Advice On Id

[nosypoker 0]

Hi. Have anyone employed the use of ID for a 4 or 5 room HDB flat before? Can anybody tell me whether is it worth it to employ their service? From what I heard, they don't come cheap.

[wolflet 1]

Hi. Have anyone employed the use of ID for a 4 or 5 room HDB flat before? Can anybody tell me whether is it worth it to employ their service? From what I heard, they don't come cheap.

If you have the time, do self coordination. get contacts for hacking, tiling, painting, carpentry. then u coordinate and plan yourself when and who comes up to do what etc. needs to provide your own design and spend alot of time planning and very hands on since u have to liase between various personnel yourself

else, u can get ID/contractor. contractors usually come cheaper. some IDs are actually contractors in disguise. technically, these pple are supposed to provide you with design ideas and gives advice on what is more practical and what is not needed etc. IDs usually cost more than contractors since they are supposed to provide 3Ds for you to get a feel of what your place is gonna look like after the reno.

I used an ID for my renovation since we preferred to have someone provide us with design ideas. altho in the end, we gave our own input over the ideas provided by our ID making it more or less a personal design.

[manutd1972 1]

it is a common pre-conception that IDs will cost more than contractors.

i would like to tell everyone that this is not necessarily the case.

whatever ur layout, whatever ur ideas are, do give a couple of IDs the chance to show u what they can do, versus what the contractors are proposing. the mistake tt most pple make is that they don't give the IDs a budget to work with. hence, a lot of IDs start designing to the extent of over-designing and when home-owners are given the IDs' quotation, they get scared off due to the high cost.

pick a few IDs with several good reviews, give them ur floorplan, tell them in general what u wanna achieve, and give them a budget. it can be slightly lower than what ur real budget may be or ur actual budget. but trust me, wif the rite ID, u will be amazed at what they can achieve within ur budget, when compared to those contractor-cum-IDs.