Rejuvenation of our Kitchen and Master Toilet: Day 25 - (29th May) More Carpentry rectifications, rectification of stainless steel backing, polishing floor due to damage

Today was yet another chaotic day ... another 3 groups of people came ... doing various stuffs ....

Group 1 - Jason and his team ...

They had 3 tasks to complete ... (i) to rectify the bulging stainless steel backing which did not completely stick onto the wall because the supplier cut slightly taller; (ii) to clean off the stain left by the aircon man who used CIF to clean his trunkings on the floor; (iii) to paint a small area left untouched by the malay painters and to touch up some cement that had dropped off.

The indian painter was rather blur and I suspect that he was not even a painter ... probably one of the cleaners. Wifey and my maid had to point out to him the areas which he had missed and also how to correct apply white cement to touch up some flaking areas.

Jason tried all sorts and means to try to press the bulging stainless steel plate (left piece) onto the wall. He resorted to using the suction cups, styrofoam, hammer, wooden stick, etc ... and finally he had no choice but to ask his men to pry open the stainless steel plate to apply more glue and used an improvised jack to force the piece into its position. It was a frustrating episode for Jason because Wifey can see his mood changed from mild to almost blowing his top over the stubborn piece of stainless steel backing. It also didn't help when lots of people were calling him over the phone and asking him when he's coming.

While doing this, Jason was shuttling to and fro my master bedroom, trying to use his "special" cleaning agent to rub off the shadowy stain on my marble floor. It didn't work (as expected) but made it worse and they resorted to even CIF, which didn't work as well. The last resort was when wifey pointed out the area to Jason and asked him how? Jason finally relented and I believed he called Uncle for advice ... I think Uncle told Jason to get the marble polishers to polish the entire master bedroom. This got Jason really upset because he sort of replied to Uncle ... "Just doing a small job have to end up polishing the entire marble floor? What sort of business is this !!!" ... Anyway, Jason did call up the marble polishers and they appeared at around 4pm.

Back to the stainless steel plate ... Jason told Wifey that he would be back 2 days later to check (Sunday???) and hopefully the improvised jack would set the stainless steel backing in place. I'm sceptical but what to do ... haha ... just wait and see lor ...

Group 2 - Amax's carpenter Di Giah

This time around it didn't appear to be a rushed job as he went around to rectify the remaining 10% of the defects. He also tried his best to align all the doors when I pointed out that some still appeared funny and misaligned. Overall, I would say that it's a give and take situation ... we gain some, we lose some ... in the end, we decided to look the other way where the defect was not so glaring as we are quite tired about the carpentry rectifications ....

Group 3 - Marble polishers who came on behalf of Ah Seng (the main marble polisher guy)

The first thing the uncle asked when he reached was whether I was going to repolish the entire unit. I told him that he just need to rectify the areas where the cleaning agent had left a stain and it was the stretch from the entrance of the master toilet to a small section of my living room, just outside the master bedroom entrance.

We don't believe in capitalising on another person's mishap / problem as we only wanted the damaged areas to be rectified. They did a very good job and removed the shadowy stained caused by the trunking and the special cleaning agent in less than 30 mins. Hope this won't cause a dent in Uncle's pocket and further reduce his profit from my job ....

Pics from Day 25 -

The CMI painter ...