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Hi everyone,I’ve been seeing a lot of homeowners lately dealing with "phantom leaks"—stains that appear on the ceiling only after a massive monsoon, but then disappear for weeks. Having dealt with Singapore’s tropical climate for years, I wanted to share some technical insights on why "patching" often fails and what yo...

Hello, I have recently completely renovated my room and toilet (tore down walls, rebuild partittion) and had limeplastering done.However, less than 1 months after the limeplaster work was done, multiple long fine cracks kept appearing. They were able to touch up the bedroom's cracks but for the toilet, the toilet crac...

My shower glass looks clean and clear when/ after i cleaned it. But when there's steam and the glass fogs up, i start to see what seems like water stains on the foggy areas. It also appears if i wipe with a damp cloth. I have used various methods to clean the glass (vinegar, baking soda, dawn soap) but none seemed to w...

Hi everyone, I have just done the handover of my house from ID a couple of weeks ago. The first week after the handover we went to do final inspection of the house. However, we got mild headaches, sore throat and stingy eyes despite being in the home for just 10 to 15 minutes. We have heard that its kinda normal for ne...

Hi, I have recently renovated a 20-year-old resale flat. I realized that after a shower with hot water and sometimes during the shower, a weird smell will be emitted from the water heater. I use a mistral instant water heater MSH103. Why I think it is from the water heater because we have opened up the cover once while...

Hi owners, My partner and I has just collected our keys to our new BTO. We did a preliminary round of inspection of the unit and it appears to have to quite a lot of defects compared to some of our friends' BTOs which we have visited. We had more than 200 post-it stickers pasted throughout the house for the indicating...

My reno was completed around a year ago with an ID, which was quite a negative experience for me, as we faced some quality and workmanship issues along the way. To my ID's credit, he managed to resolve most of them even though we had to deal with some delays here and there. For the rest of the defects, we were happy to...

Hi, need some advice. My HDB resale flat is currently under renovation and yesterday My ID informed me that during the hacking some of the tiles pop up and they will be charging us for the cement screed, is this very common??

I am currently living in a 30 year old HDB. In my bedrooms, I realised that a section of my parquet flooring is dislodged due to the ceramic tiles underneath that is popping up. I have tried to source for contractors to repair my parquet flooring but I could not find any contractor who is able to do the job. Most of th...

I would like to ask if anyone knows if it's normal to have a little bumpiness and uneven surfaces on a newly screeded floor after vinyl panels are installed? Before vinyl was installed I had noticed that the screed done by my contractor was rough and uneven in some areas, but I thought that it would not be obvious afte...