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hey gimz! just realised you and your wife have alot of numbers in your username..lol.. which carpenter are you using?

Stove Searching I am looking for a commercial cooker (Gas/4 burner) like the above. If you know someone selling it (either new or used), please let me know!!

Weekday Hunting Walked out to Balestier Road last evening and stopped by a few shops: 1) Lightings.com.sg - Seen their website and heard about them on here before visiting their shop. Johnson served us, young guy but knows his stuff. He kept asking if we read about the shop on Renotalk..haha... We were mainly looking for ceiling fan with light for the hall. I know, its a tacky idea which I wish we had a choice about, but we need an overhead light and we need a ceiling fan. Bo pian. Anyway, we saw their fans selection but nothing really suited, they were all either very embellished or just too "Transformers" for our liking. Their track lighting seems pretty reasonable - $15/fitting and $15/1m track. Add $18/fitting to change to LED. Their downlights cost $22/pc for a square stainless steel one, their most basic. 2) Evov Living - Met a lady we assumed was the shop owner, Linda. Very nice and friendly..we love their stuff though its a bit pricey. I like the idea of customising everything. Linda said we could even email her pictures of furniture and they would see if they could produce similar items. Obviously, it'd come at a price. They did have a few promo items going at cheap(er) though, like a $888 3-seater fabric sofa which was really nice.. 3) Palace of Lights - The guy who attended to us was a stark contrast to Linda, especially since we had just came over from there. He was so off-putting and rude. Sheesh, we don't owe you a living leh. Anyhow, hb found the light for his office, one of those office-industrial types with two tubes and a open casing. Cost $110. We got out of there pretty quickly cos the guy was just so unfriendly. 4) Chan Huat Lighting - My favorite shop of the night. Jilvan was the person who attended to us, very patient with my onslaught of questions and fickle-mindedness. I think I might have found the ceiling fan/light that would be the least eyesore: Also saw the KDK bathroom ventilation fan, they were selling it for only $65. Jilvan told me installation will cost maybe around an additional $50 and gave me the contacts of two installers. The rest of their lights were pretty pricey..as much as I'd like to give the business to Jilvan. 5) Asia Excel - Last stop of the night. Perhaps its was late, but the guy (Desmond) came across as curt and uninterested. Won't be getting anything from here.

hi simon! haha ya not much progress on my reno yet so start talking football. lol.. i like arsenal, i like wenger's youth policy - its how i play on FM! hahaha..but seriously, if i weren't a lfc supporter, i'd probably be an arsenal one. yea i know about the dirty tricks the italians have..its like they have this mafia blood in them or something..lol. i think the spanish and argentinean teams can also play quite dirty. hey, maybe sammy lee's there to translate carragher - he has a different language of his own! we're waiting for our second appointment on 21 Apr so renovations will begin immediately after that! can't wait..!

okie thanks for the info! we're also eyeing the same fridge but i really want the stainless steel one. yours is white right?

hi reira, may i know where you bought your LG fridge? it's cheap!

hahaha, don't worry about it. you're not the only one talking footy here. i think the italians exude tons of class when they play..no hard aggro ('cept maybe from gattuso, lol). having said that, my views are based on watching them play during the last world cup. i don't watch international footy so haven't seen them play since then..things might have changed.. there aren't many available worthy replacements for rafa, but i don't think we'll be able to get a top class manager from the bootroom anytime soon. what might work is to have one of the old-timers come in as assistant managers to sort of keep the foreign manager's feet on the ground, if you get what i mean. sort of like what sammy lee is doing with rafa now.. moan-inho is one of those managers that you love to hate. he's good if he's your club's manager. he's bad if he ain't. some people said he was good for english football. i don't disagree..as long as he's not coaching any of the other top teams.

hey el nino, thanks for the pic..its very ex leh! and also, i think the glossy brown faux wood portion on the side might be a bit passe..lol. have you chosen THE tub then?

hello! welcome to RT! nice transformation... may i know where you got your dining table? love how it's so raw and natural..mind sharing the dimensions & price? TIA!

erm, i'm not an england supporter..lol. for international fixtures, i lean towards italy and spain..combination of class, style and good looking guys. muahahha. and as you can guess now, i'm not a guy! hi dear, mind sharing with me your electrician contact please? can do so via PM, thanks very much hey patsy, thanks! yes i do agree that ever since the yanks took over the team, things have gotten quite bad. i guess we need to take the positives out of it and one huge positive is their dosh brought us torres. but now, i'd say thanks very much, next better owner please! i think mourinho is a worthy replacement, he'd bring a winning mentality to the team that's for sure. if we want to be a stickler for tradition and culture, then we should just get one of the ol' bootroom members in as manager instead..tough.

wow you really ought to share who did your painting so we can steer clear of them..if you prefer, maybe drop me a PM or something..

well, personally speaking, i wasn't angry when owen joined them. like you said, he'd already left lfc a while ago. i think i was just annoyed..its like your gf left you for another guy. then this guy dumps her. and now, she's with your ultimate rival. you don't feel anger, cos the emotions are long gone, but you still get a bit pissed. i hope you get what i mean! lol this is a good one.. yay, england, thanks for standing up for lfc. are you purely an england supporter? or do you follow an epl team as well?

from the looks of it, you guys did your fair share of research before getting your keys too! ok thought i wanted to check with you if you face any probs with the floor levelling if you did it. nvm then.. yay! can't wait to see those windows..i'm still trying to find someone who'd be willing to do those double-hung windows that slide up & down....

hey ang, oh no wonder you always slam LFC. cos they always make you lose money right? lol....i think its not easy to bet on liverpool cos they're so unpredictable - when you think they'd win, they'll lose. when you think they'd lose, they'll win. hahaha frustrating right! and hor, i'm sure ferguson is not dumb enough to write liverpool off as title contenders. even if we may not be so much of a threat compared to chelsea, manure and lfc has such a longstanding bitter rivalry that offers him enough reason to sign owen to piss off the fans.

hey Baby81984, just read thru your thread on MHT..very interesting! i'll also be doing bottom kitchen cabinets too.. btw, are you levelling out your kitchen floor?

very nice! how much does the tamron cost btw?

ok..post the pic of the tub once you select hor! with price also can? thanks..

wah u must be using dslr right? your pics....... very sharp! wat lenses are you using btw?

ahhhhh.... ok got it. thanks again for the info! so how much your inlet/outlet piping for the tub? have you picked your tub yet?

i don't care if manure won the world club cup. ya ang better come out and clear the air. maybe he's a closet liverpool fan, spurned by the disappointment and frustration and hence now trying to convert the rest of us to be like him. muahahaha.... owen is a has-been. it was so desperate and so sad at the same time, that he had to resort to that. i think ferguson signed him partly just to spite the **** out of us.

oh you mean can simply remove items from the contract as you go along one ah? have you placed deposit yet?

i also don't need any kitchen cabinet base, fridge base & washing machine base. but alot of the contractors i spoke to have insisted the cabinet base is necessary for levelling. and i dunno why your base is so ex! $450 is like extortion man, i'm assuming yours is 26 ft / 2 = 13 ft? and please do not go for s/steel laminate! s/steel laminate is **** ugly. you might as well just use normal solid surface. go for the real thing! i've gotten alot of quotes hahaha..like around 20..i also emailed the contractors before doing any site visits. anyway, just as a reference, one quote i got was $145 psf for s/steel work top, even higher than yours. and as a guideline, solid surface tops go from $65-$100 psf.

hi boringal, welcome to RT! since you've already signed the contract, no point asking for comments now..spare yourself the heartache right? my place is also a 3-rm and i also have a limited budget..haha it seems everybody has that in common. anyway, enjoy the journey and remember to post up pictures!

hi vhardono, welcome to RT! i'm no expert but your quote does look to be on the high side ($350 just to hack & remove existing cabinets??) ..perhaps its because you're doing just the kitchen. maybe you wanna speak to individual contractors (i.e. one hacker, one carpenter, one electrican, one plumber). helps you to save cost but you'll have to spend time to coordinate. i noticed you're doing s/steel work top! I also wanted to do that but the quotes that came in were very high for s/steel counter. i think if your cabinets are wood laminates, it'll look even better instead of white..just my 2 cents!

hey el nino..can i check with you if the prices you stated above include tiling of the low wall? and also "service opening" means the inlet/outlet piping?