part 3 of renovation : electrical work

*back dated entry*

today is one of the more crucial part of the renovation = electrical work!!!! i felt this is important because after that there will be lights in the house = i can stay till night time = more time to prepare/do things in the house.....

actually i have been searching for electrician contacts for quite awhile & apparently is much harder than i thought.... if you engaged a contractor then of cause you dont have to worry about electrical work but i have to source for my own contacts.... getting contacts is already a major hurdle, choosing a suitable electrician is an even bigger problem!!!  I seriously have no idea why so many electricians dont keep track of their appointments!?!??!?! i kena stood up by at least 3 electricians or at least the contact person!!! all of them didnt show up at the promised timing & when i message them where are they, their replies were i forgot.... like WTF!!!! dont u write down what appointments you have for that day!!?!?!? there is no way i will engage those people, what if they stood me up again on the actual day!!!! thankfully i managed to find a more reliable guy, my friend introduced me since that guy did the electrical work for her house & she seem quite happy with it.....

Fu Chuan Electrical & Plumbing Services
Blk 440 Yishun Ave 11 #07-470 Singapore 760440
Tel: 6729 7470               
Fax: 6852 1329
Email: fuchuanservices@gmail.com    

Website: www.facebook.com/fuchuanservices

my contact person was Steven (9452 6055), middle aged man but he was very punctual!!! this is very very VERY important!!!! he first came down to give me a quotation, if you ok with the price then can arrange a date for his workers to come down.... actually i dont need to do major electrical work, mainly is to install lights & shifting some of the lighting/power points.... since mine was simple work, it can be done in a day's time with 2 electricians..... lets move onto pictures...

living room lights

corridor lights

corridor light

for most of the lights were just fix on = didnt shift lighting point so was really simple tasks for them... the difficult/messy part was to shift points cause they need to drill through the concrete wall.... at first i thought they will need to hack down like a big chunk of the ceiling just to shift the wires but apparently is much simpler than i imagined....

drilled ceiling to shift light points

they only need to drill something like a 2cm wide track to pull wires over..... no wonder they can complete the drilling + installing lights on the same day since it only required small patch up....

shifted light point + patch up

the electricians will patch up the track with some cement & let it dry before putting up the lights

light at the shifted point

the cement will take about a day to completely dry... when i took the photo was afew hours later so you can still see the patch work..... after the cement has dried up, just touch up with white paint & will be as good as new =)


they will do the same thing for wall mount fan.... but if the fan is mounted on a partition wall then they wont need to drill the whole track but just 2 holes to pull the wires...

hole on partition wall

new power point for the fan

i think wall mount fans are quite useful especially for small rooms cause you dont have to crack your brain about where to put the bloody fan..... it is also good if you have small kids/babies since their little fingers wont be able to reach the fans....

door bell installation

we also asked the electrician to install door bell for us.... shua ku us thought the box is the door bell but apparently, it was just to cover up the hole for the door bell -_-||||| ok.... after showing the pictures, let me share the breakdown for the individal work....

install lights = $15/ light (cost more if you have some super fancy lights)
supply & install door bell = $50
shifting of lighting point = $50 (if shift less than 1m)
supply & shift power point for wall fan = $80
install ceiling fan = $50
install wall fan (without shifting power point) = $30
shifting of power point = $80 (if i am not wrong)

my total electrical work cost $585 which i think was a reasonable price....most of the electricians charge $10/light installation but they charge ALOT for shifting light points!!! like $100+/shift..... extra powerpoint also cost $120..... so OMG expensive....

i would recommend Steven if you just need to do electrical work as he is punctual & give reasonable prices.... his workers were very efficient too..... they came abit later than the arranged time & managed to finish all the work in about 4hours.... they also clean up the place after they are done which i think is a good habit..... for payment wise, you dont need to pay deposit... he accept bank transfer so just transfer him the $ after the work is done =)