Q:Which Vanity Set will suit my bathroom?

Ans: Choosing the right Bathroom vanity

A bathroom vanity is the centerpiece of your bathroom. Regardless of how well the rest of the bathroom is decorated, it just won’t look right without the right bathroom vanity cabinet. Fortunately, there are many options for someone who wants a new bathroom vanity. For example, some bathtub supplies are very popular and durable such as bathroom vanity cabinets made almost entirely out of frosted glass. Or, if you prefer more traditional bathroom vanity cabinets, exquisite bathroom vanity cabinets made almost entirely of wood are also available. Now matter what type of bathroom vanity cabinet you choose be sure to choose one that compliments the rest of your bathroom. Considering that your bathroom vanity is the first thing noticed in your bathroom be sure to keep it clean and clutter-free. It should be cleaned regularly, and try to keep most of your bathroom accessories and bathtub supplies off it. Tips on finding a cheap bathroom vanity. If you decide that your current bathroom vanity is not what you are looking for, consider installing a new one. However, many bathroom vanity cabinets are very expensive. Fortunately, you will be able to find many bathroom vanity cabinets that are not only inexpensive, but also compliment the look of your showers, tile, and bathroom in general. Nowadays there are a wide variety of bathtub supplies that are able to compliment any bathroom accessories. While the top-notch bathroom cabinet medicine vanity may be out of your price range, you will also find that there are many bathroom vanity cabinets of similar design and workmanship, but at much lower cost. Some things to consider in the area of bathroom vanity include: bathroom vanity cabinet, bathroom cabinet medicine vanity, bathroom, bathroom supplies, showers and tile. If you choose the bathroom vanity that is the right fit for your bathroom, your bathroom will have just the perfect touch you have been looking for.

Q: Does your price include installation?

Ans: No, however we are absorbing the GST so you will not have to worry about hidden cost.

Q: How much is your installation for Bathroom Vanity sets/ WC/ Rain Shower sets?

Ans: Our installation cost varies from $100 onwards depending if you should require us to dismantle your current vanity/ WC/ Shower set or not.

Normal Installation: $100

Installation with dismantling: $150

Installation with dismantling: $250 and above (with concrete/ marble top removal of fixed vanity)

(all price includes disposal and clearing of debris, connection of piping and drainage)

(price does not include shifting of pipe works or any additional works not stated)

Q: Why so expensive for the installation?

Ans: The installation service is just an additional service for your convenience. Our price are of market price and we do not profit from the installation charge at all.  We are sure that there are cheaper prices out there and we would suggest that you go for the cheaper prices as long as the installer is trustworthy. However our guys are professionals and  are very experience in installing our vanity sets and other bathroom items. We would like to advise you that we will not be responsible for any damages done to your bathroom or any products purchase from Bathrooms.sg during the process of installation by a third party .

If you are looking to save cost and currently doing some renovation works, we would strongly suggest you to pass over the installation job to your contractor so you can save cost.

Ans: Bathrooms.sg started off as an online bathroom store without having any showroom overheads unlike other bathroom retail stores. Hence we can bring down the selling price by at least 30%. You can shop online at your own pace without any salesperson pressure or sales tactic and save money! Now that we have expanded to have showrooms just for our online customers to have a feel and touch of selected designs and materials, we are still keeping overheads down by not operating a huge retail store and keeping to our promise of offering you the lowest price possible.

Where is our store located?

Ans: As an online store, Bathrooms.sg is the first of its kind to open showrooms just for our online customers to view and feel selected designs and materials of our products.

Our retail stores are located at these following areas for your convenience:

EAST

Bathrooms.sg Lifestyle Boutique @ The East

55, Siglap Road, #02-27, Siglap Centre, Singapore 455871

CENTRAL

Bathrooms.sg Lifestyle Boutique @ Park Mall (Opening Soon!)

9 Penang Road, B1-19A Park Mall, Singapore 238459

How much is your delivery fee?

Ans: Our delivery fee is $50 for all locations in Singapore.

Do you charge GST?

Ans: No, we absord GST for all your purchases.

Does the price quoted online include delivery and installation?

Ans: No, the price quoted online does not include delivery and installation charges.

Do you provide installation services?

Ans: Yes we do. We have an in house contractor to provide professional installation service if you
should require one. Normal charges are as follows:

Installation Only: (for vanities/ WC/ Rain Showers) - $100

Installation with Dismantling Service: (for vanities/ WC/ Rain Showers) - $150

*price may vary depending on size & type of vanity for removal

Are the vanities water resistant?

Ans: Yes, the materials used for the vanities were used due to the factor that it is water-resistant and will be able to last you at least till your next renovation.

What materials are normally used for the vanities?

Ans: There are about five different kind of main materials that are used for the vanities. There are Oakwood, Solid Rubber Wood, Tempered Glass, PVC and MDF (Middle Density Fiberboard).

What is Oakwood?

Ans: Oak wood has a density of about 0.75 g/cm³, great strength and hardness, and is very resistant to insect and fungal attack because of its high tannin content. It also has very attractive grain markings, particularly when quartersawn.

Oak wood, from Quercus robur and Quercus petraea, was used in Europe for the construction of ships, especially naval men of war, until the 19th century, and was the principal timber used in the construction of European timber-framed buildings. Today oakwood is still commonly used for furniture making and flooring, timber frame buildings, and for veneer production.

What is Rubberwood?

Ans: Rubberwood is actually a member of the maple family, a true hardwood! It is very durable, has little chance of warping or cracking. It stands up to use and continues to look great.

Rubberwood is one of the more durable lumbers used in today's home furnishings. Rubberwood has a dense grain character that is easily controlled in the kiln drying process, very little shrinkage making it one of the more stable construction materials available for furniture. Plus, Rubberwood produces all the latex used in the world for all rubber based products.

Rubberwood is used only after it completes it's latex producing cycle and dies. This wood is therefore eco-friendly in the sense that we are now using what was going as waste.

You are buying a solid hardwood piece of furniture when it is made from Rubberwood. It will give you years of pleasure at an affordable price.

What is MDF?

Ans: Medium density fiberboard, or MDF, is a composite wood product similar to particleboard. It's made out of wood waste fibers glued together with resin, heat, and pressure. MDF is appropriate for many applications, from cabinetry to moulding, because it is smooth, uniform, and won't warp.

MDF has many advantages over plank wood, particleboard, or high density fiberboard. It's very smooth because the wood fibers used in its manufacture are uniform and fine. This makes it have low "tear out," which means that when sawed, the end has a smooth cut instead of a jagged edge. This also means that a coat of primer and a couple of coats of paint take well, leaving an attractive, finished surface unlike other composite wood products. MDF also has a mild reaction to moisture, meaning it won't warp or swell in high-humidity applications like a bathroom cabinet.

Builders use MDF in many capacities, such as in furniture, shelving, laminate flooring, decorative moulding, and doors. They value MDF for its insular qualities in sound and heat. Also, it can be nailed, glued, screwed, stapled, or attached with dowels, making it as versatile as plank wood. Usually, people working with MDF use a carbide saw fitted with a vacuum to reduce the amount of airborne dust. Since MDF is strengthened with resin containing formaldehyde, those at exposure try to reduce their risk of inhalation, or use special MDF with lower formaldehyde levels.

Reconstituted, engineered wood products like MDF are often covered in a veneer or laminate. These thin layers of vinyl or real wood disguise the MDF, especially along visible edges. Some people prefer using MDF over regular lumber because it has a lower impact on the environment. MDF is solely made from waste products, the leftover scraps that would otherwise be dumped in a landfill. This attraction has helped it gain popularity among homeowners. It's now available not just to contractors. Many home improvement centers and lumberyards stock it in sheets for the general public.

What is tempered glass?

Ans: Tempered glass is one of two kinds of safety glass regularly used in applications in which standard glass could pose a potential danger. Tempered glass is four to five times stronger than standard glass and does not break into sharp shards when it fails. Tempered glass is manufactured through a process of extreme heating and rapid cooling, making it harder than normal glass.

The brittle nature of tempered glass causes it to shatter into small oval-shaped pebbles when broken. This eliminates the danger of sharp edges. Due to this property, along with its strength, tempered glass is often referred to as safety glass.

The thermal process that cures tempered glass also makes it heat resistant. Tempered glass is used to make the carafes in automatic coffee makers and the windows in ovens. Computer screens, skylights, door windows, tub enclosures and shower doors are more examples of places you will find tempered glass. Building codes also require the windows of many public structures to be made of tempered glass.

Automobiles use a different type of safety glass for the windshield and tempered glass for the back and side windows. Windshields are made from laminated glass, which sandwiches a sheet of plastic between two panels of glass. When the windshield breaks, the glass panels stick to the plastic film, rather than falling away to possibly injure the driver or other passengers.

Tempered glass breaks in a unique way. If any part of the glass fails, the entire panel shatters at once. This distinguishes it from normal glass, which might experience a small crack or localized breakage from an isolated impact. Tempered glass might also fail long after the event that caused the failure. Stresses continue to play until the defect erupts, triggering breakage of the entire panel.

In recent years, acrylic has replaced tempered glass in many applications in which heat is not a factor. Acrylic is 20 times more impact resistant than glass and does not shatter like tempered glass. Instead, acrylic dents if the impact is strong enough. If the force is sufficient to cause acrylic to fail, it will crack without shattering.

Acrylic is also half the weight of glass and has many other advantages. However, it is flammable. Therefore, you won’t find an acrylic coffee carafe or oven door.

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Bathroom Vanities

What is a bathroom vanity?

Answer - an easy to install, hassle free bathroom furniture option, usually comprising a bathroom sink (basin) surrounded by storage furniture.

Whatever style of bathroom you go for, one item is a prerequisite – a sink. The space under a sink is probably the most unobtrusive way to introduce storage into a bathroom. It can act as a valuable space to stow away cleaning products, toiletries and even children’s bath time toys.

Whether you opt for a simple cupboard under your sink or something more complex incorporating drawers and towel rails, bathroom vanity units are easy to fit and are available with pre-cut components so that the sink can simply be slotted in with minimal effort. If space is at a premium in your bathroom, don’t worry, slimline vanity units and even vanities that fit into corners are also available – ideal for use in ensuite bathrooms.

Bathroom Furniture

Bathroom furniture should be integral part of your bathroom design as every practical bathroom needs some form of storage.

Do you have a small or awkward bathroom, which urgently needs storage, but also requires style?

Do you have a large unwelcoming bathroom that you would like to transform into a warm relaxing place for unwinding?

Do you wish to hide unsightly pipework and toilet cisterns behind beautifully crafted bathroom furniture?

There are many different styles of bathroom furniture to suit your tastes. Bathroom furniture can be made from real wood or manmade finishes, and suit both modern and contemporary or more traditional styles.

Maybe you prefer the fitted look with a plinth for a more classical ambience, or perhaps you simply want to add freestanding units selectively into your bathroom, or want the ultra modern modular look. Choose a style that best reflects your needs.

Fitted Furniture

Choosing completely fitted bathroom furniture provides you with limitless storage and display opportunities. There will be a place for everything and everything will have a place, and there will be no excuse for cluttering your surfaces with toiletries!

While it does create a more traditional look, fitted bathroom furniture is usually finished with cornices and pelmets. By utilising the sink area, and fitting units around a back to the wall toilet, you have the opportunity to introduce additional items such as drawer units, pull out linen baskets and shelving into a run of units which make a supremely practical space.

Adding an illuminated bathroom cabinet will provide you with an area to display those favourite bathroom items.

Bathroom accessories and vanity tops will add the finishing touch to your fitted bathroom furniture.

Freestanding Units

The freestanding bathroom furniture look is extremely popular over in Europe and the States and has now become a huge trend here in the Singapore brought to you by Bathrooms.sg.

Imagine placing matching and individual units around your bathroom to gain storage space. Add to this a feature glass tower unit to display some toiletries, and finish it off with a drawer unit in one corner and a mirrored cabinet. Mix and match materials such as aluminium, glass and wood finishes for an even more dramatic look.

What is meant by freestanding bathroom furniture? Freestanding furniture allows you to place individual storage items into your current bathroom layout which is ideal if you want storage in your bathroom but don't want the hassle of a full bathroom refit.

The new cabinets & vanities from Taps & Basins offers valuable storage space as well as a full length mirror, a towel rail and a robe hook. A truly multi functional cabinet!

Modular Furniture

The modular look is almost a fusion of fully fitted bathroom furniture and freestanding furniture, offering a hybrid of design styles with the practicality of massive storage.

Furniture here is often either wall mounted in short runs or coupled with chrome legs to create focus furniture areas, but without a fully fitted bathroom concept.

The idea of this contemporary modular look is to get a minimalist modern look but also valuable storage space for all those bathroom items.

The more contemporary ranges such as Orkey & Horzt:u are particluarly well suited to this format of furniture.

Easy fit bathroom furniture

Fitted bathroom furniture offers the ideal way to maximise the storage potential of your bathroom and allows you to make the most of every spare inch of available space. By opting for easy fit bathroom furniture, which comes with many components pre-installed, you can accomplish the look with minimum effort. As well as achieving a bathroom that looks great and boasts an abundance of storage, you can save bags of time on the installation, which is brilliant news for your bathroom budget.

Furniture that has been made using the easy fit system allows installation in three easy steps thanks to a clever array of time-saving features. For example, pre-cut vanity and WC fascias mean that a lot of the cutting and scribing are no longer needed. The addition of clip on hinges means that doors can be fitted in seconds and even the cistern is pre-fitted into the WC cabinet so that they simply slot onto the waste pipe.

By using furniture with easy fit design, even the most amateur of DIY enthusiasts can produce a wonderful fitted bathroom with ease.

The three Easy Fit steps explained:

• Step One - Plumbing connections are first fixed. Adjust carcase legs for level and screw
carcases to the wall using the brackets provided
• Step Two - Connect up toilet cistern and fix the pre-cut panels for the WC pan and basin
fascia.
• Step Three - Fix and connect the WC pan, cistern flush button panel and pre-cut worktops.
Seal in the basin

Furniture Materials

When talking about bathroom furniture, there are generally two types of materials used to produce it. The term birch effect for example would suggest that the bathroom furniture is not actually made from real wood, but from a different manmade material that has been given the appearance of birch. However, if a product is described just as oak, you can be fairly confident that the piece is made from the timber in question.

When deciding which option to go for, you should consider what appeals to you most – it is often down to personal taste – although as ever, your budget may also dictate what bathroom furniture finish or material you go for. There are benefits and disadvantages to both types that will hopefully help you make up your mind.

As with most things, the key to keeping your bathroom furniture looking good for a long time to come is to take good care of it – mop up any water splashes as soon as possible and regularly use a suitable cleaning product.

Real Wood

The beauty of choosing real wood for your bathroom furniture lies in its individual appearance. It is sure to bring a feeling of warmth into any home but because it is a natural product, no two pieces will be identical, ensuring your bathroom is unique! The number of different woods used in the making of bathroom furniture varies depending on the manufacturer (as does the amount of wood used for each piece) but there are certainly some species such as oak or pine that lend themselves particularly well to its production. It is important to take note of whether the timber has come from a sustainable source however.

Although real wood is often associated with traditional-style, heavy bathroom furniture, it is also successfully used for more refined modern pieces such as the JH 3067 from Bathrooms.sg.

From a price point of view, you can expect to pay more for your solid wood pieces than for the manmade equivalent, generally because of the level of workmanship involved to create it, the raw materials used and the environmental responsibility to prevent deforestation. However, you may find that the core of the bathroom cabinet is made from a composite material that is covered in a real wood veneer, which can help to keep the cost down without compromising the look and desirability of the bathroom furniture.

Real wood has certain characteristics you should be aware of; all timber matures with age and as a result you may notice a change in the colour saturation and the strength of the grain over time. Strong sunlight could fade lighter woods and excessive water spillages may adversely affect any furniture if left unchecked.

Unless you are spending a lot of money on a bespoke range of furniture for your bathroom, you should be prepared for some subtle shade differences or variation in the depth of grain, but this should not detract from its beauty.

Manmade Finishes

It is fairly commonplace throughout kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture to find products where the carcass, doors and shelving of each item is made from a composite material such as fibreboard or MDF which is then finished off by applying or ‘wrapping’ a manmade lacquer, paint or PVC foil layer to the outside surfaces.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that because manmade finishes are often a less expensive option than real wood, that the quality is inferior. The hardwearing finishes that are used are incredibly durable, made to withstand any amount of knocks and scrapes, as well as being water-resistant and very easy to keep clean.

The (OMS) O’Neil M Series and Jurgen Horzt:u range of bathroom furniture from Bathrooms.sg is a good example of this type of furniture material.

The fact that it is manmade also gives you so much more flexibility in the colours that are available. The spectrum ranges from the popular wood effect finishes such as birch, beech and cherry to the more individual greens, reds, blues and so on, and don’t forget the high gloss white finish available in so many designs. For some bespoke ranges, you can even apply photographic-quality veneers depicting just about anything you want!

There are, however, some other points to bear in mind. The quality of the chipboard carcass could cause you problems if the bare edges are not sealed well and if the applied surface does not adhere properly then it may start to lift and chip. An excessive water spillage could also damage the furniture irreparably if left unchecked.

Installation

Successful installation of your bathroom furniture is all in the preparation.

If you have thoroughly planned your bathroom design then the installation part should be relatively straightforward. If you’ve planned your bathroom furniture based on where your services and pipework are located you are on to a winner. Our bathroom planner will help with the layout of your bathroom.

To ensure your bathroom design choices are realised it is usually advisable to use a qualified installer to bring your aspirations to life. However, if you can use a spirit level, screwdriver and a saw, then fitting bathroom furniture is not beyond the realms of the capable DIY’er, particularly as you don’t need expensive specialist tools.

Fitting bathroom furniture around existing sanitaryware will take no time at all, especially when units are supplied rigid so you don’t lose time assembling flat packed product. Clip on hinges are also useful making it a cinch to fit the doors while easy-fit wall hanging brackets provide strong support and durability to units.

You may need to involve a plumber to connect up your pipework, so remember to book a tradesman well in advance to ensure you aren’t disappointed. Also if the bathroom furniture includes lighting it is advisable to seek the advice of a qualified electrician.