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Update as of today... Renovation items completed so far and my ratings: - Speed and Responsiveness of ID (9.5/10). Now that we are at the handover stage of the Renovaton, the responsiveness of my My ID is still amazing. He gets any issues and defacts retified quickly. Double thumbs up - General Worksmanship so far (7/10). No major issues so far. Any defacts are retified in a timely manner. - Painting (7.5/10). Doing the final touch up now. Okay so far. - Bathroom Curb and Shower Screen (7.5/10). Issue with shaky Shower Screen is retified by the additional support bar. Support bar looks good. - False Ceiling in Master Bedroom (7.5/10). The downlights are now in the correct places and the incorrect-ly cut hole has been patched nicely. - Carpentary work for Kitchen Cabinet (8/10) Had a few shaky drawers and requested for ID to install additional sliding brackets to stablish it. My wife loves the Quartz table top. - Carpentary work for TV Console / Full height cabinet (8/10) TV Console and cabinet are delivered to spec. Need some minor adjustments to the brackets for the sliding drawers. Looks good so far. - Installation of addition items e.g. Bathroom accessories, Cabinets, Roller Blinds, T5 Lights etc (8.5/10) ID got his contractors to help us install the misc stuffs which we bought on our own. All items installed to our specs. Time to buy our electronics stuffs

Bad Experience @ Friends Lightings (Yishun) Me and my wife recently paid a visit to Friends Lighting @ Blk 106 Yishun Ring Rd with recommendatons from our ID. The store appears to be a family owned store and the staffs appears laid back and seem reluctant to serve us. We were eventually served by a middle age male guy who appears to be the owner. We told the Owner that we are looking for downlights and he went ahead and "recommended" us a downlight model which doesn't meet our requirement at all. We tried to explain our requirements to the owner but he doesn't seems interested in listening to our requirements. When we asked to see some alternate models, the owner told us that downlights are "all the same" and insisted the model that he recommended will meet our requirement. Next came the ceiling fan. As you know, the Ceiling of new BTO flats are relative low and we felt that the Ceiling fan recommended by the store owner was "hanging too low" and asked if there's any model with a shorter base. Once again, the owner told us that Ceiling Fans are "all the same" and the base height is standard. Me and my wife were seriously pissed off by the owner and walked out of the store. Good Experience @ Sembawang Lighting After the terrible experience with Friends Lighting, we decided to make our way to Sembawang Lighting @ 602 Sembawang Rd based on recommendation from this Forum. The store was packed with customer and we had to wait for around 10 mins for the next available Store assistant. The petite chinese lady (with pony tail) that served us wasn't pushy and took the time to understand our requirements before making recommendations. We eventualy bought a Ceiling Fan (with a short base) and decided to buy our downlight elsewhere as the store does not carry Philips LED Downlight. Overall good experience with the store.

We enaged Absolook to renovate our new 4 Room BTO in October 2014 and the ID assigned to our case is Richie How. Our assigned ID has been very responsive to our questions and requests and he has been trying hard to meet our tight renovation schedule and get everything done in 2 months. We do need to remind him occassionally on the smaller matters but that's really not an issue as its human tendency to forget small things Renovation items completed so far and my ratings: - Speed and Responsiveness of ID (9/10). My ID is amazing - General Worksmanship so far (7/10). Look good / okay in general and we do not have very high expectations as we are not using any expensive materials for our renovation. No heart attacks from them so far - Fridge and Cabinet Base (8/10). Tiles are nicely aligned to the existing HDB Tiles. - Painting (7/10). Some touch up required at when the carpentary work is completed. Should be a 8/10 once its completed - Bathroom Curb and Shower Screen (6/10). The Shower Screen seems a bit shaking and ID will be geting his contractor to install an additional support bar on top of the shower screen to stablize it. - False Ceiling in Master Bedroom (4/10). Found out today that the cut holes in the false ceiling (for downlights) is too close to the built-in wardrobe. Waiting for them to rectify the issue. - Carpentary work for Kitchen Cabinet and Built-in Wardrobe (still work in progress)