Moving into Minton – Part 1

We finally moved to our new home @ The Minton about 3 months 1 week after we collecting our keys in January. The previous two weeks after we signed on with our Moving company – and especially the last four days have been real hectic – just before the move, during moving day, and immediately thereafter. The both of us were managing just 2-3 hours of sleep each day. Grandparents were fortunately able to help take care of Hannah and Peter over the Easter weekend, and that helped immensely to let us focus solely on the Move.

Our timeline in the second half of last week went like this:

It was pretty congested towards the end as our main renovation finished with just barely sufficient time for us to do up the final specialist contractor works, and we had to plan specifically dates of installation against when we needed them. The digital lock was especially tricky, since we wanted this done only after the main renovation and touch-up activities were completed, but before we shifted in furniture and items that we could not lose – keeping in mind that our main door key has changed many hands over the months!

It wasn’t all smooth-sailing for these last few days too just before our big Move, and the hitches we encountered included:

Night curtains that were incorrect. Our curtains/blinds contractor apologized for the mistake, and agreed to redo them. He asked if we would buy back the already supplied set though at discount, and we agreed. Now we’ve gonna have two sets of curtains!

Yard blinds that rendered inoperable invisible grills’ casement windows.  We called Legate back down to redo the casement windows – which they did – so the curtains/blinds contractor will be returning to install the remaining blinds.

Sony TV was delayed by 2 days. We’ve since received it, and image quality wise, I still prefer Plasmas!

Bosch dishwasher was supplied with the incorrect power plug. Parisilk returned on a subsequent visit with the correct plug, but did not fix up the dishwasher plumbing for us. Duh.

FortyTwo: body analyzer weighing machine did not work one day later. Currently contacting them to resolve this.

Comfort Design‘s order was real problematic, and requires elaboration below.

One day before delivery, they called to say that the dinner-table was out-of-stock though it had been paid in full a month ago (what?!?!). I hope they weren’t thinking of asking us to eat dinner on the floor. Then they called again to say it was a miscommunication: they’d thought they’d allocated our dinner-table to a different customer ordering the same item, but hadn’t. Then on the actual day of delivery, they called to say that the dinner-table they thought they had for us was of a different leg colors, and asked if they could lacquer it to our expected color, but it would mean a day’s delay. And finally, on the amended delivery date (19 Apr), they delivered a table that still had the wrong leg colors and a table surface that looked worn. And to top it off, two of the dinner chairs had to be returned for replacement and touch-up.

Ling was furious, and she was going to call the store today to give them an earful. I’ll probably be writing in too to state my disappointment at their service levels. Suffice it to say we’ll be thinking long and hard about whether to get items from this store again, even though they’ve got a pretty good range of items.

Oh well. Of all the bulk deliveries, the three vendors which did a marvelous job were Electrolux (who fitted our washer into that very tight yard space), Taylor B which came at the appointed delivery time, and Tilam King for likewise too.

Update 4 July: a month ago, we finally got the dinner table we paid for, though not without one more hiccup. The store was quite apologetic, gave us a couple of cushions to compensate. The table is actually pretty good and we like it!