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SUSAmeiN
post Feb 8 2021, 05:20 PM, updated 5y ago

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Going to update our house renovation journey here.

Location: Jawi, Penang

Budget: 50K Roughly 55K without furnishing yet.

Contractor: PM me

Jobs including:

1. New Tiles 2x2
2. Toilet x 2
3. Windows (Changed to sliding)
4. Kitchen + third bedoom + utility room (Changed layout)
5. Doors
6. Whole house new wiring
7. Whole house plaster ceiling (Except living area)
8. Concrete Fence
9. Change to bigger rainwater drainage

Only front area and main door didnt change because out of budget. sweat.gif

Renovation started ngam2 MCO2.0 started doh.gif . Luckily government allowed renovation as per SOP. BUT, of course due to MCO, the renovation going very very slow.

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post Feb 9 2021, 12:38 AM

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Outside Area
* Poor drainage
* Original fence

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Living Area
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Toilet
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Rooms
Master bedroom
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Second bedroom
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Third bedroom, previous owner removed wall and extend kitchen
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Kitchen + Utility Room doh.gif
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:42 AM

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Renovation Progress 1

Remove old tiles
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Remove old windows
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Remove door and wood frame
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:48 AM

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Renovation Progress 2

Remove wall between utility room, kitchen and wash area
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Remove kitchen window and install new door to backyard
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Concrete for new fence
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:51 AM

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Renovation Progress 3

New kitchen area ready
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New window and door
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Recreate third room tongue.gif
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:54 AM

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Renovation Progress 4

Kitchen new window, door and exhaust fan outlet ready. (Wrong location for exhaust fan, ask them redo to the right side)
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Toilet on going
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:56 AM

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QUOTE(COOLPINK @ Feb 8 2021, 05:45 PM)
ok...
share photo of the progress when more get done ya
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QUOTE(mydurian @ Feb 8 2021, 05:48 PM)
Waiting for photos too.
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Sure, more photos, less text biggrin.gif

QUOTE(PeinEVO @ Feb 8 2021, 08:15 PM)
would be cool for cost breakdown for each job is provided ..

goodluck in ur journey!
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Will update later.
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post Feb 9 2021, 08:47 AM

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QUOTE(COOLPINK @ Feb 9 2021, 08:11 AM)
that is some major renovation going on there.
hope everything goes smoothly for you.  thumbup.gif
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Yup, but we do renovation to the area which we think necessary only based on the house condition.

Hopefully, thank you. Some more now MCO, I cannot go to visit everyday

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post Feb 9 2021, 09:13 AM

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QUOTE(wira1979 @ Feb 9 2021, 09:09 AM)
I love these kind of threads.

Subscribed. All the best thumbup.gif
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Thank you. biggrin.gif
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post Feb 9 2021, 12:28 PM

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QUOTE(kuchaikway @ Feb 9 2021, 09:43 AM)
These are a lot of work for RM50k.
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Yes, thats why we sacrifice some area such as simple table top, front area/ porch skipped reuse windows grill because of limited budget
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post Feb 9 2021, 10:03 PM

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QUOTE(ChuanHong @ Feb 9 2021, 09:03 PM)
could go for all wet works first.. you may further enhance in future once u have extra budget to do other stuffs..

cabinets + expensive door grill can do at last or add-on whenever needed... plan out all your wiring layout first which you could use in future.. such as CCTV, automatic gate motor, extra plug points for decoration lighting (raya/deepavali/cny/xmas)
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Yup, thank you for your input. Planned my wiring, hopefully enough including 3 cctv point and 1 pressure washer point. For automatic gate, will do when doing front area renovation next time.

Edit, when I check on your thread... Damn forgot about router + modem point.

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post Feb 12 2021, 12:27 AM

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Not much update for now, only wiring, abit kitchen area piping
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post Feb 18 2021, 01:46 PM

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Update with some pictures.

Room that previously demolished by owner.
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post Feb 18 2021, 01:53 PM

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All wiring done. Now they are doing plaster ceiling.

tomorrow I'll go and snap more pictures
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post Jul 6 2021, 12:42 AM

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Long overdue updates.

Porch
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Side
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Backyard. Pending. PKP AGAIN!
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Entrance
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post Jul 6 2021, 12:45 AM

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Living Room
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Master bedroom
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Toilet
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Second Room
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Second Toilet
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Third Room
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post Jul 6 2021, 12:49 AM

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Outside Second Toilet
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Store Room become Kitchen
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Kitchen
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post Jul 6 2021, 10:09 AM

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QUOTE(mini orchard @ Jul 6 2021, 06:17 AM)
Not sure your reason thou, but why replace the second toilet to Squatting Pan ? Hygiene ?

For both bathroom toilet, I would have change the position of the toilet and heater and do a level drop flooring for the heater area. The window exhaust fan is a good decision.

How much you have spend todate on the reno ?
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Simply because im kampung people.

Total roughly 55K including windows grill. Pending after PKP
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post Jul 6 2021, 07:47 PM

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QUOTE(joeblow @ Jul 6 2021, 07:04 PM)
How the heck you manage to do all these within 55k... this is totally amazing! Can see you even change the tiles.

Congrats.
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Thank you.

Maybe because without ID involved?

Tiles most costly. hacking, new tiles, and installation. Around 15K
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post Jul 6 2021, 09:45 PM

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QUOTE(Michaelbyz23 @ Jul 6 2021, 09:08 PM)
Great work and reasonable price!
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Thank you. We just do very simple renovation without any theme or whatsoever. Haha.

At least can solved eye sore from original condition

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