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Hi mae29, So sorry to hear you are sick. Take care! Recently started my reno with Donny too, though it is a small scale one, not as extreme as yours

Went up to check, in pitch darkness, coz no lights. Found that my iphone LED light must stronger than my hand-crank LED torch. The tiling on both toilets are half-way done. There are some gaps between the tiles and ceiling, looked kind of uneven but Donny assured me that it is not completed yet, will look nice when done. Not sure if my mind is playing trick on me; perhaps is the size of the tiles, as compared to old tiles, the toilets look smaller. Hmm ...

Thought that there is no work done today, quite surprised when I saw all the lights and switches missing! Had to use my iphone's led light to take a quick peek. The toilets' floor seemed to be covered in cement. Electrical trunking all down. Decided to call the gas guys down... get rid of the ugly gas pipe. Didn't manage to post the pic of the other end of gas pipe in previous post, due to pic no. limitation

You too bro!

Hi r104_for, Welcome to RT! Spacious unit!

I am currently comparing the differences between 2 famous (or is it just 1, LOL) brands of paint. A quick poll (sources confidential) revealed that majority of the ppl used Nippon, only a small handful used Dulux. A quick search on the Internet, particularly from posts in Renotalk seemed to indicate that Dulux is actually more expensive and provides less "features" than Nippon. In particular, this post is really funny: http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38545&view=findpost&p=614756. So I decided to do a simple price comparison and the features (do let me know if I am missing out some types): Paint price (5l), from hardwarecity: Dulux Pentalite: $50 Dulux Wash & Wear: $62 Dulux All: $70 Dulux Light and Space: $65 Dulux Mouldguard (for ceiling): $52 Nippon Medifresh: $65 Nippon Odorless All in one: $70 Nippon Easy Wash: $65 Nippon Vinilex 5000: $50 Nippon Vinyl Silk: $60 Not avail: Nippon Odorless Easy Wash. One glance and you can see that they are really similar in terms of price... LOL Features-wise: Similar: Dulux All - Nippon Medifresh - Nippon Odorless => better grade? Dulux Wash and Wear - Nippon Easy wash => "washable" feature .. actually some of the other types also advertised washability. Mid range. Dulux Pentalite - Nippon Vinyl Silk - Nippon Vinilex => Lower grade? Difference: Dulux Light and space -> reflects light more, makes room brighter.. other than that, pretty normal Dulux mouldguard -> for ceiling, good for toilets Summary: - Price not much different (apple to apple) - Features, Nippon seems to deliver more bang for buck, especially for lower grade. Otherwise, quite similar. - In essence, choose what you like: Fat man wearing loincloth or cute hairy dog.

Would not be complete if I don't post the before pics: Master toilet Common toilet Kitchen Cabinet

Went to our house tonight. No one's there . Took a few pictures: Master toilet. No lighting.. Common toilet Casement window. Kudos to Donny, he managed to install back the grille for us! One contractor we talked to said we couldn't keep the grille so we didn't expect it to be there, pleasant surprise. Kitchen space. Look at the gas pipe leading to the service balcony (right side). As we did the gas/water/elect transfer from the previous owner, our gas was not turned off. We had to call the powergas guys down to turn off the gas + removal of the unused gas heater. They couldn't remove the gas pipe that time as it was concealed behind the cabinet. It costs us > $50 (gas turned off + heater removal) for the first time. We would be calling them down again to attach pipe to stove + turn on gas, that's another > $50.. if we want to shorten the pipe, since we are not going to use the gas heater, we would need to pay another time of $50! zzzz...

Thanks ! I talked to my ID and he said that they worked until pretty late last night and there were no spaces left in the lorry (due to transporting of hacked materials), so they had to sleep there. He assured me that it will not happened again. Tiling starts next week, will check by at night again.

so the old piece gone?

I popped by our house at night and realised that there were workers sleeping there.. Is this an usual practice?

Hacking began... Casement window My wife visited the house in the afternoon and realised that the floor protection did not extend fully into the living room. She immediately called Donny, though there were some delay, it was eventually laid.

Our house is a humble 4rm resale flat, 101sqm and 10 years into the making. Floorplan: The previous owner changed the living room into an L-shaped design, exposing the window which allows for wind to pass thru our house. We thought this is a great idea and would retain this feature (besides, changing it back costs money..) To meet our budget, we finally decided to do the following items: - Hack and change tiles in both toilets - Carpentry: Kitchen cabinet and master toilet vanity table - Piping - Service balcony casement window - Painting Other things - Electrical works We bought our accessories @ Adamas (Jalan Besar) Other considerations: - Poh Seng: Service and price ok - Royal Fanco: Service and price ok - Asia Excel: More expensive.. - Poh Joo: Service not that good ... - Hoe Kee (Jalan Besar): Lousy service... The reno work started: 16 June 2011

thanks!!

Where's Genova?

Not yet, just shortlisted them

Will post more information soon!

Been looking around, Hoe Kee @ Jalan Besar sucks.. bad service! We have to write down the things we are going to buy, wtf? So far these places seem quite decent: - PJ (Poh Joo?) - Adamas - Royal Fanco