Renovation Hassle Part 1

If house is your biggest lifetime investment, then house renovation shall be your lifetime greatest expenses. The money you put into this category of expense does not contribute to your house worthiness in a linear way. Usually it would represents more like a sigmoid function graph which combines the behavour of linearity, exponentiality and near constant. In other word, there is a best optimized point that you should really consider stopping anymore money being putting in.

That's of course, IF AND ONLY IF we are as rational as the foreseen statistical model. Historically tell us that we will exceed our initial budget at least by adouble digit percentage or to the extreme of few order of magnitude. As the old wise man told us, buying a luxury car is the stupiest thing an investor will do. What about doing house renovation? IMHO, it is the second stupiest thing next to the luxury car thingy, if it is not the first. Well, anyway since we are trained to do stupid thing, let us be ignorant about the "stupid" aspect and focus more on the "smart" perspective... at least to make life easier :p

I don't really keep track of the start time for my house renovation project, I think it is like roughly started one(2?) month ago.



Ok, my house front view after the rebuild of balcony and tile up of side walls. See the black-lined box in the middle, that's the location of previous column. Teared down, throw away the old balcony, put in some steel bars, cements and thingy and reconstruct it back. Purpose is to remove that column so can park more cars (As if I need that kind of space :p). For the side walls, it is precisely measured so that the build up doesn't exceed to neighbour area. Reason? LOL, well, they can't leverage on my walls next time. Build your own, man.



Ok, as for the main electricity cable at the main entrance, it gotta be lowered down because later on the plaster ceiling will occupy the upper area, indicated by the top black-lined box. As for the right hand side black-lined box, previously the door is located at the inner area as shown below:



Ok, later on, this door will be teared off and wall will be knocked out.



Pipes stuffs for the bathroom upstair, located near the main door. This area will be covered up by plaster ceiling, so some removable ceiling thingy needed for future maintenance tasks.




Bamboo deco at the side walls, forgot the price. Should be around RM150 per piece?



Wiring above the car porch for downlights. I like wires in pipes, feel safer.



Main wiring cables near the "power" box. Again, use more pipes.




Oh, shoot. What you done with my wall??!! Ok, patch it up later.




Pipes around staircase, transmitting electricity, not water though.



"Spider web" above the living hall.


Part 2 coming soon, stay tune.