To The East We Go!

[shmj 0]

Wow that's fast! Can see a big area gain too!

Ya, considered quite fast as at any given time, they have at least 4-5 person working at our place.

I guessed it is 'cos the time frame that we gave is really very very short.

Just glad that the works are in good progress.

[shmj 0]

Contractor update said that they will start doing the support beams for 4th floor today.

They have already called our electrician/ plumber to standby to go in early next week to start the wiring, etc.

AC guy would be gg in next week as well...

[shmj 0]

Last week was a hectic weekend.

Sat, we went to the house to check the progress.

Then met up with the carpenter to select our laminates and to go thru' all the last minute changes.

After that, went & select our tiles and also went and select the color code for our sofa 'cos the guy forgot to put down the color code when we placed our order.

Then, we went and purchased 1 more heater 'cos plumber said the rooms are too far apart & its best to have 1 heater per toilet.

Come late evening, ah lao said he wanna go get a new mobile 'cos his went kaput on Friday... unfortunately, the one that he wanted was all sold out.

Anyways, here's some photos to share on our progress.

Cement done on 2nd floor

See that hole there? Will be knocking down the wall so that we can access our balcony.

Windows will be gone & we'll be installing folding doors

3rd flr extension cement also done

Framework for 4th flr staircase done

Someone complained that the contractors make too much noise on Saturday... so next time, I think Saturdays can't work liao unless no noise kinda jobs.

[Suyun 0]

Yes better not to do noisy work on Saturdays. You are going to move in later so having a cordial relationship will be good.

Good job on the house. Better not to move in before TOP. i heard from my friend that the the fine is $20,000.

[Pinkflowers 0]

shmj, i think your progress is really quick. hopefully the rest of works will be completed smoothly.

my contractor told me that for A&A, can move in even before TOP. :jawdrop: lucky for all the advice from the forumers here. If not i kena fine $20,000 for nothing.

[shmj 0]

shmj, i think your progress is really quick. hopefully the rest of works will be completed smoothly.

my contractor told me that for A&A, can move in even before TOP. :jawdrop: lucky for all the advice from the forumers here. If not i kena fine $20,000 for nothing.

Ya, I also hope that the rest of the works can be completed smoothly as well.

Contractor is trying to finished all the works that required approval ASAP so that we can move in once TOP is obtained.

As of today, it seemed to be possible albeit abit tight.

We also told the new owner of our place that we might delay in moving out just in case if the TOP approval comes in abit late.

They are okay as long as we continue to pay rental and move out by end Nov.

So now, I can only pray HARD HARD!

[rolex 0]

Knock... knock... Awaiting updates from u

Envy yr fast work progress, now mine still hacking stage... delayed from scheduled. I think I am always too soft with the contractors, accepting their crapped excuses. Work will always speed up after hubby make noise.

Edited October 24, 2012 by rolex

[ehspro 0]

Ya, I also hope that the rest of the works can be completed smoothly as well.

Contractor is trying to finished all the works that required approval ASAP so that we can move in once TOP is obtained.

As of today, it seemed to be possible albeit abit tight.

We also told the new owner of our place that we might delay in moving out just in case if the TOP approval comes in abit late.

They are okay as long as we continue to pay rental and move out by end Nov.

So now, I can only pray HARD HARD!

Nice!

[sherylstyle 0]

I bought the same WC for my common toilet and regretted it almost immediately. The WC looks nice when everything is down. But in actual usage, the seat cover will always be up, and hence blocking the flush button. Male users will have to reach very low to hit the flush button. Female users worse, have to be a contortionist to reach the button below and behind the cover, while remaining seated. If still can change, I will strongly advise you to.

Nice sofa, where u buy it?

[creative_vitamin 3]

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Edited June 11, 2014 by creative_vitamin

[royng73 0]

On 04/09/2012 at 4:19 PM, shmj said:

The list of the stuff that we want to do:

- Redo all 4 toilets (overlay of tiles, change toilet bowl & sinks/ bath tub/ shower heads)

- Polish current parquet floorings

- Painting of the house (inside & outside, scaffolding)

- Changing of all bedroom doors

- Changing of auto main gate

- Changing of front door

- Changing of sliding door on 1st floor

1st Floor:

- Take out all existing cabinets in the dry kitchen & redo a new one with island.

- Hack away wall and floor tiles in wet kitchen, redo with cement flooring

- Display cabinet/ TV feature wall

- Hack away the kitchen wall

2nd floor:

- Do a concrete flooring (2nd floor) to cover the Void area over the Living area, knock down a wall to extend out to the coverage over the car park to make it into a balcony.

- Take out existing cabinets and hack away 1 wall to combine 2 bedrooms into 1.

- Seal up 1 of the toilet door.

- Build Walk in wardrobe.

- Re-align bedroom door.

- Build display cabinet & Bar counter

3rd Floor:

- Do a concrete floor (3rd floor) to cover the Void area over the family area.

- Platform bed with drawers for sister in law room

- Platform bed with drawers and 2 study tables for my daughters

- Hack away all cabinets & rebuild new ones for both rooms

4th Floor:

- Build up one extra level with concrete staircase

- Addition of 1 small store room

- Addition of 1 bedroom

Hi Bro, I am doing the same thing as you mentioned, can I check with you a few thing if you can PM me?

[royng73 0]

On 04/09/2012 at 10:30 PM, shmj said:

Hi ehspro!

We are doing our "open house/ praying ceremony" on 19 Sep, then reno will start on following Monday liao.

Wet works contractor already firmed up, carpentry also firmed up already.

Now, we will be looking for electrical/ plumping works guys.

I'll email you my quote tmrw.

Can email me also?