10 Factors on how to Select a Good Supplier product for Your Home

Company Branding
Products Durability
Product Function
Colour changes overtime
Visual Result
Touch and Feel
E-Catalogue
Design VS Products Selected
Out of Stock
Post Sales Service

#1 Company Branding

Understand the basics of reading a floor plan legend such as door, window, column, etc. Identify Start Point of Living area floor: Highlight the floor area on the floor plan to start with the calculation.

#2 Products Durability

Read up and understand the company’s background history when you start selecting the materials. Company brand does play a part if the product is Good in the market. Likely many will be sharing and talking about this company regularly online.

#3 Product Function

Scratch “Proof” or Scratch “Resistant”? Usually, the company will use the word “resistant” instead of “proof”, but there is still a limitation to these products.

#4 Colour changes overtime

Nature of all man-made material changes Colours overtime. When selecting material from any catalogues, select darker Colour or Colour that is not so obvious when the Colour changes. Such as white Colour compares to off-white Colour.

#5 Visual Result

Hard to determine the big image result? “Request to view a bigger sample” from the supplier to avoid any miscommunication after the product has been purchased or installed. In common situation like wood grain design, some people may be particular about the wood log circle within the grain.

#6 Touch and Feel

Touch the “actual products and feel” it in your hand to make your Decision. Some materials may leave fingerprint stains after touching, some may feel very rough when touched.

#7 E-Catalogue

An electronic catalogue is accessible to view the Colour and design online. Some home- owners like to view from an e-catalogue as they can short-list the design faster. Request for the actual sample to see and feel before making any decision, Colour is likely to be different from online.

#8 Design VS Products Selected

“A Designer Sofa” you see in a furniture shop may not fit into the design theme of your house. Do consider for the product selection whether it fit well into your design theme before purchase.

#9 Out of Stock

Very common situation in renovation market, especially happen to tiles and wood lamination products. Avoid stock run-out situation, pre-book/order the amount you need for your home renovation, and do consider to add in the wastage involves in the works.

#10 Post Sales Service

Post-sales service refers to the warranty support given by the companies. Usually, the warranty given is 1 year. Thus, some even gives “lifetime” warranty. It is more important to find out what do they cover inside the warranty.