Monday, February 20, 2012

Renovation in Progress

We started our renovation works around 2 weeks ago and things are progressing pretty well.
Contractor told us that his mosaic cutter was stolen one night, not sure true or not..

There were some minor things which kept increasing our reno costs, e.g.:

1) Add on water piping above the ceiling to enable those individual water heater to be fixed (those Alpha brand type); instead of using the common heater placed above the ceiling. Initially site supervisor mentioned that it was just a small add on but plumber mentioned otherwise. We got 2 of them to inspect and discuss with us, and indeed it's quite a large amount of add-on, and cost: RM650

2) Installing air cons, relocating the master bedroom aircon pipe to above the toilet and adding conceal piping for the 2 bedrooms: ~RM1500

3) Installing all the taps: RM400 (sigh, should have just let Belleview install them - at least they won't get stolen and we get to save on all these additional cost)

The house beside and behind mine are having reno work in progress. Hopefully all complete around the same time so that we don't have to endure renovation noise/ dust when we move in.

Here's my wet/dry kitchen in progress...



2nd bedroom extended




Creating a new door for downstair's room. Now we enter from the kitchen instead of the back.




And the downstairs room's original door position converted to a window.



At least the kids can use the room as a playroom now.

Buying a new house ain't cheap!

Now, the next problem is not much children friendly makan place around...