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Singapore family's 5-month renovation nightmare
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The family had to start a court action against the rogue contractor who went missing after collecting about $19,000 of the total payment.
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SINGAPORE - Renovation can be an exciting process as you watch your humble home being transformed into a showpiece, but it can also be a nightmare as one family here knows only too well.
Mum, dad and the two children were reduced to surviving on takeaway meals for five miserable months when a supposedly straightforward six-week job to spruce up the kitchen became a high-priced fiasco that left them living in a virtual building site.
