Final Rectifications ...

Finally, Uncle sent someone (in fact 2 persons) to my place to do the final touch up and to replace the stainless steel backing. It was the same guy who had installed our stainless steel rubbish chute...

I requested them to do the following rectifications/ cleanups:

1) Replace the warped stainless steel backing
2) Touch up the silicone that were not applied or applied wrongly
3) Cleanup the mess of white cement at the piping area in my master toilet
4) General cleaning up of the tiles

They only did the following:

1) Replaced the warped stainless steel backing (satisfied)

After they removed the piece of stainless steel backing, I believed Uncle told them to replace it so that he can have a piece of mind ... if not , i'll probably be bugging him every single day about the piece of inferior work that is an eyesore ...

Anyway, they arrived at around 11am and they need to take measurements of the area again. By the time they replaced the stainless steel backing, it was already around 4pm.

2) Touch up the silicone (not satisfied)

I wonder if Bo Geh actually told them what to do. There were so many areas where the silicone was either not applied or applied in a haphazard manner.
E.g. (i) below the box-up at the pipes - no silicone was applied even after I told them to do so; (ii) they forgot to apply the silicone between the joints of the cabinets because they were not joined perfectly; (iii) they really didn't feel like doing the job because the silicone they applied between the stainless steel plates were like s*** and out of place. They also never bother to clean up the excess.

3) Clean up the white cement mess at the pipes (Half-past-six standard)

Bo Geh told me that he will get the men to scrap off the excess and to apply colour grouting to match the tiles. They only did 50% ... which was to scrap off the excess white cement. They didn't bother to do the colour groutings ...

4) General cleanup (Not done)

The man only gave me a solution (which was acid by the way ...) and didn't give my wifey any instructions on use ... we tried to use it in the bathroom toilet and it ate away a part of the grouting ! I had to buy the grouting and reapply it myself ....


Conclusion:
The rectification works are really sub-standard and I'm really tired of chasing Uncle. Anyway the renovation works for me is small compared to a couple of others. So I guess I was not given the best of his subcontractors except for the tilers (luckily).

If anyone wants to take a look at the sub-standard works that Uncle had delivered for me (although he said that he would do up everything perfectly), by all means you can drop me a note / email and arrange for a viewing ...

My wifey and I discussed about the likelihood of getting Uncle to do up our place again (if we ever shift or renovate the whole house), our verdict is that we would try to save up more cash and get my 2nd lowest quote ID/Contractor to do the works instead. It really saves us the monitoring and there was hardly any post-rectification works required for my friend who had recommended him to us.

Unless Uncle improves his project management and the quality of his subcontractors, I doubt i'll ever introduce anyone to him again.