Nope- I used a different company. I’m not cheated- thank goodness for that.

Nways, if you have a proper agreement etc, why don’t you try to bring them to justice, make police report perhaps or tribunal or something (I’m not really sure tho)

For those who look for interior designer and renovation firm, pls beware of a company called M&C Gallery/M&C Concept and Design, the owner is called Melvin and Candy. They are irresponsible company that promise you a lot of things which end up nothing eventually. Only able to perform renovation with poor workmanship and keep on delaying the timeline. If you check the price with other company, their price is much more higher. The so called good quality also is just a lie.
If you are looking for interior design, make sure you don’t look for them. When you have problem and look for them to help, they will shout at you like they are doing for free. In fast, you have paid a lot of money to them.
They only will treat you good when try to trap you to sign the contact and pay them. Don’t look for them, you will regret!

In fact, I am exhausted. The tribunal takes time. I don't think I want to continue to drag like this....
Anyway, will find other way out

Those kind of experience really leave a bad after taste...maybe we should start a blacklist for ID, contractors alike...too many sub-par crap going on

UPDATE:

Keys collected: March 2018

DEFECT CHECKING: COST RM750
Defect checking: engaged third party defect inspectors, paid RM750 for 2 times inspection (before and after) and full defect report (for submission to developer)
1st defect inspection: end March. Quite a number of defects including hollow/paint spill/hairline crack/ceiling leaking but nothing very major.
Submitted defect list to developer, give spare key for them to repair defect.
2nd defect rectification inspection: June 2018. A number of defect not fully repaired such as hollow on certain areas. New leaking on celing detected.
Joint defect inspection with developer: June 2018. Developer insist that the tiles not hollow because less than 50%.. insist rectification of few areas with hollow tiles. Developer said will repair.

ARKITEK COST: COST RM2500
Plan drawing RM2500, to extend master, family area and bedroom 2 + 3 toilet

MAJLIS APPROVAL: COST RM856
Deposit RM500
Permit cost RM356

Renovation started: 3rd week of June

Master bedroom: hacking of wall, relocate sliding door and window, make bedroom bigger by 6 ft X 12 ft, with red brick wall and concrete slab COST RM8,800
Additional cost: 3ft wall slab accross (30 ft) COST RM1,600

As at 16 July- outer wall, slab done. Debris on porch cleared. In progress refixing the sliding door and casement window.

Family area upstairs: hacking of wall and move sliding door, closed off the balcony to make the family area bigger by 9.5 ft X 5 ft. red brick wall and install same timber flooring as existing COST RM8050

As at 16 July- outer and inner wall done. In progress, smoothing the wall and fixing the new 3 panel casement window.

Back area kitchen: concrete with tiles 30 ft X 10 ft (own tiles), metal alum composite roof and move water pipe to outer wall. COST RM10,700
Own tile guocera 1 ft x 2 ft x 185 pieces RM905
Floor trap tile design x 2 pcs RM76
Hanging lamp x 2 pcs, gate lamp inclusive of LED bulb COST RM230.60

As at 16 July- in progress to apply skirting, sink and pipe not fixed yet. Manhole cover and floor trap not done yet. Lamps not installed yet. Note: forgot to ask for at least one electric point at the back, wonder if it is necessary hmm.

Back wall fencing : 3ft steel fence X 40 ft COST RM3,200
As at 16 July- fence up. Touch up not completed yet

Interior design: RM2500 for a simple design for whole house (no 3D rendering), full spec of measurements and drawing. not done yet, a little slow..
As at 16 July- awfully quiet. I’m getting frustrated with their service and am thinking of just scrapping them and burn the progress payment made so far.

Laminated skylight : 15 ft X 9 ft laminated glass thickness 12.38mm, with aluminium louvers (half) and suspended with steel frame (no beam design). COST RM8,100
Waiting for them to call for site visit.

Shower screen for kids bathroom: 2.5 ft x 6 ft tempered glass (forgot to ask thickness) with aluminium base (to prevent spillage of water out of shower area. COST RM550
Waiting for them to call for site visit

Aircond:
Daikin r32 1HP Non inverter P series inclusive installation COST RM1250
Daikin r32 1HP Inverter Q series inclusive installation COST RM1550
Daikin R410A 1HP basic FFN (mini casette) COST RM1850
Installation early August

Wood deck and pebble wash- finding quotation.
Koi pond with 2 koi fish - COST RM3k
Landscape package (for pond area) - Dracena draco + ficus elastica, white pebble and 4-6 deco concrete slab COST RM700
Installation next week

Artificial grass- finding quotation and still thinking
Philippines grass- finding quotation and still thinking
Plaster ceiling- still thinking
Kitchen cabinet- still thinking
Lighting- still thinking

😂😂 many more still thinking!!

That’s all for updates!

Hi, mind to pm me the contact for the person who help to do the defect rectification?

in the spirit of sharing, i would like to write down the cheapest prices I have encountered while seeking for quotations for my kitchen cabinet

Base unit:
melamine- RM110 pft, melamine ABS- RM150
3G acrylic- RM160 pft, 4G acryclic
Solid nyatuh- RM150 pft
Laminate - RM150 pft

Drawer set:
melamine Set of 3 RM350
laminated set of 3 RM400

End panel:
melamine rm
laminated rm370

wardrobe:
Melamine - RM250 (swing), RM299 (sliding)

But the prices above may or maynot include soft close.

But again a reminder, cheaper may not be of best quality so choose wisely.

Cheers!

Happy weekend!

This week i was busy scouring the my home expo at MITEC. Previous week was at Home Living Expo at Bukit Jalil.. so it was quite daunting trying to look/search/compare the different packages and prices they have.

So the main thing is to look for kitchen cabinet. For the wet kitchen:
total base unit is around 18ft, melamine
Total wall unit around 11.5 ft, acrylic
Tall unit around 1.5 ft, melamine
Quartz stone around 18.5ft
Aluminium skirting, sort close, installation n transport plus drawing etc. Free gifts like granite sink, faucet, stainless steel carcass for the sink area , ss 900mm drain basket and 200mm pull out ss basket

Was quoted around RM18k. Not sure if it is a good deal or not, if change quartz to high pressure laminate table top would be RM15k hmmmm

For the dry kitchen,
Base unit around 11 ft, acrylic
Tall unit around 4 ft, acrylic
Quartz (brand omiya) or HPL around 11ft
Free sink, faucet, sink basket and 900mm ss dish basket

Was quoted around rm8k for high pressure laminate top, or RM10k for quartz stone

Will need to crunch numbers, any insight from fellow LYN is welcomed... thanks!

A bit pricey...

   

Let me share you mine, not the cheapest in town la...

quartz top : 190 pfr
base melamine : 180 pfr
wall 4G (3ft height) : 270 pfr
tall unit 4G : 740 pfr
alu skirting : 8 pfr
hafele soft close : 7 each

If 19ft base + 12ft wall + 2ft tall, roughly 12K
Yours acrylic, I don't know the price... And you have free gifts la.
By the way, your tall unit for oven?

It’s weird that yours is longer (19ft), but total peices is lower.

Nope, my tall unit is for storage (wet kitchen). I plan to have 2 tall unit in dry kitchen, one for storage also and the other for oven n microwave.

By the way, i saw most KC have both microwave and oven on the tall unit, but is it really necessary? Thinking of just usimg existing microwave

That’s the reason I asked what’s your purpose of tall unit. If you intend to put built in oven, it has to be 2ft instead of 1.5ft.

Hello.. have a little free time so can update..

Rookie renovation mistake- not knowing what you want and not enough research hahaha.. that's me. But time is of essence so we will have to work with what we have. That said, the first important thing is to have your budget. For me, I dont really have a budget, because I've never embarked on any renovation so far. So my SOP is, for whatever type of work, I will get quotations and compare. So far, I think im doing quite ok.

But my money is not endless, so I have to set up a budget.
For renovation works, wiring, lights, plaster ceiling etc im putting aside around 60K.
For carpentry ie wardrobe, kitchen, other cabinets im putting aside around 40K.
Curtains i dont know, last time for whole house i spent around 2K for daylight curtains and black out curtain. Im think of reusing the old curtains haha
Oven - maybe around 3K?
Hood and hob- maybe around 3K?
See i actually don't really know, hahaha lets just put 130K as the total and additional 10K as miscellaneous  

The cost could easily overrun so I would suggest for newbies to really spend time to estimate costs. The other way to do it is to actually renovate as you live (which was what Im planning to do but my partner not soo keen), so that you could take time to stay and decide what you really need day to day.

I think u can renovate the big item first and move in and slowly add on things as you go. I find that when u don't rush yourself, u tend to find better quality products or cheaper prices. When u rush yourself to a move in timeline, u get mentally cornered to make an immediate decision which may cost u. Things like wardrobe or awning can easily add on later as need