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Blog Entry Date: 16th November 2017 Thursday Click Here to go back to Page 1 - Table of Contents 9th Week after Key Collection - Chemical Washing Done. Everything is SO CLEAN!! Today marks the Unofficial End of the Renovation. Why Unofficial? Because for most people, Chemical Washing is usually the very last event at the end of their renovation. For me however, there is abit more to go because I still got Glass Works and Air-Con Installation, so its still not quite the end of Renovation for me yet. Thinking back, how far I have come since January 2017 when I first started, asking many questions and blur blur without a clue on where and how to start, and now, its already considered almost the end already. Really emotional seeing the end result today. But hey, don’t worry. Even if my Renovation has officially ended, I will still be posting more blog entries where possible, and try my best to answer any questions you have ok? I’m thinking of even doing an overall review maybe 6 months or even 1 year down the road when i’m well and truly settled down in my new home! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So anyway, enough of my ramblings LOL! Today is the day my apartment gets a complete Chemical Washing which makes it actually in a condition that is suitable to start moving in. Can you imagine I received this Whatsapp message from Jason this morning at 6.18AM!!??!! Apparently he and his team were already at my place BEFORE 6AM! At a time where most of us are probably still sleeping, he and his guys were at my place even earlier clearing rubbish and doing chemical washing! If that’s not dedication, I don’t know what is! LOL!! As I wasn’t there, I can’t tell you exactly what goes on during Chemical Washing. All I know is that it is basically a complete overhaul and cleaning of EVERYTHING and ensuring that the entire apartment is sparkling new before doing final handover. What I always hear is some special acid will be used to do cleaning which will enable hardened cement pieces to easily come off. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before this Chemical Washing, what always greeted me whenever I entered the house, was always a big pile of rubbish like this. Urgghhh! every time see so messy also psychologically very sian. Also, this absolutely horrid looking caked with cement Bathroom Floor which can never seem to be clean no matter how much I wash and scrub it. Or these little annoying pieces of loose cement that I just can’t seem to be able to pry out of the equally dusty and absolutely filthy floor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It turns out, I needn't have bothered to clean at all!! Below are some pictures Jason took and showed me of the Cleaning guy in action. I still can’t imagine having to do House Cleaning before 6AM in the morning LOL!! I was really skeptical whether he can clean my Bathroom Floor well even with Chemical Washing considering I used a very rough sandpaper feel floor at my Wet Area, and is naturally very hard to clean. The results speak for themselves. Check out how CLEAN the Bathroom Floor now looks! I really cannot believe my eyes!! No more of that ugly patchy dusty and cement caked filthy floor! Woohoo!! The cleaning guy was so good, he even helped scrapped off any cement stains and clean the OUTSIDE CORRIDOR of not only My Apartment but also my Next Door Neighbour’s Apartment to make sure everything swee swee so my next-door neighbour also feel happy. So nice of him to do that right?? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the below pictures are how nice everything else looks now! I literally lay down on the floor and had a little nap earlier! LOL!! Living Room There are some masking tape all around, and that is to mark out areas for the Painters to do more touching up later. Really like the Bathroom PD-Door I selected how the door gels so well with the steps of my Bedroom Platform bed unintentionally forming a nice abstract geometric pattern. Here’s another look, showing my Bedroom, Bathroom and Kitchen all in one shot. Kitchen Area Never have I ever seen my Kitchen Floor so clean before during Renovation LOL!! Bedroom Spick and Span dontcha think so? Again, more masking tapes were used to indicate areas to touch up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh ya! Something I realized about my Bomb Shelter Door. When the bomb shelter door is closed, this is what people can see when they walk past. Abit lack of privacy like that lah. Imagine me watching TV and people can look right in. I realized just simply opening the Bomb Shelter Door will block 80% of the view, not only giving me privacy, but also allows me to open the Main Door to allow better air ventilation LOL!! For some of you wanting to build additional door or wall for privacy, you can use this method as a cheaper free option instead! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh and before I forgot, someone PMed me to request to have a closer look how I did the Kerb for the Entrance of my Bathroom, so here ya go! Tilers cut some extra Living Room floor tiles I got from BSC and laid them nicely. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And so thats it. With Chemical Washing done, I can basically move into my Apartment anytime now. For most people, this would be the End of their Renovation. For me, its just a wee bit more to go. I understand Tomorrow, the Aircon and Glass guys will come up do their installation and of course i’ll be taking pictures of their work done. So ya, thats it for now, I’ll see you in the next blog entry!! Click Here for the Next Blog Entry: End of 9th Week after Key Collection - Final Tasks: Aircon, Glass and Painting Click Here to go back to Page 1 - Table of Contents

Hi all, I am new to this forums but has been browsing here since i was looking for a ID/Contractor to renovate my resale flat. We all understand the agony of finding a good responsive & responsible renovation contractor. I just want to share some of my experience renovating my kitchen which includes hacking + re-tiling works from this ID. To be frank, we are all afraid of cutting chopped due to us doing very little reno as compared to others doing their whole flat so we thought the cost might be slightly more pricey. Then we came upon this ID we saw on this forums posted with their promo package, we decided to give them a call. We talked and set an appointment the next day to share our ideas/concepts of our home. Like most of the people would say, most of the ID is only keen on making more money but instead he would actually explained specifically some of the more complicated design of how it will be constructed that might be costly. He would then suggest alternatively another similar concept but at a cheaper budget. We thought, “That was great!” We told them that we don’t really need any fancy design and proposed if they could come out with one based on our needs and budget. At the same time, we also choose our laminate and material in their office (which happen to be nearby our place also). With many variety to choose from, he will also offer different suggestion of which material will benefit and which is more of within our budget range. As much as we are concerned, it was really a pleasant meeting with him as he accommodate us without trying to upsell anything. However, end of the day, in fact we still thinks quotation is the last key factor if it is a scam or not. After a few days, to our surprised, it was actually within our budget and during our second meetup, he would explained in details of how each is being charged accordingly. We decided to go with them and proceed with the renovation work. Overall, he also provided us with a free rubbish chute which we are alarmingly surprised. We thanks him so much for the work done in this 2 weeks to help coordinate and keep the works on schedule. I will let the rest of the pic talks. BEFORE WORK IN PROGRESS AFTER FREE RUBBISH CHUTE FROM THE ID

Hi all, I am new to this forums but has been browsing here since i was looking for a ID/Contractor to renovate my resale flat. We all understand the agony of finding a good responsive & responsible renovation contractor. I just want to share some of my experience renovating my kitchen which includes hacking + re-tiling works from this ID. To be frank, we are all afraid of cutting chopped due to us doing very little reno as compared to others doing their whole flat so we thought the cost might be slightly more pricey. Then we came upon this ID we saw on this forums posted with their promo package, we decided to give them a call. We talked and set an appointment the next day to share our ideas/concepts of our home. Like most of the people would say, most of the ID is only keen on making more money but instead he would actually explained specifically some of the more complicated design of how it will be constructed that might be costly. He would then suggest alternatively another similar concept but at a cheaper budget. We thought, “That was great!” We told them that we don’t really need any fancy design and proposed if they could come out with one based on our needs and budget. At the same time, we also choose our laminate and material in their office (which happen to be nearby our place also). With many variety to choose from, he will also offer different suggestion of which material will benefit and which is more of within our budget range. As much as we are concerned, it was really a pleasant meeting with him as he accommodate us without trying to upsell anything. However, end of the day, in fact we still thinks quotation is the last key factor if it is a scam or not. After a few days, to our surprised, it was actually within our budget and during our second meetup, he would explained in details of how each is being charged accordingly. We decided to go with them and proceed with the renovation work. Overall, he also provided us with a free rubbish chute which we are alarmingly surprised. We thanks him so much for the work done in this 2 weeks to help coordinate and keep the works on schedule. I will let the rest of the pic talks. BEFORE WORK IN PROGRESS AFTER FREE RUBBISH CHUTE FROM THE ID

hi, Do PM me for my contractor number. i am sure he is able to help you out n this matter as he gave me a reasonable quote for my BTO in woodlands.