2 friends managed to negotiate with the same contractor and got their houses build for RM75 & RM78 psft. already finished construction in 2013 and moved in.
spot on.
after discussion with friends and relatives owning double storey houses, they advised against proceeding with the plan since there's no constraint with land area.

but but but. double storey looks really nice.
but they suggested that it's a nuisance having to climb up and down the stairs everyday.
no ID. contractor only gonna include a concrete table top at the wet kitchen.

Thanks for sharing guys, can the property build on any type of land or it must be on a residential gazetted land.

did considered flat roof, but considering the amount of things that could go wrong with the concrete, i would pass.
also considered a parapet wall, with metal decking to cover. but considering that it'll only welcome fungus growth, also avoided.

anyway i didn't get the seaside land.
there's an entrance there, family entrance. the space is the walkway.
how did you arrive at that estimation? another couple of hundred thousand just for interior design is a bit too much don't you think?
if it's an agricultural land, you're entitled to 1 building per each land title. so don't have to change the land type if you're thinking of building.

otherwise you need to change the type to residential or development. changing agricultural type to residential do take time and you need written consent from your local council. they have specific rules on what type of land that cannot be changed so be wary.

Thanks for the info, in short we can build one building in a piece of land say (1 acre size) in any type of land other than resi land where you can build more, does it constrain on the height (eg not more than 3 story) or the size of that one building.

Agree on this, huge difference in $$$ when im doing my DS house 6 years ago.

Something like this ...

why's that? any particular reason it's not recommended?
you could say that. i'll try and post the 3d for the wet kitchen.
not planning to put cooker hood on top of the cooking area. so there's no top cabinet at the cooking cabinet. just exhaust fan.
nope. just gonna leave it empty. air gap.
don't have it yet. it's all diy, so haven't draw.
got a sketch for the main structures tho. drawn sketched by a civil engineer.

solar panels are not viable for implementation. the cost is too high.

logic not found.
we purposely put the kitchen there so it's easier to see if someone's coming through the entrance and porch.
furthermore it's not wet kitchen there. it's the dry kitchen, which is more functional as the dining area.

i find it a hassle having to drag an entire trunk full of groceries through the main door, living room, pass the dining area just to get to the kitchen.
the proposed plan fully separate guest and family area. guests don't have to see the kitchen and family area. and family members have easy access to the family area and bedrooms.

i'm not an architect. not familiar as to how flats are designed.
it looks like a flat, designed like a flat, but 3x the space of a flat. must be an expensive condo.

In Saudi Arab, they have this kind of aerated clay brick. Very effective.
Even at mid noon can sleep in hotel room on high floor with just fan on.

But not sure if can get locally. Or if local sifus know how to build with this. Much bigger size than our standard brick.
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remember this small led lights?
supposed to be 9w (3 led) and 12w (4 led), epistar chip.


actual measurements.
9w:

12w:

which makes the efficiency of the 9w at 42.5% and the 12w efficiency at 46.5%
not the led efficacy mind you, but the DC conversion efficiency.

it's freaking low. waste of electricity.
even if the epistar is capable of 100lm/w, the dc conversion efficiency pulled it down. say you get 300 lumen from the 6.56w ac input, the lumen per watt is only 45.73 lm/w.
for the 4 led chip, say you get 400 lumen from 8.64w ac input, the actual output would only be 46.3 lumen/w

lower than even the cheap 11w phillips CFL that i have which is rated for 54 lumen/watt.

install LED to save energy huh?

you could measure the current draw using a clamp meter or directly tap into the power line.
or use a wattmeter, which is in a way better because it provides the power factor reading.

power factor reading is needed to calculate the actual power usage, but some older tnb meters doesn't consider the power factor in calculating the power usage.
as far as i know, the newer tnb digital meter charges you in actual power usage by calculating the power factor while the older analog meter only calculate VA rating.
to improve the efficiency, we could bypass the led driver like what you did and run them purely on DC using a high efficiency SMPS power supply. that should pump the conversion efficiency to over 80%. downside is there's no current limit and we're limiting the light output that we could extract from the led using this method.

or replace the led driver with better drivers from mean well. they have some pretty high quality drivers which is rated for upwards of 80% efficiency. from experience working with their SMPS, their products are pretty high quality rivalling those expensive unit. and their rated spec is pretty much spot on without any bloated artificial number.
i've opened quite a number of (expensive) equipment and not surprised to see the power supply from mean well in them. downside is that the choices is pretty limited. there's no peculiar current limit like 600mA, 125mA, 480mA and the such.

where did you get that info from? if the meter runs properly the reading will be (+-) the same.

just by beeing in the newspaper doesnt make it true - more likely previous meter was undercounting.

your test also doesnt work that well if you dont ensure 100% load. if there would be an overcount of 25% surely you can a) get a new meter, b) get a refund from tnb. there is a margin of error in those things but it will be more like +- 1 or 2% - not 25%.

seriously dude, let's not add to the race bigotry. it's bad enough the segregation that we're all so accustomed to.
whatever race you might be, whatever colour of your skin, holds no correlation to the significance of information, and/or truth.

actual power measurement is quite complicated. but if you had any credible proof that the digital meter is overcharging consumers, by all mean sue TNB, report to the consumer tribunal, report to suruhanjaya tenaga, and/or report to KETTHA. if it's too much of a hassle, pass the info to a consumer association and let them proceed with it.

the simplest way to actually measure whether tnb is overcharging is to turn off all the circuit breakers at the fuse box, and use a kill-a-watt meter that could measure the energy used (in relation to time) and check the consumption for a single high power item and validate that to the meter reading.
but even that is still not bulletproof, since the kill-a-watt isn't exactly a precision instrument and it's not calibrated.

to actually be credible enough for a solid proof, you need at least one of these:

problem is, it's freaking expensive. a used unit is still going for ~RM5k.
i'm trying to get my hands on one since my mum's house is experiencing some huge voltage sag, causing the power bill to shoot sky high. reported the matter 4 times to tnb this year. without any further action.
it's full load. but power rating will always be different compared to the manufacturer specs printed on the label. usually it'll be within 10%, but it's not unusual for the power usage to within 10%-25% offset compared to the label. thus the reason to carry out actual measurement, rather than relying on the label and extrapolating from it.

tnb meter
analog vs digital

positive
when the bill is lower, this new digital so accurate, all the while the analog i spent XXXX, with digital my bill only XXX. i had been paying all my life, lucky switch to digital.

negative
when the bill is higher, this new digital is bloody sucker, last time i paid only XXX, but this stupid digital my bill now XXXX. i'm stuck for life, tnb cheating me don't allowed my go back analog.

moral of story no one like to pay higher bill charges. imo newspaper nvr explain another side of story.

we don't have much option, either stuck with grid or off the grid (solar,wind,genset)

things is improving dear friend. look at how the community is condemning the malay tudung lady for her racial remarks against the old chinese uncle. she's bashed left and right from the entire community, even muslims alike.

racial tension, racial hatred, racial prejudice is pretty much reduced after the few past elections. even some big issue like the whole JAIS/MAIS raid on the bible association, the usage of 'Allah' by other religions, all of those issue can't stop people from coming together. muslims are now adopting a more moderate stance. which is rarely seen during the reign of you know who.

it might take a while more. but things is definitely improving.

she should be put in jail on the charge of aggression using a weapon. the way she hit the car using the steering lock shows her intention to use the weapon to assault and hurt others.

that kind of people should be put in jail.

i am not dignifying the race card game - this is a fav malaysian pasttime and serves no purpose besides dividing ethnical groups so that incompetent and possible c*** politicians can ab*** power. if you play their game, good for them bad for the country.

first of and again for the record. just because something is printed it doesnt become true (thank god). if i think of all the *** published in "newspapers" like berita hariam i am really thankfull for that.

second: if what you say were true then you can easily and successfully sue TNB for meter tempering which is a crime. since its on a large scale its more serious. demand a couple of millions compensation for kicks.

third: measuring power consumption through a meter can be verified. get your meter tested in a lab if you feel like it.

i am sure you will be able to get a credible finding with a definite answer. your tests just dont hold up to a test environment - sorry.