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Wait till u hear mine Got my keys in early nov 2009. Chose zhi seng in september 2009 and confirmed design etc in october 2009. Supposed to start in nov 2009. Agreement too that he will be my main con and that other sub con like closet design and pergo floor, although engaged by me, will be paid thru him as I will get a reno loan paid solely to zhi seng. (reno loan does not allow u to pay out to several contractors). Simple reno job with little carpentry. Only completed in May 2010!!!! And they issued a bounced cheque to closet design! After I have given them in full all 3 of the bank's reno loan cheques! And closet design is taking me to small claims. The amount of the bounced cheque is only $1600+. This kinda money also good to do this kinda ungentlemanly thing. I refuse to pay closet design and have gotten my own lawyer (which I pay out of my own pocket) to represent closet design to sue zhi seng for a bounced cheque! Carpentry..........leave alot to be desired. Got taske measurement like never take. Forced them to remove and redo dunno how many times. The entire result is so different from the drawings. zhi seng, they are well known in dover. work 1 day, rest 7 days. johnson after issuing bounced cheque when queried by me still can act blur. As if he issued bounced cheque he dunno meh? i couldnt have been more suay. reno one house, take half year nvm, still can kena sued by sub con. From a happy occasion becomes like the most suay occasion ever. Floor by floorich Closet by closet design painting by nippon singapore electrician 3rd party recommended by him but independent contracter. curtains by MGL other furnishings my own All zhiseng needs to do is some carpentry and thats all took from nov 2009 till may 2010 to complete. steady or not? p/s after taking my deposit, he get his electrician to do up my wiring. He had the cheek to ask me topay electrician from my own pocket!!! I thought is all a package. Argued until kingdom come then he paid the electrician from the reno loan disbursed to him. if I were to pay from my own pocket, I wouldve hired my own electrician. common sense ma.

I ordered 2 aircons from Gain City, a system 3 inverter Sanyo and a System 1 Toshiba. The Sanyo system 3 is quoted at $2789 Toshiba System 1 in the hall is quoted at $1712 Upgrade Piping and Armflex additional $230. And on top of all these, the price is not NETT. I have to pay another $310 in GST ???? For all those who have used gain city, is GST included in the charges? or are the prices they display at the shop nett prices? please advise. Thanks.

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This is the 2nd post. I tried posting the 1st time but somehow it does not show. Sorry if there is a repeat post. Hi, this is our 2nd time getting a flat due to the enbloc scheme. Our 1st flat was very simply furnished so this new enbloc flat can be considered our 1st foray into the renovation world. We have checked out several ID & contractors and have read some 50% (or at least I think) of all the posts here and found one whih we quite liked. They understood exactly what we wanted and suggested very workable ideas. Designer was not pushy, team looked and sounded decent and educated. Very up to date ideas I must add. The only issue is that I can find almost nothing on them. No reviews here nor anywhere else. All I see are their website at http://www.treeaffair.com/index.htm A search on ACRA and HDB's licensed contractor website revealed that they do not have an HDB License. Moreover, their company's profile at ACRA has shown that the same name Tree Affair was terminated and then re-registered again, at the same address (not that it means anything. Just something I noticed). Their carpentry factory has changed from Kranji to Sungei Kadut too. Not that it means anything either. Having read here that one should see the renovator's HDB License etc, I took note of it and asked the designer how they would go about carrying out reno works without a HDB License. They claimed that they use a 3rd party HDB contractor Ever Progress whose ACRA & HDB profile showed that this said contractor has a registered business at Anson Road International Plaza #03-09. This contractor is indeed HDB Licensed and has a live profile at the ACRA records. However, feeling that this seemed weird cos International Plaza is hardly a place where a contractor would set up shop due to its high rent, I did some further checks and it revealed that #03-09 International Plaza was also the registered address of an I.T. company known as Yain Technologies. Moreover, this company is "Live" status with the ACRA profile. This would mean that either Yain Tech or the Ever Progress contractor is using / sharing the office address simply for business registration purposes. It could be a home start up or a company using a "rental office" as a front only. Not that it implies anything either but with the facts off Tree Affairs having no discussion about them despite being in operation since 1997 and with them using a 3rd party contractor which does not have a real brick and motar shop front exept for a classy address right smack in the middle of town, I am really getting worried if this is my right choice. Has anyone used Tree Affair before? They claim on their site that Carl Junior outlets or maybe an outlet was done by them. The rest are a mix of digital drawings etc. I like their "designer"'s ability to translate everything we want into drawings and even suggest better alternate ideas as well as her non pushy approach. One can see that she is very committed and has an honest and affable sense about her. Only worry is at the end, will her contractor and carpentry guys be able to translate all the ideas and requests into real world results or is its just a case of "zhi3 shang4 tan2 bing1" discussing military strategies over paper (direct translation). So before I finally decide to go with them or decide to drop them, can anyone with any advice or opinion, good or bad, please feel free to speak your mind. Better still, if anyone has used them before, please let me know. If anything said is too sensitive, you could pm me. Thanks.

Hi all, could someone pls pm me tau's contact pls? I see only the landed line number on their website. Thanks in advance.