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It's been 1.5 years since my renovation in Jun 2016. Well, any major disaster with any of the service providers or products? I'm glad to say that we have not encountered any major disaster. In fact, I can't really recall there were any minor hiccup.

To sum up,

• Our aircon system, Mitsubishi Starmex System 4 (MXY-4A28VA, MSY-GE24VA & MSY-GE10VA), is working pretty well since installation. I don't find the compressor to be noisy. In fact, I find it rather quiet when it's compared to my 10+ years old aircon system, haha... but seriously, I don't find it noisy as what some people had commented on forums. We felt rather cold in our bedroom even after we had set the air-con setting to Econo Cool, which was set at 26 degree celsius. The bedrooms were cooled down rather fast as we usually switched on the air-con for only 1 bedroom, at most 2 bedrooms concurrently. It didn't take very long to cool down the living room too and it can even get a bit cold with a crowd of more than 10 persons. Any problem with the workmanship? Well, we have past the 1 year workmanship warranty for half a year now and we have not contacted Harvest Aire during this 1.5 year, so what do you think?

• How's our electrical wiring so far? We had a minor incident whereby I had to climb up to reach the new circuit breaker to get back my electricity... I forgot what triggered it but it goes to show that the circuit breaker works, haha...

• What about carpentry works done by our ID? The platform, cupboards, display cabinets, doors, hinges, etc are still intact and working, phew... lol!

If you asked me would I recommend the service providers whom I previously engaged, I would honestly tell you yes for air-con and electrical, as for ID, err... (go figure out what this means, lol!) To be fair though, the ID was at least responsible enough to complete the renovation works that we engaged him to do so and within a challenging period of 4 weeks for most of the works to be done, except that he didn't make good the bedroom doors that his contractors had spoiled (still a bit sore on this, haha...). Well, still considered ourselves lucky to be able to move back to our nest that we can still live comfortably in.

Our Air Con Installation

Our new air cons piping was installed on on 17 Jun .The FCUs and compressor were supposed to be installed on 25 Jun but we had to postpone it as the FCU in MBR was supposed to be installed on this wall... 

Who caused this problem? Was it the electrician when he was removing the old wiring casing or was it the air con guy when he was drilling the hole where the fan coil was supposed to be installed? Anyway, we were not able to pin point the culprit and no point finding out whose fault is it, not as though the party at fault would make good... A good example is our ID himself, who isn't going to make good our bedroom doors that his guys had destroyed, which we are pretty sure about this as his contractors were the only ones who dismantled the doors when they were hacking the laminated flooring and laying of new floor tiles in the bedrooms. No one else has touched our bedroom doors! How irresponsible our ID is, right? Want to know who is our ID and the company name? Well, you're welcomed to email me at bunnybluey@yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg and I'll be glad to share more details with you!

We told our ID to get someone to repair it and we'll just pay for it, just like we're going to pay for new bedroom doors, hiaz... What exactly happened to the doors? Well, the bottom of the doors was bloated, probably soaked in some wet works or stuff as the contractors just anyhow chucked our doors. We should have taken photo of the doors when we saw them chucked in a corner of the bedrooms where hacking, cement, tiling works were done, and cautioned him that he would have to make good if our doors got spoilt but isn't he the PM whose supposed to oversee the whole renovation and prevent such thing from happening in the first place? We can only blame ourselves for trusting him too much, yes, indeed, we trusted him to give us sound advice and ensure that our renovation is in good hand, and our trust was taken for granted!

Sorry for deviating out of topic, need a venue to rant, haha... Coming back... the wall was repaired, yay!

We managed to arrange for the air cons to be installed on 9 Jul. This guy was the main installer of our FCUs and compressor that day. They are a team of 3 and this guy's brother is the boss of the installation company. They do installation mainly for the company that we bought our Starmex. Well, at least, they bother to take care of our carpentry by laying cardboard on it and also, sweep the area/room after they finished the installation, very very rare of a contractor who would clean up their mess!

Oh yay! We tested the air con in one of the bedrooms that very night, cold!!!

Now, here's to share some details. We engaged Harvest Aire to provide and install the air cons. It was recommended by a friend and she shared with me that she did not encounter any problem with the air cons after they had been installed for coming to 2 years, so it means installation wise should be fine, we pray that our installation will be fine too. Price wise, their quote was cheaper than the few air con installers you could find on Renotalk forum. Materials wise, we had requested for the better quality ones, e.g. G22 copper piping, 1/2 inch Armaflex Class '0' insulation, etc. Our experience with Harvest Aire wasn't that good in the beginning but we cleared our misunderstanding, and subsequently, we didn't really face any major issue with them. They would call the day before to reconfirm the installation and arrange timing with you, just that they may be late if you're not the first installation of the day as they may be held up at the earlier customer's house. Installation had been smooth and installers were friendly chaps. Well, at least, they were friendly to us as we bought them lunch and drinks when they came to install the piping, hee... "bribe" them to do a better job for us. :-)