hi all, i would like to recommend Mr.U 012-911 0653
he had been working for my double storey house renovation for the past 4 months.

Initially I had quotation from Mr.Yap (a lot of recommendation here), Mr.U and 2 other contractor. from all the contractor, Mr.U is able to suit my budget yet had given what i requested.
Mr. Yap is also helpful, but he is pricier. Mr. Yap did proposed some other solution to suit my budget, but it's not really what i had in plan.
So in the end Mr.U quoted me lower than my budget but with everything i want. He even came over to my house before my final selection to remove the awning at the backyard as it was not allowed during my permit application. Since he was so helpful and with a good price, i took my risk to get him to do my work as there is only Margaret who recommended him in lowyat forum.

He is responsible and responsive to my query, question and requirement. A lot of extra stuff he did for free. he is not calculative type of person.
He will not hide his mistake and be frank to me.
He quoted me cement brick price but willing to give me clay brick after i requested.

He just finished his work at my house yesterday. he and his worker tried their best to spot flaws before they left and rectified whatever they can.

I am a happy house owner with his work.

I am not hard selling here. just share my experience.

ya, kind of agree with you. He did complained he couldn't profit from my project and won't repeat again.
but at the end he did the job well and finished it.
That's why i highly recommend him here.

i think most contractor factor in too much margin to cover for any unexpected lost.

U did some wrong calculation for the concrete slab size, but i did agree to compensate him with reasonable price.
He also showed me the size of the steel rod and told him some contractor reduced the number of steel rod in the pillar just to con few hundred but he will not do so.
from my view, he is a responsible guy and wish to give the best to his customer. just from my current experience only.

He treated me nice, so i just returned him favor.

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.