{"id":827,"date":"2019-05-12T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T03:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=827"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:52:51","slug":"windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If I\u2019d known that these windows would\u2019ve been so expensive to replace.. I\u2019d probably have used it to negotiate the price of this unit. Along with the load of tile work that needs to be done. \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n

We\u2019d need FULL LENGTH SOUNDPROOF WINDOW! \ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8<\/p>\n

Thing is, the place was full of furniture then and the noise from the main road was really not that loud. Still.. if we\u2019re going to be replacing the windows, we might as well get ones that are soundproof so that we won\u2019t have to ever replace them ever again.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting quotes for soundproofing windows. The man who came down today was a lot more straightforward than the one yesterday, who spoke so much and told us so many grandfather stories that C and I were just squirming from how much he talked.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not very outgoing people. But our level of politeness stopped us from telling the guy to please stop talking and just help us get our quote because it was GODDAMN hot in the house (no electricity yet).<\/p>\n

Dead. Why this uncle talk so much?!<\/p>\n

C texted me to tell me that we needed to go but I didn\u2019t know how to get the guy to stop while he was mid-story. So neither of us did a thing.<\/p>\n

Today, this other guy got to work immediately measuring our windows and asking us questions. Thing is, the one yesterday mentioned that it was possible to have blinds within the windows and that made me \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude0d. I mean can you imagine? That means that we needn\u2019t worry about dusty blinds!!!<\/p>\n

That sounds amazing. But how exactly am I going to afford that?<\/p>\n

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We asked the man about this today and he said that this was from China and they didn\u2019t have this.<\/p>\n

This makes me sad. I\u2019m perfectly fine with China made windows, (what product isn\u2019t from China nowadays anyway), but I preferred working with this man. He seems a lot less tedious. He also gave us the quote immediately after measuring the windows!<\/p>\n

A staggering $9660 for all the windows (including the ones in the toilet), the ones in the study and the balcony soundproofed.<\/p>\n

We also got our quote from one of our IDs today. My brother\u2019s godsister.<\/p>\n

Initially thought the project would be too small for her, since she usually works on big projects like condo developments and overseas work in Bkk and Indonesia, but she seemed open to working together.<\/p>\n

She\u2019d done my parents\u2019 home, and after living in it for 10+ years, we have no complaints. I\u2019d also enjoyed that process and her input. That said.. my parents reno cost a total of $100k including appliances.<\/p>\n

So I warned her that our budget wasn\u2019t quite the same. She in turn warned us that we were looking at a realistic budget of 75-90k including tiles, lights, loose furniture, bathroom fittings, windows, blinds, appliances.<\/p>\n

She turned out to be right.<\/p>\n

She even helped flesh out the layout I was keen on with more accurate dimensions.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve been in discussions for a month now and I haven\u2019t seen her once. All of our discussions have been through WhatsApp or calls because she\u2019s so busy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that I need to see her face to face since lots of the things we spoke about can definitely be done over text.<\/p>\n

At our site viewing, she was busy but sent her contractor, her 2 assistants and a team of aircon specialists down. It was an army of people, which was a little reassuring, but would\u2019ve been more so if we\u2019d actually seen her since then.<\/p>\n

Still… she\u2019s my first choice. I think it\u2019s just that I\u2019m a creature of habit and I already trust her work.<\/p>\n

C isn\u2019t so convinced.<\/p>\n

Gah didn\u2019t manage to leave for boxing again. I should really make sure to stop doing overtime out of my own volition.<\/p>\n

I teach Pilates and when I\u2019m teaching 1-on-1s, it\u2019s so hard to stop when I know the student needs so much more work.<\/p>\n

Second time this has happened so far. I shall go boxing tomorrow morning\ud83d\ude29<\/p>\n

Typing this out as I sit on the reformer, can\u2019t get myself to work out alone. I miss my Pilates workout buddies!<\/p>\n

Perlin from FloorXpert came by after the window uncle left, and something we learnt is that we can get contractors to cover up the grout to even the tiles out!!! No one at the showroom mentioned this at all! This makes all the difference, it means we won\u2019t have to hack the tiles away for sure.<\/p>\n

That said.. the ID has her own vinyl contact and I\u2019m not sure how her contractors will install the vinyl or how well they\u2019d work with subcontractors..<\/p>\n

In fact, I wonder if we\u2019d offend her somehow.<\/p>\n

But her supplier (La Flor)\u2019s vinyl planks are from Korea.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard that vinyl planks contain toxic materials but the ones in Europe (Like FloorXpert\u2019s) are not as bad. I was pretty sold on FloorXpert.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll have to pop by La Flor\u2019s showroom and give it a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I\u2019d known that these windows would\u2019ve been so expensive to replace.. I\u2019d probably have used it to negotiate the price of this unit. Along with the load of tile work that needs to be done. \ud83d\ude14 We\u2019d need FULL LENGTH SOUNDPROOF WINDOW! \ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8 Thing is, the place was full of furniture then and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}