tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53172292438676752352024-03-10T10:46:25.452+08:00 ♥ Apartment Therapy in Little Red Dot ♥Renovation & Interior Design Divahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862372090949237387noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317229243867675235.post-86198676622657863372016-10-30T17:28:00.004+08:002016-10-30T17:30:21.500+08:00Does Renovating Your Home Increase its Value?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.personalcapital.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: olive; letter-spacing: 0.02em; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">Personal Capital </a>is running a social media campaign #renovationrundown and so, I have decided to share my take on how to renovate your home to increase its value and how you can keep track of the value of your home effortlessly.</div>
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Personal Capital, an online financial adviser and personal wealth management portal, gives you an digital overview of user finances along with access to Personal Capital’s financial analytic and planning tools. In fact, you can easily track the value of your home while you budget and monitor your home remodel spending effortlessly online. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">It also hosts a<a href="https://www.personalcapital.com/financial-software/net-worth" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: olive; letter-spacing: 0.02em; outline: none; transition: all 0.3s ease;" target="_blank"> net worth calculator</a> to help you see how certain renovations can affect your net worth</i>. Furthermore, before you sell your property, you have to go through a valuation process to find out how much your property is worth. Well, this step can also be done easily through the Personal Capital Zillow' services, since it uses Zestimate to derive an estimated market value for your property.<br />
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Beyond up keeping your home and maintaining it in a good condition, these are the 2 general guidelines to keep your property appealing to the a wider audience:</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Functionality and Practicality of the Renovation </b></div>
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A well executed renovation that is both functional and practical would generally enhance your property value. For instance, renovation works which do more than making your property more aesthetically pleasing include the relocating of an ill conceived doorway or wall, building of a partition or tearing down of walls to improve the flow of the traffic and lighting.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. Renovation works that make the property more appealing</b></div>
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Although a home overhaul that is aesthetically pleasing will attract a higher price for your property, that does not mean that you should opt for an extensively renovated place with fanciful features. This is because <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">what the property hunters have in mind might not be in sync with yours</i>; investors are looking for a property that requires minimal costs to upkeep whilst some homeowners already have a design concept in mind. Therefore, one of the most popular aesthetically pleasing renovation works recommended in such a situation would be the ones that make your property look bigger and brighter than it really is.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">To make your home more inviting and airy, you can perform the following:</b></div>
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Draping windows with light cotton or chiffon curtains in order to let in more diffused natural light;</i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. Using light paint colors such as white, cream, pale grays and pastels;</i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Installing big mirrors in strategic locations to bounce off natural light to make the place open;</i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">4. Using dark colors for ceiling since a dark ceiling creates depth by creating the illusion of height when it draws your eye upward;</i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. Using multipurpose customized furniture so that to reduce the number of furniture pieces used and;</i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">6. Using customized storage solution such as platform storage to hide away clutter.</i></blockquote>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Market Conditions</b></div>
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It would be challenging to sell your property when the prevailing market is very bad. Therefore, it is even more important to consider home renovation to make your property more appealing, stand out from others and marketable.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">So how much value does a Renovation Project add to your property?</b></div>
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Here is a simple inforgraphic to highlight the potential increase in the value of your property after a well planned and executed home renovation.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laurel and Wolf is the world's premier online interior design marketplace; that </span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">virtually </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">connects you the clients, and their vast pool of designers, through a digital platform. The entire engagement happens online, where you first describe your needs and requirements by taking part in the <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Style Quiz</i></span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, followed by selection of the designer based on the custom </span><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Look</i><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> concepts. The collaboration with the selected designer will take place via the online </span><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Design Time </i><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> finalise your chosen </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Design </i>via the<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Buy for Me service. </i>You can read the steps <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.laurelandwolf.com/how-it-works" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #41b8d9; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Furthermore, Laurel and Wolf features many inspiring designs and home interior furnishing ideas for homeowners via their various social networking media such as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/laurelandwolf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #41b8d9; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">twitter,</a> <a href="https://www.laurelandwolf.com/blog/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #41b8d9; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurelandwolf/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #41b8d9; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">instagram </a>and <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurelandwolf/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #41b8d9; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">pinterest</a>! In short, it is truly a one-stop portal for homeowners when it comes to overhauling their homes!</span></span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">There were 17 cases of fallen windows recorded in the first five months of 2015 - 10 fewer than the 27 cases recorded during the same time last year, said the Building and Construction Authority on Friday (Jun 5 <b>2015</b>).<br />
<blockquote>In most instances of fallen casement windows, it was found that aluminium rivets used to secure the friction stays were not replaced with stainless steel rivets. These aluminium rivets were found to be corroded, the press release said.<br />
As for sliding windows, most did not have safety stoppers and angle strips to secure the window panels and the windows were not able to slide smoothly along the tracks, it added.<br />
Under the Building Control (Retrofitting of Casement Window) Order 2004, homeowners are required to change the aluminium rivets of casement windows with stainless steel ones. This applies to windows in all residential units except those in landed properties and the ground floor of buildings. </blockquote></blockquote></div><br />
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</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"> There were a total of 43 recorded cases of fallen windows from both Housing and Development Board (HDB) and private residences in the first eleven months of this year, according to a joint report released by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and HDB. Out of these, 23 involved casement windows, 18 for sliding windows while the remaining two fall under other types of windows. In a press release today (Dec 12 <b>2014</b>), BCA CEO Dr John Keung said that the cases “pose a safety risk to the public and (can) potentially be fatal”.</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What does this mean to you?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please perform a bimonthly check on the aluminium rivets of casement windows to see if they are rusted and need to be replaced. In addition, if you are purchasing resale HDBs, do consider replacing the aluminium rivets with stainless steel rivets during the renovation!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Seems like buyers of Centrale 8 units have been facing a lot of troubles.</div>
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First, Centrale 8 made headlines for being the <b>most pricey HDB</b> back in 2011...</div>
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"<a href="http://www.stproperty.sg/articles-property/singapore-property-news/just-next-door-but-centrale-8-costs-so-much-more/a/12865" target="_blank">.... Centrale 8 has launched at about double the price fetched by The Premiere four years ago. The launch price for a five-room flat at The Premiere was between $308,000 and $450,000 in 2006. Prices for a <b>five-room flat at Centrale 8 were between $685,000 and $880,000</b> when the showflat was opened to buyers on Thursday last week. </a><b><a href="http://www.stproperty.sg/articles-property/singapore-property-news/just-next-door-but-centrale-8-costs-so-much-more/a/12865" target="_blank">This has led to some interested buyers baulking at the asking price of what are set to be Singapore's most expensive HDB flats</a>.</b>"</blockquote>
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Then, the buyers were upset over the <b>delay in handing over of keys</b> in 2014....</div>
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"<a href="http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/dbss-flat-owners-upset-delay-handover-keys-20140703" target="_blank">After getting their letters from Sim Lian Group, t<b>he home owners were told early last month that there would be a delay in the handing over of keys because of the vesting process,</b> which involves the Housing Board. This process involves transferring the entire development site to the HDB for lease administration, and to the Town Council for maintenance of the common areas and carparks. When contacted, a Sim Lian Group spokesman said: "Buyers should note that the expected vacant possession date is an estimated one and actual delivery of vacant possession may occur before or after the vacant possession date." <b>Property experts said developers do not usually issue such letters to buyers unless they are absolutely sure of the dates</b>. ECG Group chief executive Eric Cheng said: "Owners might commit to the date given and, if the deadline is not met, t<b>he reputation and credibility of the developer would be doubted</b>." But, as long as the developer has not busted the legal date of completion, it has done nothing wrong. "I would also recommend that owners be prudent and not take these dates as foolproof.</a>"</blockquote>
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Now, around a year later, Centrale 8 made headlines again for making homeowners<b> upset about the quality of the finishes and fittings in their premium flats</b>..</div>
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"<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/housing/story/gripes-over-finishes-fittings-dbss-flats-centrale-8-20150613" target="_blank">At least 30 residents of the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project told The Straits Times that<b> they hope the developer, Sim Lian Group, can extend the one-year period for which the developer is required to rectify any defect in the units. Some also want compensation in cash.</b> The Tampines Central development has 708 three- to five-room flats which are being sold from $389,000 to $778,000. Nearly all the units have been sold. Residents started moving in in June last year. Centrale 8 caused an uproar in 2011 over the units' high indicative price tags, after which the Housing Board suspended the DBSS scheme</a>."</blockquote>
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If you take a look at Sim Lian Group Limited, suffice to say that they have a strong presence of <b>nearly 40 years</b>...</div>
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<a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank"> "Lian Group began in 1976 as Sim Lian Construction, a building and construction firm with extensive capabilities and expertise in construction. In 2001, in response to changing market conditions in Singapore, the Group embarked on property development with the formation of Sim Lian Land. Sim Lian Group has since added property investment and other supporting divisions to its business. It is now recognised as a comprehensive property player with an extensive portfolio of residential, commercial, industrial, retail and mixed-use projects in the region. </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank"><br /></a><b><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">Milestones </a></b><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">1976 Founding of Sim Lian Construction </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2000 Sim Lian Group listed on the Singapore Exchange </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2001 Sim Lian Land formed, marking the company’s foray into property development </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2006 Sim Lian Group becomes the first private developer in Singapore to embark on the pilot HDB’s Design, Build & Sell Scheme (DBSS), The Premiere @ Tampines </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2010 Sim Lian Group launched its first Malaysian property, Taman Bukit Bayu, a landed home project in Senai, Iskandar Malaysia </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2011 Sim Lian launched KL Trillion, its first integrated development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prime office units were released for sale </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2011 Sim Lian Group launched its first industrial project, UB.1 in Ubi </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2013 Sim Lian Group launched Hillion, its first integrated development in Singapore in the heart of Bukit Panjang. First phase of Hillion Residences condominium units were released for sale </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2013 Sim Lian Group acquired its first Australian property, a commercial building at the heart of the Sydney central business district (CBD) </a><a href="http://www.simlian.com.sg/" target="_blank">2014 Sim Lian Group made a second Australian acquisition of five investment-grade neighbourhood shopping centres in Eastern Australia</a>"</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What could have gone wrong?</span></b></div>
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I noticed that Sim Lian has always been playing it safe, by reusing DEAD SIMILAR design and materials for ALL their housing projects; be it DBSS, EC or Condo (The Premiere, Centrale 8, Parc Lumiere, The Tampines Trilliant and Waterview @ Tampines - believe me I have seen all of their projects!).<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Yet, with such a long history and presence, does it necessary mean that the workmanship of the developer can be trusted?</span></b></div>
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Let us look at the BCA CONQUAS rating of Sim Lian Group Limited for their past projects...</div>
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For the uninitiated, the purpose of CONQUAS was to: Standardise quality assessment to <b>benchmark quality of construction projects. Measure quality of constructed works against workmanship standards and specification</b>. Improve the quality standards of the Singapore 's construction industry. </div>
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"<a href="http://www.bca.gov.sg/CONQUAS/conquas_faqs.html#general_q2" target="_blank">CONQUAS assesses the quality of workmanship in: Structural works - this covers the structural integrity and safety of the building to safeguard the interest of the building occupants. Architectural works - this covers the <b>aesthetics of the building in the workmanship quality of the finishes and components</b>. This is the part where the quality and standard of workmanship are most visible. Mechanical & Electrical (M & E) works - this concerns the performance of selected mechanical and electrical services and installations for the comfort of and use by the building occupants.</a>" </blockquote>
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In summary, <b>Sim Lian's scoring has been at the lower end to average (from 64 to 86).</b> If you are wondering who are the top scorers...here is the list. I am surprised that the China developers such as <a href="http://www.chinaconstruction.com.sg/CMS/" target="_blank">China Construction (South Pacific) Development Co Pte Ltd</a> and Qingjian made it to the top list. If you wonder, as of today the lowest score is 53.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">In short, having a long time presence of a few decades doesn't mean anything if the Company is only concerned about profits and expansion and not improving the quality of their projects.</span></b><br />
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Hence I am not surprised by the reports of poor workmanship.</div>
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On hindsight, this is hardly surprising since the household shelter is cool, dark and has many hard to reach places - certainly a perfect hideout!<br />
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To keep out these four legged nuisances, we decided that the ventilation holes have to be covered up. However, since the HDB household shelters are especially constructed to serve also as a civil defense shelter in times of emergency, we have to be mindful not to make unauthorized modifications, alterations or tampering with any part of the ventilation openings, plates, and mounting devices such as bolts and nuts...because we might need it!</div>
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Nonetheless since "<a href="http://www.scdf.gov.sg/content/scdf_internet/en/building-professionals/cd-shelter/permitted-works-for-household.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; border: 0px; color: #00adef; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s linear;">closing or covering up of ventilation openings by removable aesthetic or architectural finishes is allowed, provided that at least 25% of the total area of the two openings shall be left uncovered for ventilation purposes during peacetime</a>", this amazingly simple less than an hour DIY has proved to be both economical and effective!</div>
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Read this post for the <a href="http://www.renonation.sg/blog/232/An-amazingly-easy-but-effective-DIY-to-keep-lizards-out-of-your--household-shelter-.html" target="_blank">Step by Step</a> blog post on how to do it! :)</div>
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The developer of a troubled "premium" housing project has said <b>financial compensation for residents is possible only if there is "strong justification"</b>.<br />
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But EL Development (ELD) continues to maintain that Trivelis - a Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) project in Clementi - was <b>built "according to specifications and approved plans"</b>.<br />
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Meanwhile, it is considering <b>extending the one-year warranty on all furnishings and fittings and offering free safety films for glass shower panels as part of a "goodwill package" for residents</b>.<br />
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Trivelis - an 888-unit project - was advertised as containing "choice fittings" and "quality floor finishes".<br />
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But when owners began collecting their keys in January, some discovered problems such as rusty dish racks, poor quality laminate flooring and glass shower panels that shatter easily.<br />
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An ELD spokesman told The Straits Times it is looking to help affected owners and working with the Trivelis residents' committee.</blockquote>
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"We will look into the residents' requests and issues and offer what we can, within reasonable boundaries," he said. "Right now, we have not concluded the discussions so there's no concrete plan on what we will offer in terms of the goodwill package. As for defects, we want to assure residents we will rectify them."<br />
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He added that the company's response would be on a case- by-case basis and "not a one-size-fits-all treatment".<br />
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However, the response did not wash with all residents.<br />
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Public relations manager Eliza Soh, 31, said: "We are not here to haggle for freebies. What we want are long-term solutions to the bigger problems that are going to affect our lifestyle.<br />
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"To the developer, Trivelis is just another product but to residents Trivelis is our home."<br />
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Mr Stephen Yip, a 34-year-old civil servant, bought a three-room flat and has faced problems such as <b>rainwater seeping into his unit and a faulty tap and window latch</b>.<br />
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He said it is fair for the developer to extend the warranty of the furnishings and fittings, adding: "I didn't do any renovation in my kitchen and the items don't seem to be of high quality so I'm not sure how long they can last."<br />
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Project manager Andy Tan, 33, said: "It really depends on what are the things they are offering. I still prefer cash over freebies."<br />
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ELD said it has already cleared drains after rainwater collected in corridors and it will continue to monitor the situation.<br />
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It is understood that the <b>authorities do not regulate interior renovation or quality of the furnishings.<br />According to the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), after construction, the authorities will perform checks on things such as fire safety, sanitation and drainage and accessibility features. A BCA spokesman said "matters such as defects and workmanship quality" are between the developer and buyer</b>.<br />
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While the Housing Board oversees DBSS projects, the projects are designed, built and sold by private developers who are responsible for any defects. <b>The DBSS scheme was suspended in 2011 after a public outcry over high indicative price tags for units at Centrale 8 in Tampines.</b><br />
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Earlier that year, ELD had beaten 10 other bidders for the Trivelis site, offering $224 million or $271 per square foot per plot ratio.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_p0AZEzVpTXmsvKtPOWerzqRhhmzanWh8hD5LJuL5YS9NwN22jIoTJxS7SALwCnhZxAhNXfD8odq7Wuv5ceJjrZH0gQ-lIZz3XGryfOpGUX6jKpqaxX0FMNYpKl2Z2zJPI5z1J_WIwxIJ/s1600/trivellis_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_p0AZEzVpTXmsvKtPOWerzqRhhmzanWh8hD5LJuL5YS9NwN22jIoTJxS7SALwCnhZxAhNXfD8odq7Wuv5ceJjrZH0gQ-lIZz3XGryfOpGUX6jKpqaxX0FMNYpKl2Z2zJPI5z1J_WIwxIJ/s1600/trivellis_3.jpg" /></a></blockquote>
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Trivelis is the first public housing project taken on by ELD, a "boutique" developer with 20 staff members. Its other projects include condominiums such as Rosewood Suites in Woodlands and Stevens Suites near Bukit Timah.<br />
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A spokesman for the Trivelis residents' committee said: "We certainly hope for the developer to consider offering a goodwill package soon. The details of the package are for ELD to consider... We hope that the offer made to residents will be acceptable."<br />
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More than 200 residents on Thursday met their MP Sim Ann, who called a goodwill package a "move in the right direction". ELD did not attend the meeting.</blockquote>
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DBSS is a dubious scheme offered by HDB back then. I was left scratching my head and wonder why in the world HDB decide to release land for profit driven companies to bid and jackup the land price to be resold as public housing? Didn't they already have EC to address the middle class housing needs?</div>
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Nonetheless, we have to be clear why are we buying a home; for stay or investment? And since there are so many choices such as standard, premium, DBSS, EC and private housing to choose from; we have to be clear why we choose one type over the other.</div>
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Three weeks after moving into their new flat in Punggol last month, technician Jumani Samat and his wife Mazuwina Mohamad<b> noticed cracks on the walls of their living room and bedrooms</b>.<br />
They called the building services centre of their Build-To-Order (BTO) project, Waterway Banks, and workers came to their flat twice to plaster over the cracks. <b>But more cracks started appearing after that</b>.<br />
"We are worried about safety," said Mr Jumani, 35, who lives in the four-room flat with his wife and two children.<br />
The Straits Times counted a<b>t least 15 hairline cracks on the walls and ceilings of all the unit's rooms when it visited yesterday. Some were about 2m long</b>.<br />
"It's very unsettling because it keeps recurring. You patch up in one place, and another crack pops up next to it," said Mr Jumani's wife Mazuwina, 34, who is a housewife. <b>Other residents in the development said they have spotted cracks on their walls</b> too.</blockquote>
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The Housing Board, in response to media queries, said less than one-fifth of the 850 households that collected their keys since last November have reported wall cracks.<br />
<b>An HDB spokesman said these cracks are "non-structural hairline cracks", which may be caused by the shrinkage and expansion of building materials, or movement, such as renovation vibrations</b>.<br />
She added that the cracks do not affect the structural integrity of the block.<br />
<b>According to an industry standard for quality assessment, HDB flats scored above the national average last year.</b> This, however, is cold comfort for residents like housewife Wong Lai Kuan, 40, who moved in in March and found one crack in her living room and another in her daughter's bedroom. "It's a new flat - why should it crack in the first place?"<br />
Building services centres are set up at newly completed public housing projects for home owners to report defects.<b> They have a one-year period after collecting their keys to have defects rectified by the building contractor</b>.<br />
"It's tedious to keep having to plaster and repaint the walls," said security officer Mohamad Rizan Mazlan, 39, who found at least eight cracks in his flat since collecting his keys in February.</blockquote>
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When we collected the keys to our flats back in 2007, we spotted quite a few cracks too. Most of them came back even after the patches and we forked out from our own pockets to rectify them. At least the residents get free rectifications within a year. <br />
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This is due to the shrinkage and expansion of the concrete walls exacerbated by the <i>$@#!&*</i> insane weather; in short there is nothing we can do about them! To be fair, I noted that such cracks also appear in older HDB developments too. Some can be even classified as "fault lines" since they are pretty deep and long! </div>
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><b>Cement had choked the common sewage pipe shared by their seventh floor unit and those above it in Block 313C Sumang Link, causing a backflow into their home.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">"The dream house we have long waited to move into, which was complete with new furniture, was damaged just like that," she said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><b>The renovations had been completed just a few months ago</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Photographs circulating online show faeces and murky water covering the floor of a toilet, hallway and living room.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">It had even seeped into the children's bedroom and out of the front door. This was how a neighbour noticed something was amiss and called HDB last Friday, said another neighbour, Ms Fadhilah, 29.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">A Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council spokesman said it was alerted by HDB on Monday morning. Town council and HDB staff went to the flat to help the family to clean up.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Confirming it was renovation debris that had caused the choke, he said: "We will be working with the HDB to find the culprit."</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Ms Fadilah told evening daily Shin Min that when her husband turned up at their flat in Sumang Link, he was confronted with what she described as a "giant toilet bowl".</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">"My husband was so shocked that he just stood at the doorway crying. He couldn't believe what he was seeing," she said.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><b>The family had spent some $50,000 on renovations alone, and intends to redo the whole house, including all the flooring which had stains between the tiles. A stench still lingered.</b></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><div style="text-align: center;">...............</div></span><br />
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Well, perhaps new homeowners should be very scared of what happens "when shit floods their home!"</div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1;">Well, I have blogged about the issue of clogged pipes way back in my <a href="http://diva79.blogspot.sg/2008/03/hdb-defects-checklist.html" target="_blank">2008 HDB defect checking</a> post. Let me repost the paragraph again..</div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1;"><br />
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It was just brought to my attention that aside from the defect lists I have compiled, you should also unscrew the metal covers of all the pipes in the kitchen and bathrooms. This is because some have complained of finding used food containers and waste construction materials underneath these covers! Some workers have even poured cement into these pipes. So, remember to dig them out before it clogs your pipes later on and also, lodge a complaint to HDB about it. :(</b></span></span><br />
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<h2><span style="line-height: 13.3333339691162px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lessons Learnt?</span></b></span></h2><span style="font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 13.3333339691162px;"><br />
There are a couple of lessons learnt from this shitty incident...first of all, check everything! Nonetheless, I understand that there are pipes or areas which are hard to reach or impossible to check. However, I believe after this smelly incident, you can seek help from the HDB technical officer in checking these pipes!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 13.3333339691162px;">The same goes for the Condo owners la...this might happen to you also. Why? <b>All pipes are the same, construction workers might commit the same mistake</b>. I heard rumors that they throw rubbish etc on the floor before pouring on the cement during the construction of the floors, it saves time and effort to dispose the waste. But I stress that this is a rumor...but it makes perfect sense.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 13.3333339691162px;">Finally, the last lesson learnt? </span><span style="font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 13.3333339691162px;">Buy home insurance and keep all the receipts of your purchase! Ok, I need to find out whether if the home insurance covers such shitty disaster...but one thing is for sure, if you have NO receipts, it is very hard to seek compensation and claims. Yes, you have to SCAN all the receipts since some of the damn receipts fade away with time. <br />
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Do you have any ideas what we can do to prevent this from happening again? Do share! :)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I stumbled upon this post and this really amaze me....</div>
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One thing to note; seems like this picture is photoshopped; superimposed a couple onto the original photograph of LKY's living room.</div>
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Nonetheless, I wonder if our founding father is still alive....what would he say?</div>
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A Singaporean couple have renovated the interior of of their four-room HDB flat in Punggol to look exactly like Lee Kuan Yew’s 38 Oxley Road home, complete with 1940s wooden furniture, tiled flooring and a clay urn that holds water to be used for bathing with a plastic scoop. <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The couple said this is the ultimate tribute they can pay to Lee Kuan Yew in honour of his legacy. To further pay their respects to the first prime minister of Singapore, they declared their intention to raise their one-year-old son to be the next prime minister of the country to follow in Lee Kuan Yew’s footsteps: </b>“We feel that most Singaporeans are not going far enough with their words and deeds for Lee Kuan Yew.” “To show that we are not like that, we even named our son Lee Zhong Li in honour of our founding father. We are going to put him through the paces with multiple language classes and make sure he goes to Cambridge to study law.” Interior designers and home renovators said there have been no shortage of such queries these past few weeks to customise Singapore homes with Lee Kuan Yew’s favourite spartan look. One interior designer, Pai Mah Pi, said: “In our current climate, there is no such thing as going too far to show your respect and gratitude to Lee Kuan Yew.”</blockquote>
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This cheat sheet helps you during the planning stage of your renovation as it lists areas of the house that are commonly remodeled during a renovation. Homeowners should find this pretty useful. :)</div>
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Well, I am sure you will...at a certain point of your relationship. This interesting infographic sheds light on the differences between the sexes in their cleaning habits...and also who is ultimately the<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> better </i>cleaner. (Hint: Its the fairer Sex)</div>
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Nonetheless, I seek to digress; my sibling is certainly a better cleaner than his Wifey. Hence ultimately, it boils down to Family culture (I have seen quite a fair share of <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">non-performing</i>wives too), personal hygiene and work habits.</blockquote>
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For me, I do believer I am a better cleaner than my partner...due to the habits inculcated by my Family since young.</div>
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RESIDENTS of some condominiums here are up in arms after discovering that the construction of their dream homes did not quite go according to plan.</div>
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At Waterfront Waves in Bedok Reservoir, <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">some units ended up a little smaller than what their buyers paid for. Over in Novena at Vista Residences, what was supposed to be a window turned out to be a fixed glass panel.</b>Home owners at both projects told The Straits Times they were concerned the discrepancies might affect their units' value.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.2000007629395px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Richard Tan, 60, a retiree, said the<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> area of his three-bedroom unit at Waterfront Waves was short by 2 sq m, or about 21.5 sq ft. This shortfall is worth slightly more than $14,000</b> at the price of $657 per sq ft that he paid for the unit in 2009.</span></div>
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"With price appreciation, that area could be worth potentially $20,000," Mr Tan said.</div>
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Another home owner, Mr Andy Wee, added: "We felt the developer was not upfront with us. They should have told us before we had to find out ourselves."</div>
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The 43-year-old manager in the IT industry also has a three-bedder costing $646 psf.</div>
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The 99-year leasehold Waterfront Waves was finished in late 2011, but home owners found out about the unit-size shortfall only when they got their Strata Certificates of Title early last year.</div>
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Its developer is Frasers Centrepoint Homes. Chief executive Cheang Kok Kheong told a meeting with home owners in July last year that about 80 per cent of the 405 units had a size shortfall.</div>
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Both Mr Tan's and Mr Wee's units were meant to have 141 sq m but turned out to have 139 sq m, a shortfall of about 1.4 per cent.</div>
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That percentage is below the<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> construction tolerance threshold of 3 per cent stated in the sale and purchase (S&P) agreement</u></b>.</div>
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Mr Cheang told The Straits Times the shortfall was the result of tweaks to the placement of balcony railings and bay windows.</div>
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During construction, Frasers Centrepoint decided to set bay windows further back from the window ledge "to ensure water tightness", and move the railings further in from the balcony edge "for safety reasons", he said.</div>
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Mr Loi Hwee Yong, president of the land surveyor division of the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV), said these were "valid reasons" given the inevitable difficulty of translating plans on paper to concrete reality.</div>
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"There's not much savings involved so I don't think it was for the purpose of saving cost."</div>
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An Urban Redevelopment Authority spokesman said the<u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3 per cent tolerance level for constructed unit sizes in the S&P agreement provides for "minor deviations" that may arise during construction due to unforeseen circumstances. If the shortfall is less, the developer and home owners are not entitled to compensation under the agreement.</b></u></div>
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At the freehold Vista Residences in Jalan Datoh in Balestier, completed in October last year, residents have a different gripe.</div>
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Ms Koh Lee Lee, 44, who runs her own recruitment agency, said that she bought a three-bedder expecting that each bedroom would have at least two windows, going by the unit layout plan she got.</div>
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She was "shocked" to find that one supposed window was actually a fixed glass panel.</div>
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"If this had been made known to me four years ago, I might not have bought it. It's like buying a substandard room." The Straits Times understands that 153 out of 280 units are missing a window.</div>
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Mr Chng Kiong Huat, executive director of property services at Far East Organization, which developed the project, said yesterday "the architect had not intended for two 'openable' windows for the second bedroom".</div>
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"An extra 'openable' window was inadvertently drawn in the as-built floor plan provided to Ms Koh. The error was subsequently corrected." The architect is RDC Architects.</div>
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The Building and Construction Authority said yesterday the <u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">main rule for provision of windows was that total area of the openings has to be at least 5 per cent of the room's floor area, for ventilation.</b></u></div>
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SISV's Mr Loi said that such post-completion discrepancies are rare, adding that it was highly unlikely that property developers here would want to cheat.</div>
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PropNex Realty chief executive Mohamed Ismail said the<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> main way for home buyers to avoid discrepancies was to buy completed resale units. "Then what you see is what you get."</u></b></div>
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Buying a home is the biggest financial commitment for a home owner. However, sadly there are some unethical property developers who chose the exploit the rules, loopholes at the expense of the homeowners in order to earn more. This is especially true during the property downturn, orchestrated by our government. That is why there is a saying not to buy during the bad times or when in doubt, purchase a small unit or from the resale market. Why is this so? Buying the smallest unit of lets say 74 sqm allows for a maximum of 2.22 sqm deviation, as compared to 4.23 sqm deviation for a 141 sqm unit. When buying a resale, what you see is what you get, at least you know how big is the unit and the windows placement. </blockquote>
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