Can you share with us
1) Whom did you engage to clean your just renovated house? Seems like a lot of agencies do not cover Balik Pulau
2) Any child-friendly eateries around Palmyra?
3) Where do you buy your groceries (hopefully Sunshine of Tesco comes soon)
4) If you are working in Bayan Lepas, which road do you use and why (Batu Maung or Relau)
5) Do you think it is a generally safe area especially at night?
6) Any park around for jogging/ strolling with the kids?
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Belleview's Responsibility
I recently filed an online complaint to MPPP regarding the condition of Palmyra's playground:
Taman permainan di kawasan perumahan baru ini seakan tidak diurus dan dijaga. Banyak alat permainan yang rosak dan berkarat. Rumput juga panjang. Saya juga ingin member cadangan untuk meletakkan notis bahawan hanya kanak-kanak di bawah x umur boleh menggunakan peralatan permainan di situ.
And here's their response:
Kawasan aduan masih di dalam seliaan pihak Pemaju Belleview Group. Dirujuk kepada pihak pemaju untuk kerja-kerja penyelenggaraan. Harap maklum.terima kasih.MPPP
By the way, we had to spent around 2k installing aircond in the living room, master bedroom and the 2 bedroom. It turned out that the workmanship of Belleview on the air-con copper pipes is bad, a lot of them are dented and we need to reinstall new ones.
We got the site supervisor to talk to the air-con guy on this:
Air-con guy: Why so many houses like that one?
Site sup: Our role as developer ends here.
Full stop.
Meanwhile, we are glad that our renovation is progressing well. Looks like we can move in soon. Bye to convenience of 5 mins drive to workplace, Hi to quality life with kids around.
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.
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.
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...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tamper Marks
We observed some weird tamper marks on the windows in the living room. I certainly hope nobody's trying to be funny and break into the house. I don't think it was here when we did the house inspection. So everyone, be extra careful as well. Happy Chinese New Year!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Ideas and More Ideas
Snapshots of some real houses with renovation done.
Changed the grill of the 3rd bedroom:
Look at how a ramp was done from the back gate:
Some houses extended the front door. My personal opinion, not much additional space gained.
This balcony caught my attention. The entrance was a glass door, which looked like a window.
I have tabulated the details I got from the site supervisor. Refer to it at your own risk ya :)
Not many people have moved in. Maybe around 6-7 houses..
Changed the grill of the 3rd bedroom:
Look at how a ramp was done from the back gate:
Some houses extended the front door. My personal opinion, not much additional space gained.
This balcony caught my attention. The entrance was a glass door, which looked like a window.
Stairs from the master room to the balcony (another house).
I have tabulated the details I got from the site supervisor. Refer to it at your own risk ya :)
Not many people have moved in. Maybe around 6-7 houses..
There are a lot of Malay food around, not too bad coz we love Nasi Goreng Kampung & Tom Yam. Need to scout around for nice Chinese food, and the nearest place to get fresh vege & fish since the market is quite some distance away.
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