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Seems that this is a non-issue after all. Service guy from Fujioh came and switch the burner lids. Seems that my maid mistakenly used the wrong burner lids for the big burner. Problem solved.

Today, i called Fujioh to ask them to come service my 793-SS gas cooker. The largest burner made an explosive sound when it's turned from the highest to the lowest flame and the flame goes off when it's turned to the lowest flame. Hope the issue can be rectified. Fujioh say they'll send someone down tomorrow but need to pick up service guy's call and make sure my phone is turned on. Sigh.....only one month old, has got issues already.

3D drawings (cont'd frm previous) Master Bedroom Children's bedroom wardorbe

3D drawings are as follow: Living room: Kitchen

I live in Singapore

Anyone knows which furniture shop has a good variety of display / side table ? I need one to place my water feature, and the depth should not be more than 40cm preferably 30cm. Am looking for the contemporary and modern kind. Pls advise, many thanks

Oh if anyone knows how to repair grout holes, appreciate it if you could share the tricks and pm me. I don't mind doing some DIY as there are some cement and solution leftover in my house.

It's been 10 weeks now and i hv shifted in: Renovated home pics are as follows: Living room : Kitchen (partially completed) w/o backsplash and top: Dining room: (dining room viewed from study) I will try to post more pics of the kitchen, wardrobe and bathrooms when i have the time, been quite busy w shifting and unpacking lately. Overall, the renovation has been quite smooth. For some reason, maybe because of the CNY period, ID has not chased me to make final payments for the reno. Flooring was not satisfactory because 4 pcs of the living rm tile were hollow and we had to chase them repeatedly to make amendments.It was actually the fault of the tiler and not so much of ID. Even after rectification, there are still some small holes in grouting not completed yet esp in the toilets. There are some minor details like cabinet hinges, minor painting to skirting not done (again could be due to CNY period). There was also one side of the L-shaped kitchen which has a missing backsplash which i don't know will ever be completed or not (will need to check w ID once she's back frm her CNY hols). However, the carpentry, overall design and painting works are satisfactory. Main entrance angle adjustment which i thot was the most difficult part of the reno was also done very nicely.

continue on Week 3: Floor tiles completed [/url Kitchen sink is up: Week 4: Mosaic for Master Bathroom up: Week 5: Bought Bed and Sofa -this is in coffee colour, mine will be in dark brown.

Week 2: New bedroom door frames up: Master bathroom wall tiles up with an empty space for mosaic: (no idea what's hanging mid way, so don't ask ) Common bathroom wall tiles up : Kitchen wall tiles up:

Continue from previous post: After week 1: Kitchen- arghh...doesn't look like a kitchen now. Bedroom door frames hacked to replace new:

Hi, am in the East. It's been 2 weeks now and tilings are going well. One minor hiccup is that my floor tile for living and bedroom had some warping effects after preliminary test lay. The tiler requested for a change just to make sure since he felt that it is a tile problem. So we reselected our floor tiles to something slightly whiter. Have requested for a change one of the bedroom's wardrobe and living room console and our ID is making the amendments to the drawings accordingly. Drawings are a bit slow (sigh....). Hope yours goes smoothly too. A preview as to what's happened: After 1st week: most hacking done. Balcony tiled walls hacked: Hacked toilet windows: Kitchen sink arrived: Living room-piles of cement stacked everywhere aka "The Warzone"

14th Nov : Tile selection done, spent roughly 2 hours in the tile shop http://img130.imageshack.us/slideshow/webp...?id=mbtiles.jpg Hope can see- image a bit dark cos took using iphone resolution is quite bad. 4 types of mosaic for consideration for my master bathroom, have selected the shiny one on bottom left. We did a stain test on our living room floor sample tile with soya sauce, no stain after 1hour....not bad, of course quality for sample and actual product may differ, crossing my fingers that the quality remains. After that went to a Jln Besar shop to get bathroom stuff and hob, took about 2 hours to select everything. My 1-year old , turned cranky cos wanted to sleep in the end, otherwise i would have settled lights too. 17th, went back to same shop to select lights, took another good 2 hours. Selected covered lights for all my bathrooms and kitchen (w/o gaps) so since done that, selected roughly the same lights for other bedrooms too. 21st spent another day in showroom to select laminates- this time think took 3 hours. Seen preliminary drawings from ID, see whether got time to upload later. Need to change all colour scheme cos laminates selected doesn't match but ok with overall layout. There are so many choices for laminates, that it can be quite confusing. Some laminates are better than others, scratch resistant- much more ex......Actually, no laminates are scratch proof, we did a test on our samples using keys and scratches eventually turn up. Some laminates are harder o scratch cos there is a slippery coating. Scratches on glossy laminates are more obvious than on matte laminates. Count down to collection of keys....in 2-3 days time. Can't wait for reno to start.

Same st 72 too.

Nice 3D for WIW and i like the wardrobe with the names on it for the boys, very creative. Hope it turned out well. Which block series are u staying in ? Your flat size would be the same as mine, also Tampines, so just wondering.

One way to verify would be the way the owners interact with the ID e.g. one of the owners we encountered actually asked the ID if he could send the workers to fix something. Otherwise, just make some comment on the house to the owners and if it's really genuinely done by the IDs, they'll say smtg like " thanks to them, he did it for me '" It's not difficult, with some observations.

Yes, just tell them to bring you to see one of their projects. For my IDs, i did not specify what i wanted to see....... cos i wanted to see what they would show me without me telling them, sort of like act blur. The more savvy ones will know that they should bring you to see the things they would similarly be doing for you. Or if you want to be really specific, just let them know what you'd like to see, e.g. similar sized flat, similar layout, same things renovated etc. Ultimately, go for a registered HDB contractor, someone whom you can trust with proven long track record. I've just heard another horrow story of my colleagues neighbour's contractor running off with their money leaving tools behind in the unfinished flat. It's a cruel world out there so "buyers beware". Good luck in your search for your ID.

Advice appreciated, i've got bronze aluminium windows and white powder coated grilles. Wanted to standardise everything. Should i change all windows to white powder coated to match the grilles or should i change my grilles to bronze aluminium type. Will white powder coated frames for windows rust ? Bronze ones then not so obvious even if there's rust. Think rust may be due to the screws and not the coating.......(not too sure) ( If change windows, i've got option to select clear, blue, green or grey tinted, so many choice, which should i choose ?

Can i check if we need to apply for HDB permit to change windows or grilles ?

Haha....i got the same reply as well and am in the same situation as u. Basically we will only shift in next year and current owner has declined the offer. Am not willing to fork out $220 +++ for separate installation. It's quite stupid since we are the future owner of our new flat but yet we don't even get the chance to accept the 1st offer hence have to fork out the money to do installation later. So unfair. So we've decided to live with it, no opennet also never mind. We have CDs, read more books and newspapers, at the last resort we will use antennaes.

Thanks leechaorui. After assessing workmanship w 3 IDs, i chose the one w the best overall workmanship, U Home. Spouse very particular about carpentry so we took note of materials used,presence of laminate separation esp at eye level for wardrobe, joint laminate smoothness, false ceiling, sliding doors etc. Hence very sad to let one of the IDs , Inside Living, go. Really liked the kitchen for this other ID so if i want to do a kitchen makeover, i know where to go to. Like buying a house, i guess you can never expect ID to be perfect. Just signed w my ID. Next up will be HDB permit application.

Going to soon, why ? Do u have somebody to recommend ?

Thanks for your support. First up, here is my floorplan: ID selection process began with getting:- 1) Frens recommendations. Chose a few. 2) Read renotalk, choose one or two. 3) Next get quote from icompare and renotalk: From icompare: some came back with quotations without meetup about 2 out of 20 from icompare and only 1 from renotalk. The rest needs to meet up before providing quotation. At that point, i thot ........where got time to meet everyone without seeing quotation first So i got to plan selective meet ups. One of the icompare IDs were not able to quote even tho' they promised to come back after 2 weeks so strike off and told them i don't need them to quote any longer. Two of them push very hard to meet up, "Otherwise all contractors will be fully booked and we cannot rush to complete your project before CNY", ..........also strike off. Then comes the meet up of the few shortlisted IDs (i shall not give names of ID in public - prior to my final selection): 1st one, U Home: Nicest showflat of all i've visited, ID promised to come back w quotation after one week, did not get a quote until after 2 weeks......wait really long, nearly gave up. Quote came back very reasonable and surprisingly is more of the more complete ones with everything i require. Wow, ID can remember lots of things, even after 2 weeks, altho he seem like the boh chap type. Waiting to view workmanship. Shortlisted. 2nd one, Pavilion Creation: One of the icompare IDs, very eager to show me samples of materials used. Quotation came back way above budget. ID quite FS pro but not so knowledgeable about things like opennet, etc, strike off. 3rd one, Ideal Design Studio: Went to the show flat for meet up, not very impressed with the showflat and 1st impression, but will still do 2nd meet up for quotation discussion. Met up and quotation came round the same figure as others. Not HDB registered hence will strike off. 4th one, Inside Living: One of the recommended ID from one of the forummers here. Unfortunately the ID rec was busy so was referred to another colleague instead since i wanted someone who could take up my project. Went for meetup, ID was very detailed and professional. Spent 2 hours discussing my requirements and ID can notice very interesting things about my new flat from my photos which i'd taken. E.g. i had a door which can open up till 180o, there are gas pipes running above my kitchen cabinets etc. Very impressed with this ID. Waiting for quotation. Shortlisted. 5th one, Ideal House: Also one of the highly rec ID from renotalk. Met up but showflat is non-existent. Quotation was completed within a week. The disadvantage with this one is he cannot promise delivery bef CNY. Had gone to view one of his completed projects, tilings were nicely done, however, cabinets were so-so. Quote came back around the same as 1st ID. Strike off So in short, its a tedious process but meet up of IDs do give you many perspective and the chance to know what you want for your reno. Since spouse cannot spare the time, the ID selection basically falls on my tiny shoulders. Keeping my fingers crossed that everything will turn out well.

In return for all the learnings i've gained thru this forum, i will be sharing my journey on reno of our flat which i hope will turn out beautiful and meeting the many occupants in our home. Not easy to satisfy everyone so writing in the T-blog also gives me a chance to destress n somehow i hope will keep me sane during this reno period. Currently looking out for ID, have shortlisted some and now waiting for their quotations. Like many other forummers the journey starts with looking for the hse agt, then looking for the "perfect" home (hopefully loan shark free ), engaging an FSM, do FS audit then look for ID and not to forget spending many hours reading up on this forum (until my glasses thicken) plus researching the net so that the ID don't cut throat with the quotes or materials and we would get what we want instead of smtg sub-standard. Overall it has been great learning journey and i'd like to thank all forummers for filling this place with a sea of knowledge for ppl like me to fish. In the next week or so, i hope to be able to make some progress in the search of my ID, and with time permitting from work, i'll write more about the ID selection process later.