Jun Wei’s guys did minor wet works in the kitchen and toilets around the same time as the painting. Nothing fantastic or abnormal for those works. It seemed like our home already needed very minimal wet works. We have seen cases online where the wet works were extensive, and a large part of it was […]
Since the start, Shao Jie’s design concept has been to offer a contrast in the colour scheme, which gives us our eclipse theme. It was therefore natural that we were looking at multi-tone painting works for greater contrast in our BTO home. This would make up for the choice of a relatively muted colour (gray),
After choosing our aircon installer, brand, and system we went ahead with the installation once Shao Jie and Jun Wei said it was time. We were busy with work. So we got Jun Wei to supervise Jex Aircon’s first trip to install the aircon piping. This was after we paid up via bank transfer. It was
We originally wrote this guide after HDB did our cement screeding for us. The policy changed. HDB contractors don’t do cement screeding anymore, so you can’t top up even if you want to. That sucks because contractors charge more than the HDB contractors. The quality wasn’t too bad. But this guide is still relevant to
The wait for the BTO key collection was quite long but it eventually ended. This would be followed by rectification works by BSC. The process was to get our keys, do our defect checks, do the cement screeding, then do renovation works. We were still pending HDB’s decision on our cement screeding application. To explain
Theme We wanted a clean BTO home design. Our requirement was to have a home that is clean-cut, easy to maintain, and nothing that was too expensive. Space wise, we will only ever use the bedroom. I’ll be gaming or using the computer. PQ will only be sleeping or using her phone. We won’t be
What did we do? We started searching for an ID or contractor online roughly in October last year, before the estimated completion date, which was in Q1 2018. There really were many IDs and contractors, some advertising on Facebook, many on sites like Renotalk, Hometrust, etc. Before the search, we were leaning towards going for
