Day 9 : Renovation : Front gate area

I'm extending the front gate. Before removing the existing pillar, the plumber came to relocate the water meter to the side.

Existing position of the water meter
Remove it

Whoaa.. A water fountain :)


Look at the quality of the water coming from the main pipe.. So Grosssss!!! Will definitely need a water filter.. ( Sighz.. that means more money being forked out.. :( )


Relocation completed. :)

Next... my front gate can be removed to make way of another hacking job.

The removal of the gate pillar work begins....

TIles tiles tilesssss

My batch of tiles arrived today!

I bought White Horse Tiles for my Living hall.
Guocera tiles for my kitchen wall tiles.
Venus tiles for my kitchen floor tiles.
MML tiles for my porch.
The most expensive of all, tiles for my kitchen table top. RM30 per piece. (2x2)

Day 8 - Wiring works

No construction work today. Time allocated to my wiring man to do some wiring work

Day 7 - Renovation : Back Extension

They plastered all the inner walls of the back extension today.

Day 6 - Renovation : Back Extension & Hall

Many tasks running concurrently today..

One of it was to remove my existing tiles at the living hall. Poor tiles.. Goodbye farewell my friend! It's actually a waste.. :( Too bad...


Another worker was busy plastering the walls..

Plastering job is not easy. Took him a few hours just to do this wall.

Plumbing works.. My plumber came today to install some new piping for my back extension. Upon completion of the piping system, my contractor can continue with the floor works.

Day 5 - Renovation : Back Extension

The wiring works started today. The contracted needed to close up the ceiling. Therefore, all wiring has to be done first.



Once the wiring is done, it's time to close it up.

Day 4 - Renovation : Back Extension

They've completed the back structure. So the next thing they did was to knock down the wall between the dry kitchen and the wet kitchen. The new wet kitchen will be relocated to the new back extension.
As for the dry kitchen, it'll be bigger. :)

Day 3 - Renovation : Back Extension

All walls are done. So the next thing is to build the roof.

Day 2 - Renovation : Back Extension

On the second day, both the walls at the back is done. They've also laid some bricks on the existing middle wall to make it higher.

They removed some tiles too from my dry kitchen.

Day 1 - Renovation : Back Extension

BacToday's the first day of renovation. Started with the construction of the back extension. When I reached there at about 11am, they've already cleared the wild grass at the back of the house and also knocked off some of the cement floor.



A lorry came to unload all the materials for the construction of the extended wet kitchen at the back.

The main contractor busy with all the arrangements... :p


Materials for the back walls - Sand and some white chalk

Mix Cement + sand for the wall concrete foundation. Mix cement + sand + white chalk for the bricks laying.

Clay Bricks.. These are better than sand bricks..

Constructing the foundation of the wall. They put a metal beam at the base of it.


Put some plank of wood at the side to support as they pour cement into it

Laid bricks on top of the concrete foundation


At the end of the day, the left side of the wall was about 65% complete.

At the same time, another person was working on the right side of the wall.


At the end of the day, the right wall was about 35% complete.

It started to rain at about 5pm and they had to stop the outdoor construction. What's next then? Removing tiles from the dry kitchen area.

Bed linens...

I'm supposed to go hunt for bed and bed frame today but guess what we bought from Macy bed & linen fair instead?

Tadaaaaa.....

These bedsheets cost us a bomb! A Whopping of RM700! Pampering ourselves with bedsheets which have 950 thread counts to get the Hotel feel! Can't wait to use these!... :D

Renovation start

24th of November.... The DAY that our house renovation will start. :) I'm pretty excited about it.

We've already applied for a permit from the local council which is MPSJ for the house extension. We've paid RM675 for the permit whereby the break down is as below :-

RM50 - Buy the standard plan
RM500 - Deposit which you can get it back when your house renovation is completed
RM125 - Processing fee

I read in some forum that the local council does not issue any standard plan anymore starting from the 1st Nov. A drawing from the architect is required for any renovation work. If that is true, then I guess I'm pretty lucky. :)

My masterpieces

Some preparation work which I've done. My masterpieces.. :D

Next step - Renovation works

We've been busy sourcing for renovation contractors for the house. It's been 2 months + now and we've received a couple of quotations from different sources to make comparison. I think it's time to proceed with the next step... -> To start on renovation works.

What we'll be doing :-

a) Kitchen Extension. We'll be extending the back of the house which is currently a small piece of land into a wet kitchen area & a laundry area.

b) Knocking off the existing wall which separates the dry kitchen & the wet kitchen now. This will make our dry kitchen bigger.

c) Extending the gate area to make the entrance wider. Therefore, we'll have to knock down the existing post box and build a new one on the left.

d) Tile up the grass area. Don't want to weed the grass every week. :)

e) Re-tile the whole living area, dining area and kitchen. This is another major job. The existing tiles given by the developer isn't the one that we like.. So we had no choice but to change it...