Renovations Started!!
Friday, 5 November 2004 01:20 am
It’s been quiet on this page for a while, that’s coz life is busy as hell.
Here’s some news on renovation of our new place in Seabird Lane.
We’ve finished negotiations with contractors and made a choice. We started with quotations from 7 contractors, then had further negotiations with 3 of them. It’s really tough to negotiate with contractors and our final choice was based more or less on ’seems least likely to cheat us’ and ‘most likely to do a good job’.
Anyway, the work started last weekend. First week they will be breaking away walls, tearing out the old floor, removing some dodgy plaster, ripping out the old kitchen and all existing aircon units.
Down below I put some pictures I took last night.
Here’s the staircase with the floor ripped off - revealing bare concrete;
Our house is full of tools, hardware, equipment etc from the contractor. I’m not sure if it’s all necessary or if he is trying to look impressive so that I feel good about the money I spent… This pic is in our bedroom - note the terrible yellow wall:
Some work needs to be done on one of the ceilings. Above the ceiling on the below picture is a terrace from our neighbour upstairs. Although it is not leaking there is moist build-up inside the ceiling. So we have to tear off parts of the plaster (or all), treat it with galvanizing paint, re-plaster, and re-paint… The upstairs neighbour has just waterproofed his whole terrace, so hopefully this will do the trick…
Here’s a box of our old teak floor - to be replaced by Brazilian hardwood…
I’ll update more regularly through this page.
Please scroll down two articles to see some more overview pictures we took in September.
Till later,
Marc