ok la... I finally thought of another topic to keep this forum
alive... 
A friend of mine (Bedok) got a ceiling leakage problem at both his
toilets about a year ago. His own ceiling was not leaking, but his
toilet floor leaked to his lower floor neighbour.
The lower floor floor neighbour reported the defect to HDB. Then an
officer from the Branch Office went to the lower & upper floor
floor to inspect the leak. There was a scheme offered by HDB called
the Goodwill Repair Assistance Notification (GRAN) scheme to
subsidise the cost of repairs.
The lower & upper floor will only pay 25% of the basic repair
cost done by HDB's term contractor. The remaining 50% is absorbed
by HDB. Basic cost means the cost to hack the entire toilet floor,
rescreed & waterproof, lay new floor tiles provided the term
contractor and replace with a new WC (taking 4 working days per
toilet). But my friend got additional charges to pay to the
contractor (on top of HDB basic cost) - eg take down &
reinstall his existing toilet doors for repair access, demolish his
long-bath, etc.
Basic cost payable to HDB : (25%) - about $180++ per toilet
Additional charge to contractor : A few hundred dollars per
toilet!!!!
And a few months after completion: Guess what happens??
There's no more leak problem recurring, but - the toilet floor
tiles offered by HDB term contractor was super horrible! Tiles
colour began to fade off! The cement pointing (gap between the
tiles) are easily stained and unable to be removed even using
chemicals. The contractor actually used silicone to seal the bottom
of the WC (ie between the floor & WC)! That's why the silicone
turned from white to BLACK!! SO HORRIBLE LOOKING !!!! I heard that
if white cement is used to seal the gap instead of silicone, it
won't turn black.
My friend was very disapppointed. He paid alot to downgrade his
toilet. His long-bath was demolished to make way for repair access
also.
My friend said the HDB supervisor went to his house during repair
to inspect the work, but he felt very funny - in spite of such
supervision, why no one bothered to improve the work quality etc?
are these officers sleeping???
