common rod on the side

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MBR rainshower & songcho shampoo holder

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MBR wc (the leaking one), songcho double towel rack & toilet paper holder

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Dining room main lighting ... but foresee another problem, if strong wind may make it swing ... those standing fan definitely.

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Move-in Countdown - 7days

Day 31 (Monday) - mbr wc fixed, 2nd painting, 2nd wash

wf on-site for mbr wc leakage fixed by crizto technician, appointment set between 3-4pm, arrived at around 3:30pm, company called earlier to confirm :good: Turn out the leakage is due to their factory forgot to seal one of the "hole" on the wc. I hope what uncle said is true. Anyway, lite fusion's manager will followup with them again tomorrow to be sure. Good after sales service ;)

2nd wall painting (nippon) that suppose to be last weekend, didnt happen, so ID called them up this morning to scold them. Immediately sent ppl but later after wf chit chat with the painter, turn out they plan to touch up only. Complain to ID via phone, ID quickly rectify the situation & ensure me that he will make sure his contractor will paint with nippon tomorrow. We'll see, so far he had keep all his promise :)

Some closeup photo I took over weekend. wf didnt take any today

Kitchen sink & tap

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Kitchen cabinet honeycomb laminate, love this but wf worry may collect dirt easily

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Bombshelter feature wall laminate (leather) with silver linen finishing

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MBR vanity solid surface countertop

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Move-in Countdown - 7days

Day 31 (Monday) - mbr wc fixed, 2nd painting, 2nd wash

Kitchen cabinet honeycomb laminate, love this but wf worry may collect dirt easily

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So unique! Nice. :)

 

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Move-in Countdown - 6days

Day 32 (Tuesday) - bronze tinted mirror fixed, 2nd painting, marble table delivery, dishrack installation, tv feature wall and study suspend cabling holes

wf and me (half day leave again) on-site for marble delivery, commit time 9am. Arrive at flat around 8:45am, wait for couple of minutes then heard sound outside ... yup table are delivered on time :good: Driver called a day earlier, mentioned he will be at woodland custom around 5am ... dont ask me why ... something to do with "special" service with malaysia custom.

anyway, 1st look at dining table leg, wf already have concern, how come yellowish & not white ??? Turn out from photo taken when we see at showroom in jb, was that color afterall, fortunately, top was whitish looks. phew !!!

Went for breakfast downstair then ID called that his carpentry will come to settle dishrack, tv feature wall (cut cable hole for my soundbar), cut cable hole for suspend book shelve & painter (kena whack by ID) will do 2nd painting with nippon. So no choice lahh, need to stay longer. Already MIA from work quite number of times this few weeks, boss still quite understanding ;) ... guess no increment for me this year liawww.

Painter arrived with nippon paint ... yeah :) . Drop by at night to check, 2nd round painting finally completed. ID manage to kept promise again :)

Before post photo, here what still outstanding with ID - to be settle tomorrow

1. Kitchen glass backsplash

2. Kitchen L-shape glass wall

3. MBR tap & sink installation

4. Main door lock change

5. blum divider for kitchen S3 drawer

Photo time !!!

Marble table with round edge. Safety for my ah boy comes 1st, a bit ugly nevermind.

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TV feature wall cables "hole" - top one for tv & bottom for soundbar. Was a bit surprise when carpenter told they provide that plastic covers, thot was merely 2 expose holes. Nice like it, thjs is where my hdmi, power cable will sneak through.

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Bombshelter feature wall wrong mirror type replacement - old one remove (smash) & replace with bronze tinted glass

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Songcho dishrack - at last top kitchen cabinet

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Move-in Countdown - 5days

Day 33 (Wednesday) - kitchen glass backsplash, lshape glass wall, mbr sink & tap installation, repaint main door & door grille

Lot of major stuff settle today, so cant wait to move-in now, reno near 99% completion, with just blum divider & main door lock change tomorrow.

wf did a wash today with water + vinegar as suggested by contractor. I did an experiment on removing paint smell using onion. Left slices of onion all over the house ... read from internet that it is effective, let's see whether it work.

borrow a trolley from buddy, to move my precious item ;) Read from some thread on hydroculture plant, so if got time this week, will go & purchase some from nearby flower shop.

night photo :) ... wf forgot to bring camera in day time.

Long awaited glass backsplash. Suppose to be installed 2 days ago but unfortunately glass break during processing.

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Kitchen bottom l-shape glass wall - suggested by ID, like it :) ... turn out glass quite thick around 1cm & it is mount onto an aluminium holder Mainly to avoid water splashing into my washing machine at the back

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MBR sink & tap installed

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