Author: amanda

After almost 3 weeks, the doors are up! 🙂 The door installer was not exactly friendly BUT he was very puntual. I decided to reach later this time because I didn’t wanna pay the extra parking for waiting, I even contemplated waiting at the gantry of the carpark until another car tailgate me then enter the carpark.. haha.. my sis talked me out of the thought.. oh well… so i looked ard the carpark and didn’t see any lorry that was from Yontat .. Just as my sis and I joked about the worker waiting outside my unit…. IT DID HAPPENED!!! He was quite unhappy and I was only 15mins late. If you are getting Yontat to do your doors…BE PUNTUAL!

Installing doors is no ez job. For installing 3 doors, it took about 2.5hrs! It was messy and dusty… and it definitely dirtied my place which was already quite clean after my contractor ‘acid washed’ the flat. Anyway, the installer cleaned up the mess as best as he could and told me that 1 of the doors was of the wrong size and he need to resized it.. sianz… hate it when things didn’t get completed. Because door was resized, it was short of laminate.

After he left, I arranged for another appointment to get Yontat’s men to come in to paste the laminate (I was glad i don’t have to wait 3 more weeks!). Phew.. they came the next day. The workers were very friendly this time round…he kept asking me to check after he did the sandpaper and before he mount the door up again! wah.. impressed! just when i thought, they are doing a careful and fine job, 1 worker carried the door and gently hit against my hanging light….OUCH!!! Heng ah… nothing happened! I thought I cld have died of heart attack then!

Overall experience with YONTAT – SUPERB! 🙂 Pls order doors early, waiting time is LONG! Doors very nice.. BUT i regretted not buying the solid doors… heh.. the hollow doors just don’t feel durable. Blame it on WWS syndrome !!

Ok.. renovation is an ongoing process. Sigh… just when i thought everything is gonna complete soon, 1 bloody light in the kitchen cease to work. TMD FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*10000X! At this pt of time, I am damn sianz… because while i fuss over these silly renovation stuff, BH is probably enjoying the Independence Day long weekend with his friends.

I am soooooooo f*cking angry and upset.. damn it!

I have been trying NOT to go up to the flat as the parking cost is a KILLER. Seriously, I think I spent a BOMB on parking man… ouch.. even if I were to go, I’ll try my BEST to mk it snappy (within the grace period).. apparently, it’s really difficult… I need to spent at least 30cents each time

Anyway, Mr T is very flexible. Technically, I need to give him another 40% of the payment so he will start work on the kitchen carpentry BUT I was unable to go down – he trusted me and continued to get his workers to do the work. Great! My dad decided to go down on the day the workers is gonna bring the carpentry up… My dad called me and told me how weird the colour was. I freaked out! I rem expaining to the carpenter what I wanted at least 3 times and mking sure he knows what I was talking about by getting him to repeat it for me. I was already disturbed that the drawings Mr T provided are WRONG and if he were to mess up the colours..i seriously do not know how to settle the problem :X

I kept my fingers crossed, my heart and brains were filled with “How to scold Mr T” My legs.. my legs.. were jelly because I was so nervous! I don’t like to try NEW things… BUT BH feel that we shld TRY this colour combi upon looking at many magazines… Before my legs become jelly and melt like ice-cream… I gathered all my courage and drove to the flat safely… I was greeted with this….

*WARNING!!! NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED*

It was an ‘aha’ moment… yes! the lime green!! heaved a sigh of relieve 🙂 phew…

2 days later…. it’s all done w/o the solid top

So fast!! so nice… following what my sis will say ‘BIG LIKE!’

I know.. it’s so starhub… but it’s beautiful in my eyes 🙂 and super sian… one of the kitchen lights fused .. need to settle this problem soon… hope Mr T workers and help me..

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Other items were up too! Handover shld be next week! whee! When BH is home, he is really home!

Decided to go with a curtains maker at Kovan market, shall not name the stall yet
I went to her because my mum had been buying textiles/fabrics from her since decades ago. sigh… have a mentality that market is cheaper.. so I went ahead after she gave me the quote via my floorplan

She went to the flat and took measurements and she realised that it’s MORE than what she expected. Need to top-up now 🙁 and she need to measure again..

In my attempt to save money, I incurred more cost 🙁 Can someone just kill me?! I don’t wanna do this anymore…esp when I got to do this alone..

I was impressed by the prompt service from Bright House Lighting Pte Ltd ( the initials are coincidentally BH.. haha) Appointment time 10-11am and the 2 technicians came at 10.30am. Great! Not late! Prior the appointment, I called the service centre hotline to tell them to bring over another water heater and they did! I was still afraid that they will screw up! ok, I am not sure if the price I paid for lightings are HIGH or LOW.. but looking at the result of the installation… I’m happy!

1: Living and dinning area
2: Service yard
3: walkway (yellow/warm light)
4: Rooms

Yes – most of my lights are very simple… but that’s what I hope to achieve. I bet the most expensive thing in the house is my ceiling fan liaoz (besides the aircon) :X

My only complain is 1 of the technican did his BIG business in my NEW toilet!! He dirtied my toilet bowl!! 🙁 eeks… y don’t they feel paiseh?

Today, the plumber/electrican went to fix the toilet accessories. The whole process took 2hrs. Don’t think that fixing acessories are just drilling but it requires a whole lot of precision. Being budget concious, all my toilet acessories were purchased at Ikea. Ikea items (even small things like toilet roll holder) needs assembling and DOES NOT come with any nails for mounting on the wall. I only assembled the BIG items ( toilet cabinent) – the other items, i didn’t assemble because I didn’t know it needs to be assembled! I’m such a newbie! anyway, sharing this with you so that you know. I was also not used to doing any form of assembly .. sigh.. BH always does all these for us… 🙁 wish he was here

I was lucky that Mr T allocated a very patient and nice man to help me with the installation of such items. Thank God for such a careful worker! I was expecting him to anyhow do the installation BUT he was merticulous! 🙂 He measured and did all the installations properly. Thumbs up! Very happy! He also help me to repair a switch which was not working smoothly!

Result of today’s work:

1: masterbed room mirror with shelf
2: towel holder
3: common bath room mirror and cabinent
4: Champs Jolly water heater ( He installed water heater for 2 toilets too! very well done! Instant water heater is CHEAPER than City gas water heater. Installation cost also MUCH cheaper)
5: masterbedrm towel rail
6: toilet roll holder
7: Shampoo rack
8: Re-running the position of kitchen sink

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[UPDATES] Mr T told me that he will be getting me the stove with WHITE tempered glass + 3 burners! He will also get me the kitchen sink with 2 compartments! NO extra charge! Yay! Morale of the lesson – ALWAYS voice out your intentions to your contractor/ID.

I’m glad that I had entered Week 2 of the renovations. I think NOTHING would have been done if i’s not for my supportive parents and sister – No, i’m not talking about financial help but I’m very grateful for their valuable company and suggestions and of course, putting up with my W.W.S problem

Compliments about Mr T
1) He is very puntual and he picks up calls fast!
2) If you tell him something, he will rectify it asap. (Eg: some parts of the ceiling were not well painted, i told him and the painting was done properly the next time I visit)

Some complains about Mr T (so far..)
1) Painting is done BUT the painter forgot to paint one side of each wall GREY which I specify
2) Drawings for our carpentry were WRONG – I seriously think they recycle their drawings 🙁 Colours of our cabinents were not updated. In fact, the whole layout was wrong!!! I explained to the carpenter what I want and I hope that he will do it right. I feel so scared now
3) He said that the colours I chose were weird and not nice 🙁 Now I feel pretty scared that I insisted on the colour scheme. I hope BH doesn’t slaughter me if it doesn’t turn out well
4) He didn’t bring the catalogue for the hob and stove – which he said he will let me choose!!! In the end, he just said that he will get me the TURBO Black tempered glass one. Geez… BUT i want WHITE tempered glass! (Result: I will need to follow up with him tml as he told me he need to check if they have it or not and top-up may be needed)
5) He mentioned that he will let me choose the kitchen sink and tap. In the end, he didn’t bring the catalogue as well!!! sigh… He say he will just get me the sink with 1 compartment. I want the one with 2 compartments!!! (Result: My dad called him and he assured us tt he will get the the sink with 2 compartments – I hope he honour his words)

I feel so insecure now and hope that everything don’t screw up… erm.. he told me the carpentry will be ready NEXT WEEK!!! Fast but… y am I not looking forward??!!