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U everything also acrylic hor.. haha But the pipe is round, how u use it to cover it up? U have the skill and tools to do it?

Today i leave number liao also never call back... dunno wat kind of service level is this man.... my electrical work starting on Monday...

Did u assess the condition of the pipe? Rust, corossion of the pipe etc. When it starts leaking, foul smell, dirty etc... Worst case is that it will just burst.... By then u change is very inconvenient liao.... cos it is sewage waste pipe.... i intend to change it. sure damage my tiles but i will only re-til those area that are prominent... Haiz... really careless of me to miss this out....

He said, he will change all, IF THE TILES ARE NOT UP YET, as that is the best case scenario... Argh....

I am caught in a fix now. Toilet tiles all done up. But if i change the pipes now, wll damage tiles and ceilings. PVC pipes and tiles repair can total up to $1300 or more est. Advisable to change or not change the pipes? Can the 30 years old cast iron pipes hold? In a dilema.... Like to just hear some comments., thanks.

If it is not approvd, when u r selling house, they will ask you to ripped out all the wirings from inside the wall and make good (surface run them again).... before the buyer takes over.... The socket need not sink completely all the way into the wall... maybe leave a little protruding out to 'match' the trunking/casing thickness. else, if the socket sink in completely, the wires have to go into the wall before going into the casing to terminate. Hope u know what i mean. In this case, maybe consider conceal wiring le? Haha... still trying to get the HDB officer.... So u took the same cab home to take wallet?

If not doing testing, then can relocate the MCB... Embed is good, if not very protruding out from wall.... block furnitures and stuffs...

Your Tv console wall is about the same colour as mine. Is it Monsoon River - ICI Dulux?

My electrician intend to do as little trunking as possible, so he will do what you have mentioned. For e.g, the kitchen wall and the masterbedroom wall power point try to position them back-to-back. Same goes for the living room tv console wall and the bedroom 2 wall... Most trunkings will run in the bedroom and then punch thru the wall into the living room.

As i mentioned earlier, maybe wiring cannot conceal, but the sockets can. I dunno, because my concern is only the bulky sockets for power points and switches. If i hack a bit and make them flush more with the wall, this is still not considered concealed right? It is still exposed.

Actually i forgot liao, after they pull out all the old wirings and power points sockets etc to do plastering... :-P

Hi Charemme and Ossify, I just came back from Summer at Toa Payoh and Jurong East Sim Siang Choon and Hoe Kee. It is really careless of me to go there all the way and realise i forgot to bring wallet. But i made my selection and tmr will be going there to confirm everything. Anyway thanks for giving me the link. I infer from the guideliness that the WIRINGS CANNOT be concealed. So i think the power socket and switches can flush with the wall (hack a bit into the wall). Called HDB branch office this afternoon and the automated answerting machine put me on hold for an uber long time. Waste my handphone bill. PUB testing, my electrician asked me i want to do a not, if i want to do testing, i cannot relocate the MCB to another place. It MUST remain in the original position. Did you guys relocate the MCB? Say higher up at one corner nearer to ceiling for aesthetic purpose?

Hi Charemme, Thanks. Funny leh.. the electrician has 20 years of experience and he is telling me this? Um....

But my electrician and ID contractor says we can do conceal leh... I intend to do conceal if not the housings like a box like tt sticking out of the wall very ugly.... Check from HDB souces?

Hi all, I need the advices on the following pls: Can we hack the wall and conceal partially or totally, the power sockets and switches plates into the wall? Is it against HDB regulation? Thanks.

I need some advice over here. Has anyone bought Dunlopillo mattress before? Maybe single or super single? I was told and i verified my taking measurement that Dunlopillo mattress length is about 2 cm longer than the normal length of other mattress. So finding bedsheet is not easy because normal single/S-single bedsheet size cannot fit. Even the bedframe also slightly longer to accomodate the longer mattress. SO next time if u change mattress to another brand, it will be shorter and thus leave a gap at the foot-end of the frame - rather unsightly. True? P.S I thought i posted this query just now, dunno whether got post in wrong blog a not as i am in a hurry. :-p

Now think so much also no use. After reno done, moved in and settled down, got time then verify. If this is a rogue contractor, i wun hesitate to broadcast here. Already got few people PM me ask me who, and recommend my ID/Contractor. I can only tell them, as of now, they are better off looking at others. There are plenty out there. Spoilt for choices. Getting quite stress now coz i am starting new work on 4th Jan and so much not done yet. I must force my ID to help me receive those basins and WCs and lightings for installation.

This is what i was told. And when they did my plastering, they left my kitchen alone. My kitchen is already 'smoothened' and the end surface is really smooth and is grey in colour. I got no time to verify all this lo, do liao just forget it... now rushing eletrical work and installation of WCs and water pipes etc. If you really find out that this is not true, post it up here and alert everyone, then i go 'K' my contractor...

I have been looking around for those 5-in-1 bed. Come across Dunlopillo, the salesman says dunlop mattress (and slumberland also) are longer than the usual single/super single size. So finding bedsheet may not be easy. I did take measurement, the matress is indeed longer than those normal one, but is bedsheet really so hard to find? Anyone? Thanks.

Use a pingole camera and mount it onto any of yr property like door, door frame etc... think should have a way one.. ?

I intend to switch it on only when i am out or when i m sleeping at night tapes are outdated liao.. i prefer recordinto HDD :-)

Wait till u get yr costing for both options first. And if u got budget constraint, saving of a few hundreds here and there add up become 1 - 2k already. Tile-less kitchen can look modern also. Although no doubt it is easier to maintain with tiles. If no tiles, can use wash-and-wear paint to paint the wall.

Yes, grinding is new to me. But the cost difference btw grinding and hacking? Coz grinding also got intensive labour? The easiest is just to use cement to overlay...

Sorry, just cleared my inbox :-p I suppose you mean Certis Cisco?

No wonder 3 downlights is sufficient for you I think i stick to PLCs :-)