DAY 33

I didn't know what to expect today but it's reasonable to expect some work to be done daily, however little. But what I saw this morning when I went to the apt stunned and bewildered me. My nicely tiled floor was GONE! It was hacked away and the house looked like it did two weeks ago. When I arrived at the foot of the block, I saw two huge bags of debris, exactly like the ones I photographed and posted when they cleared the debris from the house two weeks ago. I thought to myself: this can't be from our unit because there wasn't that much debris left to fill these two humongous bags. So for a moment, I wondered if there was another unit undergoing renovations but I was doubtful. I didn't think much about it and proceeded upstairs. I hadn't noticed as I was opening the gate that my nicely done flooring (part of it anyway) was gone. I did a double take after I opened the gate and faced a bare, empty, raw floor. I couldn't understand what had happened to warrant such a drastic action of re-hacking the floor again. The contractor had applied for another hacking permit from the HDB for works from 11 - 13 Oct. I msged the contractor to ask what happened but he did not reply to me. Hrrmphh! What's happening?!

I can almost hear my neighbours groan.

Crazy lah! 

The debris bag is ginormous.

DAY 6 & 7

I try to go daily but sometimes work prevents me from doing so. I did not pop in yesterday, Monday, but swung by today during lunchtime to bring some drinks and food for the workers. I saw more cement blocks and screed being delivered. They were on crates at the ground floor, waiting to be taken up to the unit. Much has been done in the two days. The master and Em's room have been floor screeded and they look good. Meg's room remains the same because they've yet to take down the wall between the girls' rooms. We are still awaiting HDB's approval for the study/balcony wall. 

Cement blocks and more bags of cement screed at the void deck downstairs.

More concrete blocks and on the right, I believe they are the lightweight concrete blocks that will fill up the balcony floor.

This was the original bar on the balcony parapet which I wanted removed.

So glad they managed to do it and there wasn't any rule to say we couldn't.

The balcony column and beam have been screeded and cleaned up. Don't know why they haven't removed the clothes pole hanger!

Nice and smooth new floor in Em's room. Concrete, when wet is very dark grey in colour but it lightens up after a few days of drying.

A bar was placed at the entrance to the two rooms so that we wouldn't imprint the wet cement with our footprints.

Some screeding was done in the kitchen as well - The bathroom doorway and the rubbish chute wall. 

It's getting crowded!

From left: study, Meg's room (blue), Em's room (green) living room.