Renovating our new home

We are going to the next stage, renovating our new home :)

Based on the experiences shared by my bro and colleagues whom got their new home, checking defects when the new house is handled to the owner is an important aspect not to be missed.
Although the interior design company that we engaged did mention that they will help us to check before they start renovation, (this is to safe guard themselves also), i feel that we should also be pro-active, basically to know what to check also... in case things are not really working.

So, i went to googling an found a website that listed all the defects that we should check!! And i realised one of my colleague, who just collected his new house and he is doing the defects checking himself, is also using the list from this website. Thus, i think we can use this as a guide too.

Here it is:
http://www.renotalk.com/main/Renovation/iart0113032008.php

http://www.renotalk.com/main/Renovation/defects-checklist-1.pdf
http://www.renotalk.com/main/Renovation/defects-checklist-2.pdf

It is from renotalk, which is a forum discussing about renovation, so i think we can use it as a basic reference :)