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Which brand did you friend mention? Maier or Soundtech?

Had recently gotten our house renovated and I must say it was a very bad experience. Attitude (after signing the contract) was a complete difference as compared to when we were scouting around for a designer house at Expo; arrogant/"sialan" attitude, lies and many other stuff which will take a long time to describe in detail. To start off, before we signed the contract, I actually verbally asked the brand of laminate flooring which will be provided as part of the renovation package and her answer was a quick and direct one word "Pergo". Had wanted to make sure that was stated in the contract but somehow slipped my mind after that. When we came to the part whereby we had to choose the laminate design, I was passed an "ACE" sample booklet. I later asked her how come I was not given Pergo samples and she said that those samples had all been taken by other customers (yet to be returned), and that ACE is actually part of the Pergo family. She said that if I wanted to wait for the Pergo samples we may not be able to complete the renovation in time. I did some research and even called up the supplier of ACE in Singapore and got a confirmed answer that ACE is totally not related to Pergo at all and that ACE is actually OEM from China. I told KerNi this and instead of admitting her lie, she even challenged me "that is what ACE tells us; are you trying to say that the salesperson from ACE is lying?" Come on, who does she think she is trying to kid? And I think this is very serious; she could well be sued by the supplier of ACE and Pergo for saying something like that. Not willing to give in, we actually visited Floorrich and chose our desired laminates. A few days later, KerNi said that she has told us many times that we are only entitled to the Pergo family range of flooring (and mind you, we did choose the real Pergo Family range), not the actual Pergo brand. According to her, this includes ACE and other brands which Floorrich is carrying (the Floorrich salesperson dismissed this as nonsense). Her lie was getting increasingly blatant. We were told that we had to top-up if we insist on using the ones we had chosen. We decided not to argue with her at that point of time because time was really running out. You see the way she tried to work around my insistence? Fast-forward to renovation completion and we had to top-up $1200! Even the Floorrich salesperson agreed that this was way too much. I couldn't stand it any longer and managed to get the contact number of i-Brige's boss Alwin Ho and complained many stuff to him. He decided to give us a $400 discount which I wasn't really pleased with actually. More bad experiences to be continued...

Hi, I am selling 16 x OSRAM DULUX D 13W/840 PLC (cool white - in between daylight and warm white). These are not new but have been used for less than a month (in fact the majority are seldom used because normally we turn on 2 downlights out of the total 8) and have since changed to using daylight bulbs only 2 weeks after we moved into new house because my parents do not like the colour tone of cool white. Contact 97666808.

Hi, I saw Home-Fix selling 2 rather affordable brands of pest repellers, Maier and Soundtech. Has anyone used either of these brands before? Will like to get some feedback on the effectiveness of such devices in keeping lizards and cockroaches out of the house. Thanks.

Hi, I have a bedroom door whose top is obstructed by a wall ledge and hence am not able to use the standard door magnet stopper. I have tried to search in many places for an extendable or longer-than-usual door magnet stopper with no success. Does anyone know of places where this can be found?

Brand-new Coby DVD765 5.1 system for sale at SGD80. Contact 97666808 for enquiry. Product details: http://www.cobyusa.com/?p=prod&prod_num_id=344&pcat_id=1008

Yes, the guys automatically created another outlet with the usual white squarish cover outside the shower screen and the piping is buried under the tiles. I am not sure of the exact dimensions but of course they would have laid the piping such that they flow in a gradient towards the original outlet. I think the most contractors should know what to do if you ask them about this.

Anyone knows of second-hand furniture buyers?

Someone told me that taps mounted on table-tops (acrylic/polyester) may become loose after some time compared to basin-mounted taps. Does anyone have good information to share regarding this?

Hi adidaem, may I know where you did your white-coloured foldable balcony doors with no bottom track? How much does it cost?

Thanks all for the information.

I assume the routed piping will be covered below the floor tiles? Don't mind me asking, is this approved by HDB?

Hi, we are going to start our HDB renoation soon and are planning to get a glass shower screen to partition out the shower area. However, as you know, the older HDB toilets have only 1 water outlet, which means only the shower area will have the hole for water to flow out. Has anyone out there managed to get around this so that there are 2 outlets, one within the shower area and the other outside the shower area?

Thanks for the suggestion.

Is there any issue getting a contractor which is not in the list of HDB approved contractors?