weeeeeee.....

i did think of that too, and was trying to see if i could install the air-con at the opposite side of the wall, above the sofa. but the piping is going to be difficult. i was told that the water (condensation) may not be able to flow smoothly and higher chance of leaking. since i'm those who would engage professional regular servicing, i believe the risk of leaking should be minimised.

oh actually, i'm not quite sure leh. my ID carries a few brands. he let me choose from what he had, and i just select based on looks... didn't find out the brands

my laminated floorboard.... with my footprints, oops! here's with another perspective...

master bedroom... my kid's bedroom, with more lively colours my study...

window grilles up in the service yard. suddenly looked so small but boh pian, better be safe than sorry. another perspective from the service yard looking into the kitchen and the common corridor.

new progress of my reno journey. tiles laid, grilles up. wow... it look so much spacious than before. another perspectives from the living room looking into the open concept kitchen.

oversight by my ID. i requested overlay of floor tiles in my kitchen area and extends out to my service yard seamlessly. to make this possible, my bi-fold door at my service yard had to be removed first and put it back after the overlay is done. but..... it was miscalculated. the heightened floor level could not fit the bi-fold door anymore! fortunately, my ID is willing to bear the cost of replacing it with a more fitting door for me FOC. phew!

by the way, i have a 1.5 year-old serta bedframe to let go, which i have put up a thread at the garage sales and exchange corner. still in very very good condition. click here to jump to that thread for more details.

have been busy with my baby girl's yo-yo fever, thus only managed to do some status update today. but not much actually. recalling back to my post #33, i had my viewpoints 'I' and 'J' missing. in fact, i wanted my living room tv console to feature with LED lights. thus, i get this: but after some finetuning, i've decided not to have the upper border all the way up to the ceiling, but at three-quarter height. so this is my revised viewpoint 'I': viewpoint 'J' tells more of the tv console:

similarly for my kid's bedroom, the air-con trunking are concealed as well before this, it was like that... phew! feel so much better now. hope my $450 extra is worth spending, man!

ok, thanks goodness. the ugly air-con trunking are finally concealed. before this, it was like that...

there are two HHS vents. one is this one, and the other is above the HHS door. as i am building a feature wall to conceal the ugly HHS door, the vent above it shall be covered. don't know whether is HDB or SCDF say must leave at least one vent uncovered, i have to choose this and intend to hang a clock here.

u know what? my ID called me today say it'll cost $450. i bargained with him but he explained to me the difficulty. he said he already gave me a lot of things FOC, but this one susah. i have no choice but to accept.... otherwise, how?

this is the false wall that is going to be where my cooking activities gonna be. before the false wall is installed, it looked like this... the purpose of this false wall is to conceal the extended gas pipe and the default wall tiles. on this false wall, a glass backing would be mounted to achieve this...

this is the false ceiling in my living room... the false ceiling of my living room also came down quite close to the ventilation vent of my HHS. i actually intended to hang a wall clock or some painting to cover this ugly metallic piece... but now it seems a little bit more difficult, though not impossible.

lemme bring you see the false ceilings of my two other rooms. this is the false ceiling in my kid's bedroom. and the false ceiling in my study room. notice the air-con trunking in these two rooms? look kinda ugly, ain't they? some of our friends said it's OK, it'll not be as starking after the rooms are finished with wall paints. but personally, i find them an eyesore. i'm also afraid that the space between the trunking and the false ceiling will collect dust, or lizards sh|t, or grow cobwebs. i asked my ID, why can't he do the same like what he did for my MBR? he said he did the MBR one FOC, as the area to patch is relatively small. to do the same patching on these two rooms, which involves great lengths, FOC is not possible. i asked how much to do the similar patch, he said need to ask his false ceiling guy, estimated $300-$400.... how? some friends advised against it, saying that if there's a need to service the air-con pipe in the future, the patch would be wasted as there's a need to break apart the trunking. another round of costs would be involved, and we may not be able to get the same paint colour after the re-patch. but i asked myself, what are the chances of having the need to break apart the trunking to service the pipings within? any opinions?

let me show you the magic that my ID did to the air-con trunking in my MBR. before... after... my ID says he did this extra FOC...

did another quick inspection today, and found my false ceilings taking their forms and shapes. this is the false ceiling in my MBR. this was what it was before the false ceiling is installed.

this is a view of how my gas pipe is extended to where my hob is gonna be... it ran as close to the wall and ceiling as possible, so that the cover-up would be easier. this is a zoomed-out view to give you a fuller picture of where the gas pipe extension terminates. and it shall be concealed. also notice the blue duct tapes running across the wall? u should know what that is, right? it ran from the top-left side of my kitchen, go right-bound along the white sewerage pipe near the ceiling, and then came down passed the service yard window, and then left-bound near the floor, and finally went up a little and terminated the water pipe there with the end coming out of the wall. that was what hdb built originally. but because of my new open-concept kitchen where i locate my sink near the left-side of the below picture, the plumber extended the water inlet pipe left-bound again, and terminated it where my kitchen sink is supposed to be. i told my ID, "i don't want any pipes to show!" and he punched 45-degrees right through the wall and..... wahaha.... i got nothing to say

today was the installation of air-con piping, and the extension of gas piping. my ID coordinated everything for me, and supervised the installations. i went down to do a quick inspection after o knocked off from work and this is what i found... in the wall of my MBR view from my MBR out to the living room. notice the big blocky air-con pipe running above my MBR door? ugly, right? hope my ID can do magic on this. view from my kid's bedroom. the right-end actually terminated and ran through the wall to my MBR (refer to the 1st pic above). view of my air-con ledge... view of my living room, where my feature wall and tv console supposed to be. the air-con will be installed above the feature wall, thus the piping terminates here.

that's why i start early, and spread out my "soliciting" as thinly as i could, so that i won't grow tired and give up. i'm not the sort who love to make phonecalls. prefer to talk to people face-to-face. easier to bargain also

according to my ID, yes. how? i don't know. i've given him my instructions that i don't want any pipes showing. and he'll work on that.

i was trying to find out how much have been heightened after hdb done the screeding.... omg, it's so high until it's half the length of my iphone... i called and asked my ID if this was supposed to be correct, he said yes. after screeding should be heightened to about 50mm higher.

eh? where had my toilet bowl, my sink, and my shower gone to?? oh.... they helped to keep it in the bomb shelter. i thought they are being thrown away...

this is where my tv console is going to be. the centre is where my tv is going to be mounted, flanked by 2 surround speakers of my home theatre system. but it somehow reminds me my biology textbook that illustrates the female reproductive system.......