The Last Last Last Lap Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, October 18, 2008

Ah, with all the list of outstanding works, there are actually additional works not mentioned.  We managed to achieve few more things today. 

There are still, and we feel a lot of things left outstanding.  Renovation works will still be carried out tomorrow.  We are just wondering how we will be able to clean the house for the move in on Monday.

Additional items:

01.  Fixing of Rinnai Cooker Hood
02.  Commissioning Rinnai Cooker Hood
03.  Create new false ceiling for Franke Island Hood
04.  Fixing Toto's Kitchen Sink
05.  Re-positioning Dining Lights
06.  Fixing bracket for Main Door's lock
07.  Fixing Led Night light under Master Toilet's vanity
08.  Fixing power plug in one of Living Room TV Console
09.  Commissioning TV signal
10.  Change all windows roller balls, including balcony sliding doors
11.  Lay black tiles under the washing machine

Rinnai Inner Fire Hob and Franke Island Hood

Rinnai Hob n Franke Hood

Toto Kitchen Sink

Toto Kitchen Sink

The rest of outstanding works [Update]:

01.  To vanish the parquet floor
  -  Left with the Main Entrance

02.  To install Franke Island Hood
03.  To fix electrical items - Left with Kitchen area
04.  To commission electrical outlets - Left with Kitchen area
05.  To measure boxing up of lights and to order the Acrylic light shades -  Delivery on Saturday
06.  To fix Guest Toilet granite top
07.  To fix Guest Toilet vanity wardrobe
08.  To fix Guest Toilet lock
09.  To measure for kitchen solid top
10.  To install kitchen solid top
11.  To final coat timber stain for balcony
12.  To touch up [paint] - interior and exterior - Left with Living Room, Kitchen and Guest Toilet
13.  To fill up holes at false ceiling and paint - Left with Kitchen area
14.  To fix taps and mixers at kitchen, master and guest toilets
15.  To install lock at main gate
16.  To fix curtain rods and curtains
17.  To fix glass at Master Toilet
18.  To fix glass at Guest Toilet
19.  To fix mirror at Master Toilet
20.  To de-wax and polish floor tiles
21.  To clean windows
22.  To fix kitchen back splash [wet and dry areas]
23.  To commission Daikin Air-con
24.  To install doors for kitchen top hung cabinets
25.  To install doors for kitchen tall cabinets
26.  To rectify [re-laminate] Master bedroom door
27.  To 'iron' laminate at Main Door
28.  To clear all debris
29.  To re-laminate Guest Room door

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.. to the Drawing Board 8 Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, June 15, 2008

It was a serious meeting with Chiauw yesterday.  We were very focussed to finalize [some] little details and I was glad that we managed to 'close' those areas and move forward:

A.  Completed Tasks:

01.  Built-in Hob and Hood

Chiauw is to go ahead with the purchase of

- 1 unit EF [Italian made] Island Hood F55120RLN Stainless Steel with Glass
- 1 unit Rinnai 2-inner fire burner built in hob RB-2CG

EF Island CookerHood F55 120RLN

Rinnai Inner Fire Built-in Hob

02.  Toto Sanitary ware

Chiauw is to go ahead with the purchase of:
- Toto Avante wall hung w.c. CW822J
- Toto Eco Washer TCW02SN
- Toto counter top basin LW542J
- Toto semi recessed basin LW533J

Toto Avante Wall Hung CW822J

Toto Eco Washer

Toto LW542J - MBR Toilet - w/o Tap

Toto SemiRecess LW533J - Guests' Toilet

03.  Electrical Power Plugs

We identified all the possible electrical gadgets for the entire house.  In all, we will be installing 45 units of Legrand electrical power plugs.

Legrand

04.  Celing Lights

We will have false ceiling all throughout the house.  We shall leave it to Chiauw to locate all the points and switches for the downlights.  We prefer, at certain area of the house, to have a two-way switch.  The only place that will have a hanging light would be for the dining area.  We also requested for energy saving warm yellow lights.

05.  Wardrobe structure

We decided not to use alumix or ximula modular structure.

- www.alumix.com/TheStructuralSystem.html
- www.ximula.com/products.htm

07.  Bed Frame

It will be custom made with a boxed headboard [with lights shooting upwards] and two side tables.  The size of Arlington Plush Simmons king mattress is 72 x 75 x 11.5 inches.  We want the bed to be low.

Bed Set with Side Tables

08.  Wood Flooring

Chiauw strongly suggested that we go for Oak wood.  She highlighted the colour of wood will change, and drastically to some wood like maple, few years down the road.  The matured colour of oak is supposedly not so drastic from the day of laying them.  Plus, some woods will give stained marks between joins after a while - especially with frequent wet mops.

Wood07

B.  Pending Matters:

01.  Tank Heater

We need to go down to the house to check for the water pressure before deciding on Hansgrohe Raindance showerpipe.  Also, will be considering to install two units of tank heater - 25 litre tank for MBR toilet and 15 litre tank for kitchen and Guests' toilet.

Hansgrohe Rain Shower Pipes

Hansgrohe Wall Bar

Joven Tank Heater

02.  Floor Tiles

Earlier before meeting up with Chiauw, we thought of changing the colour scheme for the MBR toilet from black and white to earth brown.  We thought it would make the tiles selection easier as we could not find a nice black and white previously.

Chiauw felt that we should still stick to black n white theme for the MBR toilet.  She suggested that she should go down to the tiles showroom, picked on few samples, and let us choose thereon.  Probably, this will work out.


C.  Job Tender

We will be going down to the house this Thursday with some contractors.  The purpose of this visit is to let them inspect the house and bid for quotations.

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Shopping - Headache No. 1 Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, May 10, 2008

It was a long day.  Chiauw picked us at about noon.  She had earlier gone to Sungei Kadut to get samples of the wood for the bedrooms.  That saved us a trip - initially, we were supposed to go there with her.

Our first stop was to a sanitary ware shop somewhere in Jalan Besar.  Gosh, I didn't know that Jalan Besar is such an area for all kind of household things.  Chaiuw wanted to show us an alternative of the white ceramic kitchen sink, at a lower price but with a proper (and bigger) basket waste.  Surprisingly, the price is soooo much cheaper than the one we saw last week.  Anyway, more of headache about kitchen sink later.

At the same shop, we took another interest.  We had earlier intended to bring over our existing kitchen hob to Reiki Sanctuary as it still looked new.  Guess, it might now change our mind. 

We saw a sleek Rinnai [model RB2CG] glass ceramic kitchen hob and liked it instantly.  The size was just right with two Inner-Flame technology burner.  Ah, hold on to your chair - this hob was not cheap!  It was slightly more than $800! 

Chaiuw teased that should we want to have it, we would be her first home client ever to get a kitchen hob more than $400.

Rinnai RB2CG Glass Ceramic Kitchen Hob

Rinnai Glass

The Inner-Flame Burner Technology

Rinnai Glass Fire Technology

What is Inner-Flame Technology?

The purpose of the unusual design is to create a coherent, unified
flame that rises under the center of a pan, then flows outward, bathing
the entire bottom of the pan in flame. This approach heats the pan with
greater uniformity and improves the efficiency of heat transfer from
the flame to pan, which is good for even frying without getting burned
food.

In addition to aiming the ports inward, two other design
factors assist in shaping the flame. One is that the burner sits
slightly below the surface of the cooktop, helping the individual
flames to coalesce toward the center as they rise through a hole in the
cooktop surface.

Secondly, and more importantly, the burner ports are angled slightly on
the horizontal plane. The effect of the flames shooting out an angle is
to create a fiery vortex. The swirling flame is meant to accomplish two
things. One, it assists in driving the flame outward across the bottom
of the pan, helping to evenly bathe the pan bottom with flame. Two, the
vortex creates a pressure drop that assists in drawing air in for
combustion allowing for a strong consistent flame.

Will sleep with the thought whether to go ahead ..

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