DAY 24

The pipes and one half of the floor trap were in place.I didn't visit yesterday and, as usual, went this morning instead. There wasn't much progress that I could see, except for the laying of cement screed in the master bathroom. Other that that, I could not determine what else had been done yesterday. I'd half expected the parquet to be laid when I got there but they were still piled up where it was left yesterday. 

Clockwise from top left: The WC waste pipe, the shower area outlet and the bathroom floor trap.

The kitchen bathroom,

No entry to both bathrooms to allow the cement screed to set.

Our 50L AO Smith water tank fixed to the top inner corner of the kitchen bathroom. I'm posting this photo more to see how the water pipes run to the tank and how it's affixed. The small square box hanging inside the suspended plastic ziploc is the digital thermometer.

Can't remember if this was finished yesterday. The humongous aircon casing protruding at the corner of the master bedroom. 

Thank goodness the mess is temporary...

It's status quo on the 24th day of renovations.

DAY 2

It looked like a war zone today... I thought they were going to save the floor but it looks like they decided to hack the entire floor. I guess it's easier to hack everything than to try to match up with the old flooring. The house was full of rubble. My sympathies to our neighbours for having to put up with the drilling and hacking for those three days. I dragged my pajama-clothed daughters to the house but didn't stay long for fear of having them breathe in the fine cement dust. The kitchen walls had been taken out. All the wall tiles in the kitchen and balcony were removed. The built-in cabinets in the study and kitchen were all removed. It was quite a sight.

One daughter was awed, the other, disinterested.

We could not walk around the house, so we just stood at the entrance corner and shot pix.

Kitchen walls facing the living and house entrance where demolished, rubbish chute also removed.

The debris in the kitchen.

Another panoramic view of the war zone.

DAY 1

What lies behind the door?
We opened the door with trepidation, not knowing what to expect after the first day of hacking.

We popped by the apt at the end of the first day of renovations to see what was happening. I had come by earlier in the morning to drop the greeting cards under our neighbours' doors - the ones provided by the HDB to help new owners to break the ice with their neighbours - introducing ourselves and informing them of the impending renovations. We've not met any of them. Their doors are closed all the time, all three of them, and I had to slot the cards under their doors. HDB provided three cards so I gave one to our neighbours directly opposite us, to the right of us and below us. I wanted to give inform the neighbour diagonally across from us too but had no more cards to give so I left them out.

The HDB-provided cards which we dropped under the neighbours' doors. I thought the cards are a very good idea. It allows you to pen a message too! Well done HDB!

The flooring is supposed to be saved, so that we lay our tiles over it to save some costs. I guess that's why only certain portions were hacked. HDB only gives us three days to do the hacking, from 9am-5pm so all major noise producing works have to be finished within the three days, which isn't a lot of time if you have quite a few walls to hack!

The balcony wall tiles were stripped, as well as the floor. Balcony glass door was also removed.

The cooker hood and kitchen sink were dumped there.

Another view of the living room with kitchen entrance on the left.

The study.

The master bedroom. 

Another view from the master bedroom. On the left is the bathroom and on the right is the living.

The bathroom in the master.

The kitchen.

 A last look before leaving.