Dear All

It's been nice to see the sharing of member's renovation, this is my renovation that currently undergoing.

Started : 1st of October
Completion Date : before 25th November

Engaged Mr Francis from Mas Ris as he was doing another house down the few house i'm living in and got a quotation from him

1) Initial Drawing submitted together with my quotation



2) Got another young contractor to quote , but guess he's inexperienced and price wise



STARTS With KITCHEN

1) Wall between wet and dry taken down
2) Originally 2 exit for kitchen (one swing door & doorless entry, swing door removed and enlarged the frame for the doorless entry
3) Floor tiles and wall tiles all taken down and replaced till ceiling.
4) Cabinets to be built, piping relocated, sliding window installed.






LIVING ROOM & DINING AREA

1) Floor tiles removed and replaced, wiring to be redone
2) Terrace removed the sliding door and grill to make an extension for the living room, while sliding door relocated next to dining hall in order to make the living room bigger.
3) L box plaster ceiling for dining hall, living room and flattened throughout the walkway into rooms.
4) Fan hook realigned accordingly





GUEST ROOM connected to Common Washroom

1) Door to common washroom removed and replaced with sliding door
2) Door fr room to washroom removed and replaced with sliding door
3) Floor Tiles removed and replaced
4) Washroom tiles and wall tiles removed and replaced, basically everything changed




This post has been edited by 812799: Oct 29 2013, 12:33 AM

MASTER BEDROOM, walk in closet and washroom

1) masterbedroom door relocated because we used up the smallest room to be the walk in closet
2) tiles all changed and replaced
3) reconstruct a wall in between the walkway to make smaller room into a walk in closet
4) everything in washroom changed as well.
5) wiring and plaster ceiling
6) given 2 choices for the walk in, U shape or L shape, decided to take the U shape since price does not vary that much.






Well there's always a budget so initially he opted Grade A Tiles, but we downgraded to Grade B, in the end he asked us go to his supplier to choose tiles, my wife and i took all the grade A tiles ...

There's a lot we didn't know, but overall he's giving us opinions in which we decided to follow suit as he should understand it better than us.

Didn't know he's going to change the piping for us for all the washrooms and kitchen, until recently.

Lighting and AC piping concealing all done by him, including all the cabinets, no 3rd party involved.

Garden is going to have an awning and ground to be flatten and we gonna plant it with Taiwanese grass.

That's all for the moment.

Next gonna snap some current pics

This post has been edited by 812799: Oct 29 2013, 12:35 AM

How much he quoted you and what is your targeted budget? Thanks for sharing, big project you got there, look forward to more updates.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Oct 29 2013, 01:13 AM

All in quoted Rm70k, we overshot the budget as didn't take in water filter, termite treatment and walk in wardrobe.

Will try to get more pics by end of today.

I think you will overshot 30% more over your budget

nopes, overshot by around RM11k, F&F alrdy separated budget

what does the 70k include? just labour or include KC, sliding door, tiles and others?

Better spare another 20% on total budget as you will not know what is going to happen.

My initial renovation budget is 150K but end up spent 180K which a lot of minor and small thing you may not notice till almost completed.

75k includes

- raw material (tiles, sink, washroom pipings, AC pipings, wirings for whole house)
- labour
- kitchen cabinet & walk in wardrobe
- painting
- awning

the rest of the furniture and fittings are mine

- Electrical appliances

that's about it.

my contractor pretty straightfoward, once quoted will do accordingly unless you need adjustment on the initial quote, but if he can do, he will just do it, his way of doing ...

Hard labour (wall hacking, floor breaking etc etc) - done by Indonesians

Tiling - done by chinese guy

Painting - done by chinese guy

Wiring - done by chinese guy

AC piping (copper and piping concealed) - done by another AC specialist contractor also all chinese

So i guess labour charges are not that cheap ...

i see. i think that is quite a good price. looking forward for more pics!

Budget more always better ......It may not due to your contractor adjust price but rather ownself

i think it's quite reasonable, coz i only gave him 1.75 months to complete, my bad my bad

we have another budget for F&F so balance a bit here n there lor.

If possible wait for year end sales to purchase your appliances and furnishing, will save you a lot of money. I too burst my budget, it's pretty common

Take as much photos especially on wiring and aircon piping area, you need those photos for reference in future, drilling into either one of those is no joke. Good luck ya

Do you need water Filter, Pump, water tank service ?Nes.. brand selling outdoor and indoor filter RM 46xx. i'm offering Outdoor + Indoor + wash tangki Less than 2k and yet the water quality you will get Same. can save Rm 26xx for other things

Hi,

We are a company that doing Skylight awning ( Glass & PolyCarbonate )

Please Pm if your are intrested.

Thanks.

cannot bro .. getting married in early DEC ...

Let me know your price including installation for UF3000 & BIO PLUS ENERGY and ALKALINE SYSTEM

Congrats in advance. Look forward to your house completion. Keep us posted.

thanks ...

As of today's update

Masterbedroom, weird building i would say, plenty of beams and pillars despite only 3 floors (G,1 and 2)



Wiring and AC piping



Path to walk in



Guest Room



View of the Living Room



KITCHEN





My soon to be Garden

From the look of it, 70K won't be enough, looks more like a 140K Reno but hope I'm wrong. Work hard to stay within your budget, I'm sure the end result will be beautiful.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Oct 29 2013, 05:00 PM