Renovation guidePok Fu Lam
置富花園 · 1–20 Chi Fu Road, Pok Fu Lam
Work in progress · 439 sq ft two-bed, Block 14
Written by the team working in the neighbourhood. Every budget is priced by our own quote engine on real project scope — not a per-square-foot guess.
01In 30 seconds
Chi Fu Fa Yuen on Chi Fu Road, Pok Fu Lam, was completed in phases from 1978 to 1981: 27 blocks and 4,328 flats from 431 to 957 sq ft — one-bed 431–433, two-bed 439, three-bed 588, top-floor three-bed 809/845 and low-rise 957 sq ft. At over 45 years old, a renovation usually means renewing all wiring and plumbing, waterproofing the kitchen and bathroom, and replacing the windows. In October 2026 we quoted and signed a 439 sq ft two-bed in Block 14: interior works about HK$358k, including new windows and scaffolding. Our quote engine prices a comparable full renovation without windows at from about HK$272k.
02Project log
Real estate, real size, real numbers — published with the owners' consent. We never disclose floor or flat numbers.
A 1978 two-bed redone from the shell: kitchen and bathroom retiled and waterproofed, full rewire with a new consumer unit, a slatted kitchen slider and lighting channel — and every window replaced in bronze-finish aluminium.
Project log
2026-10-03
Site measure and quote
2026-10
Contract signed, first payment
Management application, preparing to start
Strip-out → wiring & plumbing → tiling → windows → carpentry & painting → sign-off
03Layouts
Pick your layout. Budgets are computed by the EASE quote engine at October 2026 rates and checked against 60 of our real quotes (median deviation about 1%).
Layout schematic
Schematic · not to scale
Two bedrooms, one bathroom (e.g. Flat E) · 439 sq ft
Layout notes
Interior works
about HK$358k
+ Built-in furniture about HK$50k
Where the money goes
The real quote also covers new windows with scaffolding (about HK$63k), a slatted kitchen slider, a lighting channel and child-safe paint — so it sits above the engine's standard estimate, which excludes windows.
Full renovation
Strip-out, painting, floor tiles, rewiring and panel, kitchen & bathroom plumbing, waterproofing, doors, ceilings and screens
HK$271,600
per sq ft HK$619 · 439 sq ft
+ Kitchen cabinets
Adds E0-board kitchen cabinets with a quartz worktop
HK$297,800
per sq ft HK$678 · 439 sq ft
On top of "Full renovation"
+ Built-in joinery
Adds wardrobes, platform / storage beds and living-room cabinets
HK$358,200
per sq ft HK$816 · 439 sq ft
On top of "+ Kitchen cabinets"
Layout schematic
One bedroom, one bathroom · 431–433 sq ft
Layout notes
Full renovation
Strip-out, painting, floor tiles, rewiring and panel, kitchen & bathroom plumbing, waterproofing, doors, ceilings and screens
HK$262,100
per sq ft HK$607 · 432 sq ft
+ Kitchen cabinets
Adds E0-board kitchen cabinets with a quartz worktop
HK$288,300
per sq ft HK$667 · 432 sq ft
On top of "Full renovation"
+ Built-in joinery
Adds wardrobes, platform / storage beds and living-room cabinets
HK$332,700
per sq ft HK$770 · 432 sq ft
On top of "+ Kitchen cabinets"
Layout schematic
Three bedrooms (Flats B, C, F, G on floors 1–26) · 588 sq ft
Layout notes
Full renovation
Strip-out, painting, floor tiles, rewiring and panel, kitchen & bathroom plumbing, waterproofing, doors, ceilings and screens
HK$329,100
per sq ft HK$560 · 588 sq ft
+ Kitchen cabinets
Adds E0-board kitchen cabinets with a quartz worktop
HK$358,700
per sq ft HK$610 · 588 sq ft
On top of "Full renovation"
+ Built-in joinery
Adds wardrobes, platform / storage beds and living-room cabinets
HK$437,500
per sq ft HK$744 · 588 sq ft
On top of "+ Kitchen cabinets"
Layout schematic
Large top-floor three-bed (4 per tower) · 809–845 sq ft
Layout notes
Full renovation
Strip-out, painting, floor tiles, rewiring and panel, kitchen & bathroom plumbing, waterproofing, doors, ceilings and screens
HK$457,300
per sq ft HK$551 · 830 sq ft
+ Kitchen cabinets
Adds E0-board kitchen cabinets with a quartz worktop
HK$490,300
per sq ft HK$591 · 830 sq ft
On top of "Full renovation"
+ Built-in joinery
Adds wardrobes, platform / storage beds and living-room cabinets
HK$588,300
per sq ft HK$709 · 830 sq ft
On top of "+ Kitchen cabinets"
Layout schematic
3 bedrooms, en-suite + helper's room · 957 sq ft
Layout notes
Full renovation
Strip-out, painting, floor tiles, rewiring and panel, kitchen & bathroom plumbing, waterproofing, doors, ceilings and screens
HK$487,800
per sq ft HK$510 · 957 sq ft
+ Kitchen cabinets
Adds E0-board kitchen cabinets with a quartz worktop
HK$524,200
per sq ft HK$548 · 957 sq ft
On top of "Full renovation"
+ Built-in joinery
Adds wardrobes, platform / storage beds and living-room cabinets
HK$627,000
per sq ft HK$655 · 957 sq ft
On top of "+ Kitchen cabinets"
May be extra, depending on the flat
Reference budget from the EASE quote engine at October 2026 rates — not a formal quote. Final pricing follows a site visit and an itemised quote.
04Data
54 full-renovation quotes (June–October 2026, interior works only, furniture excluded). The bar spans the middle half of quotes; the dot is the median.
< 350 sq ft
n = 9
HK$180,840HK$121,200–HK$266,745
350–450 sq ft
n = 17
HK$241,950HK$162,750–HK$272,805
450–550 sq ft
n = 9
HK$251,783HK$168,395–HK$297,700
550–700 sq ft
n = 13
HK$354,956HK$327,262–HK$411,825
700–1,100 sq ft
n = 6
HK$490,425HK$434,450–HK$611,700
05Before you start
After 20+ years the original wiring and consumer unit rarely suit today's appliance loads. From our quotes: a new single-phase consumer unit is about HK$6,500–7,000; each 13A socket about HK$800–850.
Old pipes sit inside the walls, so the economical moment to renew them in copper is while the walls are open. From our quotes: about HK$14,000 per kitchen or bathroom.
The Buildings Department serves notices on private buildings aged 10+ (except domestic buildings of 3 storeys or less) every 5 years; owners appoint a Qualified Person to inspect every window, with repairs by a registered contractor. Replacing windows during a renovation avoids a second round of scaffolding.Buildings Department — Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme ↗
Private buildings aged 30+ (except domestic buildings of 3 storeys or less) must have common parts, external walls and projections inspected by a Registered Inspector every 10 years. If the building is about to repair its façade, window-edge waterproofing and external gas pipes can be coordinated with it.Housing Bureau ICU — MBIS & MWIS ↗
Whenever bathroom tiles are relaid, the floor and wall waterproofing is redone (we use Sika 107) and water-tested before tiling — bathrooms are the most common source of leaks into the flat below.
Our project replaces every window: about 106 sq ft of window, with the colour change, scaffolding and insurance coming to about HK$63k — roughly 18% of the interior works, so budget for it before signing.
Statutory rules follow the government sources linked below; estate rules (working hours, deposit, lift protection) follow the management office's latest notice — we confirm them before work starts.
Most estates require a renovation application, contractor and worker details and a deposit before work starts; working hours, lift protection and debris-removal times follow the management office's notice. We handle and confirm all of it.
Under the Noise Control Ordinance, construction work using powered mechanical equipment — renovation included — between 7pm and 7am, or on Sundays and public holidays, needs a Construction Noise Permit. Works are therefore scheduled Monday to Saturday in daytime, and estates often set narrower hours.GovHK — Construction and renovation noise ↗
Repairing or replacing windows is generally Class III item 3.6 under the Buildings Department's Minor Works Control System: it must be done by a prescribed registered contractor, with documents submitted within 14 days of completion. Our window works follow this route.Buildings Department — Minor works related to windows ↗
Under the Gas Safety Ordinance, gas pipes and appliances may only be installed or altered by a registered gas installer of the right class, employed by a registered gas contractor.EMSD — Gas installation work & registered gas contractors ↗
Before opening up a kitchen or moving walls, confirm whether the wall is structural. Structural alterations need Buildings Department approval; only non-structural partitions can be removed. We check this at the site visit.
06Time & money
07Ideas
01
Sliding doors for the kitchen and bathroom free up the swing space of hinged doors, and a track-light channel spreads light evenly so the small living room feels wider.
02
Powder-coating the new frames in bronze suits a timber interior; the colour change is a small extra (about HK$6,200 in our project).
08FAQ
Chi Fu Fa Yuen was completed in phases between August 1978 and June 1981, so it is about 45–48 years old in 2026 — within both the Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (30+ years) and the Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme (10+ years).
One-bed 431–433 sq ft, two-bed 439 sq ft, three-bed 588 sq ft (Flats B, C, F, G on floors 1–26), top-floor three-bed 809 or 845 sq ft, and the 957 sq ft low-rise flats (3 bedrooms with en-suite and helper's room). We redrew the 439 sq ft two-bed layout from our project.
Our October 2026 two-bed project: about HK$358k for interior works (including about HK$63k for new windows and scaffolding), plus about HK$50k of built-in furniture. Our quote engine prices a comparable full renovation without windows at from about HK$272k.
Replacing windows high up normally needs external scaffolding and insurance (from HK$4,000 in our quotes; about HK$25k in this project). It is generally a Class III minor works item: done by a prescribed registered contractor, with documents submitted within 14 days of completion.
Our completed full renovations of 430–520 sq ft took 2–3 months; with new windows, allow extra time for scaffolding and window fabrication.
09Pok Fu Lam
Chi Fu Fa Yuen
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Sources · Facts checked 2026-10-04
