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Hi everyone, Just wanted to find out what is a normal frequency for IDs/Contractors to visit the site (your new house) during renovations. I know it varies, so just wanted to find out what's the norm. Thanks for joining the poll and hope this sheds some light for many others as well!

KITCHEN UPDATE Wall tiles are almost done in the Dry Kitchen. Left this side of the wall to be tiled. The finished effect at the back is looking good! Can't wait to see the whole kitchen with the floor tiles!! Wet Kitchen is also looking good. The two "arghly" pipes there will be boxed up. NEW WALLS UPDATE The last of the new walls to be up. This wall divides the living room and the newly created store room (behind this wall). Another view of the new wall. This will be the new store room area. WOODWORK 3 of the 4 door frames are up! Love the smell of fresh wood! The wall above my door frame is also up! Meeting the ID tomorrow for updates and to clarify a few matters. Hope the electrician will be there tomorrow too!

Yeah... I'm waiting in eager anticipation too. Hopefully things can move fast fast fast!!

I thought it cost more than the iPhone 4 when it was first launched. M1 has announced their price plans. Wonder if Singtel has done the same..

NEW WALLS UPDATE After getting the whole lot of hollow blocks, my new wardrobe wall and the wall dividing my room and bro's is finally all up! Can't wait to see the plastered effect! My parents' bedroom door was relocated slightly to the left so a new wall had to be erected. So voila! The common toilet (aka my toilet) door also had to shift more to the middle. So the new walls are also up! Now they can continue to do the tiling works in my toilet! MORE TILING DONE Floor tiles done in my bro's toilet. There's still the windows, shower kerb (the long gap in the middle of the floor) and a little bit of the tiling around the window area to be done. Wall tiling in kitchen area continues. By tomorrow, I'm hoping all the wall tiles in the kitchen can be up! More updates tomorrow as we enter another week of renovations!

Haha.. You should tell them.. Good ventilation! You can put an exhaust fan in the toilet. Disperses smell away quickly.. *pinches nose*

Oh yeah.... I didn't realise Panasonic doesn't have system 4. Sigh, we really couldn't decide which brand to buy. Seems like there is an equal number of people using both the Panasonic and Mitsubishi aircons. Hope we both made the right choice! Yeah... they're really expensive.... Hope the effect will be worth it after they are all up! Btw, I noticed your kitchen tiles and our wet kitchen tiles may be the same, if not similar. Grey is a very popular and safe choice You're getting a ceiling fan for your WIW? I'm sure it'll still be bigger than normal even after the changes. Cheer up!

SHOPPING BASKET The weekend is here again. Some of the electrical applicances we have bought so far. Panasonic multi-door fridge. It was a toss up between this and the Hitachi model. The vacuum compartment in the Hitachi model, as attractive as it was, could not convince my mum to top up the difference just for that compartment. Almost bought the Bosch model. The price tag was really an eye-opener! Settled for an Elba instead. Ditto for the dryer. Wanted to get the Bosch one too. Though this ain't made in Germany but England close enough? Got the Panasonic single unit for my parents' room. As with the previous items, the aircon saw competition between the Mitsubishi and Panasonic. After hearing reviews from the aircon guy, we decided to skip our initial choice of Mitsubishi to get the Panasonic ones instead. Hope we made the right choice! This multi-split system 3 Panasonic will be for our 3 other rooms since the rooms are all huddled in one corner together. Will post more pics of our purchases as we go along. More updates on the house to come!

KITCHEN UPDATE The kitchen is always an exciting update since so many changes happen here and it's really our focal point for this renovation. Huge wall at Dry Kitchen is tiled up! Looking good! Really love these HUGE (45 x 90) slabs! New wall to house the washing machine and dryer is also up! It looks quite cosy there, waiting for the fridge and cabinets to join him! This wall will also be tiled. Wet Kitchen all holed and waiting for tiling on this side of the wall and around the rubbish chute area. Rest of the walls will see cabinets with glass backing so no tiling needed on the 2 main walls The kitchen area as viewed from the dining area. The mess of wires sure looks scary eh? Electrician coming next week so hope he sorts them out soon! Can't imagine walking into this ball of wires. Going shopping for sinks, basins, bowls and more tomorrow. Hope to post our purchases!

CEMENT WORKS Day 8 of renovation works and this is the progress so far. Still hoping it goes a teeny weeny bit faster, but guess I can't complain since it is moving.. albeit not as fast as i'd hoped Foam boards delivered. All 12 of them. Using them to make up for the drop in the balcony. Balcony area levelled with foam board and wire net (as seen on right). The part of the balcony at the back will be levelled later on when this part is dry since their only water source is in that area at the back. My parents' new wardrobe wall cement screeded, as seen from the inside. Their wet toilet is already tiled up and waterproofing layer just went on today. Their dry toilet's wall has been holed, waiting for cement screed then tiling. Ditto with bro's toilet. All tiled up with waterproofing layer laid today. My toilet at common area still not done cos they need to build the new wall where the old toilet door used to be first.

Hey sleek, yeah I realise our reno about same time too. Still can't wait to see your huge WIW up! I sure hope I don't have to resort to that... Cant imagine sleeping at the bus stop... Bleah... You're disgusting...

28 October. Exactly 1 more week!

EXTRANEOUS WARNING : For those who don't like to have anything to do with rubbish chutes, please avoid this post. For those of you who are like me and always wondered what the inside of the rubbish chute looks like, enjoy the following pictures! Okay, so the story goes that the tiler uncle had to remove the rubbish chute to do tiling around the area. After he was done, holding my trusty and hardy camera, I decided to do some sleuthing at where else, but the rubbish chute shaft to satisfy my curiosity on what our average rubbish chute looks like. Seeing how 4 units on the same stack (using the same shaft) are unoccupied, it seemed like the best time since it wasn't going to be so smelly when I poked around. Mind you, my head didn't go in, just my hand with my camera slung snugly round my wrist. So here goes... This is what the rubbish chute looks like from the inside of the shaft. (Courtesy of my untouched rubbish chute on the opposite side) It seems a looooong way up to the top since it looks pretty dark. You can still see the different chutes peeking out from regular intervals, though not very clear. I found this photo most intriguing simply because the bin looks quite small. The chutes must be quite cleverly designed to have the rubbish "aim" nicely into what seems like a rather puny bin. Okay, just thought I'd share something that I've always wondered and since I won't wait by the bottom of the shaft to ask the refuse uncle to let me poke my head in to look up (nor do I think I can tahan the stench ), this is the best way to find out!

OTHER UPDATES Cement screed went up on a few places today. One side of the study wall is done. Hope they can do the other side tomorrow so we can start plastering! Even-ing out the floor to prepare for the foam boards at the entrance foyer. (Don't think they'll be doing the floor so soon since they need to finish building up the new walls and putting up the wall tiles. A different view of my new wardrobe wall and the wall between my bro's room and my room. Mum's concerned the new wall is too near the dining windows. Hope when the curtains are up there, it will be much nicer! (Walls not completed cos they ran out of hollow blocks! All 400 of them! Had to order another 170. ) Door frames delivered today! I love the smell of freshly saw-ed wood. Really hope we pick up the pace tomorrow. 4 more weeks to completion!

TILING Tiling started in the kitchen today. Just when I said the pace was going well, today we had half the number of uncles on-site. Hope tomorrow we will pick up same pace as the past week! Tiling at the Dry Kitchen area. The hole there is where the rubbish chute is. The other chute on the opposite end will be covered with plywood since we aren't allowed to use it. Can you see where the strings are? There will be a new L-shaped wall erected here to shield the wet kitchen from the toilet door. Close-up view of the tiles. These are the most expensive tiles of the lot! Well, better on the wall (at eye level) than picking nice tiles for floor where we will be stepping. Ha! But I do love the bedroom floor tiles too. Oops! Tiling is completed on the right side of the Dry Kitchen wall. Yup! That's the only part that's tiled on this side of our dry kitchen cos we are having full-height cabinets here! It's rounded at the edge to avoid any sharp corner. Close-up view of the rounded edge. (Another excuse to show the kitchen wall tile ) Can you tell how much we love it? This is for the kitchen so far. They should be tiling the wet kitchen tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

Hey thanks eden! He needs to handover to me by end of November. Else I'll have to live on the streets Hopefully his pace continues... *nail biting!*

TILING BEGINS! The tilers managed to do quite a bit of tiling with all 3 toilets today. My brothers' toilet. Feature wall not in the centre because there is a sink on the right. Feature wall will house the shower system. Common toilet at kitchen. In case you're wondering why the opening is so big, it's cos the toilet door will be relocated, so they had to hack off some of the wall. My parents' toilet. The shower part is almost all tiled up. The pipes on the right are to hold the wall tiles above the door opening. Hope there'll be more progress tomorrow! Stay tuned!

No updates yesterday cos we were "locked out" of our new place. The combination lock malfunctioned. Tiler uncle had to saw the lock this morning in order to get in. This is the progress of works so far... MASONRY View of BR3 from BR4 before the debris was removed. Same view after wall dividing both rooms erected. My new wardrobe wall is also up (on the right). View of Study (Left) - Lines were in place to aid erection of new wardrobe wall for my parents. View of Study (Right) - New wall here to seal off the original kitchen entrance. View of Study - In less than a day, both walls were up! They had many people working on our unit at any one time. Hope this keeps up!

TILING PREPARATION While the workers were hacking, the tiler uncles came today and started preparing for their impending tasks at hand. The bathrooms can soon see tiles on them! (I hope..) Really hoping the works can continue this pace. Will be holding my breath till handover day!

HACKING CONTINUES... Open concept balcony, anyone? Grilles gone (Tiler uncle says so sayang cos he liked the grilles.. ) The wall holding the switchboard and the hanging switch also hacked! There used to be a puny wall here. Now hacked to make way for a big store room. Most of the hacking works are done (95%). Left one or two small sections of walls pending approval. Hope to get all those "knock knock" works out of the way before the end of the week.

HACKING CONTINUES... It's Day 4 of Renovations! And the hacking continues! First up, my room wall being hacked to extend out to dining. Hack hack hack! It's also a "now you see it..." "... now you don't" moment. Wall between mine and bro's room also hack hack hack! :good: (if only my room were that big... ) My parents' room wall also hacked to make space for new wardrobe space. Mum is all :D Open concept kitchen! With this wall gone, mum seems to complain less about her dry kitchen. It does make the kitchen look bigger and brighter! Wall and cabinet between dry/wet kitchen hacked. Wet kitchen seems that teeeeny weeeeeny bit bigger. See the hanging switch? That's where the old cabinet used to extend out to.

Thanks for that Lady R! Hope ours will last as long as yours and your mum's!

Thanks sleek! Will go check that out

Haha, I hope he delivers! Yah, thanks! Then he'll feel the stressss

Thanks for the tip renoseeker and yaolong. I'll check out the website and those SLS shops. Thanks!