Carpentry Work For My Masterbed Room

[Artist123 0]

Cornice guy came in the late afternoon. Thought it was the same guy as the one who seal the window. But it was an older guy with a Bangladesh helper. The Bangladesh man kept disappearing and I was so worried where he was and what he was doing in my house so I kept checking other rooms and kitchen. The older kept yelling at him and they create such a mess that both my helper and myself spent 2 hours cleaning. The putty for patching is all over my wardrobe, even inside the wardrobe, all over the WIP TV console, all over the wall, the window and even my toilet wall and doors and along the hallway and the kitchen. I offered them drinks and I found the drink spilled all over my bench at the gate and the empty can on the road.

Without saying, you can't expect good workmanship from such people. Will definitely need some touch up. :-(

[Xuxy 0]

We found this simple yet elegant switches and dimmer for our bedside tables.

What do you think?

[Xuxy 0]

How much did you pay for the switches. I'm thinking of upgrading all the switches in my new home. Thanks

[Artist123 0]

How much did you pay for the switches. I'm thinking of upgrading all the switches in my new home. Thanks

The Dimmer cum switch is $37.00 and the single switch by itself is $6.50 from Kim Chay in Pioneer North. Do note that the dimmer cannot work for LED pls see the below manual.

You may find the dimmer is ex but the one selling in Chan Huat is $160 before disc. And - Pte Ltd is selling $200+ for digital dimmer.

[Artist123 0]

The Dimmer cum switch is $37.00 and the single switch by itself is $6.50 from Kim Chay in Pioneer North. Do note that the dimmer cannot work for LED pls see the below manual.

You may find the dimmer is ex but the one selling in Chan Huat is $160 before disc. And - Pte Ltd is selling $200+ for digital dimmer.

You may want to consider these switches from Chan Huat @ $23.30

These are from Chan Huat too which my hubby bought it 3 years ago to mount onto the side of a TV console wooden panel for the lights. As the wood is dark in colour, my hubby bought these to match it.

[Artist123 0]

How much did you pay for the switches. I'm thinking of upgrading all the switches in my new home. Thanks

The Dimmer cum switch is $37.00 and the single switch by itself is $6.50 from Kim Chay in Pioneer North. Do note that the dimmer cannot work for LED pls see the below manual.

You may find the dimmer is ex but the one selling in Chan Huat is $160 before disc. And - Pte Ltd is selling $200+ for digital dimmer.

You may want to consider these switches from Chan Huat @ $23.30

These are from Chan Huat too which my hubby bought it 3 years ago to mount onto the side of a TV console wooden panel for the lights. As the wood is dark in colour, my hubby bought these to match it.

[Batman 0]

Looks like all that glitters is not gold after all. Wish u all the best sister..

Regarding the Legrand switches, I think it should be cheaper at Choo Chiang. No harming comparing.

[Artist123 0]

Thanks Batman. Really didn't expect so much hiccups and delay. :-(

If given more time, we definitely want to compare before buying but the carpenters and electrician all come so unprepared and we ended getting whatever we can get in the shortest time. :-(

My hubby went out twice today because the drawers front are too thin for the handles' screw and he has to buy either shorter screws or washer for the carpenters. Then the electricians wall screw are too short and my hubby ended up going to get the screw for them. :-(

Luckily this is just my masterbed room only. I really can't imagine if it's the whole house renovation.

[Artist123 0]

Finally, the carpenters finished at 9.30pm. So you can imagine what time we get to sleep. :-( the electricians came at 10am but couldn't complete their work and will have to come tomorrow to install the lightings. Not because the electrician are slow, but the carpenters just take their own sweet time. They work 2 hours and went out to puff, then work another 2 hours and went for their tea break, then work 2 hours and puff again, then another 3 hours, they had their dinner, then rush like crazy. The electricians were also frustrated at their pace. And when we asked them to install the TV onto the console, they told us that the IDs will do it. And we were like "Huh???" IDs doing the drilling?

Will be cleaning like crazy tomorrow. :-(

[Artist123 0]

Oh my! Can anyone tell me is a table bottom suppose to look like this? My hubby said when stuff fall off from behind the drawers, I can easily picked it up on the floor. I said its for the lizard to build a nest inside my drawers. ?????

[Artist123 0]

While cleaning up the dresser and the TV console. These are what I found.

Now I'm gonna see what TYASDESIGN has to say.

[Artist123 0]

Just finished sweeping up shattered glass all over the floor and my bed. The electrician came alone today to finish off the installation. As he doesn't have any helper today he had a hard time holding the light and his drill hit the metal frame holding the glass sending the glass shattered all over him. Thank God he is unhurt.

If he has managed to install it yesterday, this definitely won't happen! I really feel sorry when he said he is going to pay or the lights. I think the carpenters should be the one paying if not because of their dilly dally attitude, the electrician need not come today again.

The electrician is very responsible and charge very reasonable for some extra sockets in my girl's room. I'll definitely recommend him and use him for my upcoming new property which will be TOP in another 6 mths time.

[Artist123 0]

We called Phillips and they said they can replace the glass for just $30. Phew! I really don't want the electrician to cover the cost of damage. He installed 2 pieces yesterday with his helper holding onto the lights while he drilled without problem.

The light is $175.00 during promo and $240 without discount.

Edited December 30, 2012 by Artist123

[Artist123 0]

18 days since the day of the installation of my masterbed room carpentry work. This is the WIP...... It definitely seems like a major Reno counting the days the carpenters and the electricians has to come to do all the stuff.

Now, we are waiting for the carpenters to rectify the following before we can have a thorough clean up and be able to sleep in our room. :-(

1) covering up the bottom of the writing table. I really can't figure out why they construct the table in such a way? Obviously, there is no base on the bottom of the table. When the electrician wanted to install the LED light below, he couldn't mount it onto any base below the table.

2) to seal the gap with silicon.

3) This, I couldn't figure out either. Why did they install the handles out of alignment? This, I find it hard to believe!

The top handle and bottom handles are not in the center which I'm ok but they are not align properly.

4) Replacing the laminates which has a long scratch line. This is too obvious not to replace, others we just close 2 eyes.

5) Wrong laminates. The base of the top cabinets for the TV console connected to the dresser should be in brown. They laminated it white. It's quite obvious when they install the shelf but I only found out after I did the cleaning myself.

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6) Change all the base of the drawers from 4 mm thick to 15 mm. The bottom of the drawers are not PVC laminated and it's only 4 mm thick. I was trying to show the carpenter the quality of the wood, I used my nail to indicate the thicken and who knows, the wood just break apart.

7) the ID couldn't figure out where the carpenter bought such baskets. There are rough edges and the side bars don't reside into the closet when I push the basket in. I ended up pushing the bars individually in order to close the wardrobe door.

8) we told the carpenter to cater 4 sockets in the cabinet just below the TV for plugs. They only cut for 2 sockets, and the electrician ended up sawing it. But hey, where's the round wire case for the cable to from the back?

9) These are something they wouldn't want to modify. Look at all the doors, the thickness is 15mm. Standard doors in Singapore is 18-19mm that's why the handle's screws are all catered for such thickness. Look at the number of washers they have to put in order to fit into their thin doors.