You probably already picked a cozy and visually appealing interior design style for your BTO flat. But before you get excited with the wondrous ins and outs of moving in to a new home and furnishing it, devote a moment to the critical preparatory task of ensuring that everything in your new home is safe and built according to current standards. There might be underlying electrical fire hazards in your BTO home, for example. There could also be faults in the water piping and sewage system, too–all of which you can correct after doing a thorough inspection of your HDB flat. And if you haven’t yet engaged an expert residential defect check contractor, now is the time to do so. A defect check professional can help identify faults in your home, even those that may not be too obvious.

Look out for these two potential water supply piping and sewage plumbing defects in your HDB flat:

Outdated Pipes and Fittings

Pipes, pipe joints, and fittings need to meet current safety standards, both in their material of construction and their installation. Otherwise, you could end up with higher water bills or costly maintenance problems from leaky pipes, bursting or clogged joints, improper drainage, and inconsistent and sluggish water flow. The presence of lead in older pipes can also be a problem.

Water Piping System Placed Near the Power Outlets

This failure in construction can happen and has happened. And it is important to get it addressed (as a filed report) during the joint BSC inspection or with the home defect check contractor you hired. You wouldn’t want to be moving in to your beautiful new home so soon without having addressed this glaring fire hazard.

It might also interest you to look over what the Housing & Development Board of Singapore has prepared for flat owners when it comes to their water distribution and drainage system. The complex workings of your BTO flat’s water supply piping and sewage system are the subject of this explainer from the HDB. It helps to familiarize yourself with these, especially the water piping system that falls under your responsibility as a homeowner, and to heed the recommended maintenance tips. 

Source: HDB media

Source: HDB media