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Hi, I would like to apply a new coat of clear epoxy on a cement screed floor that was done 9y ago. ~800sqft. No major issue. Tiny areas where it peeled off. Want to seal the cracks from liquid and avoid more peel off. Anyone did that before? (Flat currently occupied) Any recommendation from owners? Or quote from contractors? Thank you

I wanted vinyl flooring for my kitchen, living hall and bedrooms. My cement screed was done at a lower height, shortage abt 7mm - 10mm from my kitchen existing tiles. I was unable to have my vinyl levelled between kitchen and living hall. They have to put on an pvc cap between kitchen and living hall. Is there anyway to fix this? I was expecting the whole flooring to be of the same level.

The Introduction Time for me to share my renovation journey after much persuasion from my ID. Pardon me as this is going to be an abridged version, but feel free to post / PM if you need more details on any aspect. The Site Our family gotten a flat at Costa Ris in 2011 and finally received our keys earlier this year. We are kind of late due to administrative hiccups and by the time we received our keys, a good portion of our neighbours have already moved in. We thought this site is really quite good despite it being on the eastern edge of Singapore. It is rare to find a site that is walking distance from a main MRT line these days. The Floor Plan We opt for a 5-room flat as we intend to stay for the long haul, thus more space the better! We are happy with this layout as it gives us a long rectangular kitchen. The down side is the master bedroom is relatively small. From the onset we already have an idea to have an open kitchen concept by knocking down the wall highlighted in red. The Design Love wood, love simplicity and sleekness. These principles seem to be embedded into mainstream Scandinavian design and we'll go with that. Some pictures that we collected on our Pin board that make us say "Yea we want to live in a house like that!" The Interior Designers We met up with a few IDs in an attempt find the right one. I hate shopping for IDs as it gives me the same sick feeling when we are shopping for wedding studios, pre-sales promise you everything, post-sales give you everything else. As we do not have a clear cut idea of what we want to be done, we find ourselves comparing apple to oranges as different IDs have different ideas, which translates to different Bill of Materials and different cost. Meaningless. In the end we chose Nick that used to be from Renoguyz. He is different, he talks to you about fishes, flowers and bikinis. Deciding factor is that he is frank and not afraid to tell you what is nice and what is not. And now he have an assistant (Benny) so they remind me of Batman and Robin, which is always nice but I digress. The Plan As we did not opt for any of HDB add-ons, we pretty can choose anything we want which is nice. The bad part is that we have to choose from anything under the sun. Long story short, we settled on a plan to have the following key features: Kitchen Two row of cabinets and a breakfast bar topSubway tile backsplashGranite countertopCement Screed wallsHacking of HDB tilesLay with tiles of our choiceHacking of wall between kitchen and living roomBedroom Custom Wardrobes for all bedroomsStudy table and overhang shelves (aka the head cracker because I knock my head so many times on it) for bedroom 2Cement Screed floorClassic doors for all roomsToilets Full overlay of tiles for both toiletsVanity top for MBR toiletAluminum full louvre doors for both toiletsLiving Room Extension of Breakfast top to a dining table in the living room (Nick's proud invention)Feature wall: Brick overlay at TV areaFeature wall: Wooden Plank wallShoe Cabinet Others Electrical worksFlooring tiles + labourPainting, chemical wash and yada yadaThe indicative cost was about $47k but the final figure is being recalculated as there were adjustments along the way.

Hola fellow forumners, Thanks to helpful forumners with their Taobao links,amazon links and lobangs for shops based in SG. Also special thanks to Freb for his cement screed appeal . Save $$ must say thanks lo. To give back to the community from things i learn from fellow forumners ,young,old,lao chiao or sin chiao. lol After nearly 3.5years of waiting,finally got the keys to my home .Yes that long due to the fact the original main con went bust. Sad case.

Hi all, emergency. Am looking for someone (preferably freelancer and not contractors who don't answer calls and make you wait forever) to do my cement flooring. About 200+ sq ft, budget around $250 only. MUST start the work tomorrow, Wednesday 27 May 2015. NOT looking for those epoxy paints use roller brush kind... but the self levelling type with hardener that you pour and use squeegee to level it. I want more like those HDB carpark kind of effect where you can see the 'cement pattern' and it's matte (OMG the glossy ones look so fake!). Hope someone can kindly pass me their contacts... Thanks!

Just collected my keys for my BTO last week. Called up HDB to check whether they provide FREE Cement Screed but this program had been stop No choice but to start calling contractor to ask for quotation. 1st contractor quoted me $2400 for 3 bedroom 2nd contractor quoted me $1200 for 3 bedroom 3rd contractor quoted me $800 for 3 bedroom Why is there such a big differences from the above 3 quotations? Any reliable contractor to recommend me Thank in advance

Hi, Need some advice here.. I signed up with the ID to do Cement screed on my resale HDB. Now just before start work, the ID told me need extra charges for special effect... Firstly cement screed is cement screed... what special effect... is tehre ? Obviously, they trying to throw a stun... here... Anyone can advise ?