Contractor quote me paint the whole double story terrance house, 20x70, Rm6800. (JB AREA) Just for you info

hey bro, I think you have to be a little more specific...

1. Seal existing door and hack the wall beside to build a new door (basically change door location)
- it depends on the type of doors, size and the type of floor. (applies on both new and existing door). From these info, we are able to gauge the amount of work (greater effort is required if it is to remove an existing security door), the type of protection to cover the floor from falling debris (hacking and removal of door & frame) in the event if it is easily scratched floor material like marble or wood surface. May either use on canvas or 3mm thin plywood pending on floor material. It should cost approx MYR 3,500 (not including door)

2. Hack 2 walls - 100 sqft each
Total demolition on non load bearing wall. This is approx MYR 4,600 (including touching up the wall connecting edges and disposal of debris)

3. Paint whole house
This depends on
- house built up,
- types of terrace house
* intermediate (the usual)
* end lot (with gable wall that goes up all the way to the roof ridge but no additional perimeter wall)
* corner lot (with gable wall and perimeter wall)
* air well (high or low)
- Type of paint on external wall (regular or performance paint - with greater resistance against fungus and mold)
- No of paint combination (singular white colour, double coloured paints or etc)
- Any surface repair work on existing plaster (need cement rendering for external wall or skimming on internal wall?)
- Empty or tenanted unit? (additional canvassing and moving of furniture may affects work progress)
- Does roof tiles need to be rewashed and repainted via airless spray?

4. Change current plaster ceiling to a fully covered plaster ceiling (new lighting I guess?)
- Will need to know your total area

5. Renovate masterbedroom's toilet by changing a new basin, relocate the toilet bowl and bathing area (add a glass)
- will have to check out your existing bathroom for the following;
* single or doubled tiles (irresponsible renovation by previous tenant will cause additional hacking on wall and floor)
* change of water piping network involving copper or PPR piping instead of PVC
* small tiles (smaller than 1' x 1') or regular tiles (2' x 2' or 1' x 2')

6. Built in wardrobe (10 x 6ft)
- Melamine or laminated plywood?
- Type of finishing
- compartment

Well, for the furnishing, such as wardrobe, if you already have the size, quite easy for you to check the price online, just give the dimension and you can roughly get the cost.

In term of the renovation cost, I guess you only can ask few contractors and make decision. Some renovator charge higher could be the materials used. Besides that, with the raw materials increase like mad, I guess if you want to reference, you should reference to those that did renovation recently.

However, not sure about the house age, you never consider to do re-wiring? If the house age is quite old, it might be worth to do wiring together.

I see. Sounds like simple renovation.

For 6. it might be more worth if you are taking a package with those such as including the bed frame etc + bed.
The price does not change too much. Remember last time in expo, price quote for the wardrobe alone is around 4k-5k (very basic without any lighting) for built in but the price increase slightly if wanted to have the bed frame etc.


For toilet, if just change basin, usually the contractor depend on the total work amount, some wont charge else will just around 100+ for removal. You can just buy the basin yourself and ask them to install.
For toilet bowl relocation, it depend where the toilet bowl you relocate to, since it depend on whether there is pipe underneath.
Beside that, guess you forget to include a cost for the waterproofing layer or tiles. Since if you are shift the toilet bowl location, usually tiles will be hack and unless you are okay with different colour tone, most will recommend you to just change all together. For the glass, to separate dry or wet, if it is standard size (not huge toilet, like a normal door) previously, I ask is close to 900.

Ceiling plaster also see whether you want any fancy design or any downlight but around 2k-5k.