Serangoon North Renovation By Defong Interior Design

[ayazumi 0]

Hi,

I am short listing Defong for my renovation.. Hows your experience with them?

If not convenient to say here, can pm me?

Thanks!

Hi Raymond. Thank you for dropping by our blog. I have pm-ed you.

[ayazumi 0]

Just when we got our Technogas stove serviced two weeks ago because of the faulty knob or inner part, I don't know which, the problem arised again. The faulty knob got stuck whenever I tried to turn on the gas to cook something, and it got so serious that I tried more than 5 times, the fire could not lit up. When the stove fire lit up, less than a minute the fire will automatically turn off itself. We totally gave up, called Technogas, and screw them up. Knowing that they will not change a new hob for us, and guess what? We accommodate the wrong item delivery by Hoe Kee, to accept the hob which comes with safety valve. We placed order for non-safety valve hob, but they deliver the wrong item to us. It was the Technogas service man who told us our hob comes with safety valve then we know Hoe Kee delivered the wrong item to us. Otherwise, who knows the hob is safety or non safety for the valves. The Technogas service man still yaya say we "tan tio", got an "expensive" hob. But guess what, the hob with or without safety valve costs the same price. Don't know whether Technogas really knows their product well or not. So we complained to Technogas to demand to change to non-safety valve hob because that was what we ordered in the first place. In the end, they have no choice but to change the hob base for us. They can't simply remove the safety valve from the existing hob we are using. I'm not sure if the valve is that easy to just put in and take out from the hob or not. That's the risk we are taking, to complain about the wrong delivery, to get a new replacement.

Today, Technogas showed up with a replacement base for the hob, to change our hob to a non-safety valve unit. I'm not sure if the base is a new set or not, it does not bother us because we can't see the inner parts anyway, but I see that the base is quite new, so we proceed to change. If anything goes wrong again, will call Technogas to make them inconvenient to come to our place and replace/service the hob again.

After changing the base, I can easily lit up the fire when turn the knob. It is so convenient to lit the fire than the safety valve hob. I don't have to keep retry and retry to lit the fire. It is so tiring and troublesome to cook a meal. Though the service man said non-safety valve is dangerous if there is kid around, but I don't care. I just want a hob that is easy to use and quickly cook food, not a hob which I need to spend 5 minutes to turn on the fire. I don't have such patience to wait, and previously one of the stove is really spoil, I can't lit the fire at all. Anyways, the service man who came to our house today was the same service man who came 2 weeks ago. First he said the stove no problem, new hob is like that, knob very difficult to turn as it is new, after some time will loosen up. Today he told me "I came to your house to service the hob before right? The stove knob got problem, now change new base, isn't it easier to lit the fire?" So... conclusion is, he knows that the knob is faulty, but told us different stories. So dishonest!

[ayazumi 0]

Problem starts to surface after moving in a month:

This was previously the MBR old door entrance, but was covered up with hollow bricks, cement, plastering. Hair crack lines starts to surface around this area, but part of the wall is covered by the built-in wardrobe, so I can't see if the hair line starts from inside the wardrobe, or just outside the wardrobe, but this line looks like started from the wardrobe, so I think there are more hair crack lines inside the wardrobe.

How do I resolve this? Can painting the wall resolve this issue?

[taichipanda 3]

The new wall will crack after a month or 2, happened to mine too, my designer friend told me so too, he left some silicon behind for me to patch up the crack and repaint with left over paint.

Edited June 1, 2012 by taichipanda

[May_dream1 14]

This was previously the MBR old door entrance, but was covered up with hollow bricks, cement, plastering. Hair crack lines starts to surface around this area, but part of the wall is covered by the built-in wardrobe, so I can't see if the hair line starts from inside the wardrobe, or just outside the wardrobe, but this line looks like started from the wardrobe, so I think there are more hair crack lines inside the wardrobe.

How do I resolve this? Can painting the wall resolve this issue?

hollow bricks will have this problem. its normal..... mine happened too but my wall is white colour so i just use the paint and fill in the gap with thick paint. But for your colour, if you repaint just that cracks, will be very obvious.

as taichipanda said, maybe fill with silicon then repaint the whole wall, not just the crack part.

[ayazumi 0]

The new wall will crack after a month or 2, happened to mine too, my designer friend told me so too, he left some silicon behind for me to patch up the crack and repaint with left over paint.

hollow bricks will have this problem. its normal..... mine happened too but my wall is white colour so i just use the paint and fill in the gap with thick paint. But for your colour, if you repaint just that cracks, will be very obvious.

as taichipanda said, maybe fill with silicon then repaint the whole wall, not just the crack part.

Oh I see. Use silicon to patch the crack not easy leh... Do I have to aim very carefully into the gap line to fill up the gap? We share the same thoughts too, thinking that maybe the new wall has caused the cracking problem. The other walls are okay, only except this new patched up wall. The paint color for that room has used finished, the painters did not leave any remaining paint for us. Not sure if this color was pre-mixed by the painter, if we buy from off shelf, we may not achieve the same color. Then like what May said, we may need to repaint the whole wall if the color is different from the existing wall color.

[May_dream1 14]

Oh I see. Use silicon to patch the crack not easy leh... Do I have to aim very carefully into the gap line to fill up the gap? We share the same thoughts too, thinking that maybe the new wall has caused the cracking problem. The other walls are okay, only except this new patched up wall. The paint color for that room has used finished, the painters did not leave any remaining paint for us. Not sure if this color was pre-mixed by the painter, if we buy from off shelf, we may not achieve the same color. Then like what May said, we may need to repaint the whole wall if the color is different from the existing wall color.

your contractor didn't tell you this will happen? its very very common for all hollow blocks new wall will have this problem. so, must spare some paint for patching.

[ayazumi 0]

your contractor didn't tell you this will happen? its very very common for all hollow blocks new wall will have this problem. so, must spare some paint for patching.

He never tell us anything about this. No paint was spared. They left us empty can tin in our store room. When we wanted to patch something, we then found that the paint tin was empty.

Edited June 1, 2012 by ayazumi

[May_dream1 14]

He never tell us anything about this. No paint was spared. They left us empty can tin in our store room. When we wanted to patch something, we then found that the paint tin was empty.

*pat pat* dont be upset lah... go buy a new small can loh.... then try to DIY it yourself. or else you ask him to come back and repaint for you.

[ayazumi 0]

*pat pat* dont be upset lah... go buy a new small can loh.... then try to DIY it yourself. or else you ask him to come back and repaint for you.

(sulking) I am waiting for Aki to take the initative to paint the wall

[May_dream1 14]

(sulking) I am waiting for Aki to take the initative to paint the wall

Aki is good in his DIY skill. sure will repaint nicely for you....

[ayazumi 0]

Aki is good in his DIY skill. sure will repaint nicely for you....

Let's hope he don't glue to his seat, sitting in front of his PC and play D3.

[Hoo8899 0]

I haven't seen any crack line in my kitchen. Must give some time for the plastering to dry up completely before painting, my kitchen was painted 2 weeks after plaster, pray no cracking otherwise can siao liao

[ayazumi 0]

I am good at picking mistakes, and today I found a problem in the toilet. The hook hanger "leaks" water itself! Actually, the water comes from outside the house?! Yesterday it was raining heavily, the water sipped in from the hook hanger?! My clothes hanging on the hook hanger were wet. I suspected something was not right ever since we moved in. For the past one month, it has been raining heavily, and couple of times my clothes hanging on the hook hanger were wet all the time. Initially I thought the rain came in from the toilet window that caused my clothes to wet, so I ignored the problem, the most I just close my window, don't open it.

This morning after the rain, I already knew my clothes would be wet, but the toilet window was closed, so I should not expect my clothes to be wet this time. Unfortunately, I still found the clothes wet, and this time, I saw water sipping in from the hook hanger. Did the plumber drill too deep into the wall when installing the hook hanger, and cause the wall to damage? We don't know yet. This is based on our assumption (for now). Aki will unscrew the hook hanger and see what is the problem tonight. We will use silicon to patch any hole found first. If it is a very serious hole damage or the water sipping issue persist, we will then contact our contractor to come and rectify.

[ayazumi 0]

I haven't seen any crack line in my kitchen. Must give some time for the plastering to dry up completely before painting, my kitchen was painted 2 weeks after plaster, pray no cracking otherwise can siao liao

So far the other walls which are newly plastered in our house do not surface hair line cracks (touch wood). Only the concealed wall has hair line cracks. Like what May and taichipanda said, hollow brick walls cause hair line cracks. Hopefully repainting the wall can patch up the crack line.