The grey door you mean? That's not my entrance, my entrace is beside the grey door after the wall. Moment I open my main door, it's facing a 'featured wall' as an obstruction, then you head right and straight that leads to the balcony.

You can refer to my picture below, my entrance can't be seen when I took photo from my balcony. If only I slant the angle from the corner, then the brown door is the entrance Cina developer, guess they might hv thought of that perhaps?

This post has been edited by princessgalaria: Jul 14 2014, 09:46 PM

How's the workmanship for your plaster ceiling? Has it been completed yet?
If good, can share their company name, contact and prices? Thanks

Belum, work in progress, putting up the wood part now..
Will PM if you want his contact Costed me RM3500+ for my 1143sf condo, except for storeroom, balcony, wet kitchen and entrance.

Some little update on work in progress

Sealing back the wall nicely with cement and replacing the broken tiles in the kitchen


Installing pieces of wood for plaster ceiling

Nice sharing. Helped me a lot in planning for my reno. Mind to pm me the contact of your wireman?
Also, how's the sticking of your terracotta mosaic for kitchen backsplash? I was planning to DIY mine as well. What glue you are using?

Sure, will PM you shortly.
Good question, my other half mentioned to me the other day and I forgot what he said
Let me find out from him first or perhaps I might ask some advise from my contractor. Afraid that the mosaic won't stick because there's tiles behind.

Not sure if they sell something like these here?

http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/Mosaic-fix-Mosa...e-/230766962490

I also bought a unit there, my size is 1257sq, i really hate the beam, stupid developer.. and so hard to hide them all... if do so, my celling will be low.

LOL I guess by one look, the house owners there would easily know which property is this.
yes the beams are really the biggest eye sore, the showroom don't have these ..
I dropped fully following the sliding window at the wet kitchen all the way until the entrance. So that I spend lesser on my kitchen cabinets and goes all the way till the top.
The rest of the house I'm only dropping minimum about 5-6" because I don't want the rooms and dining hall to be so low with ceiling fans. Living room will be L box.

My 1143sf have this issue at the master bedroom, the large beam on top... yikes.. though I've plastered to "L" shape
That's why I choose to make the master to study, the other room to a room.

Mind to pm me plaster ceiling and contractor contact?? Thanks

hi princessgalaria, very nice work you did there! i'm also in the midst of doing my plaster ceiling. would like to check with you if the rm3k plus for your plaster ceiling includes the wiring and installation of lights as well?

thanks!

Hey there, nope that doesn't include wiring and installation of downlights yet.
I was quoted 10 downlights and wiring for RM500.

i see.. do you mind to pm me the contact of your contractor? thanks a lot! helps a lot in my start to renovate too

This post has been edited by staticxtreme: Jul 15 2014, 10:30 PM

Sure.

hello sis,

thanks for the very informative sharing.
On the tiling works (hacking and lay tiles) as well as plumbing job, do u hire the same contractors?
Would you mind to share the contractors detail with me?
Thank you

Yup I hired a main con to manage all these except for KC and grill.
Because I don't have time to run around and engage one by one I trusted him and only go back to check once every 2-3 days. So far his progress is fast and good. Met the wireman and he's really kind and make suggestions to us and adapt to our needs. I haven't ask for his personal contact, he seems very loyal to my main con.

Sure I will PM you.

hi princessgalaria, you only deal with 3 parties, i.e. main con, homemark (kitchen cabinet) and grill? so your main con covers the wiring/ electrician work as well? does he do tiling? sorry for all these questions as i'm also doing budget for my new condo, small budget but big headache. Do you mind pm your main con's contact? thanks a lot.

Great thread! I enjoy reading it! Do keep us updated

Got it, thanks a lot.
Will contact him for a quotation.
btw, who are workers they are using? local or Indonesian?

Yes that's right. My main con covers all the wiring to wet works aka tiling and hacking of my wall.
Reason bcos I don't have time to appoint them one by one as both of us are working full time, therefore we entrust the main con that gets everything done. Might be cheaper to appoint one by one, ie the main con fees is being waived in this way, but only if you're free to run over to your place most of the time to check on the work. And say in this case, my main con will be liable for his sub con's work since I pay to him. Both also with risk, but if the main con is good, then should be fine. Maybe some of the sub con you paid them for the job and they take their own sweet time. Whereas in my case, I guess my main con really push them hard to finish everything in at least 3 weeks time. I see vast progress every 2-3 days when I paid a visit. But of course, main con would hv tambah back on the price from the sub con to earn his share.

Personal preference and also the time you can spare

Thank you

He filled in the reno form with 2 indon names, but I don't know which areas, haven't seem them.
Maybe those were the 2 fellor who hack my wall

I've met these few person that day.

Wiring man : Chinese, about 50ties uncle, very nice guy and he will give feedback and opinion to us on the wiring points
Plaster ceiling: Chinese & Malay (looks like Sabahan to me), spoke to him for a bit, seems ok
Wet Works: Didn't meet them before but plaster ceiling guy said Chinese

They always sapu my lantai everyday before they leave, not clean clean but major pieces of the stuffs. Of course they still leave food and cigarette buds, quite common, I'm not particular as long as they don't damage any of my stuffs.
When I came back at night, all the wall hacking remaining are all kept in those construction bags.
Sorry to say I personally prefer Chinese work la

This post has been edited by princessgalaria: Jul 16 2014, 03:34 PM