New Construction - semiD

[mrenotalk 0]

Dear all

I have an old semiD with two storeys.

Am thinking of rebuilding it to 2.5 levels with 4000-4500 buildup. According to my neighbor a few units down, no piling required for this area.

Can a limited budget of 1.2 mio buy a decent/nice new house with marble/parquet finishings and carpentry and with the end product a move-in condition? ie without coughing up more for lightings, sanitary wares etc

Some friends suggested that economy being slow, contractors could be hungry for jobs.

Apprec if those with recent experiences can advise. Thanks vm.

Edited July 19, 2016 by mrenotalk

[yoongf 11]

Very sure is possible. 

Get an architect to work out the tender drawings n authority submission only.

go for tender n allow for design n build contractor to proceed from there. 

[Andrew Loke 0]

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On 7/19/2016 at 3:14 PM, mrenotalk said:

Dear all

I have an old semiD with two storeys.

Am thinking of rebuilding it to 2.5 levels with 4000-4500 buildup. According to my neighbor a few units down, no piling required for this area.

Can a limited budget of 1.2 mio buy a decent/nice new house with marble/parquet finishings and carpentry and with the end product a move-in condition? ie without coughing up more for lightings, sanitary wares etc

Some friends suggested that economy being slow, contractors could be hungry for jobs.

Apprec if those with recent experiences can advise. Thanks vm.

 

You can look for me to check and discuss. 9476 0202

[JerrardLim 1]

Bought my first landed house in serangoon 2 years back, it was a 1 storey private house with 1800 sqft of land area. Decided to demolish it and rebuild it into a 2.5 storey house GFA 4000 psgft which will be able to give me larger space and more rooms for my kids and wife.

Gone through the tedious stage of finding contractors, and finding the best price as we wanted it to be affordable as we can be, just needed a house with more rooms and no need for too much attas and fanciful interior design and decoration.

A few rounds of interview, managed to sieve out the good contractors and the bad ones.

Went to the site to monitor the progress of the work once a month, and will pop by to make sure that the contractors was not up to below-par works.

This builder was able to coordinate all the site works properly and on time, many times when I popped by he was there on the site to discuss the work progress with the electrical and plumping supervisors and me, really glad to see such hands on contractor boss. (Most of my friends actually say that these contractors are lazy and only cared about money, luckily for me this was not the case.)

Managed to get my house done early quarters of last year, even though the projected timeline given by them was 13 months, they manage to let me top around 11.5 months, saving me the rental of my condo out as I can rent them out for extra cash. Was really happy with their work attitude of this contractors.

There were a few times where my wife was actually not happy with the tiling of the rooms, and we changed the floor tiles to marble. And this contractor was actually quite ok with it, and did not make any complaints about our change of mind.

Advise to all homeowners, do sit down and discuss with your contractors and make sure everything is in place before signing your contract with them and make sure they are good contractors with enough liquidity to sustain the cost of building, and try to get them to stay focus on just a few projects on hand so they do not run into cash flow problems and give u poor quality of your works.

A good communication with the builder is definitely worth it!

[mrenotalk 0]

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