Hi all
I got my keys to my new condo in Dec 2017. I have a few questions that I wasn’t able to find answers from previous posts. Thanks for your time.
1) Paint
According to user manual, the unit was painted using 1 coat Dulux Eco Guard + 2 coats Dulux Pentalite. Is it true that even if the paint appeared to be good quality on paper, most developers would add chalk/dilute to make it easier/cheaper to paint but is bad for health as the paint quickly comes off the wall as ‘dust’ / ‘powder’?
2) Plaster Ceiling
I was trying to avoid installing plaster ceiling in the living & dining area because the ceiling height is already not high (~ 3000mm) to begin with and also I hate the plaster ceiling ‘hole’ that would be built around the air-cons (came free from developer).
I was advised to do plaster ceiling with these reasons:
a) Without plaster ceiling, surface mounted lighting would be restricted by the no. and where the light points are. This is because the ceiling wall is very hard to drill and the patching will inevitably leave a scar.
Is this true?
b) I was told the ‘drop’ of the plaster ceiling can be minimized to 6-8 inches. And to avoid building boxes around the air-cons, it can be detached from all 4 sides of walls. So there will be like 1 foot distance from the wall.
Can the plaster ceiling be kept to just 6-8 inches while still having led light (tube) inside/on top to bounce light out from the side?
c) I was told that from the plaster ceiling design above, I can even further make the centre hollow, so it would be like an empty photo frame with 4 edges. This allows the ceiling fan to be higher. Refer to picture.
Is there any potential problem with this design?
Generally for a small 14 foot x 23 foot area (living + dining), will this design look weird? Taking the short edge for example, 1 foot gap each side (gap from walls) means the plaster ceiling is left with 12 foot in length, if the plaster ceiling is 2 foot wide each side it would leave 14 - 2x1 - 2x2 = 8 foot wide hollow at the centre. Would this look nice? The side facing wet kitchen / dry kitchen would have a wider gap (following the width of the walkway from the rooms side + 1 foot).
Thank you all!
This post has been edited by Warn3r: Jan 15 2018, 01:54 PM
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