Renovation: Week 7, 8 and ....

Hehehe.. another combine progress report of several weeks!!!
Yes, I'm so busy and missing from this blog for a long time.

By now the house is almost done but I don't have any latest photos as everytime I'm there I'm busy cleaning the house. Too busy to take any photos.

ollowing are some latest photos I taken before we started painting the house but after the main contractor finishes it works.

The cooking area

The gas tank storage

The backyard area with windows.

Will post more photos but by then I could have move in already ;)

Renovation: Week 5 & 6

I am being lazy again by combining this 'progress report' into one entry. Actually I have been busy the past two weeks - holiday in Bangkok with friends and help my MIL to move to her house.

But the truth is in this past two weeks the only work done is the tiling work, so not much that I can write about and pictures are really good to tell the story. Tiling is such a tedious work and it took 3 strong man and almost 2 weeks to complete the kitchen, dining, backyard, 4 bathrooms and other minor area.

I'm trying to load some pictures but can't seems to do it. So, photos will be up later.

Renovation: Week 4

So, its alsmost a month now since we started our renovation. Glad that no more suprises and hope we can complete the whole renovation by month end (keeping my fingers cross).

Here are some of the progress in week 4...

Below the kitchen top where the hob is going to sit on.

Here is a full view of the hob counter which is beside my 'dry' kitchen.

The empty window panel will be replace with a beautiful glass carving!

 

All the toilets are now equipped with a vanity top.

I like this idea so that we don't need to install any rack for our toiletries. 

 

The major work completed is the installation of the plaster ceiling for the whole house.

Below is the result of the living room.

 

Come this week we expect the tiling work of the 4 toilets and kitchen to be completed. After which most of the mainwork is completed. We will start the paint work and call our carpentry work contractor. The grille will need to be installed before the lighting, fans and aircond. Not forgetting to reinforce the roof.

If everything is as per schedule then we will be moving in by January 2010. New year, new house!

Renovation: Week 3

Progress in week 3 is SLOWwwwwwww and the reason being the developer is taking his own sweet time to rectify the defects. After 2 weeks of waiting they fixed one of the major plumbing defects. We would not wait for the developer for the other defect, decided to asked the contractor to repair it.

Can you see the buble? 

The piping is stuck and the water from toilet sink overflow to this manhole!

The stairs used by the worker - we used it to reach the attic... hehehehe

 I was a bit scared when Hubby asked me to climb up even Angel is much more brave then I am.

 

Hubby can't stand straight on the attic while my head will touches the ceiling if I stand straight.

For Angel, no problem! She is enjoying herself cause she got to climb up the stairs.

 

See the re-position window? 

We got an extra 1.5 feet. We asked for a cement slab to be built and to be turn into a window-seat cum cabinet.

All 3 rooms will have it.

 

Ohh, and when we were at the attic, we found another problem.....

Picture below is just outside the attic window and its where the water tank sits. Can you see the reflection? There is water on the pavement! I was telling Hubby that if this water can't disperse fast enough and with the current raining season, we will have a very big aquarium on our roof!!!

Does any of you have such problem with your house? I wonder what was the engineer and architect thinking. This people just don't care about other thing else but their profit margin. Hubby have posted his comment on our neighbourhood forum. Hopefully we can figure something to solve the problem.

Renovation: Week 2

Another 7 days gone and this is how my house look like.

Lots of hacking on the wall for installation of additional plug and switches

It look like rain of wires in my living room

 

Once I reach the first floor - instead of sunshine, I'm greeted by this....the ATTIC!

This is the base of the attic floor, when the plaster ceiling its done, it will look much nicer.

 

This is the opening to the attic - no staircase so I can take a picture of the attic.

Remember the windows being removed last week? 

Now the frame is being re-attached.

 

Hacking of walls for wiring and air-cond piping - look so ugly and dangerous.

As the renovation work progress, the contractor discover a few more defect in the building. Some of which may be due to poor workmanship and even poor design on the architect. Its so sad that we paid so much for the house and this is the kind of quality that we are getting. These defects are causing the renovation to be delayed.

And of course the weather doesn't help much. Hopefully the rain will stop soon and the sun will be out more.

Estimated completion date: end December 2009. cross my fingers 8.

Renovation: Week 1

Last week have been a very busy week, especially Hubby. Started the renovation work on our house this week and attended 2 functions on Sunday itself.

Following some photos on the progress of our house renovation.

Wall between kitchen - bathroom - bedroom : Demolished

See the floor without tiles, that's the original bath area of the washroom. While the other row of dis-tile floor is the original wall dividing the kitchen - bath area and room. We will have our dining table and  an island here.

All 3 bathrooms at 1st floor - tiles were removed so that better water proofing can be done to avoid leaking in the future.

 

Above: all the toilet bowls and wash basin from the toilets seating in my living room.

 

 We relocate the window at Room 2 and 3. So we will have another feet in the room.

 

 All this ugly piping will be conceal within plaster ceiling.

We are expecting some electrical work to be done this week.. If, we are lucky the piping from the toilet will be replace by the developer so that we can continue with our renovation without much delay.

Although we have decided to accept whatever defect by fixing it ourself, this piping thing is too much a work and will have costs us a bomb to fix it. Hence, we are asking the developer to fix it. But they are taking their own sweet time to come :(