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How did you engage the ID in the first place?

Please share the company name or pm. Planning for reno also.

There was another thread few days back about CCP stealing renovation jobs away from locals. So many people kecam. I have nothing useful to add, just wanted to point out that sometimes, competition is good for the market when these kind of cases are so common.

Get a lawyer to sue, once they see u are soft, they are eat u more

Not sure if tribunal court can o not

can complain to tribunal for consumer claims (TTPM) or national consumer complaints centre (NCCC)

many of these IDs and contractors really brainless

For example, i've seen many places where those power plugs are positioned right at the floor area where you have to bend the wire just to plug in. I think these designers design it just for the sake of design and lost touch with reality

sorry that you have experienced the worst.
from my experience, most house building and renovation services are just terrible. they continue to survive because too many people are buying and renovating houses. it's quantity over quality.

My question is did you leave it to ID or did you tell them upfront how you want things to be? Was there a technical diagram that you signed off on?

I can tell you, electrical and wiring is a common rookie mistake that is almost always overlooked. Most homeowners renovating don’t really have a vision where they want light switches or plug point to be positioned and tell the ID upfront. And once the concept and technical drawing is out, most homeowner don’t bother validating and think upfront whether it fits the fancy coffee machine, etc.

Most ID / contractors in my experience are kayu in general. Meaning if you don’t tell or ask upfront, they just assume as-is or don’t even bother repositioning plug points just to save the effort and cost involved in hacking the wall or running wire through ceiling.

Therefore always have a vision upfront, communicate early, and validate their technical drawing before work starts.

Hope it works well for you.

you paid in full ka? not like 20% to begin and staggered payment with the biggest only settle after completition?

with time line and delay penalties included?

Please share the company name or pm. Planning for reno also.

Agreed with you 😌

I can recommend the interior designer I used

If u need it

I prefer to hire different contractors to do different work. I know this may be more expensive but I am willing to take the risks.

Also I will do it slowly. For eg, I hire a contractor to renovate the toilets, 1 month later I hire another contractor to put insulation and change the tiles, then I hire another contractor to install new electric gate.

That's my plan for my dream house. I am still collecting my money to buy my dream house.

Can you pm me the name of this ID so that I can avoid them at all cost.

I do not know if you know... But an interior designer isn't a one-man knowing all about renovation...

Are you aware that tiling a tile has its own ISO-certified standard of practices?

Do you think an interior designer know all this?... 

Even architects isn't familiar with it... nor a property agent / developer... They may know, but they ain't true know-how experts in the fields...

Having the right screed layering / adhesive / water-proofing layer, the right tile installation method for mortar application has its own protocols (to prevent spot bonding and all that)...

In fact, not all tiles chosen by you works the same for all areas of application... And in the Malaysian industry (which I do not need to tell you how loose we are), there's a lot of con man / uneducated folks working in this line because the industry tends to permit low-education professionals with barely suffice training...

This is also why the Australian government officially certify plumbing and renovation jobs... because it literally is composed of bodies, regulations, updated rules, materials science, and all that which is used to train these professionals...

This is also why the Malaysian infrastructure is lagging behind in terms of decades... (And only just recently they enforced a minimum of SPM certification for property agents, as well as having them undergoing sales training in a once-upon-a-time era when uneducated / untrained folks could become one --- which spoils the real estate industry)...

As you shared, materials built upon are the most cheaply found building blocks to put up a decorate... and they do so because they may want you to tear it down for a new renovation so money is back into their pockets...

So as roofing...

So as piping... There's a complete pump engineering profession centered to the size of the piping, to the number of heads (resistance) for flow rate... Hell, even choosing the right pump according to the size of the house differ...

You need a team of specialised experts to advise you accordingly... Not a one-trick pony that Malaysian folks tend to think it's that easy...

If you do not believe me, feel free to Google any of these step-by-step... 

Edit - Reason: Typo.

But I read your comment on furniture blocking the electrical outlets, you didn't see the drawings before execution? Shouldn't there be a 3d drawing with all the outlets and db etc before the actual execution ?

Lazy fellas.. maybe they sub out the job

When I was renovating my new place last year, i took 3-4 months of planning and going back and forth with the ID. Honestly if I didn't it would have turned out to be a big headache, and also I visited the site ever 1-2 days because from past experience i know the contractors won't follow 100% the plans, either due to the ID or main-con did not pass the latest revised plan or plain assumptions.

One of the most fucked up incident is the sub-con wanted to skip work when they forget to precut a hole thru my upper kitchen cabinets for my cooking hood and suggested to straight pipe to the yard window rendering it to be unable to open in future.

this sentence very eye opening. last time i reno house also used friend of a friend thinking that wont kena scam and will go smoothly
end up his worker caused accident to my car and then dont want to pay for repair
in the end have to eat the repair myself and also pay for the reno with no discount
want to kecam the friend also cannot
i really hate this world
i want to stop being a good guy and be a bad guy already