Just have my free time and finally I sit down to write this thread to share out my new house journey. Seriously, I am glad that lowyat members over here all are willing to share. You all really shared a lot of info about house reno thing, where to buy cheap staff, what to do and etc...

Special thanks to aaronpang for the Home Defect Rectification Post! it really help a lot especially for newbie like me Really learnt a lot over there. Thanks to bro weikee and zheilwane who shared a lot of info over this forum too!

It is a big time for me during the defect rectification, especially on the hollow tiles checking, I will op for checking it by using coin as the hollow tiles will be very significant if you know it by using coin/hard object. Other than that, before getting key, should always go to have a look especially during raining as that is the best way to detect roof leakage.

Click to view other on going progress photos
House Defect Checklist (Click to view hyperlink)


Wiring Hacking Work (Click to view hyperlink)

Plaster Ceiling Work In Progress (Click to view hyperlink)


Fotile Hood and Hob Delivery (Click to view hyperlink)

Fotile Ducting Hole Opening and Wet Concrete Top Work (Click to view hyperlink)


Painting work (Click to view hyperlink)


Grill Installation (Click to view hyperlink)


Paradox Alarm Installation (Click to view hyperlink)


Exterior Wet Work (Click to view hyperlink)

Auto Gate Installation (Click to view hyperlink)


Landscaping (Click to view hyperlink)


Living Room (Click to view hyperlink)




This post has been edited by leeyung: Jun 3 2012, 10:14 AM

Here are some rectified defects:


water leakage
non smooth wall surface
poor workmanship aluminium window frame
holes and gaps on most of the switches


very LoL tiles skirting
and they attempt to cover the tiles skirting by using plaster

Labeling for defects

Several hollow tiles, poor skirting and also uneven tiles
This is a very important thing have to check, the door misaligned and caused the difficulties in closing door and hence lead to the damage of paint on the hinge of the door
Hollow and uneven tiles, even cracked one
hair crack wall which are very common nowadays
This is the soap holder given by developer, surprisingly the filling work is Sux LoL


one of the door consist a lot of cracks
A very common borers issue on wood frame

After rectified most of the defects, I submitted the defect form to developer, they took about 1 month to rectify and repair most of the defects, so far so good, at least they do follow up with the defects.

This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 11 2012, 03:35 PM

Wiring Hacking Work, before starting the wiring work, I always inform the wireman to protect my tiles because as far as I know, they will never help you to protect and make your tiles damn scratches, my wireman do put the canvas as protection but he still scratches some of the tiles but I think it will be better than never put any canvas



Some photo of certain rooms and living room before hacking work start! Demolishing & destructive works coming!




Some wiring works including power+alarm wiring, actually I restructure all the wiring position rather than using the one given by developer, because the given points are too less and also position not suit my own preference, this is just pulling wires and position them, hacking work will be done after that


These are the hacked wall and right one is the concealed d with cement but havent skim coat it smooth surface, thats actually my TV console power plugs




Some power points at outside, so that I do something at outside, steamboat or bbq perhaps LOL, btw if you are thinking to put some socket at outside, please make sure u inform the wireman, you want a switch to control the socket, so that we can turn it off when you are not at home, so that people cant make use of ur switch to break in (This one read from this forum)


Simply snap and shoot


Measuring for the positions of all power points after hacking done, at least still can amend if it is not ngam, especially the aircon one because I am going to put plaster ceiling, so it does affect the position for the aircon point and curtain rails

This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 11 2012, 03:35 PM

Reserved for Future

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 12 2012, 10:53 AM

Reserved for Future

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 12 2012, 11:06 AM

from which developer is this house?

Melaka TeoBros, the so called "Top Developer" in Melaka

'top' as in their price... so much more expensive than others and i do not think their workmanship is better...

Herm, not really if you compare in such term, some other developer workmanship lagi teruk, btw overall the workmanship still sux LoL

Good sharing, will keep that in mind next time before i get the key.

Did the developer say anything about those defect?

where is ur house leeyung? im oso buying a house @ melaka. true, teobros is the most expensive developer @ melaka

developer accepted for all and did the repair recently a bit busy, no time to update more photos

leeyung do you know if wires is not color coded is defect, as in using 3 same color wires. thanks

you meant the wires provided by developer? according to my wireman, it must be in 3 different colors, mine one are red, green and black

but it worth for every penny, like the given tiles are white horse super glossy tiles

Wow, you're a detailed person indeed! I had my major defects rectified, and couldn't notice the minor defects until the wet works started.

Well done!

but sometime too detail, the developer fella will said "ini budak banyak macam" LoL but i insist for that since I paid for the house ma

Sometime too detail make you cannot sleep. I learn during renovation, perfection is an expensive things.

Agreed bro! But I sleep like pig all the days during reno, cuz damn tired

teobros. yea. the workmanship getting lousier. wondering because of they has lots of projects to do...so cincai do..
mine too...submitted the complaint letter before cny. dont know if they already rectified or not as i also dont chase them.

where is your location ?? i see teobros nowadays punya design is all the same for few location. hahaha..
i am now also planning for renovation....but not extensive one la. interior structure will remain the same. just still figuring out how to do for my backyard as i have 15'' empty "land" at the back..want to extend full....no money pulak

Near bukit katil Yeah, I heard TeoBros is good but now can felt the bad, however, all depends on luck la, according to the developer fella, my row the subcon is malay and the workmanship not so good. However, I compared my house with other developer one (like metacorp) I can see the differences, at least Teobros one they do not have a silly defect like your house out of shape, the wall is not perpendicular, the gaps between tiles more than 3mm etc, but at least teobros giving out good things like the tiles, and also the gate is much better than other developer, so overall considered ok, but the workmanship still sux LoL they are top among sux perhaps.

where is ur location hellokitty82? I also thinking to do extension and end up give up because of budget issue and also land structure, I prefer to have some land behind my house

mine at taman merbok. hehe.. now i see teladan setia one also not bad and also giving good quality material, my fren bought a house from teladan setia, location cheng setia. she only do simple renovation and maintain most of the thing. even the room door is better than teobros.
i have 15'' empty "land" at the back. it is too big for me. thought of extend a bit for wet kitchen maybe. as the kitchen inside the house not that big.

so you have started planning your renovation, looking for suppliers, etc??? after i read people here giving comments, only I know planning renovation also needs so much knowledge and time. maybe will just look for one person to handle the whole process, so anything go wrong...can held him responsible

so we are considering as "neighbor" also ma, same area haha, yours is the one 2 storey then at the back kitchen, got a slot one if view from outside? cheng and krubong area are nono for me due to high air pollution issue and also very far Actually my reno about 90% finish, pending KC now, now baru got free time to post, so I slowly post one by one, My given kitchen also quite small but enough for me ATM, extension maybe for future ba, not necessary at this moment. I dont give one person to handle all as the parang is ready to samurai (based on my fren's previous reno) so I find all separated one

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 8 2012, 10:30 AM

yours also taman merbok???
yup...2 storey one. slot if view from outside? my kitchen layout very difficult to design actually, as it is located beside the staircase.
wow..ur reno is 90% completed? why no photos post here?? cant wait to see ur house before and after!
so ur contractors all good? if good maybe can recommend me?

not merbok la, my house small small only unlike urs huge one, i know merbok there very nice but I dont have $ to buy lor, wait me become an old man first, then I buy land to build wakakka

haha the photos slowly post ma, I captured few thousands of photo during the reno whole process from empty until landscaping so have to filter filter a bit. Not all contractors are good but do consider ok, only one is in my banned list, do PM me if you wish to have those contacts

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 8 2012, 10:52 AM

har...then i am an old lady lor???

so u have not move in to your new house? when moving in? how much u spend total cost on your renovation, and all the bed, electrical, furnitures, etc??

moved in d , all bought d, ahha forgot the figures d but overshoot the original budget

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 14 2012, 11:27 PM

Reno Update:

After all wiring hacking done, then proceed to plaster ceiling works as below


Same as per wiring, canvas remain for protection, plaster ceiling work damage the tiles most for me because they never ever bother to take care the house, just wan to complete the work fast and easy, so when they setup the steel frame, just very kasar to drag the steel frame around, luckily still got some protection of canvas to minimize the damages




Just have a chance to snap some photos before they start the work next day, the right hand side one is Chou Gan （草根）that the contractor called, used to hold the plaster ceiling to make it stronger and harder, it is a must for all plaster ceilings as claimed by the contractor


Plaster powder and also selected cornice


Thousands of screws





This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 14 2012, 11:27 PM

Non reno update:

Purchased Fotile hood and hob from zheilwane, builders hardware, although I am from Melaka but still manage to get FREE delivery and even at better offer as compared to Melaka market, thanks for the fast delivery and arrangement. Logistic company reach my home and deliver the hob and hood to me, of course comes with the superb nice cutlery set. Nice offer prices & packages zheilwane offers . Some pre-photos before installation and also ducting hole opening, as have to do it simultaneously with concrete top for wet kitchen


After Delivery , temporary put at my old house


Fotile Range hood, EH10BQ


Fotile Hob, HB1D


Measurement of the box size, pretty large, 38" width, a small car maybe cant fit to bring to new house LoL


24" height for hood only


The free cutlery set, quite nice quality from outlook, also with nice weight


6 Units in package, several sizes of knifes, scissor, etc..


Also with a nice holder

The cutlery set is a free gift on top of my purchase of EH10BQ, wish to purchase this for another set as this is really superb nice to use and very good quality according to my friend who is using it

i cant wait to see your house... can i go see ur house? still renovating right? hehehehehe

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Added on February 15, 2012, 4:35 pmwow...you got free gift! nice!!!!

This post has been edited by hellokitty82: Feb 15 2012, 04:35 PM

finally, a fellow malaccan sharing reno journey!

do you know the clearance from your old ceiling to the new plaster ceiling?
doesn't have to be so big clearance right? was wondering if i can put plaster ceiling
at my ground floor without having the ceiling pulled down too low..

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

I saw from cari also, those from puncak malim they also ask for compensation due to delay of delivering the key, mine one they damn slow in repair defect, drag me 1 month only start! until I beh tahan, call them frequently cuz they drag my reno too

Sure bro!

budget heavily rely on what u want to do also, do the compulsory first, those can do it later (like outside) then do it later, I do wish to make all in 1 shot, but cant tahan haha, dompet tak cukup tebal

Reno updates:

Painting work

For painting work, I buy the paints myself then engage to a painter to paint my interior house, because after some quotation, it is cheaper for me to get the paints myself and the painter do agree with it, so I just go ahead for the purchase of paint.

Fortunately, when I purchase the paints, ngam ngam ICI is doing offer and have lucky draw for every purchase of 20L (either 1 tong 20L or 4 Tong 5 liter will entitle for that). Not bad to get some KFC, Jusco vouchers and also some free gift as below



After settled down all the plaster ceiling works, then started my painting work. I manage to take the photos with almost the same angles for all process, from before developer paint the wall, after developer painted the wall n then my own painter painted the wall


Living room


Featured wall of Living room


Living room with painted door, dry kitchen






several rooms with featured wall color

This post has been edited by leeyung: Feb 24 2012, 03:06 PM

nice color...

Hehe thanks a lot will post the grill photos soon

Actually I do considering the purpose of room as well in order to select the color, also considering the color of furniture, curtain and also lightining, therefore I avoid darker tone as it looks cram, btw color and lighting are very subjective according to personal preference

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Added on March 7, 2012, 4:35 pmEstimated paint use, sealer 2X20L, Pearl Glo 12X5L, Maxilite for plaster ceiling 2X20L, all for indoor only



This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 7 2012, 04:47 PM

Reno Update, Powder Coated Grill installation


St Guchi Lock


The hinge for the gate






The uncle said drilling tiles must use the tiles drill bit mix with water in order to avoid the damage on tiles



This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 7 2012, 09:10 PM

how much they quote u grill /sq feet for window n door?which area?

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Added on March 10, 2012, 12:32 pmmind pm me how much they quote for you interior painting workmanship?

This post has been edited by ong1987: Mar 10 2012, 12:32 PM

already Pmed you the prices

I love the concept of plaster ceiling below the stock ceiling board that served as double insulation.

Reno Update: Paradox Alarm installation in Progress


Paradox control panel,sensors and keypads


The alarm installer, responsible and dedicated installer, also good after sales service (end up he also my autogate installer)


The keypad when cover is closed The keypad when cover is opened

Can u pm me as well. Tqvm

Who is your Paradox alarm installer?

Hello TS....Paradox sound like a very good and reliable brand , seen alot of good comment about this product. unfortunately i got another alarm system installed....so far going very well....

If you don't mind can you share how much you spend on your paradox alarm ....Thanks

PMed d

Ah Yian from Melaka

I think not necessary paradox=good, there are other brands which are reliable as well I go for paradox because seeing my fren's house who r using cap ayam brand, always triggered by false alarm and do not have the GSM and remote control module to control the alarm via gsm phone, so end up go for the well known paradox save my time for that, already PMed u the price

I also want to be PM-ed. Not sure if I need such a canggih alarm, but I think it is best that I do the wiring first..what sort of wiring must I tell my wireman?

Just tell them the wiring for alarm, then they will know, it is a sort of multi cores wires for DC device one, btw my alarm wiring is done by my alarm installer instead of wireman (as both of them know each other) btw pls check ur PM:)



This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 14 2012, 11:18 AM

Reno Update: Exterior Wet Work, cleaning up n structuring



















This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 14 2012, 11:19 AM

how much they quote u grill /sq feet for window n door?which area?

already Pmed u

eH... Why you need so many longkang?

hehe, the original one will be cemented and extend to outer side

Nice photos bro. Any pics of the exterior of the house?

is it corner house? what is the land area of your house?

nice pics there...good job

LeeYung, can you pm me the quote for your grill? Mine is super expensive

Due to some reason, not going to show the exterior of the house

already PM u d

Dear lee yung, do you mind to PM me the grill, plaster ceiling and pandora box quoted from your contractor?

Thanks

apa tu pandora box?

Can we make the longkang using 4inches paip, so we can get more garden area?

Yes, they called this as hidden drain but harder to maintain n higher cost of course, bcuz u need more cements

Actually our longkang type is a bit outdated. It too big, eat up space and dangerous to kid.

I have saw some poly type of longkang intruduce here by some western country during home expo. Smaller about 4" with cover and easy to install.

Yeah agreed, really too big n pretty danger, I m also hunting for better looking drain cover

This post has been edited by leeyung: Mar 25 2012, 12:47 PM

More photos update for exterior wet works

my dcmoto905 installation , my pillar lamp is controlled by the DC motor control panel, so there are 2 additional features (which is not very important but convenient for me)

1)Pillar light can controlled via keypad or my remote
2)when sky turned dark, If I open the gate, the pillar light will auto on for 2 minutes (this is triggered by a LDR sensor in the control box, as in the photo below)

Unboxing







The gears without the waterproof casing


DCMoto autogate control keypad, due to some reason, i edited the photos


The control box, you can see the right hand side there is a hole with a small sensor, this is the sensor I mentioned, due to some reason, I blur certain portion of the wiring

hello hello...can PM me your window and door grill quotation and supplier as well? Mine also very expensive....

herm, i tot I pmed you already last time?

hahaha...i checked back the PM before ask u here. LOL...

u only give me the contact of ur grillman. hehehe

yeah, he is the one I didnt do any new window, only install grill on existing doors and windows

yaya...how much does it cost you? Do you install security door ? I also only want to install grill on existing door and window except security door for backdoor..