I want to convert a single storey house in KL to double storey house. The house is around 30 Years Old and a complete overhaul is required.

Any sifu knows how much it would cost for ball park figure and any good contractor recommendation for me to get quotation from?


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This post has been edited by chicaman: Jul 16 2017, 08:48 PM

400k to 600k depend on the size

try 1.5 storey too.. i'm planning my second house to be 1.5 now.. cheaper than rebuild whole house

Hmm at least 300k..
But I don't recommended for 30yo house...
Kinda not worth the hassle

For me lor..

I did 1 for 2 stories convert to almost 3 stories, by only using the whole rooftop space, the whole thing include all the build-in cabinet and installation of fitting are only RM750k, and the roof are using double roof system

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Yeah should look into 1.5 storey instead

True, but parents house and they like the area

Woah 750k is way way out of my budget. If single to double, how much would that be

How much your budget?? The range?

Ya, as I said, that become 3 stories house, and is full of cabinet and we demolish almost the whole house and rebuild, so structure may not be so much, but when u ask how much is it, I think is very hard to estimate, because is effected by lot of thing, for example, piping, wiring, original structure and many, is not able to say. the best way is if we able to visit the housr once to understand on what the thing is involve, that will be easy to estimate

I'm renovating my house as well, single storey to 1.5 storey.
Canaan Consultation & Trading 012698 5363

You may contact them, arrange for viewing , get a quote and that may help you in your decision making.

Thanks Bro!

Try get quote from my brother too.

Jerung Power Enterprise.
Muhammad Khairi ( 013-6610245 )

hi, my current house is double storey and plan to add to 2.5 but then i wont demolish whole building and build again. i just want to add an open balcony upper house. how much i can do it in cheapest way?

By making your existing roof to become a balcony, mean you got to add in concrete to become your balcony floor at lease, that will not recommend to do so, coz adding concrete structure mean will adding load to your existing house beam and column, which the existing column are expected to support 2 storey house only, that will be dangerous to do that, However, if you really intend to do so, you can get an engineer to do the loading calculation for you, if they willing to sign on the document. 2nd thing is local council is very hard to approve your application, specially is obviously see from outside the house

so the cost i think will be not cheap right? coz i saw quite many people do that, so i was asking how was the procedure...

Sharing some of the pictures of the progress

How u go about to get approval from local authority to convert to 2 storey house?

Renovator did it for me,

The process was quick, they have a draftman / architect that knows the DBKL requirement and the meeting / review was done once a week by DBKL.

Once they had submitted the drawing / layout application, DBKL will review and call the owner up for meeting. Then will subsequently approve it accordingly and ensure that it adheres to certain requirement such as the Gate Height, Fence Height etc.

so how much is the quoted cost from the contractor?
approval from dbkl no need to pay dbkl anything?

anyway, will it be weird when you are the only double storey unit on a row of single storey house?

Mind sharing your total cost? Permit + renovation works.

It was a lumpsum quotation for the reno, if not mistaken, the design and drawing submission etc cost around 10k as mentioned by them. Exact amount not sure. It took 1 week only for the approval, seems like they are well verse with the process.

The design of neighbour houses has high roof, so it was like 1.5 storey, extending it does not look weird. Because there are many houses actually starting to convert to double storey. Besides, many asked how much and how to get it done.

Buying a landed single storey 30 Years Old house + Renovation to convert 1.5 storey, is cheaper than buying a new launch condo.

Entire house built up will be 2400+ sqft, of course the down side is, you need high capital as oppose to buying a new house which mostly are free downpayment, free S&P, free disbursement, etc