A big hassle – 1
If you think moving from one place to another is something good to do, definitely you have not experienced it before.
After I made payment to whatever I needed to pay for key collection, I headed to the house to check whether the keys and lockset are all working normally. Then I switched on all the air-cons, and left it for more than 6 hours before I went back to check for any leakage of the concealled pipes.
The next day, I checked on defects briefly, and took note of them. Also, I looked at every angle of the house, and came out with some ideas on the design. For me, Bayan Villa is all about interior design, we hardly do anything to its exterior which I think it is something good, we do not need to get headache with what to have at the car porch, or what plants to have outside the house, what colour to paint for the external walls and fences. In a way, we can save more.
After that, I went to the house again with my wife. Both of us did a detail check on defects, and completed the defects complaint form before submitted to the management office. Since then, I went to the house almost everyday to check whether or not they rectify the defects. If they had, I thanked them. If they had not, I asked for the reasons, and asked who responsible for it, and got them to get the work done as soon as possible.
While waiting for defects to be rectified, I went around to ask for renovation quotation. For renovation, there are many ways of doing it. You can deal with main contractor to do everything for you, or you want to deal with many small contractors as each of them will do one single part. In renovation, there are a few major parts where you need different people to do it, we have electrical, piping, plaster ceiling, concreate work – what hacking and drilling are, tiling, furniture which include wardrobe and any cabinet, and last but not least painting. There are some minor parts which are grilles, mirrors, tempered glass, and doors.
More to come…