Hacking the wall

yup, as part of our "agreement" with HDB to purchase our new flat, we have to hack a hole through the walls. Our contractor told us that the reno will take about 1 week and we were excited to get it started to quickly settle all the reno once and for all.

So on a monday morning, bright and early, in between my breakfast and reading the papers, the team of workers came and started their work.

Just thought that we should have one last good look at the lovely, perfectly plastered wall before they do the HACKING.... *eeks*
(if only we knew this would happen, maybe we can save some $$ from NOT plastering this wall during our first renovations! ha ha ha)


notice the nicely laid out papers and the remains of the plate? hee.... (YES, someone should have shot my head for leaving the whole house "unprepared" for the hacking. we thought that it'll just be hacking lor.... who can guess the MESS left behind? okay... more of that later...)

wanna close up of my perfectly flat wall?? Here it is:

isn't it lovely? Pity that it has to go.... :(

I was trying to figure out which unit should bear the drill & hammers for hacking through... if we think about it, the rocks and rumble will fall over to the other side MORE than our side right? So I bravely told the workers to start work on our side of the house. Generally, they agreed with me and started laying down the papers, cardboards etc to keep my floor undamaged....

The first "hole" was made by an electric drill. *sob* *sob*


I think he wasn't sure if he was doing it right, he had to check his drill & perhaps the drill bit to see if they are going to last one whole wall..... so I had the chance to snap a few more shots...




Then, they took out a gigantic hammer and started to whack against the wall. Yes, WHACK! I thought it was really cool! hee...




Within an 1+hr, they were done hacking! Amazing! What an electric drill and a giant hammer can do...


Unfortunately, all my amazement for the power of hacking vanished as I witness the accumulation of DUST in my house. YES, the WHOLE entire house had like 5 layers of dust on it. Thank God we covered the sofa and the workers were fast enough to "protect" my table and chairs with newspapers. We had totally forgotten all the "warnings" & "nightmares" of hacking a wall in a fully furnished house. This was in addition to proving that my "theory" of messing up the new house did not exactly came true. In fact, our current place had like 20times more dust than the other house! *sob* *sob*

After the workers left at about 3pm, we cleaned BOTH houses like mad. YES, I was also mad at myself for not protecting our house from the dust etc. We mopped the entire place like 10 times, vacuumed like 3 times and the result was only satisfactory. *SIGH*

Yes, we lived in the nightmare for 1 week.... it'll be quite a while before we do anymore hacking....this is for SURE!