Tiling

On 25th August 2012, the house is now undergoing tiling.  We are tiling the driveway and patio with terracotta tiles.  The foyer, entrance and dining is tiled with white 2x2 tiles.  The kitchen and domestic helper's room is tiled with light grey 2x2 tiles.  All three bathrooms will be tiled with 1x2 black and white tiles.  White tiles on the bathroom walls and trimmed with black tiles.

Because we are on a tight budget, we hired Indonesian labourers instead of getting our Contractor to do the tiling for us.  We were advised that if we were to hire Indonesian labourers, we were taking a risk as they might not be very good.  However, luck is on our side as these batch of Indonesian labourers are good and they seem to know what they are doing.  Let's just say that we paid only half of what our Contractor wanted to charge us.  Cement and tiles are provided by us.

Part of the tiles that were delivered to our house

The Indonesian labourer cutting one of the tile

Indonesian labourers tiling the dining area

They work fast, within 10 minutes, they laid a number of tiles

More tiling going on

By evening, almost the dining and kitchen area are tiled

Windows

There are many types of windows in the market.  It all depends on how much you are willing to pay.  When we first did our research, there were windows that could keep the sound barrier out, windows that could keep out the dust, thin glass, frosted glass and so on.

In the end, we passed the project to our Contractor to handle and I must say that he did a good job.  The windows look classy and solid.

One of the window for the Master Bedroom

Window at the Kitchen

Windows for the M Floor

Renovation Progress 6 : The Whole House

Our renovation has taken longer than expected.  It started in March 2012 and was suppose to take only about 4 months but it's now coming into the 6th month.  We must admit the contributor towards the delay in our renovation was not only the Contractor but us too.  The beginning of our renovation,  the contractor was slow, but later picked up the pace, then there were some decisions that I had to make, which I did but changed my mind again and again.

 

Anyways, as of todate, 21st August 2012, the plaster ceiling is almost completed, the main door and patio doors have been fixed.  The floors have been screed, inside and outside.  We've bought our tiles, our sanitary wares and our water heaters.  The windows too has been installed by our Contractor.

The main door and patio door has also been installed.  We had several challenges with installation of the main door.  It was  one challenge after another.  Normal hinges were not able to hold the 300kg door.  It has to be custom made.    Then the lock did not quite fit and that's still in modification mode.

Here we leave you guys with some of the Before and After pictures.  More to come.

Before : The façade

After : The façade is now squarish

After : Main entrance on left and patio entrance on the right

Roof Installation : Workers installing the new roof

Roof Installation : Workers installing the Roxul for the new roof

Before : Master bedroom

After : Master bedroom