Your brief for this combination
Use this plan when discussing custom carpentry in a 3-room resale flat, with retain existing items as the priority. The current decision point is completion review. Confirm that these assumptions match your actual home before using the checklist.
A 3-room resale scope should distinguish cosmetic changes from work needed because of existing condition. Demolition can expose issues that photographs and old drawings do not show.
Work to define: Custom carpentry
Resolve the measured dimensions, internals, hardware and interfaces before fabrication. An elevation should identify construction and access requirements, not only the visual proportions of the finished piece.
The working deliverable is approved carpentry and installation specification. For this property, start by resolving the following constraint: Separate inspected retained items from items whose condition is still unknown.
Design for retain existing items
Record the condition and dimensions of retained pieces. The design must resolve protection, installation access and finish junctions around them, rather than treating them as unchanging background.
Apply that priority to the approved carpentry and installation specification: Photograph the condition and define protection and making-good boundaries. Discuss the result against the actual 3-room resale flat layout rather than treating a similar photograph as evidence that the detail will fit.
At the completion review stage
Check the agreed scope and operation systematically, recording issues and the next action for each. Distinguish incomplete work, adjustment requests and new work rather than combining them into an ambiguous snag list.
The expected stage output is: A dated issue register, operational checks and relevant handover information. Resolve the retain existing items question within this record, so the priority is carried through the custom carpentry work rather than lost between drawings, quotations and site instructions.
Four questions to resolve together
- For custom carpentry: Which interface is still unresolved before fabrication approval?
- For retain existing items: Which retained item changes the installation or connection sequence?
- For this 3-room resale flat: Separate inspected retained items from items whose condition is still unknown.
- Before completing the completion review: Assign the remaining action, responsible person and agreed follow-up for each issue.
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Property requirements and scope boundaries
Check current HDB requirements for the actual scope and verify the appointed contractor where required. This page does not establish permit eligibility.
Record existing condition, retained items, quantities, named products or specifications, exclusions and responsibility owners. Pricing and feasibility require the actual scope and site information. This scenario does not establish a market price or confirm that any work has been approved.
Further checks: HDB renovation guide.
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Review the custom carpentry decisions and quotation checks, then return to this property, priority and stage checklist.