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Hi Cecil, We have moved into the house 6 months ago and are intending to install grills and windows at our backyard, which is in the North sector of the house. Is it not advisable to do so? If we really have to do it, what do we need to take note of? Just select an auspicious date based on our ba zi and do the "dong tu" knock wall procedure? I have attached the floor plan for your reference. Thanks much, Jo

Hi Cecil, We have moved into the house 6 months ago and are intending to install grills and windows at our backyard, which is in the North sector of the house (if i divide my floor plan with 9 grids). Is it not advisable to do so? If we really have to do it, what do we need to take note of? Just select an auspicious date based on our ba zi and do the "dong tu" knock wall procedure? Thanks much, Jo

Noted.. thanks!

Hihi, thanks for your quick reply.. Meaning I say the phrase you mentioned, knock on any floor or any wall not in the north and south directions, and do simple prayers at 4 corners of the living/dining room this Wednesday to symbolize the start of renovations. Then actual renovations start in 1 - 2 wks time. (I'm not cantonese so I can do away with knocking at all 4 corners and just knock at one spot). Right? To find out which wall is not the north and south direction, I look at the floor plan and just find a east or west wall? Since we cannt complete the renovations before the move-in to be in time for the wedding, I believe the best we can do in this situation will be: Before the wedding, the master bedroom renovations will be completed and we will pause renovations for the whole house, clean up the place, do the move-in procedures, stove is "installed", put sofa and dining table in place, sleep-overnight, and a few days later, do the an chuang procedures. Around 1 wk later after the wedding, sofa and dining table to move into 3rd bedroom temporarily and renovations will continue again for the living/dining room and 2nd bedroom. (no hacking, flooring and painting completed, mainly doing the interior deco stuff such as fixing up tv console, feature wall, put back sofa and dining table after completion.) Any other major contradiction in the flow above, as compared to the best scenario of moving-in and an chuang after renovation completion? Thanks much for your advise.

Hi,I just got my house keys and opened the door for the first time. Intending to start renovation within the next 1 - 2 weeks. Used your online auspicious date search and found that this Wednesday is a good day and the next good day will be more than 2 wks later. Can I go to my place and symbolically knock 3 times on the wall or floor to mark the start of renovation, even though after knocking, actual renovation work will not start until 1 - 2 wks later? Knocking 3 times and praying at 4 corners (no joss sticks, just simple praying) is sufficient as dong tu procedures? Any preference on where to knock (eg mid of living room floor) or where not to knock (which direction offend Grand Duke, etc)? During the renovation period, it's ok to get a monk to come over and bless the house? Or we need to wait until renovation is completed? As the renovation may nt be in time for our wedding, we intend to do as much as possible, then pause the reno works a wk before the wedding (by then master bedroom reno should be completed), to do the an chuang procedures and also because we will be going back to our home to change into teadress on wedding day. After that,any uncompleted reno works (for living/dining room) will continue when we gofor honeymoon.Sodo we do the move-in procedures when we pause the reno for an chuang and wedding? Thenwhen reno continues after the wedding, need to knock 3 times again? Or if the uncompleted reno portion is only assembly of shelves and cabinets, no hacking, can it be considered as not renovation and thus, renovation would be considered completed before the weddingeven thoughsome of the ID and carpentry stuff have not been fixed up?

Hi, we'll be getting the keys to our new house soon and auspicious dates for both of us is quite far away. Can we pick a day where it's auspicious for one of us, and the other person (inauspicious) does not enter the house? then the door-opening procedures will be done by one occupant.

Dear Cecil/Robert, My partner and I both belong to the fire element, with kua no. 4 and with SE being our best direction (under Eight Houses). Our new home's door faces NW, which isthe diaster sector for both of us. However, after reading alot from the website and the internet, I know that main doordoes not always represent the facing. On one side of our home, there's the main door, kitchen and yard whereas on the opposite side, there's the balcony and windows of master bedroom and another bedroom. It seems to me that the balcony side is more the facing of the house then the main door side. If it is truely so, then the facing is SE, which is our best Eight House direction. However, it is confusing as I've read somewhere in this website balcony is used as facing only if the unit is high-floor. Mine is on the 3rd floor, so can the balcony still be the facing? General feeling I get about Feng Shui is that there're no fixed answers and depends on more than 1 factor. Considering the layout of the house, kitchen and yard makes the main door side more like the sitting of the house? Whereas the balcony, with the row of windows for 2 bedrooms, bringing in more light represents the facing? The Flying Star report asks for main door direction. So do I put NW or SE? Or does Flying Star require main door direction only, not house facing. Eight House and Flying Star complement each other right? One tells you the good and bad sectors whereas the other goes into more details on how more can be done in each sector to improve the Feng Shui. Assuming our house (facing = balcony side) is in the good sector (SE) of our Eight Houses, will Flying Star raise negative points or does it only help enhance the Feng Shui of the house? My other question is magnetic north and geographic north. I've read that Feng Shui uses the former and the deviation between the 2 is ard 15 degrees.Is magnetic north 15 degrees clock-wise or 15 degrees anti-clock-wisefrom geographic north?Most floor plans and architectural drawings show the geographic north and for Feng Shui purposes, we'll need to "shift" the compass to reflect the magnetic north.