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We specifically told Henry that we want the new wall to flush with the top beam on the living area side to hide it. Same for the new door frame for the shift out. I saw his workers using a string / line to do the cementing. And the new wall really flush with the beam. So glad that his workers kept his instructions to heart.

Infact, if i didnt remember wrong, the wall also flush with the new door frame on both sides. Still got plastering to go later, hopefully the plastering is good also.

The new bedrm wall which flushes with the beam:

The new door frame:

Hee.. the drawings on wall was drawn by Henry to illustrate how that area will look like during our discussion. He's quite good at drawing on the spot.

[forkie 0]

You reno is progressing well !

Keep the pictures coming ya ?

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I like your tiles.. Simple and classy.. I have similar tiles as your common bathroom, but in brown..

Thanks booy. Both your bathrms look .

Mine will be very simple without rain shower, vanity top and cabinet. Hee.. hopefully they turn out ok.

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You reno is progressing well !

Keep the pictures coming ya ?

Thanks forkie. I'll post more tomorrow. Getting late, feel like already.. so cant wait for the pic to load slowly.

How's your reno? HO already?

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Hee.. The team have also done up some tiling on the kitchen walls.

Here's the pictures:

The newly installed rubbish chute! Hee.. mine is with blue sticker, not very unique like those pink/purple ones. Anyway, hb said its just a protective sheet which will be tear off after reno. Hee..

The kitchen cabinet area:

The fridge area where the wall behind is already cemented. Hb said that wall already tiled when he went today, but he didn't bring the camera with him.

The shifted entrance of the common bathrm. Hee.. really glad to have make the shift. The bathrm felt less longish and bigger area for bathing.

[beany0811 1]

u seem to be building up lots of walls... will ur eventual layout be drastically diff fm the original?

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u seem to be building up lots of walls... will ur eventual layout be drastically diff fm the original?

Hihi beany0811,

Erm.. I guess it will still look alike, except that it will look smaller with those new walls.

[beany0811 1]

its always very nice to see others' houses get built up, and how the transformations r... tt's why all of us r always on the lookout for updates to everyone's blogs.

am sure ur place will turn out very nice

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its always very nice to see others' houses get built up, and how the transformations r... tt's why all of us r always on the lookout for updates to everyone's blogs.

am sure ur place will turn out very nice

Thanks beany0811.

We really hope ours will turn out ok since we're not going to have those nice classy vanity tops with cabinet, hanging lights, false/cove ceiling, concealed pipes, rainshower, etc.... just simple simple only. hee.. our motto is easy maintenance and ease of future repairs.

[newnyew 1]

hi rasp

just realised we got the same instant heater but mine is black.

had i not deleted all my previous posts, u might have gotten it cheaper.

i bought it at the Eunos Warehouse for $215. but cheaper abit nia so its ok la.

didnt get to see the actual white one but i think its very nice also!

esp the LED screen

n we got the same wc as well!

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Hee.. The team have also done up some tiling on the kitchen walls.

Here's the pictures:

The newly installed rubbish chute! Hee.. mine is with blue sticker, not very unique like those pink/purple ones. Anyway, hb said its just a protective sheet which will be tear off after reno. Hee..

The kitchen cabinet area:

The fridge area where the wall behind is already cemented. Hb said that wall already tiled when he went today, but he didn't bring the camera with him.

The shifted entrance of the common bathrm. Hee.. really glad to have make the shift. The bathrm felt less longish and bigger area for bathing.

The

I like ya kitchen wall tiles.. simple but very nice. Must update more pics daily yeah

eh..the door frame..u made the entrance smaller?

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hi rasp

just realised we got the same instant heater but mine is black.

had i not deleted all my previous posts, u might have gotten it cheaper.

i bought it at the Eunos Warehouse for $215. but cheaper abit nia so its ok la.

didnt get to see the actual white one but i think its very nice also!

esp the LED screen

n we got the same wc as well!

wow.. $215 is really a very good deal. Hee.. how's the instant heater? Good to use?

We bought the silver one. The owner opened up the black one for us to see. Very cool looking with the gloss reflective look. Didnt went for it as we are having white walls.

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I like ya kitchen wall tiles.. simple but very nice. Must update more pics daily yeah

eh..the door frame..u made the entrance smaller?

Thanks P3nguins. We love the kitchen wall tiles too.

Entrance? Do you mean the common bathrm entrance? We didnt make it smaller. We shifted the entrance from right at the end to open in the middle of it. Below is the pic of the entrance before reno.

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Updates:

Hee.. we finally completed our last part of hacking this week. hee.. all due to our last min change of mind, Henry got to re-apply for the hacking permit last week. The 3 official hacking dates from HDB was Wed-Fri. But heard from hb that the 2 walls, door frames and floor are all hacked and cleared off by Thurs afternoon.

We are so glad that we made this last min decision to remove the wall when we went to the site. It really brighten the whole place up.

Here's the pics:

The wall is finally gone. Before the removal of the wall, the area infront of this wall is actually quite dark. Now, the area look so bright and cheerful, even the room look much more spacious without the wall blocking.

The short wall of the previous door frame was also removed.

According to Hb, Ah hui helped to cut out the floor area for hacking before they start to hack off those marble tiles. Can see that he took alot of care when cutting as the lines are very straight.

The new marble tiles are layed beside the hacked area before the tiling starts. We guess the tiler is trying to match their look and check the placement before tiling them as each marble tiles are unique with their lines. Hee.. can see that they really put their heart in when doing their work.

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Updates:

We went to look see look see and found that the flooring of the kitchen, and 2 bathrooms are almost all done up. But they still need to fill the grouting for them. Guess after the tiling is over, its our turn to be busy checking on the tiles workshipman.

We also met the plastering guy yesterday. He managed to remove most of the wire casing in the rooms and plastered one of the new wall. Hee.. guess the next stage will be plastering.

Early this week, Henry had also informed hb to arrange the aircon installation to be on 24th. But we didnt managed to get 24th from Gain City, as its fully booked so we settled on 25th. Hee.. til date, we are quite happy that things are moving quite smoothly.

Ok, pic's time~

I missed out this pic in the previous post. This is overall look after the last 2 walls are removed. The area really look more spacious, right? We found that even the wiw area also looked brighter.

Oh, the door on the left is our main door. It was dismantled on Friday after hb sms Henry on Thurs night. Very efficient... Reason for removing it was, our concerns for scratches at the entrance due to the constant opening and closing of the main door. And the cardboard at that area have been removed as the main door gap is being unable to take the cardboard thickness. So hb sms Henry that he can remove the door if it's causing issue on the marble protection.

Now that the door is gone, we also saw that the marble flooring at entrance is all covered up. Really appreciate their efforts. Hope that this can help to minimise the scratches.

This pic is taken by hb. Hee.. look kinda gross. This is the drainage pipe at the balcony. Henry feedbacked to us that his workers found that our bathrms water and waste drainage are 75% choked. So he recommended that we engaged a professional plumber to clear the choke so that we won't run into such issue later. We can either source ourselves or go for his contacts. We decided to use his.

Hb was around when the plumber came. According to hb, the plumber poured in those very strong concentration acid to those pipes and then use his hands to dig into the pipes. He took out a big chunk of black things as well as some old harden cement. He cleared quite a number of areas; mbr bathrm, common bathrm, kitchen and the balcony as well.

According to hb, the whole area was very very very smelly, which explained why he only took 1 pic.

These are my mbr bathroom wall tiles without the grouting. Just simple wall tiles for the whole wall area, nothing fanciful.