Painting was scheduled to start last Friday and I had to work, so I rushed down to our place after work on Thursday night to leave instructions for the painters so they knew where to paint what. Nasty business it was, considering the sheer amount of dust in the place and no electricity.
I was going to write notes on the masking tape that the workers tended to leave strewn around the house and then paste it wherever I wanted work done... Plus I also had to write in Chinese, mind you (the bf's mum said so) and boy, was I glad that I had my phone with me to figure out some the words that I didn't know how to write - 拆除，磨平，补洞. Yes, I know how to write them now. :P
Unfortunately, it was just not my day that night...
1) I had a hard time finding anything in the dark. Found the one and only roll of masking tape after a good 15 mins of serious searching and there wasn't much left as it is.
2) 2/3 into the writing, I ran out of masking tape (oh well, it was just a matter of time). I then started salvaging bits of used tape by tearing short bits from longer ones that were already on doors and walls etc. Funny when I think about it now, but it certainly wasn't at that point in time. Hungry, sweaty and dusty girl that I was.
3) I had to decide how to divide and paint the walls of my bedroom that very moment. I kid you not when I tell you that I stood in my pitch dark bedroom (with a miserable torch light from my phone) staring at the walls and thinking. After finally settling on a solution, I drew it out on a piece of paper instead, since it would need way too much masking tape then I could scrimp to explain everything, haha.
This was what I ended up with (note the miserable strips of masking tape I stole from elsewhere lol). I stuck it on the bedroom door.
4) The door connecting the bedroom to the bathroom was dismantled before wet works started and left leaning on one of the bedroom walls where there were nails and stuff on the wall that I wanted removed. I tried to move it but it didn't seemed to want to budge so I figured I would slowly lower it and leave it lying on the ground instead. UNFORTUNATELY! I underestimated its weight and it came crashing down midways and landed on my right toe, scraping my left knee in the process.
Hello, you gloriously black toe nail, you!
I was in so much pain, I couldn't speak nor move for a good 20 mins, simply taking deep calming breaths. For all I know, I may very well have inhaled an entire lifetime's worth of dust that very night, haha. The pain kept me up that night - I could barely sleep. And put me out of commission for the next few days after that. Thankfully, no fracture.
With my toe injured, I was excused from work and free to oversee my painting on Friday so I hobbled my way there the next morning after seeing the doctor (who was useless and just directed me to A&E). I went through all my written notes with Ah Leong and asked him to let me know should there not be enough paint. I wasn't expecting him to but when I dropped by the next day to check on the painting and pay (he and his worker couldn't finish on Friday so his worker came back on Saturday to continue), his worker told me I needed to get another 10L of white. I limped-hobbled to take a bus to what I thought was the nearest paint shop 2 stops away.
Nam Tai Choon Trading @ Blk 966 Jurong West St 93 #01-215
They didn't have Odour~less Easywash, only Odour~less Premium All-in-One and Easywash. I learnt from the nice Auntie that Odour~less Easywash is only available in Home-Fix, Selffix or shops where they have colour machines to mix the colours. Premium All-in-One and Easywash are ready colours that you can buy off the shelves. Less colour choices obviously, but if you're looking for simple colours like plain white etc, then Easywash would be the cheapest out of the premium range.
Price: Nippon Easywash @ $70 / 5L, Nippon Odour~less Premium All-in-One @ $77 / 5L
I opted for Easywash since I'm trying to keep the costs down. It's not odourless but since we're not moving in right away, the smell wouldn't really matter to us anyway. Afterwards, I made my way back to our place somehow, with pauses every 20-30 steps cuz my fingers were in pain from carrying 5L in each hand and my toe too. (I found out much later that there were probably quite a few stores/companies selling Odour~less Easywash at Pioneer Centre, just diagonally across from our new place, doh! My only explanation - you lose more braincells than you realise when you're in pain lol.) The journey sure wasn't easy but it was all worth it, after seeing my visualised colours realised. :)
Living Room (external walls of kitchen) - Clamshell 3161
Bedroom - Solitude 5035
Really happy with my choice of colours and how they turned out. They are very close to what was printed on the paint catalogue and no detectable smell from Easywash a week after painting. Big thumbs up for Nippon Paint!
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