D-Day + 1178: The Defects.

Not sure to count myself lucky or not, but my list of defects for the newly acquired 'quality' housing from HDB is rather short, as compare to some other residents in the estate.

Most astounding would be the cracks on the toilets' wall tiles. I mean, what kind of quality are we actually paying for a 200k+ house? After reporting to the BSC and having them rectifying the defects, more cracks appear. Same goes for the dents and scratches on the main door. More would appear after the first round of rectifications.

I'm just so glad that I did not opt for the HDB's floor tiles and doors. Save me some trouble there.

Almost all windows have this problem

Broken 'caps'

Cracked 'caps'

Cracked wall tiles

The crack ran the whole column from top to bottom

One of the dents on the main door

D-Day + 1174 : The Ritual

Had not consult any FSM on this auspicious date. We simply chose a good date base on the calendar and went along with it. And based on it, we have got to open the door between the auspicious hours between 7am to 9am.
Luckily, I had rented a car on the previous day for the tiles hunt thus getting to Jade Spring wasn't much trouble. And as it was the Ching Ming period, we had to quicken the prayers so that I can send my Mom, whom is helping out with the prayers, to the interchange by 8.30am so that she can go about with her own schedule and we can rush back to meet Edmund whom will be doing site measurements for the upcoming reno.

Arriving at around 7.30am, we wasted no time in setting up the prayer proper.
No throwing of pineapple, salts, green beans, etc.
We did some modest praying and burning of incense papers.

Po Pi Po Pi...

Forgot to poke holes for air inlet thus had a hard time keeping the fire going

HUAT ah!

After the prayers, things went like a whirl wind. First is to send my Mom to the interchange, then we have to return the car at Khatib, grab some breakfast and rushed back to Jade Spring by 9am to meet Edmund.

We made it, but Edmund did not. So we had some time to finish up our packet breakfast and took photos rooms.

View from the Living Room

View of Yishun Ave 11

Future Study Room

Guest Room

Master Bedroom. Thanks to MBT for the size.

View from the MBR

View of Floral Spring BTO from MBR

Master Bathroom

Common Bathroom

Kitchen and service yard. THANKS again to MBT. Edmund's comment on first sight: "Wah! So big ah!"

Household Shelter (with the complimentary tiles)

Dining area

The doorway

D-Day + 1173 : Keys collection!

On April Fools' Day, we were scheduled to collect our keys at HDB. Was it a joke or what?

Nevertheless, the process went on rather smoothly.

Upon arriving, we proceeded to get our basic home insurance first, without which, we will be denied the collection.

Then we waited for our number to be called. And after much signing and wiping cleaning of our CPF account, the keys finally landed safely in our hands! Too bad we couldn't proceed to open the door immediately as we had selected an auspicious date for that.

Keys to Main Gate, Main Door and Letter Box.

Next up will be to continue our renovation homework. Had decided to visit a 2 tiles showrooms: Hafary (Defu branch) and Gallery T.

Here are some tiles we took a liking to at Hafary.

Homo tiles for the living and dining

For the Master bathroom. Too bad it was low on stock.

Another for the Bathroom

Common Bathroom. But... low on stock as well

Wood textured tiles for the 3 bedrooms. Love it, but the price was a put off.

The tiles we chose from Gallery T.

Walls and Floor for Master Bathroom.

Walls and Floor for Common Bathroom

Master Bathroom tiles on display

For the kitchen floor if we decides to overlay

Floors tiles for the 3 bedrooms

Another one for the Bedrooms