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Amazing that despite the feedback here, people still asking for wellmax's contact.... Nearly 2 years already, one of my windows have to jerk it each time I open it and there is algae or green stuff growing under the silicon... I'm back here looking for window grilles now but even if they give me free, I'll look elsewhere... Anyway, good luck to those who still want to contact them....

Hi All, been a real long time since I've logged in here... Didn't realised so many PMs, sorry if I missed replying to any. I believe you'll be able to find Yeak's contacts from the rest still here and good luck. Been a great experience having him and will continue to recommend him to my family and friends too. Only thing I've heard that he's still so busy;) May need to look for some minor stuff like window grills and such soon, so just popping back into this forum for more ideas.

Thanks, personally felt the blue backing was a little expensive but wife wanted it and the effect is pretty good, worth it:)

Have fun;) Remember to get him to photocopy the drawing, will be useful if you need to recall what was discussed.

PJ, can added pwr points even now and they’ll need to tap from another pwr point but like Adrian said, there’ll be some trunking involved.

I got mine 5 years back from Nature Co but now looking for cheaper alternatives.

Thanks, reno completed, now just hanging around looking for ideas for water fountain and a home theater set. For the horizontal bars, do note the size of your commonly used bottles, give a little more space for your hand to go in to press the bottle.

Actually, the 3M hanger thing did drop my clock before ;)

Hey Tulips, Just saw your bowls:) It may still crack because the material used in these bowels can be quite brittle, a sharp knock, say by a pole may crack it easily. But it does look interesting, a 'feature' in the kitchen. Other things you may consider in the future, bricks, hollow block pieces, stones used for water feature (http://www.natureco.com.sg/productdetail.asp?CatCode=C21&ProdCode=195) can prob find cheaper ones though.

Didn’t meet Yeak’s brothers till the carpentry started, both quite nice, the eldest one looks like a old Hong Kong actor, pretty funny too. Don’t forget about your wardrobe too, seems easy enough but you or your wife may like specific heights and plan for drawers and such. My wife & I drew out our own wardrobe, with measurements but my wife didn’t want my input and happy happy put in dimensions which turned out too high or large for her stuff, had to call Yeak to take out and change some things (when everything is completed) but not all things can be changed, so she’ll have to live with it. Copied the TV console design from a picture in a magazine, hide all the electrical points inside but his man blur blur, go and drill the hole for the wires a little off the centre so now if you sit in the centre of the sofa, you’ll see the bunch of wires quite off the centre of the tv.

Thanks, we like the blue too, Yeak showed us someone else using orange backing but think blue still a little safer;) As soon as we got the flat and the floorplan, started thinking of designs for the kitchen since my wife complained its too small. Decided to go with a U shape design and also had to make sure our current fridge and new washing machine can fit. Did a lot of draft drawings using the floorplan and used the ikea magazine alot, very useful for ideas and measurements of common items. FYI, if anyone doing this, remember to tell your contractor about the height of your washing machine, we totally didn’t think of that, luckily Yeak checked with us, else they could have made the solid surface into one straight line. If you noticed, there’s a little step up for the washing machine. Yeak likes to remind us that he thought of that;) Oh, and there’s never enough powerpoints, include as many as you can, we’ve just asked them to put one more just above the washing machine for our rice cooker and kettle. Didn’t think of that the last time.

Kitchen (which took the longest time to design and caused the most headaches) Extendable table

Common bathroom with alot of input from Yeak

MBR Bathroom

My wardrobe: Wife's wardrobe:

Curtains at balcony

TV Console

Pictures: Feature wall... just to cover the ugly bomb shelter door.. Another part of the Feature Wall cum shoe cabinet

Hi Rasp, Probably too late but here a picture of the kerb for the top hung bi-fold door.

Hi Rasp, i'll take a picture tomorrow and post it for you. The door is hanging from the top and there's some rubbery thing below the door which will touch the kerb. Do remind or inform your contractor about the top track thing. Was very busy packing and then unpacking since my last post in late July. Wife then went holiday with the one and only camera, just came on Wednesday.... Will post up some pictures soon, to showcase Yeak's work. Quite happy with the overall renovation and it was a pleasure working with him over the last 2 months or so. Those who plan to shortlist him, do it early as the last time I spoke to him, full till Oct and he's not the type who'll take in business for the sake of it. Now charging the battery and will post some of the earlier photos soon.

Hi Hopeless, Wellmax did the window latches on the spot, the thing about taking out and bringing back to office is rubbish.... but they did have to take out the windows and do it along the corridor. Won't recommend them to my friends, although much cheaper than Yeak's contact, with the issues you had and some minor stuff I have, I think there are better ones out there. Don't have time to read the blogs recently, work work work... good luck with your progress, mine should be done by this weekend, 6weeks+ in total. Haven't factor any rectification work, if any.

11 weeks…. That’s really too long…. Good luck… I share your sentiments about the design…. Sometimes I think some HDB designers should be lined against a wall and be shot… nice designs, not practical… Such a small kitchen and the ‘study’ room is so small, might as well combine them… btw, you’ll realise that there’s not much space left for fridge and a washer. There are some huge pipes at a corner in the kitchen too, so even lesser space for things like rice cooker, kettle and such… Have ‘fun’ planning;) Let me go back and check me quotation to give you an idea for the hacking of half the wall. Abit hard to compare but it’ll give you a general idea. By the way, hacking of walls will need approval from HDB, some walls can be hacked (those in black in your floorplan definitely cannot). If I remember, hacking is relatively reasonable but then building up another wall… that’s a different story Can take a look at Byr’s thread, he also hacked the kitchen and a combined the living room with a bedroom: http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=16919&hl= You can find his comments on page 2 of this blog.

:D Definitely going to show my wife this post tomorrow! Thanks!

Haha, long post, can feel your excitement :D Tried to answer your questions above, feel free to ask questions here:)