Good day everyone

Would like to learn some hints from you guy how is your proper planning when you bought 1st house to stay. what i mean is proper planning of adding/reroute new power point, water plumbing, kitchen renovation, interior renovation too. Right now after paying the downpayment, likely will dont have so much money to do all in one shot renovation. so think to do it part by part. but some how the renovation some is related to each other like power point plug reservation. so wish to do proper planning to avoid redundant cost

Some noob questions: (also pls advice which part need started first)

Must List

Power point installation
1. Can we ask the electrician to reserve some "line" for future use (for future use in kicthen, etc) up front
2. If a house in future will do have with 2 units of shower system, 3 units of air-conditioner, 1 refrigenerator, TV, etc. Can the house main switch box able to supply these load?
3. How they charge for a) labour b)material c) reroute line
4. Rough budget?

Plumbing installation
5. Normally additional piping need use PVC or metal type?
6. How plumber charge for this type of work?

Plaster Ceiling
7. What is L Box mean?
8. The lamp at ceiling plaster is square lamp type better or the round type philips lamp better
9. The connection of the housing lamp by default is series or parellel? which type connection is better to reduce the over voltage burn issue
10. Any recommendation of stylish & cheap power point does installation the lamp frame or lamp is by this plaster ceiling sifu or need the electrician sifu?
11. How they charge for a) labour b) material
12. Rough budget?

Kitchen extension and renovation with tile and cabinet
13. Extension housing for kitchen does require approval from gov? if yes how is the procedure...
14. Rough buget for 8 feets long kitchen with tile and cabinet

In house Water Tank
15. Anyone doing prevention or detection of the water tank leakage? i heard water leakage will make the plaster shit

Accessories
16. Which water filter is safe & cheap (filter replacement) and and with certification?
17. Which brand of L shape sofa you guy recommend, fabric+cotton or full leather ? I heard ppl say is better to buy the good one which cost higher but will last longer. does it true?

Wish List
18. 42" LED TV Toshiba
19. Car porch tile instead of cement render

This post has been edited by jimlim007: Mar 27 2010, 07:01 PM

Are you planning to get solar heater, water pump and outdoor filter? If yes, we would be able to offer attractive prices and provide you with professional advise regarding all your queries regarding plumbing such as water tank leakage. Drop by our shop in kepong before 1st of april as stuff are going to increase after this month.

This post has been edited by zheilwane: Mar 27 2010, 06:00 PM

too far bro. me is from kedah state

lol, too bad then ahha. If you wan to get solar also possible as the factory will install it for you. But need to pay extra charges for installation outside klang valley

This post has been edited by zheilwane: Mar 27 2010, 06:21 PM

Hi Jimmy,

I am also renovating my house so here's what I know, after gathering info from the contractors, and reading up the forums here:
What do you mean by 'reserve'? I think best is you estimate how many points you need and then ask the electrician to add those. They charge by number of electric points.
Your house is single phase or 3-phase? If single phase, normally max is 60A (check your main fuse, near the meter). This means you can have a max of 10 1-HP aircons (each aircon about 3-4 Amp), provided you don't turn on other things (eg lights, washing machine etc). So to calculate load, you have to find out what is the max ampere consumed by each appliance.

Each point they charge about rm50-80, depending on where you are located. Penang island is rm70-rm80, mainland is about rm50-rm70. Lighting point cheaper (rm30-rm45).

Better ask them to install single-layer wiring with PVC piping.

Air con point around rm150-rm180, same for heater (since same type of wires).

Various types of water pipes, eg copper, ABS, PVC, PB, poly...most popular due to cheap and durability is ABS...For my house, they quote me around 4000 (2-storey landed) to redo all pipes with poly + ABS.

L-box? just search in Google, you will see lots of photos
99% of the time the electrician will use short-parallel method to connect them (i.e. looping). Impossible to do series, your energy-savings-bulb won't even light up with series.
rm30-45 per light point. So if you have 10 downlights, rm300-rm450 loh...


extensive forum topics on this. Just do a search in this forum.

Bypass the water tank...anyway, even if leakage and spoils your plaster, plaster ceiling and water tank can be easily fixed.


Others: car porch tile is cheaper than cement imprint if your car porch already has cement, because for cement imprint they have to hack the entir car porch and lay new BRC wires. For tiles, they just lay the tiles on top of existing cement.