How much does it cost ?
Is it worth it ?
What if you are already living in the house ? Do you need to move for them to do their work?

No idea in Malaysia, but here in UK, one of my sold property actually has a nicely furnished attic. During the repair and renovation, the contractor sorta remove the entire roof area to redo the attic so It has a proper 7-8ft space height. Of coz, the restriction in UK buildings also made the construction get delay and delayed. But at the end, we've settled it for around 260k GBP. Sold the house for around 1.15million pounds (bought in auction, 440k, renovate 260k, close to 50 furnitures? Sendiri stay for almost a year there before it was sold. So total expenses is like 800k for that year.)

It was a nice attic with the gimmick of an extendable window balcony (Which overatted, only good for smokers) Of coz, no complain, coz the 3+1 house is quite comfy after renovation. Straight Living Room to Back garden design too, so it look damn spacious. If I found my photos, I'll try to share.

Yes, the house I'm living in now has that attic space turned into room. Can't answer you since all done before we moved in.

My friend's father did

Cover up pipes, lay down flooring and walling, turned into 4th bedroom (big family) and play room for kids

Obviously did a lot of work in order to make it vermin free. However it is very hot and air conditioning is expensive. This is because the attic serves as an insulator for the rest of the house. It gets extremely hot up there, hotter than the rest of the house. The kids didn't mind but then they're young.

Malaysian houses tend to be badly insulated as we don't live in 4 season country where loss of heat means death...

will b like oven up there

Msia not many reno attic, 1 maybe very hot and 2nd the size of it not worth the trouble and 3rd expertise.

But Googled I found a company seems specialised in this

https://g.co/kgs/yZVzLr

To make a room, I think not worth it. Very hot. For storage for me ok la. Last 10 years 30-40K, extending your roof higher. But for storage, don't need to extend the roof.

This post has been edited by Noryume: Sep 23 2020, 10:00 PM

gila kah ???... malaysia so hot,.. u wanna live under ceramic tiles,..???

Not attic but the space below stair can make as room like in Harry Potter movie.

My neighbor had it. Didnt enquire about the price. His youngest son punya room la. Memang panas mcm celaka

one day the son wasnt asleep, late 2-3am? Heard noises ingat tikus. Tgk2 someone wanna pecah masuk walking on roof wanna enter the window

lol

This post has been edited by maluapeboskur: Sep 23 2020, 10:17 PM

make basement~ can have a private man hole

Cold countries attic can live in.

Here, it serves as heat shield for the house below.

in hot, hot, OMG too hot malaysia?

maybe can turn it into sauna room, besides that, not see much use in malaysia.

This post has been edited by brkli: Sep 23 2020, 10:34 PM

Went up to my attic to check on a leaking issue once. 3 minutes in I’m sweating like mad already. As in basah like after shower like that. And that’s like 7pm. Cannot imagine afternoon.

I am about to convert my very tall middle room into 2 floors of small rooms for full utilization

1F is the 1st room (attic) and GF is the 2nd room.

I am aware of the extreme hotness up there hence i will pasang AC up there and also ceiling fan.

Not suitable in Malaysia thou cause too hot definitely not worth it if u think to renovate it into a room.

I also toy with this idea of converting the whole attic for an additional 24x50ft space but using solar panels for a big portion of roof.
In PJ this size of landed space(1200 sqft) would cost 500k.
https://inhabitat.com/solar-panel-roof-tiles/

This post has been edited by MGM: Sep 24 2020, 08:32 AM

Malaysia weather you can turn attic into sauna room

Insulation


Else you just make a oven room