.::. Day 78 .::.

An army of people came to my place to inspect my carpentry yesterday. At least they had slightly better attitude and were generally willing to rectify most of the issues. Luckily they did not tell me not to be so calculative, won't die.

1. The drawers dropping out or very stiff - they said they will grease the rollers and fix them.  Funny thing is that the carpenter actually claimed that perhaps the solid top people took out the drawers, that's why it was dropping out. BUT, my wardrobe drawers were also dropping out and I did not fix solid top in wardrobe.

2. The chips on edges of my bookshelf and many other pieces of carpentry- they say they will touch up with 'crayons'.  I'm not sure how they can do that and make it look good. Reason behind chips edges is that the laminate is textured, that's why it's difficult to cut it straight. Really? I use my paper cutter to cut textured paper thicker than laminates for scrapbooking and my paper still turns out straight..there are so many textured laminates in the market like rough or crocodile skin ones, cannot be all can't be cut straight right? Many of my edges including smooth laminate was done badly and had 'teeth marks' which they are infamous for.



3. The holes on the feature wall can't be explained, carpenter simply did not notice or think it's a problem. There's even visible scribblings in between the gaps - his signature? We've decided not to change the whole feature wall although wrong sized planks were used, since it may affect the partition and it's a lot of work. They will fix the holes and get rid of the scribblings. There's a whole row of holes!!



4. They will sand all edges of my plywood. I can't understand how they can fix such rough plywood up despite having me tell him to sand it before installation. Isn't it a lot harder to sand it after installation and having to reach to the ceiling? The plywood has holes and are really rough. Mr K's carpentry was absolutely smooth to the touch and the plywood layers were so beautiful while mine has uneven colors and holes in between the layers.  I suppose it's different grade of plywood?  Really disappointing.

5. These holes at the underside of all wardrobe drawers - carpenter said that he thought that it was for our convenience so our hand can reach in to pull out drawers easily. Otherwise, the door of drawers has to be 10mm longer and eats into hanging space. He cut holes of all different sizes because it's underside and can't be seen, so he didn't think that it was a problem too.  Husband made him mend that hole back since changing anything now would result in many holes in the carpentry and changing the whole carpentry seem impossible. They will cut the semi-circle and mend it back, paste both top and bottom with laminate. I really suspect how they can cut exactly the odd-shaped semi-circles.



6. There's a thin strip of raw plywood under our kitchen sink since the tray was slightly smaller than carpentry. Thin strip of RAW PLYWOOD under my sink where there's most moisture!  :curse: They will laminate that thin strip to prevent any rotting.

There still many issues everywhere - we pasted 55 different post-it pads with defects.

Lastly, they insisted that there is no wide soft-closing in the entire market when the husband has found some online.  We're going to find out and see for ourselves.

My drawers are also so stiff when they claim 'it's the same as blum'. I've tried blum drawers and they definitely do not feel like mine.

Can only wait and see what they can do, but I'm really sick of these and want to get this over ASAP.  It's unbelievable how they can claim that they've good workmanship. Internal laminates at cheap prices yes, but with many holes and uneven edges and much more with many weeks of delay and more for rectification works. Moreover, we're using the best carpenter they have, and he's obviously pressurized to perform since we're relatives too. But still, just look at our carpentry.