hehe, nothing to c la, consider 80-90% done d the reno

yeah bro, nice to meet you, I didnt remove my existing old ceiling, just add on the plaster ceiling from the existing one, your house will be cooler if you are doing such way, as double heat insulation. It is too hassle and no point to remove the existing one because I didnt see any advantages by removing it except ceiling height concern. Secondly, if you are using downlight with cover, insects are lesser as well (still have of course).

what is ur ceiling height?

just a mere 10ft..
i imagine if i pull down lower with plaster ceiling,
my living room might look constrained/small.. *sigh*

Is plaster ceiling a kind of gypsum board? Kind of heavy?

Anyone has a different kind of ceiling installed... like a wooden kind?

10 ft still consider high bro, typically plaster ceiling will eat up 6inch or more, my ceiling is 11ft, after plaster ceiling is about 10 ft 5inch, for my living room, it will be lower because I wan cover some beam with cornice, so it is about 9ft 8inch like that

Nope, gypsum board is gypsum board, plaster ceiling board is mixture of chou gan + plaster powder.

Plaster ceiling is also made of plaster(plaster of Paris/calcium sulphate), but mixed with glass fibre.
Timber ceiling is nice only if you have a high ceiling. But it is expensive.
Plaster ceiling is the cheapest. White ceiling makes a room appear more spacious.

Yeap, Chou Gan(cantonese) AKA fibre in english, as photo below





This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 17 2012, 09:44 PM

Renovation update: Fotile ducting hole opening and wet concrete top work

It is a pain ass for me because for fotile hood, we need to open 7" ducting hole and not the typical 6" , after consult zheilwane, I told my contractor to open the 7" hole accordingly. The most difficult part for me to open this hole is actually to purchase a 8" PVC pipe, because either not available or they have to sell in whole batang of 10 meter etc... in which I only need 1 ft, so after hunting around in my area, finally I found the 8" PVC and able to purchase only 1ft hehe.

After that I show my contractor the hose and tell him I wan to fit the 8" PVC with the fotile hose as in the photo below, my contractor said "Thats easy, cut it and use wire to ikat, then put silicon to seal back, once dried up, can put into ducting hole d so photo below are the hose, 6"PVC and 8" PVC for my ducting hole opening preparation



The yellow line is actually the place where my contractor cut the PVC then mod to 7" :hehe


After pasang to the wall, this is how the ducting hole looks like, you still can see there is a line over there.


My wet kitchen is pretty small, so wet work for concrete top also very simple

Nope bro, it is one of the room in my house, my house is a 4 rooms single storey semi-d, that is why the design layout like that . Reno+fill house + everything budget RM60K but now already overshoot like no tomorrow haha

hahaha...high five...my husband budget also RM60k. LOL. But i told him quite impossible as everyone seems like overbudget...

Yalo n usually double story will double up the price as u have more space to "play"

aiyoyo...u dont scared me liao la...
now we only concentrate doing...car porch tiling, backyard for simple landscaping, kitchen, living and dining room, and master bedroom and the toilet... other 3 bedroom leave it as it is first..

ur 60k is for whole house and all the bedrooms, etc?

haha, didnt scare u la, the value is from my friend one btw, wiring, KC, paint, plaster ceiling, lights and eletrical appliances, toilet thingy furniture for all rooms, almost gone lor the $..... I left car porch tiling for future work, since it is at outside

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 20 2012, 12:41 PM

true also..my husband also said concentrate on interior as we are going to stay IN, not OUT. but then basic tiling will do la..coz current one is cement only le...

huh? inside give u cement only?

nola..car porch is cement.. inside is tiling of course. big one somemore. so no worries and not going to change also.

haha icic, i tot inside give u without tiles wa, terkejut teo bro give punya tiles all cantik one ur given one is 2ft or 1.6ft tiles?

alamak...i duno le..hahhaa...wait i go back and check..
but then thier workmanship is not good as expected la. met the site supervisor last weekend to complaint again.
to my surprise, the site supervisor looks so young..i wonder if he has experience..

ya lor, I also felt disappointed with the workmanship, u complain to ah teng?

my site supervisor there is Kelvin. Even my backdoor (kitchen door) knob also kena curi. and my all my sinks all without the paip one. all kena curi. so they got to replace for me. and i showed him all the bad bad workmanship and he know says..OK OK..i will rectify for you.

i said i disappointed la...i asked is it because you guys have lots of projects to cover, thats why cincai do?

you know what, i heard from neighbourhood in phase 1 saying that the developer late in delivering the house key for 5 months. and developer got to compensate them. and they did get the compensation la...but my phase...on time pulak...

Nice sharing! Keep us posted