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Buying a house is a big purchase but for most of us, it is a planned purchase that we budgeted for. The cost that often throws us off our budgets is the subsequent renovation. Renovation costs can be highly variable with different quotations from different interior designers and contractors. Depending on the size of our flat and whether it is a new or resale unit, average renovation costs can range from $40,000 to $80,000. This is not a small sum, and it is likely to be higher than usual due to the current construction manpower crunch. For those of us planning to renovate our homes during this period, here are 7 ways to save money on your renovation cost. Read Also: Guide To The Cost Of Renovating An HDB Flat In Singapore #1 Minimise Hacking For most of us, the conventional HDB layouts are functional, even if they are not the most aesthetic. As much as we may wish to have an open concept kitchen or expanded living/dining space, we may wish to reconsider major redesigns of the floor plan that would involve hacking of walls. Hacking will involve paperwork submission for HDB approval (and additional time to get the approval), it also increases your cost. You would have to pay for the hacking works as well as the debris removal. Assuming it costs about $1,000 to hack away the walls of a room and $300 for debris removal, this can easily add up in the overall renovation cost. It will also delay the completion as other works will have to be paused when hacking is in progress. Read Also: 5 Things Homeowners Can Do During Renovations That Will Save Them Money Over The Long Term #2 Consider Overlay Flooring For many of us, the flooring choices of the previous owner (or the bare floors of a new BTO flat) aren’t ideal for our new home. However, instead of taking the more typical route of hacking away unwanted tiles, we can consider overlay flooring. Today you can find many options for overlay flooring from tiles, laminates, engineered wood to vinyl. Overlay flooring options may be cheaper in some cases. For example, they may use veneers or thin layers of wood instead of solid wood, to create the same effect as wooden flooring. While vinyl flooring had a poor reputation for being a lower quality material, the newer generations of vinyl flooring have improved both in material quality and design options that can mimic other materials. By using overlay flooring, we can not only potentially save on the cost of the new flooring material, but we can also save on the cost of hacking and debris removal. However, do note that this option is only suitable if the existing flooring is stable (no popping tiles, water seepage issues, etc) and level. #3 Reduce Built-Ins Built-in carpentry lends itself to the feeling of customisation and many homeowners assume that it is a necessary or even value-enhancing renovation. However, freestanding furniture may actually be a better choice for many homes, as it gives flexibility as our homes change in purpose as we grow and age. For example, a home office today can be more easily converted to a future child’s bedroom if there isn’t much built-in carpentry in place. Even for areas like kitchens and toilets, there are free-standing options that can look as good as built-in options. For instance, you can buy off-the-shelf bathroom vanities, even stainless-steel varieties, that can be easily installed instead of having a carpenter custom build one. As carpentry tends to be one of the priciest items for a renovation, minimising the number of built-ins can save a substantial amount of money. You can also consider a mix of custom and off-the-shelf solutions whereby the contractor can fill in the gaps between your freestanding wardrobe or vanity to make it look flush and custom-built to the space. Read Also: Should You Choose The HDB’s Optional Component Scheme (OCS) When You Buy A BTO Flat? #4 Reuse Old Built-Ins For resale flat buyers, we would have to tackle the issue of old built-ins that are undesired, such as dowdy wardrobes and kitchen cabinets. Instead of hacking them away, we can freshen up their look as long as the cabinets are still functional. One way is to apply veneers to built-in cabinetry. Changing up the look of existing built-ins is easy with the wide variety of veneers available. You can easily switch up from Japandi wood veneers to slick modern glossy cabinet doors. The material cost of veneers is much cheaper than fabricating new cabinets. We would only need to pay for the labour cost of the carpenter which we would be already paying for a new cabinet installation. #5 Plan Wiring To Avoid Rewiring An explosion of extension cables is never a good interior design concept, and most homeowners would take the opportunity of an renovation to add new power points and conceal wiring. With the abundance of tech devices and household electronics we use in our everyday lives, a poor wiring plan can be a headache that would be hard to solve later on. While most interior designers would advise on placements for power point, switches and other wiring considerations, the onus is really on the homeowner to decide on the use of space and thus the need for wiring. A bedroom would have different wiring needs from a home office. An avid cook or baker would need a lot more power points in the kitchen compared to someone who rarely cooks at home. While wiring may be adjusted later during the renovation process, it may be at a significant cost, especially if the wiring is concealed behind cabinetry or false walls or ceilings. Read Also: 7 Little-Known HDB Renovation Guidelines That Singaporean Homeowners Should Know About #6 Minimise False Ceilings Many interior décor designs feature beautiful homes with nary a wire in sight, especially for the ceilings. This tends to create an impression that false ceilings are a necessary renovation expense for a beautiful home. Design features, such as cove lighting and recessed lights, require false ceiling installation which can add up substantially depending on the size of the room. However, you can minimise the use of false walls or ceilings by embracing the look of exposed wiring. Source: Pinterest Industrial design styles tend to lend themselves better to using exposed wiring as a design feature. This can be done by using wiring to create a pattern or accent feature on the ceiling. Newer BTO flats may also come with pre-built lighting points in the ceiling which reduces the need to install a new false ceiling. #7 Paint A Feature Wall Another popular interior design idea is the feature wall. It is often used to create interest as well as conceal wiring for the TV. Instead of building a false wall, many new TV sets already feature slick designs that won’t look out of place on a TV console. A good cable management box or system can also solve the issue of cable clutter without needing the expense of building a false wall. It is also more flexible if you have to change your layout or TV later on. Source: Pinterest To create interest, you can use paint which is a much cheaper option than building a false wall. Just search online for design inspiration and there would be many paint ideas that can be done by DIY or with the help of a professional. https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/7-ways-save-money-renovation-040054744.html

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The numbers of nurses around the world are falling further just as the Omicron coronavirus spreads, and there is a also an imbalance as Western countries step up recruitment of healthcare workers from African and other poorer countries, the International Council of Nurses said on Friday. Many nurses are burned out from the COVID-19 pandemic and rates of "intention to leave" within a year have doubled to 20-30%, said Howard Catton, CEO of the Geneva-based group that represent 27 million nurses in 130 national associations. "I think that we are at a tipping point ... if those numbers continue the trend that we are seeing, it could be an exodus of people," Catton told a news briefing. "I almost think that governments need to be thinking about the life support package of measures they need to be putting together to invest in their nurses and their health care workers next year," he said. At least 115,000 nurses have died from COVID-19, but Catton said this World Health Organization figure from the start of the pandemic through May was conservative and the true figure is probably twice that. There was already a global shortage of 6 million nurses pre-pandemic and some 4.75 million nurses are due to retire over the next few years, he added. On average, wealthy countries have nearly 10 times the rate of nurses in terms of their populations compared with poor nations, but many are recruiting overseas to staff their hospitals, he said, noting that the Philippines and India were traditional exporters. "We have absolutely seen increased recruitment activity by the UK and Germany as examples in Europe, the U.S. and Canada in North America as well," he said. He added that African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria were seeing their nurses recruited. The emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant, first detected last month in southern Africa and Hong Kong and now reported in nearly 60 countries, has caused fresh anxiety. "My sense is that nurses around the world, I think like all of us were perhaps starting to feel that we were starting to see light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, but now there is a palpable anxiety that we could be going back close to square one," Catton said.

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It’s long been thought of as a toxic emotion and now a new study suggests that an explosion of anger can, in some cases, trigger a stroke. The global study, co-led by National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway, found that one in 11 stroke survivors had experienced a period of anger or upset in the one hour leading up to it. The large-scale research, published in the European Heart Journal this week, looked at 13,462 cases of acute stroke, involving patients with a range of ethnic backgrounds in 32 countries. It’s no surprise that anger and upset can have this effect, say experts: when we’re livid or devastated these feelings trigger the fight or flight response, stress hormones skyrocket, while heart rate and blood pressure soar. “Anger can lead to heart rate increases and blood pressure,” confirms Andrew Smyth, professor of clinical epidemiology at NUI Galway, who was one of the lead researchers on the study. “And you may also at the same time, get some hormones that cause some tightening of the blood vessels in the brain in particular. And those two things together can lead to a rupture of a blood vessel, as in a haemorrhagic stroke, with bleeding in the brain. “The other thing that can happen, in ischemic type strokes, which are more common, is that there’s either a plaque or an existing narrowing in a blood vessel leading to the brain – as we see in heart disease – where the changes in pressure and the changes in flow in the blood vessel make the area of the brain vulnerable.” And stroke is a serious concern. A leading global cause of death or disability, one in six people will have a stroke in their lifetime and 100,000 people suffer from stroke each year. There are 1.3 million stroke survivors in the UK, says the Stroke Association. However, aren’t we often told that expressing our anger is healthy? The worst thing you can do is bottle your temper up, warns founder of the British Association of Anger Management, psychotherapist Michael Fisher, creating internal “quiet rage”. “In the UK,” says Fisher, “we’re a culture of imploders. We keep it in but we’re still releasing stress hormones, which break down the immune system and all sorts of physical symptoms can emerge.” An angry outburst, or short-term stress (fight or flight) might trigger a dry mouth, racing heart and digestive issues, and could leave us feeling sweaty or light-headed. But pent-up anger, say from a boss who riles you on a daily basis, or a toxic relationship, could result in large amounts of free floating cortisol, triggering an increased appetite and – eventually – metabolic syndrome, with added belly fat, increased blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels. So how do we reduce our risk from a toxic temper or, just as dangerous, that quiet rage? Apparently, the secret lies in the strength of our feelings. “It’s actually healthy to express anger,” says Richard Stephenson, an anger management specialist and psychotherapist at Nightingale Hospital, London. “It’s rage that’s the bad thing; if you don’t say anything, but you sit there and brood.” When anger erupts in an uncontrolled outburst or is repressed in seething quiet rage, that’s when it’s potentially dangerous to our overall health and wellbeing. So how do we manage it? “We all need to find coping strategies, to help us deal with angry episodes or upsetting circumstances,” says Smyth. “Things will happen that trigger our body’s response and how we can adapt to that is critical. I think it’s really important that people find what works for them, whether that’s breathing exercises, meditation or techniques from mindfulness.” Controlled deep breathing has been shown to slow the heart rate, in a way that’s as effective as benzodiazepine sedatives. And while numerous studies have shown us that exercise can improve your mood, beware stepping up your activity levels too quickly, says Smyth, as the NUI study found that stroke was also linked to heavy exertion. Try concisely changing your approach to whatever made you angry in the first place, suggests Stephenson. “You can say, ‘That upset me, you’ve let me down’. “Be aware of your triggers and your thought processes. Most of the time when things escalate, it’s because no one will back down. It’s the ego or an historical thing that’s causing that reaction. You can start to recognise, ‘people that talk to me like that, it brings up this in me.’” Often anger is a secondary emotion, adds Stephenson. “Behind the anger you’ve got sadness, fear, resentment, pain, and because people can’t express their emotions, it comes out as anger. When people are rageful there’s usually something that’s happened in their history.” So work out what lies behind your feelings of temper and look to solve that first; your heart, head and blood pressure will thank you for it.

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