Regarding the choice of paint and colour, we are decided that we will go with one colour WHITE for the whole house. In fact, it’s more of the choices of paint, now in market, there are Nippon EasyWash and Odourless, Dulux Wash-and-Wear paints, we always thought we will go with them, but looking at what K offers on his quotation, we only have the choice of Dulux Pentailte / Wash-and-Wear! We also learnt more about PAINT after this renovation, these EasyWash/Wash-and-wear paints cannot be touched up… as touching up will give you two different tones, and during this renovation period where it’s bound have bumps and knocks here and there, so we were advised to just go for Pentalite White instead. Few years down the road, if we ever decide to refurnish the walls, we can pick EasyWash/Odourless paint then. 😉

Bathroom sanitary wares and Kitchen sink & mixer were all delivered to the house, so we also moved our lighting purchases from Taobao to the bomb shelter! It’s exciting seeing the house progressed at last….

Ok! So… our cement screed flooring issue was resolved after I spoke to this HDB contractor’s worker. Well, my advice to all is, never go harsh with contractors. They are more of 吃軟不吃硬 type! Hehehe.. when I saw him, I remembered he was the one who did the first round of cement screed for us, but when he saw the uneven bumps on the ground, he said it couldn’t have been done by him, so I just act blur and kinda agreed and asked him will he please pleaseeeee… help us to resolve these bumpy issues…. and he said not a problem at all, no issue, will come the next day and ta~da, within a day, the issue was fixed!! Something that can be done so quickly, they dragged two weeks of our time… what can I say, sigh!

Ta-dahhhh~~~ WE HAVE FLOORING NOW! No longer raw cement floor!!

HOORAYYYY!!!

Here’s slightly more updates and information on our Evorich flooring, since I received a few queries about them.

The design we picked is High End Resilient Flooring (HERF) – Markham Oak Light, without skirting. Evorich people told us there isn’t a need to do skirting for their flooring. As for how they quote, they will first give an estimated quote based on floor plan. Upon confirmation, before starting work, they will send someone down to your unit to do an actual site measure, it shouldn’t differ much. The final quote will include an estimate of 5% wastage. Just for reference sake, a 4-room unit flooring (living room + 3 bedrooms), it’s about 727 sqft.

Based on in-laws feedback, they watched over the workers on our behalf as we had to work. The Evorich people acted efficiently, they sent someone to bring up all the required materials the day before, and on the actual day, they were very punctual too, came with 6 men, working on different areas of the house. Started around 9am, finished by 2plus in the afternoon… However, unlike tiling, they do not leave extra materials behind for us, they cleared up everything and left.

We asked Mr K to do us a favor by going up for inspection on a separate occasion, I shall ignore the fact that he wasn’t on good terms with them, but, he indeed gave us some constructive feedback!
1) The tiles near to the walls were hollow, as he knocked the flooring to show us the difference in how they sound.
2) The finishings were not gel up with silicon.
3) The kitchen tiles done by HDB, were of different height as the living room, as we have hacked the kitchen walls, it’s especially obvious. So, Evorich people added a trimming on top, the closest colour they have is still of a different shade, anyways, the point is an aluminium strip would have been better and more durable.

And so, we checked back with Evorich, we will need to top up $65 for that aluminium trimming, so we decided to leave it until it gives way then we change lah.. and they sent man on a separate occasion to re-do the hollow parts by adding more maxborne glue to secure it.

Next up.. Carpentry (woes)!!