Hello all!

Does anyone have a reliable contact person for house renovation around Bukit Raja area? Thanks.

I engaged Yap Peng Kim (012-329 1682) this year to do my toilets (retiling, general fixes & plumbing) after reading your reviews about him on LowYat, how good la, how polite, great work done.

But it turned out to be a nightmare, where not only he NEVER showed up even once after getting the contract but his contract workers were not even doing any work, and after taking more than a week to break my toilet tiles, I had to step in and ask him. Turns out his supervisor, Chong Chee Onn (016-332 2826) also wasn't on site, unlike Yap’s promises.

Yap did sloppy work on my toilet, didn’t know much about plumbing, didn’t fix the heater hose properly, just did a half past six job, even didn’t finish the tiling properly, never added grouting for most of the tiles. But he was very busy promoting his relative’s shop to me to buy things from them (some Ga Hing Trading), instead of working on my toilet. Our toilet leaked once they fixed the sink, and his workers didn't even inform us even while we were on-site. We found out from management about this leak due to complaints from our downstairs neighbour. We had to follow up with him AND his workers to repair the leak and do our own water ponding test to check if it was fixed or not. He even told us another nonsense story about his supervisor left and he was so busy with other contracts he had.

When asked on the progress, he always said "don’t worry, small matter", for a work he promised to finish in 2 weeks, took more than a month and a lot of our own time to supervise- he never once came to supervise on his foreign workers, even after I asked him to check on the work done, as it was quite sloppy, he kept giving excuses to not come and check. He even said he thought we were not serious about the date that was discussed and agreed upon in the contract.

Worse is the lighting to our toilets, it was done in a really bad way, that the housing fell after a few months and we found out from another electrician that we engaged that the bulbs were not fixed and were free-hanging.

He is very condescending towards females, and will launch a tirade justifying why his workers haven’t finished the work within the deadline, but won’t address the actual issue with you, which is to ask his workers and supervisor to be on site and DO WORK! And by do work, I mean do QUALITY WORK, not sloppy work!

Towards the end, he instructed his workers to hide my house keys, and wanted us to pay in full asap (before inspecting) and launched a BS story about his deputy Chong stealing my keys, and he lodged a police report on his deputy. He STILL did not want to meet us to inspect the unit for defects together before we make the payment! Really a nightmare to hire Yap Peng Kim! Stay away from him at all cost! NEVER AGAIN !

A word of advice to the rest of you, please do remember to add in a clause in your renovation contract about penalty for late delivery of the property.

This post has been edited by im_awsm: Dec 5 2020, 01:02 PM

I have been telling people don't believe too much the so called "recommended" and "best" contractors in this forum. Every time I see people asking for dumb question for best, good price/cheapest contractors without doing any research themselves I just see disasters are happening.

Some of the people doing the recommendations are actually contractors in disguise. Some of you need to wake up.

I sympathize with your problem but I really doubt you have done enough evaluation of the contractor before you engaged him. Did you check the previous work/references? Did you have good detailed requirements and instructions? Did u monitor the work? Judging by last advice I doubt you have done any. Not many renovations projects sign contracts. You are demanding a toilet renovation project to have a signed contract? Good luck. I assume you are not living in a palace?

Usually can't take on good review from new member, maybe fake one

Was this so bad about him and his partner?

Was this guy so bad and his partner?

No idea but according to older post there are both good & bad reviews on him.
Personally if bad reviews more than one or even one I wouldn't consider the contractor already.

Pity you, you fall for the trick. Like most people here said, never engage a self promoting contractor. Heck even my honest contractor who is doing a great job by most people’s standard also I don’t dare to recommended because he wasn’t up to my standard and I am afraid there will be someone fussier than me.

Hi, im_awsm, can you show any photo how bad was his done?
So we will be caution on this guy.
If you cannot perform the photo how bad his done, I think you must be something wrong and try to getting him in trouble only. Hard to imagine the tiles not grouting and light can fall down saying just hanging only without screw. And halftime past six plumbing works?
If he was so bad as you mention, why you don’t stop him and terminated his contract and allowed him to continue the works? And still pay him after works completed?
Don’t simply black list contractor, unless you got a strong point to prove that. Another thing why they want to steal your key? This might very interesting to me?
Show some photos of the bad works to prove his really bad.
And I still believe not contractor want to be like that, and why you don’t make a police report on that time? I guess your side also got mentally problem also. Even I and my sister also using him for whole house renovation, and we find that not that bad as you mention. My house is landed and my sister house is a condominium in old klang road . And he do a good jobs in hartamas cheras, subang ss15, Mahkota cheras, Sierra 16 and paragon 3 in Sri kembangan, Ni’doz exiim i desa petaling and all with happy ending! why only doing so badly to your house?
Your are a new in forum, hard to believe what you say... for my personal view it’s is a fake talk.
And all are bull shit talk.
And I still believe him and keep promoting him in this forum.
Remember my name,property agent. I’m Robert .

Yeah kindly provide some evidences so can officially blacklist him.

Actually, I invited Mr Yap to quote a price for renovating my property.

He gave me an initial quote based on my sketch and sent his quote by 11pm, quite late at night and quite committed.

When I finally revised my plan and engaged an architect to have final drawing, I chased after the new quotations. He also revised his quote - though he told me he had 4 projects and might not be able to take up the job. His prices were not far away from the rest of the quotations I received. Hence, I assume he did put in efforts to read the drawing and estimate the cost.

Though I did not engage Mr Yap due to his schedule, I have to give him a thumb-up

a) He would return miss calls if he could not pick up my calls. I could 100% understand why contractors sometimes are not able to pick up calls.
b) He put in efforts to prepare quotations, not simply give a low quote to get the job and then variation order. Even he knows that his schedule is too tight, he still revised his plan for me to have comparisons.
c) He talks politely.

To be fair to him, I think he should have a chance to quote his side of stories.

This post has been edited by ongss: Dec 8 2020, 03:28 PM

Maybe you should also include some pictures and chat history that you have went through with this contractor. I guess that is fair and we also hope the information shared within this sub forum are justified.

Hi, just chanced upon this particular post and am slightly surprised by your experience. I have engaged Mr Yap > 5 times personally over the years and am a civil engineer myself. I have nothing but good things to say about him, his team and his workmanship. He has done renovations at my properties, my parents' place plus I have never hesitated to recommend him to my friends too. Generally the comments have been positive throughout.

I have always particularly been impressed by his quality of tiling and plumbing work in particular.

Not completely doubting your experience but at the very least, you should provide some evidence for your claims, especially for someone who is a relatively new poster with only 3 posts. I note many people with long extensive posting histories in LYN have come to his defense in the past few posts (which means that even if there is some truth to this post, Mr Yap is probably still delivering good work in general) so this is the least you could before calling for blacklisting.

Just for sharing, he recently completed renovation for my daughter's new nursery in July this year. Another tiptop job, no complaints at all.



Hope your bad experience can be clarified soon to be fair to everyone.

Not doing a good job. Didn't fix the damages they caused. only use white paint to simply touch up.

There was something wrong with the wall but didn't let us know before install cabinet. Then we need to repair the wall again.

The most angry part, their workers smoked in my unit but didn't want to admit it.

Conclusion, their workers are very rude and caused a lot of damages including wall, door frame, etc. The contractor (boss) didn't monitor.

I'm thinking whether to pay full for the final payment.

Hi, this type of thing, happen every where, seem only you pick the wrong one... payment should pay in depends what conditions you have to accept, maybe ask discount for compensation for what you really not happy, and don’t keep him to continue.
Ppl are works for money....always remember, pay to equal.

of course i will pay and blacklist the reno company. i'm not a difficult person to deal with but the contractor is not professional and can't handle customer's grouses. always have excuses when there are issues.

This post has been edited by Chrysella: Jan 4 2021, 03:15 PM

Sounds like my contractor. Wall all senget need to hack some portion before installing kitchen cabinet. Even worse when in fact I already realized the unevenness of the wall a month before all works "completed". Keep delaying the repair and in the end did not repair when handed over the keys.

All hacked/chased area for AC pipings and new wirings are visible even when I pay them to repaint the whole house.

Smoking? My house is literally their giant ash tray.

Floors and skirtings were covered with small dots of paints all over. Some doors were chipped, some were dirty.

I hold some of the final payment before I rectify the cincai made area using other contractor. Will deduct from the remaining balance before paying the final payment.

This post has been edited by blanket84: Jan 4 2021, 05:43 PM

wow looking at the photo, its like a professional ID photographer work! good job!
Sophia will be very happy to have this room!

would like to highlight that plant is not suitable for bedroom due to photosynthesis.

To all house owner or fresh house owner who want to do renovation works, once you appointed a contractor, you must fully trusted with your selection. Don’t end up with unhappy ending with your selection. I think no body wanna do a bad jobs or not responsible for what they doing. Always give and take, all craftsman works and not a printed works... no 100% perfect one, you might have 80-90% acceptance, is consider a good jobs for those contractor.
Human also can’t get a 100% perfectly born. Hope all house owner can get what I try to highlight. Thank you.