i think the main issue is to get the upper floor neighbour perform flooding on their respective toilets. if they do not check it during completion, next time if later found leak sure very headache.. 

Yeah, but with a new house i have no need to do major hacking. Would be a huge cost to replace new pipes!

Huh?

The magic word is simply by asking "best price pls" or "chun kao ar?" in cantonese...
Only applicable to Builders Hardware..

Things i get from GH:
i) JS for all bathroom taps, bidet, shower heads and rails, mixer, WC and bathroom basin.
- I get 50% off all JS bathroom accesorries (excluded WC and basin). Compared with others, GH is cheaper. They manage to give good price on JS coz they really have volume. Went to collect something from their warehouse in Kuchai Lama, very big warehouse they have with many pallets of JS stocks!

ii) bath tub

iii) all my tiles except peranakan tiles and tiles for feature wall of shared bathroom.
- reasonable price for all brands and i got 30% off for Niro Granites. As they are a big comp, i have less worry on hanky panky things...Eg. I heard that buying from Ipoh rd got to be careful sometimes, some unethical vendors (not all vendors of course) will mixed grade B tiles into grade A's tiles and offer very low price to lure customers. I'm not sure how true is this saying, pls don't quote my name.

However, i find that only one or two sales guys there are keen to serve (I'm refering to their branch in Old Klang Rd). A Bangladeshi is very good and hardworking on assisting customers on tiles selection, but for other fittings stuff, he is not good in guiding the selection. There is a chinese guy quite good. Other staffs are passive, not keen to serve and hardly crack a smile on the face. Mine was served by their branch manager that time...

thanks for sharing. 
no worries. won't quote your name.
worth making a trip to GH at kuchai and have a look then.
i didn't buy anything (almost buy WC..) from them during the recent PWTC fair.

The laminate flooring for the entire 1st floor is done today. Inovar sent over 4 chinese guys and 2 foreign workers. It was a one day work finishing around 5pm.
Touching up on the skirting joining parts.

Trimming for 2 bedrooms' door which I do not change to new ones.

They helped me to cover up the connecting strips for temporary as to avoid damage which could be happened when moving in carpentry and furniture...

I'm using 12mm traffic zone series for floor board and 8mm for staircase.

The staircase without riser hence got to use this type of skirting profile.




Chosen 'supposedly white' skirting but it turns out more to creamy colour compared my wall.... hmm....but still acceptable lar...

Although their warehouse in kuchai, but i still prefer to go to their Old Klang Rd store coz all in one roof unlike their kuchai store which splited into 3 different shop lots..
WC i suggest you to check from Zheilwane first coz his price of JS WC is quite good without the need of hard nego like I said. However, you got to ask him if he provides delivery. GH does provide delivery.

P/s: one more tip, you can ask GH to test several shower heads for you, so that u can see how's the water flow and that very much ease your selection.

thanks. so much to read... so many to read up and learn 

Bro, congrats on your reno mind to share how much the first floor of the laminated flooring cost you... Thanks

I use Inovar 12mm traffic zone series. Final bill as below:

how big is your area in sqft?
did you sign up/ take on their package during fair with special price?

I use Inovar 12mm traffic zone series. Final bill as below:

how big is your area in sqft?
did you sign up/ take on their package during fair with special price?

HI Maxxon can you share your merpau door vendor and security door vendor, sorry if i miss out if you already post it, you can PM me if you like.Thanks in advance

Anyway that a really nice reno youve done,congrats.

Hehehe... Thanks so much, now I have a rough idea how much doing laminated flooring will cost

Bro, it's written there 811sqft lar

HI Maxxon can you share your merpau door vendor and security door vendor, sorry if i miss out if you already post it, you can PM me if you like.Thanks in advance

Anyway that a really nice reno youve done,congrats.

Why not make the island top at the center? Looks more balanced.
And it is too near to the WM?