Renovation Updates:-

Louvre Doors installation:-

Part 3 - Louvre Door (Doors with vent Panels)



Suitable for enclosed rooms without any windows. e.g. store rooms
This door needs to be installed to open on the other side as my door frame was installed to open in when I needed it to open out.

Installing the hinges on the door first




Only then attaching the hinge on the frame .




End result.

Aiya, Its the small space under the stairs that I've closed up.

hey, just noticed, This is my 1000th post here in LYN

This post has been edited by phoenix69: Feb 20 2012, 11:28 AM

I was only active in mid 2011

Sarawak. Many natural resources, KL city, many middleman.

I extend follow the most front wall line, not sure if it makes any different in price but TNB original wire must remain their original one, must be visible from outside.

Aiyo, I kena slaughter

Renovation Updates:-

Door Knob installation:-

Part 4 - Door Knob
Core the door surface


Core the door edge



Space prepared for door knob



Chisel a space for lock attachment



Attach the lock then the knob handle



It works....



Make a hole on the door frame and attach the cover



The end result



This post has been edited by phoenix69: Feb 22 2012, 09:02 AM

Just gonna slap paint on it

Learning about Water

Went around searching for water purifiers. Need to install this to my house water system as water in washing machine turns my clothes yellow
So I combed through some of the thread in this forum and went around asking some suppliers.
So this is my findings

there is 2 main types water purifiers, POU and POE

POE (Point Of Entry)
Outdoor Water Purifier - Sand, Membrane and Ceramic type.

Often mentioned brands in Lowyat Forum:-
Bacfree - British Technology (long history), one of the very first water filter supplier in malaysia, most expensive sand filter in malaysia that I've come across so far.
GE - NSF Cert - The most expensive fiber casing sand filter i've encountered so far
3M - Has NSF elements but not NSF cert (as far as I know)
Perfect Steel - Popularised by forum member zheilwane. Has NSF stickers on some of their product range but what that entails.. I dunno

POU (Point of Use)
Indoor Water Purifier - located in kitchen for drinking water purpose.
many types of water system, energy, Reverse osmosis, alkaline etc etc etc..

Often mentioned in Lowyat forum:-
Amway - NSF Certified
Coway - a brand often mentioned by coway's mlm members here. ... Here is something i discovered - NSF Certified range of product not avalaible in malaysia at the moment except maybe one model that does not appear on their malaysian website and sold through retail. betcha they dunno that.
3M - NSF Certified
Tupperware - NSF Certified
Bacfree - Ceramic filter only but they claims that all the SIRIM lab uses their filter an so far no bacteria found.

All the above uses 3 main technology

Reverse Osmosis, Membrane and Ceramic.


NSF International, formerly known as the National Sanitation Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides research and education in the field of public health and safety
For the standard of purified water NSF seems to be the oft referred to standard.

Googled around and found this 2 useful website

1. basic information about water filter
http://www.about-water-filters.com/index.html

and a breif summarization on what NSF is
http://www.about-water-filters.com/nsf-certification.html

2. NSF listing , a search database by NSF of all the "tested and certified" product.
If its ain't here its bogus
http://www.nsf.org/certified/dwtu/



NSF certified products seems to carry a lot of weight and has to meet strict standards, if not they can lose the cert then shame lor....
NSF logo is used by many companies but read the fine print ... "follow/exceed/adhere to NSF standard"... talk only, must get "NSF xx Certified"
NSF certified product - Damm expensive except for 1 brand which the supplier discontinued


Btw, I am going for a non NSF certified products

This post has been edited by phoenix69: Feb 29 2012, 06:32 PM

Just noticed that this topic exceeded 100,000 th views
It has been a fun 8 months of sharing and discussing.
Thank you for all your support, comments , interest and visits



This post has been edited by phoenix69: Feb 29 2012, 06:29 PM

Cosway - A Berjaya Group owned MLM company (Malaysia wan)
Coway - A Korean MLM company (Korea mali)

The one I mentioned is the Korean mali wan Coway .... (no "s")

The installer is actually the door supplier staff.
Maybe you could check with door supplier, ..... they sell locks too.

.. this is not a renovation "product" based thread, but a renovation "project" based thread.

I guess there are not as many replies because of this.


This post has been edited by phoenix69: Mar 3 2012, 02:15 PM

Generally, they are all the same. I am located in USJ so I went to the shop nearby to me.
The main thing for me was the frame and glass spec as mentioned in my previous post.
If you must know, its the only glass and aluminium shop in Taipan.

1) I've got my wooden doors from door shop, specifically Poh Yep in Puchong. Bi fold door from Solid Glass although I've found out later you cal also get from Glass and Aluminium shop and from regular door shop.

2) They come and measure for you.

3) I buy at the same door shop and they install for me.

Renovation Updates :-

Water - the quest for clean residential household water
After doing research on all things regarding water for home, with my limited knowledge,
I embarked on getting all my water clean clean

Water - Part 1:- POE (Point of Entry)

I have chosen to install a standard Fiber Casing Sand Filter

Perfect Steel from our well known resident LYN sanitary supplies expert.


All the pipes connected


Kaw Thim with additional water tap and hose


Why did I chose this?
I think for outdoor filter, sand filter should be enough.
Membrane I understand gives the cleanest water but I think its overkill and sand filter kinda gives me the feeling of natural water filering. - fresh water from the mountain filtered to the river to my house kinda logic
Fiber casing gives much better value than stainless steel casing.
So far as I know, GE Sand filter has NSF cert and its fiber casing too.
After 5-10 years , change lah



This post has been edited by phoenix69: Mar 5 2012, 12:51 PM

3 bar on a normal afternoon.

The plumber says it's just nice. If too high. plumber says hafta reduce the water pressure.

At night when the whole town is bathing, it drops to around 2 bar.

This post has been edited by phoenix69: Mar 5 2012, 01:00 PM

Agree. Cheap though

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Added on March 6, 2012, 9:08 amIf I remember right I think its Mr. Paintman Weather paint
Vistasik Brown and Heritage Cream
http://www.mrpaintman.com.my/


This post has been edited by phoenix69: Mar 6 2012, 09:08 AM

If my guess is right, I think Jo_da48 has the higher-end model, with Stainless Steel Casing.