A Couple’s Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 3.2)

May 25, 2016 Renonation TeamTips & Guides1 Comment0

Following up from Previous Posts: A Couple’s Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 1), (part 2), (part 3.1)

Chapter 3 – Checklist checked!

Checked: Material and tiles are all delivered.

Checked: Wall smoothened and a layer of cement is coated on the wall

Checked: A 25 years of tiling experience tiler, Mr Ah-Shui is ready

Checked: An 15 years of tiling experience tiler, Mr Oh-Kim (shy) is all good

SO LET’s GO

Work in progress

Laying wall tiles for our industrial kitchen

Why only the middle wall has tiles??

Tips:
If you are doing top and bottom kitchen cabinet, you can simply save $$$ by laying wall tiles on expose area only. For our case, it would be only subway tiles on cooking area!

From left to right:
1. MY Dad fixing water piping for conceal
2. Ah Shui grouting the common toilet tiles
3. Oh Kim making the final wall coating

Finalising the Master Toilet and Balcony

From left to right:
1. Laying the bedroom tiles
2. Mixing the colour grout colours
3. Fill in the blank!

Inspection of the area and it’s good for Sink Support to be up!

Finally the Big Living Room, the final ones

So let’s recapture of our transformation:

From this:

And now To this:

Living room

Balcony room

Bedroom rooms & Master toilet

Kitchen and Common Toilet

Laying pieces of jigsaw puzzle to form a beautiful home of ours is never easy. It could be a more painful process for us as we are not professional. However, what makes this a beautiful jigsaw puzzle really come from this great people:
1. MY Dad for his off-days, patience, coordination and monitoring of the whole process and ensuring a smooth process ;
2. Uncle Johnnie, Ah Shui and Oh Kim for their patience in guiding us what to lookout for in tiling works, haulage and no complain in rework if things done wrongly;
3. Kelly and Anand from Soon Bee Huat, for their unconditional assistance. Especially their quick turnaround time to replenish tiles for us due to damage tiles (not even a single question why it is damage {it is damaged during transporting}) and miscalculation of tiles.

REALLY THANK YOU

For you as a reader, We hope we have shared a Good Experience for Your reference. Cheers!!

Next: A Couple’s Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 4)