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Home Sweet Home (2) – Renovation starts

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One thing to note for all new home-owners, please remember to activate your SP Services account before your contractor starts work! hahaha… we forgotton all about that, and Mr K had to call me in the morning to ask me to do that… I was so kanjiong in office lor… almost wanted to arrange for SP Services Express Service at $54 and rush home to meet their technician. Fortunately, they had no available technicians, and I do not need to pay for Express Services. Mr K later asked his workers to turn it on themselves! Aiyo! They can actually do it, why need to pay SP Services? 😀

Some BEFORE pictures.. so that we can compare with the AFTER pictures later. =p

The Main Bedroom
New owners, take note of such uneven sink-in holes in the wall, there’s an exactly same thing in the living room too… grrrr.. now we have to spend extra $ to box them up… :S

After free cement screeding by HDB contractors, this is a Free-of-charge procedure if you have opt-ed out the flooring by HDB, and decided to go with laminates/parquet floor. Tip: Do this after hacking of walls!! We didn’t know, so we did it before! Haha…

Bedroom 3 – the room that I’m going to use before it’s converted to a Baby room in future.

Last look before hacking…

Bedroom 2 – Walls hacked!!

After hacking, the concealed power points look like these… so cute~~~ =p


After a month……

HOME RENOVATIONS START…

Why do I say that? Coz there was a hiatus after walls were hacked, we were busy looking for materials, like flooring, electrician and glass doors/windows… those hacked walls you see, are supposed to be replaced with black-framed glass doors/windows. The reason behind is, because of Pail and my lifestyle, we are soooo used to using the computer while watching TV, so we decided to plan this lifestyle into our home interior design. With the study room’s walls hacked, he can continue using his iMac while I watch TV in the living hall with my Macbook. Haha.. I know, many people replaced the wall with a piece of glass, but *no offence* we think it looks more like a fish tank, and also, it blocks off the sounds from TV. Anyway, after months of searching, we still dunno where to get the nice black frames to match our windows, we decided to KIV this “project”, the walls remained hacked, and now our hall is much more spacious than ever! 😀

Meanwhile, Our electrician came to start off on the electric works, and within a day, he got it all sorted. Mr K also introduced one of his staff to us, Aloysius. He will be mainly in charge of our project instead of K, well, K will still oversee the progress la… he’s coming up to our unit every week to check. But most details, we have to discuss with A, I think K is too busy. =,=

Next, Air Con Trunking.

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8 responses to “Home Sweet Home (2) – Renovation starts”

  1. Clement Avatar
    Clement

    Hi, I am in a similar situation as you were in this post.

    Did the cement screeding for my unit but decided to hack away the wall of bedroom that was beside the master bedroom.

    Also took up Evorich flooring and would like to know how did you “patch” back the flooring left behind after hacking of your wall?

    Was it done by Evorich or your contractor? How much was the price quoted?

    Thank you.

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    1. ladysuki Avatar
      ladysuki

      Hello Clement, the flooring is a long story. Evorich is not going to start work unless we make good the flooring, so we can only ask the HDB contractor to make good.. all and all, it took us many visits down to TALK to the contractors, they took a few weeks to make the floor as flat as possible at last.

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      1. Clement Avatar
        Clement

        Hello ladysuki,

        Thank you for your reply.

        Correct me if I interpreted it wrongly – You managed to get the HDB contractors to come down a 2nd time after your inital cement screeding was done, to patch up the L shaped hole that was left on the ground after your hacking of the wall?

        My BTO layout is exactly the same as yours and I also made the same mistake of requesting for HDB cement screeding to be done before deciding on hacking of our bedroom 2’s wall (bedroom connecting to the master bedroom )

        However, it would be tricker for me to request for a 2nd visit to make good the L hole left behind after the wall hacking as the first visit was done out of goodwill (HDB ceased the practice of providing free cement screeding since Oct 2014).

        Where are these HDB cement screeding contractors located at? I had been liaising only with a HDB officer assigned to assist in arranging for these contractors to cement screed my flooring.

        In terms of flatting the ground, was it possible for them (HDB contractors) to continuously lay cement onto the existing cement in order to flatten it?

        I spoke to my Evorich flooring agent and he told me it is impossible to lay additional cement onto the existing cement screeded flooring as it may be too thin and crack. What he could do is to get his sub contractors to apply leveling compound should the cement flooring be uneven, at a lump sum cost.

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        1. ladysuki Avatar
          ladysuki

          Yep yep, I know what you mean. Ok, let me try my best to answer you.

          The L hole left behind from wall hacking was made good by my own contractor already, cement was laid to fill it up. But, we made the HDB contractors come down more than 2 visits to level the unevenness even after that L hole was made good (no costs involved). But thats becoz HDB was still providing free cement screeding service. We contacted the same HDB contractor head who led his workers to do cement screeding initially, coz we told him we do not know that we shld not do wall hacking after cement screed. HDB officer came down on one event too, but wasn’t of much help indeed.

          This issue dragged for a really long time because the HDB contractor head refused to do it for us, until the last time I head down to talk personally with his worker, the worker was very nice and agreed to do for us. He said it’s a simple job, he did it the next morning like within a couple of hours.

          Btw, you can read my “Cement Works” entry too. I think I talked about the whole process there!

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  2. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Hi ladysuki,

    Thanks for sharing this post! I had also opted out of HDB flooring but I didn’t know the cement screeding is actually provided FOC by HDB if we had opted out. It was only because an ID told us that and we actually thought she was smoking us! That’s only because all other IDs had quoted us on cement screeding which is ridiculously expensive after that new regulation on 3-in-1 prepacked cement kicked in.
    So may I ask how do we go about requesting for this FOC procedure to be done?
    Million thanks!

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    1. ladysuki Avatar
      ladysuki

      Hi Jan! We applied it from HDB on the day we got our keys, it’s basically just requesting for an application form la.. but I heard they have stopped the FOC cement screeding already, u better check with HDB!

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  3. Brennan Avatar
    Brennan

    Hello miss,

    I submitted the form for screeding without telling them not to start work first. Is there anyway to ask them to contact me first before any work done? My ID has asked me to ask them not to screed first.

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    1. ladysuki Avatar
      ladysuki

      Hi Brennan, can try to call Hdb?

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