HOW would you feel if your new house has such a low ceiling that installing
a ceiling fan could be a risky thing to do?
This is the problem faced by 66 house owners at a housing project in Section
5, Bukit Serdang. The height of the ground-floor ceiling of their new houses
is only 2.4m from the floor compared to the 2.7m to 3m in an average house.
Liew: 'Residents have complained to the developer many times but the problem
has not been solved.'
According to Seri Kembangan assemblyman Datuk Liew Yuen Keong, the Subang
Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) has informed him that the minimum height for
the ceiling of a residential house is 2.7m.
Liew said the MPSJ would call a meeting soon to discuss the problem.
“There are 75 double-storey terrace houses in four rows at the site. The row
where the show unit stands is not affected with the low-ceiling problem. The
other 66 units were built with low ceilings,” he said.
Liew said residents had complained that the show unit they viewed before
purchasing their houses was not built with a low ceiling.
“Residents have complained to the developer many times but the problem has
not been solved,” he said.
“Officers from the MBPJ Building and Architecture Department visited the
affected houses recently and have agreed to hold a meeting with the house
owners and developer to find a solution to the problem,” Liew said.
He said the houses cost RM290,000 each and the owners were given their keys
last month.
