Lesson Learnt on things to bring

On the first day of entering our house, we brought alot of things to the house. ALOT. This was because of all the preparation from reading on blogs and forums on things to bring to check for defects. We brought tapes, foldable tables, fans, mats, sticks, pails, scrubs, etc so that they could aid us in searching for defects. However honestly, it has been almost a month since we opened that door, and the only checks i did was on all the power points, to which i found one defective one.

THAT'S ABOUT IT.

No, i don't mean that that is all the defects i found, but that was all we did. Why?

Because we are going to engage a professional ID, and he is definitely a better person in finding defects than we are. We could probably tell a tile is cracked or not, but anything smaller could be missed by us. And now that we are going to be opening our house to the HDB contractors to rectify some of the issues, we ended up moving everything we brought there, back to our own home to make sure nothing get taken. Jokes on us.

So the key lesson is: If you're planned on engaging an ID, don't worry too much about the guides and methods in finding the defects. Leave it to the professional to do it, or even do it together and learn along the way so that perhaps next time you could help friends who are not engaging an ID.

However, there are some items which i would still recommend you to bring...
1. Chairs - preferably old one which you are keen on throwing away. Good to rest on while waiting ID to come over to get some measurement or to discuss with you the floor plan. Alternatively, you could get a mat, which would be so much lighter to bring around.
2. Table - to eat or to put your things on. the IKEA foldable cheap $5 red table would works perfectly fine.
3. Fan - it may get stuffy at times, and you would be glad you brought one along.

And that's about it. Really. Oh, and bring some food and drinks. You will bound to get hungry and thirsty.