Renovation Of Our Home At Casa Clementi - Long And Stressful

[chan121 0]

Hi Oqs,

Sorry to hear about that, do u mind to PM the contractor's name, company name & contact pls? i also on the way choosing the contractor, thanks a lot.

[juxstapose 2]

Great to hear you're able to move on now!

Cam pm me the contractor too? Actually why not put it in your signature on this t blog? That way more people will be warned

[Sappyd 8]

Hi there.. Sori to hear abt ur plight.. Can u pm the contractor?

Thanks..

[noie 0]

Hi oqs, can PM me the name and company of the lousy contractor u engage?

Thanks in advance

[se22 0]

Hi all,

Have been reading the posts here for a long time. Would like to sincerely congrats all of you who went through the renovation journey smoothly. To all those who had some hiccups here and there, I feel you.

We are first-time flat owners and got our flat in April and started our renovation in June. We were told that by September, or latest October, the flat will be ready to be handed over to us. But as the usual story goes, our renovation has not been completed as of today, or tomorrow or probably December.

Progress was rather slow in the beginning, we were okay with it because we were not in a hurry to move in. All we wanted at the end of the day is to get good worksmanship and a comfortable place to stay in. Electricals, tiling and plumbing was done and we paid 60% of the cost. The problem came after the carpentry came in and we did a check on the worksmanship. It was terrible. There were defects everywhere. We insisted that the defects be corrected before works continue. They were rectified and we paid for the 3rd 30% payment, which means the renovation cost is 90% paid for.

As works continued, we noticed more defects on the painting and carpentry that were unacceptable. We requested them to be rectified too. The contractor agreed and set a date (10 Nov) for the touch ups to be done. However, the day before the touch up, we received a e-mail that says that the touch up will be postponed, without any reasons given. We immediately called the contractor to ask for the reason and to arrange another date, but he did not pick up the phone. We tried calling many times the days after, but he did not pick up anymore. That was until we called him using an unknown number, he finally picked up. His attitude was very bad and rude, and he said he will not be doing anything to our house anymore.

Although we kind of expected that to happen with the many unanswered phone calls, we were still shocked at how he can suddenly change his mind and decided not to do it at the last minute. So we are now stranded, with an unfinished house that we can't move into yet, and all this after more than 5 months of waiting and paying 90% of the renovation cost, and suffering a lot of stress dealing with all this.

We will really like to tell the world to beware of this contractor, but we still hope to be able to resolve this amicably with the contractor. So if you are interested to know in case you are choosing your contractors currently, pls PM me.

We are thinking of going to CASE as a first step. If anybody has any advice to help us deal with this, please let us know too. We will be most grateful. Thanks.

[se22 0]

can pm contractor name tks