Renovations For Bto Sims Place - My Experience Using Contractor Instead Of Id

[vivastar1 0]

Hi, just to share how i did my 3 room flat reno. I had browse Reno talk for ideas as well and just wish to share.

The first stage is to pick Interior Designer or Contractor. I shortlisted from friends recommendation and via Renotalk just 3 companies to get quotation from rather than see endless lists of quotes. Basically I decided to go for quality not quantity, for efficiency.

As mine is a 3 room flat, i find Daddywhite posting on his 3 room flat very useful. He had used Woodplus Design. I did speak to Woodplus design. The overall feeling was good, Derrick attended to us, he was a very confident guy, he said 9 out of 10 people he spoke to sign him on. Derrick gave us a quotation based on floor plan.

We had also some referals from friends. Checked out United Team. Desmond attended to us. By this time we have collected keys, the first meeting was at our BTO place. It was a good meeting and Desmond was able to look around and give ideas and suggestions based on what we want. He is very likable and sincere, basically if budget is not a problem, we would like to have him design for us.

Thirdly we saw a contractor from Fortuna Renovation, a contractor. He did my uncle's house renovation a couple of years ago, and everything went pretty well there from what we hear, all the capentry are still looking good.

We chose to go with a contractor rather than ID due to the price. For the first quotation, basically we asked quotation for everything ie all the miscellaneous ie extra coating for the floor, so its easier for us to take things out from the itemised quotations once its done to fit our budget. The difference between the quotes was about SGD15,000 but I stress that its also not possible to compare just like that, because when we talk to United Team and Fortuna, their design ideas were different as well and they also proposed different miscellaneous items, hence costings will be different. Its not like both offered exact same design, just different price. For example United Team quotation include a customised bed frame and extra floor coating whereas Fortuna's ones didnt as they do not provide such items.

Sharing my floor plan here, its just a tiny 3 room flat, the brief is also to include as much storage space as possible.

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