HDB 2 room BTO Reno Journey 2 (Flooring, shower kerb works) By Teck Lee Seng - Peter

Went to Lian Seng HIn@Balestier to pick this semi polished homo tile@$3.60 on Thursday

Peter advised me to go semi polished as it would be very slippery if i picked those polished ones esp one i saw and liked which was super smooth.

Bedroom - Peter also helped to check HDB works and found out the door needed rectification

Cement and cardboard delivered on same day i picked the tile

I start my flooring on 14 May 2017 Sunday morning. Did a simple prayer.

Ah Boon Tiler and Peter in yellow

A few days after work commence

Ah Boon Tiler said my tiles v hard to cut. Have to use hand.Take a longer time

Ask Ah Boon to help me correct the slope at the main entrance so my wealth is not leak out

I did the shower kerb for the shower screen , these glass contractors dont do kerb.  U can also do the kitchen cabinet kerb, i heard it make your cabinet more lasting. I didnt do it. I opt for full flush kitchen cabinet without legs or kerb.

After the floor was done a week later, Peter washed the kitchen and toilet to install kitchen cabinet.  

Touchup and complete washing not done yet. He said to lay the cardboards to protect the tiles since i still have many installations or works to be done.

HDB 2 room BTO Reno Journey 1 (Window Grilles works) By Yong Heng Andy

Before window grilles

Andy from Yong Heng was at least 40 min earlier than our appt

Fixing outside while waiting for me

HDB 2room BTO living room window grilles

HDB 2room BTO bed room window grilles

Counter top and cabinet swatches

Solid surface top

Marble Quartz Top

I chose this....as he gave me a good price i cant say no

Pick this....like laminated surface. Fell in love with it.

Done on 03 May 2017 , for living and bedroom SGD300. Yong Heng Aluminium Works -Andy. Process took about an hour.

Its good to start the window grilles first before laying the floor tiles. In case the installer drop the grilles but it will become dusty when the flooring is in progress. Anyway it still be dusty with other works like aircon,painting and tiling.

Hmm i really dunno to do it before anything else or the last few process. i think better last few steps. Cos later very hard to clean.

Oh yes i bought the bedroom door from him too. 

2 room HDB BTO with no OCS - Key Collection on 13 Mar 2017!!!

Prior to key collection,  i emailed to HDB asking if i could still opt in to OCS as i wanted to save money for reno. But the answer which i knew was no.

I was feeling nervous and jumpy as i dont have enough money for reno and there seem to be no news though they promised within Q1.

January passed with Chinese New Year...then mid February i received HLE SMS telling me my loan was approved....March..i thought maybe its a blessing for me to buy more time to save more money. 

LOL i was wrong as they had promised, they sent an SMS on the first week of March telling me a date (next week) to collect my keys. Wow ....that was fast!! There was no letter or email.

So i logged on to HDB using Singpass and read the letter from the web and changed the key collection date as i was busy with work and also i wanted to pick a good date.

From the web, i dont really understand how much i have to pay. I tried emailing the HDB officer but no reply.

I was early for my appointment but took some time to get a queue number as i dont know which counter to go to. Not to worry there are a lot of customer officers to help. I went over to apply the fire insurance as advised by a blogger.
Its so cheap...SGD2 plus...and very fast. (located on first floor near toilet)

Etiqa Fire Insurance Counter@HDB

I missed the queue as i thought they would stick to the appointment time. Hmm i dunno who to seek help to be called again so i tried the reception in the centre.
Shortly after my number was called and a lady served me. She gave me a bag and documents telling me some important points. Signatures...and she calculated the amount i had to pay and she asked how would i like to pay. I decided to use cash since amount wasnt huge after deducting my CPF.  She advised me to go to 2nd or 3rd floor for payment then come back to her.  She settled the last documents and im a proud owner of a 2 room BTO flat!!

Free keychain from HDB, there is a canvas bag too

One year warranty, pls note of the underlined highlighted by HDB officer

Pls report rectification works before reno!

Another tip given by HDB officer for conservancy charges

Next i went over to open an account with SP Services which was fast too and fuss free, the person who served me was good looking as well.

My sis came over and we celebrated at Jap restaurant next to HDB Sales office after opening the SP account (if u dont intend to reno quickly, u can open this SP account later as once u open the account, they bill you mthly....so sad). In addition, the first bill will be more ex..there is a deposit...cant remember how much it is...mayb 60 or 90. Every mth the bill is a few dollars. Even though you dont use it.

My son happy meal with toy

Thats mine!! YUmmy!

After eating, we went down to new flat happily taking train and bus.

We met up with Peter from Teck Lee Seng Reno Contractor and he was a friendly upbeat uncle. He showed us some of the flats they had done before i even had the chance to set foot to my flat. There was a good feel but my family said to ask for more quotes first before deciding which was good advice since im a newbie.

I was surprised when i opened the door to my flat it was smaller than i tot. And many odd corners, i felt this flat would be challenging. 

I was pretty impressed with HDB contractor Chip Eng for the work they had done for my unit. Happy that the toilet design was good compared to my parents one.

My floor plan, its a lousy layout but windy and less sun.

Hall

Toilet

Kitchen

As Peter from Teck Lee Seng Reno Contractor was around, i had no time to take a closer look and decided to call it a day and leave ....will be back soon. :) Oh Peter gave me a verbal quote of SGD7k for the works i casually enquired.

As we were leaving, many contractors hijack us to introduce their services. Very stressful to shoo them off...haha.

Just tell them you have someone in mind. 

taken from kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

2 room kitchen

2 room kitchen

2 room hall

Hall

window view from hall

Hall view

bedroom view

Bedroom view 

HDB 2 room BTO with no OCS