Home Appliances

The parquet floorings have been ground and varnished. It looked much more decent now. The last time, I think our contractor simply varnished over unpolished wood and there were either holes or particles under the varnish, or both! It was very shiny varnish before this but the parquet looked so poorly done. This time, they even filled up holes in the parquet, cleared up every piece of debris on the floor and made sure the wood had been sanded down well BEFORE they varnished it. All 3 room has Matt varnish now but we love them!!

That was Fri and Mr Liow spent the whole day there with the parquet guys. We can't leave them to work alone anymore coz our TV and all the boxes are already in.

Yesterday was repair day. We wanted to fix the washer and fridge. Mum washed the fridge for us and it looks as good as it can be now. She even sliced lemons and pandang leaves to store in the fridge to dispel the mouldy foul scent.

The techs came and saw our washer was not worth a repair. The suspension was gone, glass door doesn't shut properly anymore and due to poor suspension, the glass door on the washer had been pounded against the frame during each wash and at the rate this is happening, it will break any time. He advised us to get a new washer coz the repair will cost at least a third of a washer of an even larger load.

As for our fridge, he recommended we chAnge only the fan. The first time we powered the fridge, it felt burning hot all around, like boiled water! He found nonother faults with it and said the lemon did a good job at dispelling the mouldy scent and no other parts need to be replaced. So we need not get a new fridge (Mr Liow was looking for reasons to change the fridge as well. Hehe. But too bad, it's back to norm now dear!)

the thing about LG is, they charges for service even without repairs. For the washer, we had to pay $45 just to have it checked even though nothing had been done to it. It was $75 to have the fridge inspected but the fan didn't cost much.

So we had to get a new washer which was just as well. 5kg may not be good enough now with 2 more kids than when we first got the washer. We got a 7kg washer this time. I hope to be able to save more time with more a higher wash load instead of having to split them and wait. Time is precious now with 2 kiddos.