Our 4-Rm Cubbyhole Reno Diary

[chococat 5]

Quick Update:

Went over yesterday to look at our house and saw that cardboard had be laid out already ! Our ID very fast hand, fast leg!

Will be dropping by later to see if there's any progress today!

ID also brought extra kitchen tiles to mend the affected tiles after hacking.

[chococat 5]

Dropped by our new house yesterday evening and was pleasant to see that our kitchen wall had been hacked off.

Hopefully this little half wall can make the house appear slightly bigger...

Bags of sands also appear in our kitchen. I supposed these are used for building the kitchen cabinet base? Correct me if I'm wrong

Also presenting to you...... my precious little niece! She has been part of our reno team to check on the reno progress most of the time!

[DaddyWinter 10]

very nice, looks more like a condo on the drawing.. hope your actual will be as good! will stay tune to your updates

[JohnB 15]

How pretty! I think I shall get a basket for my pineapple too!

Congrats on your new home, Chococat.

Your niece is simply ADORABLE.

[chococat 5]

Thanks JohnB! That's very kind of you!

The basket was prepared by my in-laws. They are really sweet folks!

[chococat 5]

Progress Update:

Went down yesterday evening to take a look at the progress, was delighted to find new stuff appear in our kitchen.

Hubz had a discussion with our ID on Wednesday at our new house to talk about a number of things. I wasn't around due to some commitment will talk about it in later post

Cabinet Base
The cabinet base at the left side of our kitchen was constructed. The right side was still empty due to issue to be discussed later.

Sink Support

The bricks for sink support were laid and tiles were placed.

Kitchen Sink Molding

Service Yard Base

Toilet Shower Kerb?
We guess this is for the shower kerb based on the measurements which matched our master bedroom toilet

Edited October 4, 2014 by chococat

[chococat 5]

4th Oct Updates:

Dropped by to put a carton of mineral water for the workers. Was happy to see 2 people working inside and new work done.

Remember our cutter-man? He's here today to lay the tiles for the bases.

Service Yard Base (working in progress)

As for the fridge base, tiling had completed.

Our humble kitchen sink is now on the sink support!

The long cement that we spotted the other day was indeed for the shower kerb for our master bedroom toilet

First time seeing how a tile is cut. Looks fun! If he dun mind, I will love to try out!

Edited October 4, 2014 by chococat

[Buibui83 0]

Hi all, this is hubz.

Kitchen cabinet dimension problem

We were informed by Mr J that a standard 60cm cabinet depth will extend beyond our kitchen entrance wall (pink arrow). Mr J suggested to shorten the cabinet depth to 45cm (green arrow) to keep it within the wall length. However, Mrs choco and I felt that too much tabletop space was compromised over the entire length of the kitchen, and that a 45cm cabinet may look too shallow. Depth of the cabinet near the entrance will be 75cm (blue arrow) to account for the extra dent-in space.

Kitchen cabinet depth with respect to kitchen entrance wall.

After discussion with Mr J, we came up with the solution to extend the wall by around 2 inches (green block) using plaster. The result is a slightly narrower kitchen entrance/door. Mrs choco and I felt that this is a worthwhile compromise over the loss of tabletop space, since the kitchen entrance (37inches) is slightly wider than usual door entrances (33-35inches).

Proposed solution: 2 inch plaster extension of the wall

Mr J was willingly to absorb the cost for wall plastering, but informed that extra charges will be incurred for a 75cm cabinet depth (i.e. 2 feet for the cost of 4), since extra materials are needed which were not covered in the original quote.

[chococat 5]

Gas Pipping Issue

Another hiccup happened during our reno process..

We have previously discussed with Mr J how our gas pipe should run:

From the gas origin point, the pipe runs down along the fridge, then run horizontally to the stove.

Hope this photo can make it easier to understand what I'm trying to describe. Orange line represents the gas pipe.

I guess Mr J had a number of projects on hand and he did not manage to remember the details accurately and he thought we were using a gas water heater. Thus, he planned the piping system in a different way. As a result, we had a drill hole on our service yard wall.

Our affected service yard wall. Lucky the drill hole is well hidden by water pipes.

Closed Up View

We can peep over to the other side. Haha

Our ID said he will get the wall mended. Hengz….. We were pretty fine with this little hiccup as long as it is rectified.

Lesson Learnt:

After VERBAL discussion on reno details, it's always good to correspond back with WRITTEN form (email, watsapp, etc) so it's easier for ID to trace back the details (provided he/she checks).

Edited October 4, 2014 by chococat

[chococat 5]

Updates as of 9th Oct 2014

Work is progressing a little slower compared to last week.

The kitchen cabinet base at the right side of kitchen was constructed.

The half wall has not been extended yet in this photo.

Half wall was later extended and touched up with tiles. Hacked area was also touched up.

(Continue.....)

[chococat 5]

(.....Continue)

We will be installing our half glass wall on the edge towards the living room (Blue Line).

Yellow line shows the default way which do not need tiles and just plastering (my guess).

As a result of this, Mr J had informed us that we will need to top up money for the extra tiles used to tile the half wall and on the wall beside the kitchen door hinge (which used to be part of living room without tiles).. Will clarify with ID this Friday to find out the details and how much to fork out.

Tiled Area

Skirting was removed. I hope they will put them back to bring back uniformity in the living room wall.

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Kitchen light switch was re-wired from living room to kitchen entrance

[DaddyWinter 10]

not bad at least still have progress~

[Guest]

Hi, is this BTO in yishun?

[chococat 5]

Hi ingss,

Yes, it's at yishun

[Guest]

Hi ingss,

Yes, it's at yishun

HI Naturian Neighbor, yours is at Block C?