Scanteak - Negative review

Bought quite a number of items from Scanteak and they were delivered on Sat.

Imagine our horror when we realized 2 of the dining chairs are obviously used goods (worn leg undersides, chipped legs, one leg of a chair had even split apart from the seat area).

How could used goods be repackaged as new goods to be sold to unsuspected customers?

They were supposed to get back to us today but so far they had not even bothered to acknowledge the complaint email I sent...

Update: The deliveryman claimed that these chairs were actually meant to be delivered to the warehouse but were mistakenly delivered to us...

Installation of lights

Have installed our lightings on 10 Sept.

Makes our painting/cleaning up job much easier especially when the weather is gloomy/dark.

Spent less than $1k on simple lightings.

Luckily within budget.

Location: Entrance of master bedroom

Location: Studyroom

Currently in the midst of painting the unit.

Super tiring from mask-taping/painting/cleaning.

Will be installing wooden planks on the planter box as well as expecting all deliveries this week.

Hopefully things goes smoothly.

We are now left with 1 main defect which is the laminated flooring.

Have been waiting for rectifications since 6 Sept.

If they still fail to settle by tomorrow, I am going to just give up.

Trying hard to juggle between work/interviews/house-related matters all at the same time =<

Are you sure the unit is really ready for handover? Part III

Called the Bangladeshi supervisor who is supposed to be in charge of rectifying our unit's defects this afternoon.

And got the reply which I had already anticipated....

The defects on our laminated flooring is still yet to be rectified.

From 9 Sept to 10 Sept to 13 Sept and still nothing was done.

When we handed over the keys on Sat, he promised 3-4 days is all he need to clear the remaining defects.

Thus, we decided that Friday would be the deadline.

Perhaps this is why he said laminated flooring will only be rectified on Friday.

As for the rest of the defects, he mentioned that they are currently cleaning up the unit.

*Faint*

Am I supposed to call him up every single day just to check on the defect status?

Starting to feel like a loanshark...

Anyway I guess I have no choice but to do so since HE will only be back on Fri and it is up to me to ensure that things do progress smoothly for us to start painting on Saturday.

*Gambate*

Hope things are progressing more smoothly for the rest of my neighbours.

Cafe Epicurious @ The Rail Mall

Visited Cafe Epicurious located at the Rail Mall quite some time back on a weekday for lunch.

It was quite surreal and windy.

A nice place to relax and enjoy the food.

I had the beef stew while he had the carbonara.

Both dishes were cheap and good.

Definitely will be coming back in the near future.

Are you sure the unit is really ready for handover? Part II

Not sleeping well for the past 1 week.

Kept worrying about the house whether can the defects be rectified by this week so that we can finally start painting.

Was really irritated at the supervisors.

Imagine taking leave to come down to the unit early for defect inspection but they take their own sweet time to turn up.

No sight of them at all from 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs despite numerous calls and smses.

They seemed to think that they are the only busy persons in the whole wide world and the rest of us are just shaking legs *Argh*

The workers who are actually the ones rectifying the defects are so much better in comparison.

So far we are super happy with the workmanship of the rectified defects.

The Chinese worker 'trimmed' numerous tiles for us just to get a perfect piece to replace our chipped tile.

Another Chinese worker who was repairing the chipped/dented/ wall was also very professional.

We thought he would only 'putty' the affected areas but we were wrong.

He even sandpapered the region after the putty had dried, resulting in super smooth surfaces.

Hopefully the rest of the defects will be rectified by Fri as promised by the Bangladeshi supervisor.

If not, he is definitely going to get it from me since he is the one who promised to finish in 3-4 days and we have given him close to a week.

Are you sure the unit is really ready for handover?

Pretty stunned at the state that the unit is in and keys were still handed over to us.

I don't think that we are very picky but look at this....

Are we supposed to install this ourselves?

And this is just the drain hole under the kitchen sink.

Imagine the same for all drain holes in the unit.

Who is going to be held responsible if someone gets injured?

The cement unfinished surfaces are super rough lo...

As for the bomb shelter, there are missing ventilation covers.

Starting we are quite noob at all these defects checking but I seriously think that we are now quite expert at spotting defects...

Other things like dents/holes on the walls and cement/paint stains, we can still close 1 eye and omit it from the defect list.

Just hope they fix the defects asap *sigh

Success finally!

Made an impromptu decision to stop by PC and we managed to get into our unit!

It was quite an exciting experience getting from the carpark to the lift and finally into the unit.

Was expecting someone to stop us at any moment.

It was super windy and the scenery was not too bad from various spots in the unit.

Going to do away with the idea of installing ceiling fan, taking into account that the ceiling is really quite low.

Did some defect checking in the dark and so far so good.

Hope that things still look that optimistic in daylight.

On the downside, there seems to be a lack of privacy at certain spots in the unit.

Have to get some window films or curtains installed before shifting in...