its my turn to start the renovation since i got the key for a years and consider too long

and since im poor, no budget to hire ID, so i decide to do it by my self, looking for contractor one by one, and ask for quotation from each of them.
i try my best to reno for the part that really useful of it since my budget not allow me to do luxury reno

i divide the renovation part by part as following:

1) construction work(such as:cement, etc) - approx rm12k
- place cement at the place behind the house, (35X10)psft
- place cement at the place beside the car porch, b4 its lawn, (20X6)psft
- build up a store room at corner under staircase
- add one door at first floor master bedroom to belcony, b4 tat its window there
- add one concrete table top at dry kitchen, 11 feet
- add one concrete table top at wet kitchen, L shape, total 9 feet
- heighten the ditch border to prevent mug go into it, 60 feet
- enlarge main gate place, remove the pillar and re-build it at correct place

2) wiring
3) alarm - approx rm3000
- 23 vibration sensor
- 6 magnetic sensor
- 1 motion sensor
- 3 keypad
- hacking and conceal for all cable


4) plaster ceiling - approx rm5.6k
[color=purple][size=5]- 1st floor corner------ 8 X 9(feet) plain board + L Box light thru
- living hall ------ 15 X 19(feet) plain board + L Box light thru
- dining + stair corner---- 11 X 25(feet) plain board + cornice
- dry kitcthen------ 12 X 17(feet) plain board + cornice
- wet kitchen------- 7 X 10(feet) plain board + cornice
- utility room------- 6 X 10(feet) plain board
- master bedroom 2----- 21 X 16(feet) plain board
- 2nd flr living hall ------ 11 X 25(feet) plain board
- master bedroom 1----- 21 X 16(feet) plain board + L Box light thru

5) cabinet (kitchen, wardrobe, tv console, etc)
6) tinted
7) painting - aproxx rm4k

- painting for whole internal of my house as 2900psft built up area semi-d
- painting part of external bcoz some part of it become dirty when do reno.


8) auto gate system
9）grill door & window
10) maingate
11) plumbing
12)

these all already make me faint , hope i can last until all the jobs done.

ori house b4 reno

















This post has been edited by well: Mar 25 2011, 01:19 AM

plaster ceiling






cement works

place behind the house, place the cements on it and thinking of want to tiling or not


remove the main gate, b4 that just a "small" main gate, now want to enlarge the main gate and add on one small gate at right side, the floor still think of want to tiling or not


wet kitchen stove place, build up this "table top" and move the water pipe from left to right


build up store room, b4 that just a corner under the staircase



add this door so that can go out to the "belcony". b4 tat no door at this place

This post has been edited by well: Nov 27 2010, 11:26 PM

I wonder how one will need to clean the plaster ceiling at the corner part (where it sinks in) as over time it will collect lots of dust and maybe our friendly bugs might live in.

tats y alot ppl dun like do the L-box like tis, since want to make it, then need to clean it by ourselve oledi

Hi TS, where your house location?

I mind want to look contractor for quotation, do share with us your price here and workmanship comment.

I try to give all job to 1 ID but seems like the price is very high. They normally will give u lump sum amount.

Example, L Box at 10X11 cost 3K include the light, painting,wiring...all in 1. so very hard to split the price. unless i get the diff contractor quote on plaster ceiling price/psf ,wiring price, downlight....in this case i need to arrange my own which contractor need to start the job and which is last job.

please share with us ....

Agreed, but i still see alot of friends and members in LYN wanting to do the ceilings like this. I think it will be a hassle to climb up every 3 days to clean up that ceiling.

TS: Overall - looks ok.

Why hiring ID is so call expensive?

Hi,

I don't think anyone here said that hiring an ID is expensive. One of the commenter just said that the ID has quoted him a very high price.

Please read through properly before commenting yea.

This post has been edited by Shazzac: Nov 27 2010, 10:57 PM

hi there,

thanks for the support, sure i will share out my price with my comment, just give me sometime, i try my best to list down one by one, mayb the quotation i got is not the cheapest in the market, but its already the cheapest among the quotations from those contractors sent me. and sure we need to consider the workmanship rite?

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Added on November 27, 2010, 11:05 pmhi bro,

ya what i mean is, i gave to those ID to quote me for my house reno, but they price is really expensive and i don't think so i can afford it.
and no choice then i only choose to do it myself.
i didn't mean for all ID for sure.
no hard feeling ya

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Added on November 27, 2010, 11:07 pmya thanks for it u got wat i mean

This post has been edited by well: Nov 27 2010, 11:07 PM

btw, did u lay steel frame when u lay those cement/concrete on the lawn or earth? if not, be prepare to have 'cave in' later........if there is too much weight over it....just telling my experience.

after tat what happen on urs??

Many IDs actually sub-contract out the works so it is more often more expensive then you directly deal with the contractor.. But if the ID is taking care of your renovation from start to end, the extras is well worth .

Your house very nice... where is it?

I assume u should b very faint now.. grill first, then reno, then buy furniture, then electrical stuffs...

I don't see anyway to do it below 60k, unless u want to make it kampung house..

ya agreed. just i dun have the budget for it, so i force to use off my time to deal direct with contractor

but making the big house full is really a big job right?

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Added on November 28, 2010, 12:47 amwow.. u already one year get key but not yet renovate..

people will rush to move in one..
where is your place?

This post has been edited by epalbee3: Nov 28 2010, 12:47 AM

lol, my house located at kampung area, but doesn't mean to make it like kampung style, i will try to make it become modern.
and u r right, faint from the day 1 i start reno it, and one of the reason of faint is bcoz i wan to control the reno cost not over 100k.
60k? i also want it

do u mean 100k only for reno, or include everything like furniture and appliances?

i think people advise us not to choose branded.. shop around during year end sale will help..

i see my small house already want to faint already..

for me is quite big job bcoz i didnt make it b4, i didn't rush sure got reason, one of it is busy on my work, another one is bcoz i still got house to stay currently
and my house located at kampung like area, not kl for sure

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Added on November 28, 2010, 1:19 amunfortunately, 100k only for reno, not yet include furniture and appliances, my pain.
i dun think i will choose branded, but i also need to see the quality 1st

This post has been edited by well: Nov 28 2010, 01:20 AM

100k is already a lot.. and it must be cash too..

after spending big bucks on house, still need to pay for reno...

in fact developers should have done the normal things like grills and kitchen..

depend on house size i think, 100k i still headache on lack of fund, especially if wan to make it become modern and nice.
ya nowadays most of the developer just give the "basic" things for new house, and those things are useless and we need to change it for sure.
btw, i got saw ur post, why not u post some of ur house pic, then others forumers may can help u and quote u?just my opinion








This post has been edited by well: Nov 28 2010, 01:42 AM