24 April 2011

On this Easter Sunday, we will like to give our praise and thanks to our Living God! We believe in him and that He is in control, for He has conquered death and nothing is impossible to Him. 

We will like to thank God for His guidance in our hunt for a renovation contractor. 

It has been a month since we got our keys. We started off getting contacts from our friends. The first contractor was a straightforward person and was highly recommended by 2 of my frens. It was tempting to go ahead with him, get reno done asap and shift in.

 I was held up by Charlene's visit to the hospital etc and by the time I wanted to call him to confirm the deal, I had a miss call from the 2nd contractor. We decided to give the 2nd contractor a chance, at least to see his quotation. The 2nd contractor's pricing was lower. Also, the 1st contractor did not warn us that our request for a full length wardrobe will not be feasible as it will block out the passage way.

One week passed. And just as we were going to finalise with the 2nd contractor, I was reminded by Holy Spirit  to call HDB to check. Goodness gracious, both of these fellows do not have HDB licenses. They claimed that they have but it is under the name of another company (which they claimed it's the parent company or owned by same boss etc). Oh man. So it's back to square one and we are currently looking at 3 reno companies at Yishun Central. And all the quotations were cheaper than the 1st contractor!

We thank God for His timely intervention! He must have also planned us to go through the different contractors, because we learnt to look out for different things from them, which we will probably not be aware of if we have gone for 1.