purplesky 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2009 Hi Zapped, Wow, very nice 3D pics! Love the color theme. Yr progress seems ok n fast. Congrats, hope u have a smooth reno progess! Hope to see more actual pics soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zapped 0 Report post Posted September 30, 2009 ^thanks purplesky. I will be able to post some of the After-reno pics within this week Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zapped 0 Report post Posted October 2, 2009 (edited) I went to the house last night and was so, so, so disappointed at a lot of things. Bedroom sidetable laminate doesn't match the TV feature wall; what should be a frameless glass partition has a frame!@#!!; what should be glass tinted wardrobe doors are clear/transparent, etc. I don't have the heart to enumerate all the mistakes right now. All I can say is, don't engage with UNIMAX and my ID. You'd pay more for a design that you don't want Edited October 2, 2009 by zapped Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pinklady 0 Report post Posted October 2, 2009 I went to the house last night and was so, so, so disappointed at a lot of things. Bedroom sidetable laminate doesn't match the TV feature wall; what should be a frameless glass partition has a frame!@#!!; what should be glass tinted wardrobe doors are clear/transparent, etc. I don't have the heart to enumerate all the mistakes right now. All I can say is, don't engage with UNIMAX and my ID. You'd pay more for a design that you don't want so did u feedback to your ID rgd all these outstanding stuffs? what's the ans then? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zapped 0 Report post Posted October 2, 2009 I sent a long SMS to her this morning and got no reply. So I asked my husband to talk to her, ID said she can rectify the other stuff but she can't do anything about the sidetable and cozy corner partition. Hubby said they look fine so he doesn't want to pursue and argue, but I am still disappointed and unhappy about it. For the cozy corner, the original design was to have two sliding frameless glass doors at the side. During the reno, she told me that she has to put frames on the glass doors and put the tracks on the floor as the false ceiling won't be able to hold the heavy glass. The frame is needed to support the glass as the supporting mechanism will be from the bottom, not on top. She insisted that having framed glass doors would look just as good. I told her that she should have done the partition first and installed the frameless glass doors before installing the false ceiling. The support would come from the real ceiling, not false ceiling. I really wanted the design that we had agreed on. But she said that if she removes part of the partition and do the timber installation, it would delay the reno for a few days, which is something that I do not want as I plan to move in by this week. In other words, she doesn't want to do extra work to rectify her mistake when in the first place it was her idea to put frameless sliding glass doors on one side of the room. In the end I told her to just install frameless glass partition without doors since there is already an entrance on the side and we don't want the tracks to be seen from the bottom and ruin the floor. She agreed, but she didn't tell me that there would still be a thick frame holding the whole glass. So now I have to live with a room that looks like a picture frame when viewed from outside. I don't mind having a thick frame on top and at the sides of the glass, but not at the bottom. I'll post pics tomorrow and let you guys see if it really looks bad. I may be overexaggerating, but to me it really looks like a picture frame Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yhanie_17 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2009 I sent a long SMS to her this morning and got no reply. So I asked my husband to talk to her, ID said she can rectify the other stuff but she can't do anything about the sidetable and cozy corner partition. Hubby said they look fine so he doesn't want to pursue and argue, but I am still disappointed and unhappy about it. For the cozy corner, the original design was to have two sliding frameless glass doors at the side. During the reno, she told me that she has to put frames on the glass doors and put the tracks on the floor as the false ceiling won't be able to hold the heavy glass. The frame is needed to support the glass as the supporting mechanism will be from the bottom, not on top. She insisted that having framed glass doors would look just as good. I told her that she should have done the partition first and installed the frameless glass doors before installing the false ceiling. The support would come from the real ceiling, not false ceiling. I really wanted the design that we had agreed on. But she said that if she removes part of the partition and do the timber installation, it would delay the reno for a few days, which is something that I do not want as I plan to move in by this week. In other words, she doesn't want to do extra work to rectify her mistake when in the first place it was her idea to put frameless sliding glass doors on one side of the room. In the end I told her to just install frameless glass partition without doors since there is already an entrance on the side and we don't want the tracks to be seen from the bottom and ruin the floor. She agreed, but she didn't tell me that there would still be a thick frame holding the whole glass. So now I have to live with a room that looks like a picture frame when viewed from outside. I don't mind having a thick frame on top and at the sides of the glass, but not at the bottom. I'll post pics tomorrow and let you guys see if it really looks bad. I may be overexaggerating, but to me it really looks like a picture frame Sad to hear these issues... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zapped 0 Report post Posted November 10, 2009 (edited) anybody here? guess no one is interested on my reno, haha. i'll post away anyway. sharing pics of my entrance, living room and dining area. will post the rest some other time living room, viewed from outside: the entrance, viewed from inside... did not put the pebbles because i have a very naughty 16-mo. old son changed the window grilles to glass: tv feature wall: stone slates were used Edited November 10, 2009 by zapped Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zapped 0 Report post Posted November 10, 2009 dining area: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lihsin 0 Report post Posted November 11, 2009 dining area: Hi Zapped, The final pics look nice. But I am curious to look at your 'photo frame' . Any pics to show? Oh, looking at all the pics you have posted, I think I know which block your flat is Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ossify 1 Report post Posted November 11, 2009 hi zapped, i would like to say something as i have a related experience. initially i wanted a "frameless full height glass door 4-panel sliding 5.2m long" I asked around for quotation, cheapest was about 2k but there's a catch, it has frames consolation is that it can be top-mounted, so no bottom tracks. the true reason is that it's too expensive to do frameless because you need good top mounting system. at first, i thought it can't be done since most ID/contractors I speak to say cannot do. In truth, it can be done, but it will increase your reno costs so they have effectively lower profit margin. That's why they don't do it. It's easier to just quote you 3k for a framed door and earn 1k then to quote you 7k for a frameless door to earn 1k. Path of least resistance after thinking about it really hard, i decided not to have it. save the 2k if i can't have what i want, why spend money on it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
