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Decor: HomeSquare - other suggestions?

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    What do you mean by 'home decor'

    Bathrooms - PE, MK, WC
    Custom Made Furniture - Chatham Road North

    There are lots of areas, you need to be more specific.
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    I think the bathroom shops are on the portland street. Use google maps to find clusters.

    Found using "bathroom shop portland street"

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    Portland Street, Mong Kok Road, Shanghai street, Bute Street, Reclamation Street.

    Flooring is either, stone, wood, laminate, or tile.. So you go to a marble/granite shop, 'flooring' (wood & laminate) or tile shop.

    If you're a baller (or have poor taste and deep pockets) and buy marble floors; you also might be buying your kitchen/Bathroom counter tops and window sills/door sills at the same place.

    You basically get:

    Hardware shops (tools, steel, Paint etc)
    Hardware fittings (Door Locks, brackets, hinges, steel fittings, sliding cupboard internals etc)
    Stone (as described above)
    Wood/Laminate Flooring
    Doors - wooden internal and front doors
    Bathroom - sinks, taps, toilets, shelves, and accessories
    Bathroom & kitchen (also kitchen taps and sinks)
    Tile (wall and floor) - might also do stone.
    Glass & extrusion - Windows, patio doors, shower cubicles (maybe)
    Glass - Just glass
    Electrical - Conduit, Boxes, wiring, terminals
    Plumbing - Brass piping, toilet internals and brass connectors, valves etc
    Wood - Sheet plywood / MDF and the like
    'Buliding supplies' - Mostly plasterboard, maybe cement and joint compound and waterproofings etc
    Paint shops
    Lighting - Light fittings and power outlets

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    Missed an Important one which often catches people out: Skirting,

    your flooring quote won't include it, unless you demand it. You generally buy it in bldg supplies shops, (with sheet ply etc). Even if your flooring contractor does install it (if you insist) he likely won't fill the holes in it he made with his nail gun, nor paint it.

    And the painter has already finished (cos the floor's down), and the painter doesn't do sealing (Like silicon work- the domain of kitchen and bathroom guys).

    Get everything to do with skirting explicitly stated in writing, that's:
    Supply
    Installation
    Filling holes
    Sealing the gap on top
    Sealing the gap on bottom (if you want it)
    Painting

    Then there's electrical wiring points: Be warned!

    A double gang socket s.h.o.u.l.d.be charged at about the same fee as a single. (that's 2 wiring points to a Layman for about $1500.

    But your living room light controlled by 2 switches on different walls (say top of stairs and bottom of stairs) is 3 wiring points...... best part of 5K (that's 1 wiring point to a Layman)
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    Wan Chai Lockhart Rd. too.


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    I can't imagine how the physical length of an electrical cable inside a flat affects any of it's electrical properties.

    On the other hand, if you are retrofitting cabling, it's likely to be far, far cheaper to go along the wall than to jackhammer through and replace the flooring.

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    I did think of this, which is why I mentioned the bit about 'lengths inside a flat'

    The only semi-related instance I can think of where this might come into play would be for Power over Ethernet over Cat5e/6 cabling, and the associated AWG24/26 gauge strands. I've never looked at the numbers though as all my PoE runs are <10M.

    Edit: This got me to wondering!


    Conductor resistance of copper
    0.14 mm2 - 145 ohm/km
    0.22 mm2 - 96.2 ohm/km
    0.50 mm2 - 39.0 ohm/km
    0.75 mm2 - 26.0 ohm/km
    1.00 mm2 - 19.5 ohm/km
    1.34 mm2 - 15.3 ohm/km
    1.50 mm2 - 13.3 ohm/km
    2.00 mm2 - 10.0 ohm/km
    2.50 mm2 - 7.98 ohm/km
    4.00 mm2 - 4.95 ohm/km
    6.00 mm2 - 3.30 ohm/km
    10.00 mm2 - 1.91 ohm/km
    16.00 mm2 - 1.21 ohm/km
    25.00 mm2 - 0.78 ohm/km
    35.00 mm2 - 0.55 ohm/km
    50.00 mm2 - 0.39 ohm/km

    and

    https://www.rs-online.com/designspar...copper-cable-1
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    1) Tiling is relatively expensive, getting behind tiling to do something to the wall _ a real ball ache and will you have spare tiles? enough to last you?

    2) Chasing (cutting channels for conduit), can be done in any wall. The steel in structural walls is buried deeper than a chase.

    3) It's not normally additional wiring it's main cabling. When re-doing e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g Better to have it running low than high. Make sure the conduit is marked both on a design drawing and with durable paint on the surface of the concrete under your floor.

    Putting a spur off a ring (or off a spur) through the floor is bad practice. Copper is expensive, but its far far far more expensive to dig your your floor up because, your floorer put a nail through some unexpected corner of your circuit.
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