#blueinstinct

I sourced around and asked for a few quotes from various companies. 

I narrowed down to Nippon(direct) and another guy,J, which had a group buy ongoing with my estate. 

I spoke with J on the phone. I’ve never actually met him, however he offered a really good package for my estate.

What J offered :

I also arranged for a meeting with nippon direct and manager Shiraz came down to do a free site assessment for me. During the meeting he was really nice, offered me advises like never to give your id 100% payment. He shared with me the stories he came across in his line of work.He also offered free Anti-mould for both my toilets.

I went with nippon because he offered me Anti-mould for my toilets, they also provide free colour preview and also a mayer juicer worth $89(because i am Singaporean and i can’t resist freebies). I also requested to do the first coat of painting after my electrician ran the cables and the second coat only at the end of the renovation.

Nippon requires a $200 deposit before the first coat and the remaining amount after the painting is done. 

I have to highlight that i am actually really disappointed with Shiraz after placing the deposit as he became unresponsive to my questions of if they have any sample photos of jobs they have done before. 

I had to drop him a text message expressing my disappointment before he sent an apology stating it’s hari-raya period and he has been “busy”. I told him that it would be good if he would have just dropped me a text saying that he is busy or refer me out to someone else. The past few days i have been asking him questions and responses are low. And it have been frustrating as i am trying to plan my renovation accordingly and painting has to go up before the carpentry, to add on to it he told me that his slots are filling fast which makes it even more worrying as i am planing to move in before the chinese 7 month which falls on 1st August 2019. I wished him and his family a happy hari raya and cited that that i understood where he was coming from but at the same time i hoped he could understand my view as a customer.

Before i placed the $200 deposit, his responses were really fast. 

Tip : Always negotiate everything before you commit to placing the deposit. E.g. Anti-mould for your toilets and possibly to give you another colour. Nippon gives default 4 colours, but i had a feeling had i try to request for another colour before the deposit i might have gotten it[i wanted purple for my service yard]- (because i heard from a friend that if the manager gives it to you it’s out of goodwill) :/  They also provided me with an extra free colour preview on the purple i initially wanted for my service yard. But hey on the bright side i managed to get an extra “white” colour for my service yard from Shiraz. I didn’t choose the purple in the end due to budget constrains. Nippon charges extra $50 per colour.

On the day of the first coat, the painters came on time, started work promptly. they carefully wrapped up everything which i am pleased about. They also informed me that BSC had painted over the skirting, however they used waterbased paint so i could easily take a wet cloth and remove it. The down side is that it would take me sometime to remove it. I asked Shiraz how much would it be if i asked his guys to help remove it. He said he would get back to me on this and NOPE, he conveniently forgot about it. 

The painters also painted the common walkway wrongly, which i spotted it and told Shiraz about it with screenshots provided. He conveniently replied what’s wrong? I highly think that he can’t be bothered with me after the Hari-Raya incident. I pointed it out and he just gave a “oh i see it now” reply. The painters manage to rectify it immediately so no qualms on that.

My preview

What the painters did 

After rectification 

We booked two days of painting and they managed to rush it out within a day. They did not do my service yard, toilets and my common room which i requested two coats(but they did only one) as i am not doing any major carpentry in the room. I asked the guys if they are still coming back tomorrow, they said Shiraz would let me know. I said okay, and they just left it at that. 

The next day i had to text Shiraz if they were coming and he replied nope, which left me a little disappointed as i wanted two coatings for my common room and service yard, i had also avoided plans so that i could be there for the painting. Lesson learnt, always text my painting manager if i needed answers as he can’t really be bothered. /shrugs

Overall, with Manager Shiraz aside, I am satisfied with the first coat of painting done by Nippon direct. Will update further after the second coat is done.

First coating : 

NPR 1306 P Sweet Deal  ,  NP BGG 1571P Blue instinct 

Master Bedroom :

NP OW 1072P Clear Day

Common Room :

NP YO 1201P Daylights