Sharing my home renovation journey here which started on June 2018

1) Extend 15 feet wet kitchen & concrete table top with tiles
2) Demolish existing bathroom at downstair and replace tiles
3) Build 1 new bathroom at extension area
4) Install full height wall tiles and floor tiles at extension area and new bathroom
5) Extend 7 feet master bedroom
6) Plaster ceiling at all extension area
7) Painting internal

All of the above done by a main contractor

Below will be done by different contractor

1) Grill door and window
2) Kitchen cabinet and wardrobe
3) Air cond piping and installation
4) Install auto gate

My initial budget was RM80k

Rough breakdown as the renovation not completed yet

Total main contractor workdone as mentioned above - RM65k
Grill door and window - RM3.3k
Kitchen cabinet & wardrobe - RM13k
Air cond installation 2 units 1hp & 2 units 1.5hp - RM760

Will be sharing more after all the renovation completed










This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 25 2019, 12:15 PM

i doubt your budget will make it

This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 25 2019, 11:15 AM

Where is it? Photos?

Master bedroom extension










This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 25 2019, 11:19 AM


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The new bathroom











This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 22 2019, 05:44 PM

The new bathroom at extension area









Wet kitchen





This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 22 2019, 05:31 PM

Demolish existing bathroom

Grill door and window
















This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 23 2019, 06:02 AM

Done painting



Living hall



Master bedroom

bro .. sure only 80K for all those job ah?

could you recommend me your contractor?

seems like nice and clean job.

Please share contact

macam best je

well .. i just think it is a good price for a decent job done .. at the least from the photos our fren shared here .. dont you think so?

Work done of table top at wet kitchen

Wet kitchen 90% done

This back door open inwards or outwards? They should be two doors. Notice the gap where light trickles in. Unless corrected, rain and insects can come through the gap. Or is there another inner door that's not yet installed?

Looking forward to see the rest. Looks nice!

Kitchen cabinet installation, initially a bit disappointed because the floor trap being blocked but luckily the contractor agree to change for us free of charge











This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 22 2019, 07:29 PM

Wardrobe

budget 80k, care to tell how much cost at the end?

doesnt look like 80k can finish this with extension and demolish+new toilet.

The door open outwards, thanks for ur advice, I shall look into the gap as u mentioned cos I only concerned as long as no snake can’t pass thru the gap

This post has been edited by yy714: Feb 22 2019, 09:56 PM

Can’t tell how much cost in total yet as now the renovation work still not completed yet, 80k is only my initial budget, now already burst, will share once all the renovation work done

Installation of granite table top

based on the pics - nice workmanship~!

Hmmm this reminds me of the houses in BK7. Is your house in Kinrara?

No, my house in Kajang

Installation of track lights

Air cond installation

Bro how much the dry kitchen cost. I mean the table top of granite & all cabinets.
Looks very nice combination.

Thanks for ur compliment, I thought it will look plain cos dont have wall unit.
If only dry kitchen cost around RM9k include granite table top.

Any reason y the outdoor unit is not mounted on the wall? You have a drain pipe there..

Sharing some stuff bought from taobao













Dooya smart curtain

There is some lights I bought from taobao, but only installed for about 2 weeks, then last week when I go tidy up before move in, suddenly all lights burned, but those light I buy local still looks good, anyone know why this is happened? Is it due to voltage?

Should not be voltage issue. I installed those lights+fan from TB, only complain from installer is the hook need to modify.

btw, did you 5) Extend 7 feet master bedroom? Can you show some pics?

And please do update us on final reno cost.

Then I really no idea why only those lights I bought from taobao got problem





The part after the beam is the extended part for the master room which I'm quite dissatisfied with the existence of the beam after extended.

The final reno cost will be reveal soon because the house haven't ready for move in yet.

Hi, wanna ask, how do you conceal aircond piping? Have to drill the wall? Sorry, noob here.

AC compressors should be on mounting blocks raised from the floor like thus as shown in the last picture.

This post has been edited by halcyon27: May 21 2019, 10:11 AM

You see the original design of the backdoor is oepning inward, there is a reason for that, its for security concern.

Your new backyard door open outwards, which means the hinges are exposed to the outside, burglar can just remove the hinge and your door will come right off...

Yes, drill the wall and hide above the plaster ceiling, hope i do answer you, because all done by contractor so I also not very sure about it.

Oh, ok. Thanks

Thanks for your advice, I shall discuss again with my contractor on this issue, seriously no experience on this.

Is there any issue if not on mounting blocks as you shown? Rain water splash in? Or worry if got flood?

Hmm, i guess to keep cost low the beam has to stay. It is a structural beam to hold the house, not easy to remove/replace.
Just dont place your bed under it, bad fengshui

Yes, thats the most headache part because I really plan to combine both my queen size bed which move from old house and new king size bed as I got 2 kids now which I think they not willing to sleep alone yet.

Mainly that and to alleviate from heat stress by avoidance of conduction of excessive heat from the ground.

What if actually the compressor is on ground of upper floor?

Same thing. Its always recommended to place the compressor on the riser. The riser should have anti vibration pads as shown in the link given.

Thanks for your professional advise, will discuss with my contractor.

Also one more thing, the compressors are placed too close to the wall on its left side for the one the bottom pic I quoted. Its needs space to "breathe" to prevent premature compressor failure due to heat stress. Although York's manual online doesn't show it (but floor support aka risers are shown), Acson's manual does as seen on page 4. Many others will show as does mine too in the manual (pg 35).

Come to think of it, the wall mounted Daikin compressors too. They are too close under the roof eaves. Usually, I would leave at least 8"-12" clearance from under the eaves.

This post has been edited by halcyon27: May 22 2019, 09:13 AM

Appreciated so much on your clear explanation.

Finally decided to removed the original door and change to sliding door for dry kitchen, anyone have any idea how to recover the original door frame without remove it?

Installation of curtain

congrats - nicely done

install your self?

very useful advice. thank you very much

the curtain rail install by contractor

Looking good...
Gave me some inputs for my own renovation 🙏

This post has been edited by nexona88: Jul 19 2019, 02:28 PM

the contractor who renovate your hse?

Yes, another 1 electric curtain track install by the electrician who install those lights for me.

so you have renovation contractor and electrician man to do the whole renovation for u?

Yes, I do have a main contractor to do most of the renovation, for electric parts, he only cover some, additional installation such as water heater, water pump etc he quote us in higher price, so we ask another electrician to do the remaining, the electrician also help me install my electrical curtain track at no additional cost.

What I can see here that the workmanship is very good, but the tasteful of color and material selection seem weak. Too ordinary / typical . End it's all about taste. My 2 cents. cheers !

80k is cheap. is including all material?

where u get the electronic curtain rail?

Yes, but not included furniture & fittings yet.

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