Renovation Contractor
in Kepong Baru

Local facts last reviewed 29 September 2026. Sources are listed at the end of the page.

Kepong Baru is one of the older landed pockets of Kepong, sitting between Bandar Menjalara, Taman Usahawan and Segambut, and it is mostly single-storey freehold terrace housing. A Star columnist who returned in 2015 after forty years found his old neighbourhood had changed very little, even as Segambut and Jalan Kepong around it were redeveloped. That stability is what makes it a renovation neighbourhood: owners tend to adapt the house they have rather than move.

The Kepong Baru MRT station on the Putrajaya Line now serves the area. Two ambitions come up again and again for a single-storey terrace — a bigger kitchen at the back, or a whole upper floor. Both are possible under DBKL’s rules, but they are building-plan jobs, not minor works.

Kepong Baru at a glance

Adding a floor or extending: DBKL’s terrace guideline

DBKL’s guideline for renovating one-, two- and three-storey terraces on standard lots (wider than 5,490mm, typically about 6,000mm) replaced the older rules used since 15 May 2013. Applications are submitted by an architect or a registered draughtsman through DBKL’s One Stop Centre and decided by its One Stop Centre committee before any construction starts. It does not cover townhouses, cluster homes, semi-detached houses, bungalows or strata-titled homes.

Going up. A storey can only be added where the housing area received its certificate of fitness (CF) or CCC more than ten years ago, and a single-storey terrace may become two storeys, not three. A new floor may be no more than 3,500mm high, the building no more than 12,000mm overall, and a registered engineer has to confirm the original structure can carry the addition and submit structural calculations. The party wall has to be built entirely within your own lot, rise at least 230mm above the roof and have no windows or openings towards the neighbour.

Setbacks. At the front, a ground-floor extension stops 4,500mm from the boundary (a single-height porch roof may run to the boundary), an upper-floor wall stops 3,000mm back, and an open, unroofed balcony may come to 1,500mm. At the back it depends on what is behind you: with a back lane of 3,000mm or more you may build to the boundary; with a lane between 1,500mm and 3,000mm you may still build to the boundary if windows facing the rear neighbour are high-level, at least 2,000mm above the floor, or set back 750mm with ordinary windows. Roof eaves may overhang 500mm including the gutter, a light-and-air jack roof is capped at 1,500mm, and the roof design, material and colour should follow the original scheme.

What Kepong Baru terraces usually need

• The roof. Houses of this era commonly still have their original roof, and when a second storey is added the roof is rebuilt anyway. If you are staying single-storey, re-tiling and replacing rotten battens is often due before any interior work.
• The back kitchen. It is common for terraces of this age to have been extended at the rear at some point. Before building again, confirm the earlier extension was approved, because the new plans are assessed against the approved drawings.
• Wiring and plumbing. In a house several decades old, an upper-floor addition is the natural moment to replace the consumer unit, rewire and renew the water pipes, rather than tie new circuits into old ones.

Drains, blocked channels and the April 2026 floods

The Star reported in June 2026 that back-to-back floods in April had submerged two Kepong Baru neighbourhoods, the commercial strip around Jalan Development in Taman Kepong and Taman Antoi. The Kepong MP said the authorities had identified illegal drain modifications, illegal bridges built on private land that narrowed the water channel, and rubbish as causes, and repair of the drain behind Jalan Development began after the investigation. DBKL started upgrading the drains on Jalan Antoi Kanan 2 on 29 April.

Residents link Taman Antoi’s floods to Sungai Keroh and the diversion of its water towards the Jinjang retention pond; in 2025 a federation of Kepong residents’ associations reported that a flood wall along the river and a deeper Taman Pusat Kepong retention pond were among the agreed short-term measures. For homeowners the lesson is local and practical: do not narrow or bridge the drain in front of your house when you build a porch or ramp, and raise sockets and use water-tolerant materials low down on the ground floor if your street has flooded before.

Jobs we quote in Kepong Baru

Useful guides for Kepong Baru terrace owners:

• Terrace house renovation — planning a full refit or an extension on a terrace lot.
• Roof tile leak repair — re-tiling and flashing on older single-storey roofs.
• Hacking walls — opening up a rear kitchen or removing non-structural walls.
• Kitchen renovation in Kuala Lumpur — rebuilding the rear wet kitchen of a terrace.
• Drain unclogging — clearing house drains and the channel at the front of the lot.

Kepong Baru on the map

We cover Kepong Baru and its neighbours, from Taman Kepong and Taman Antoi to Bandar Menjalara and Taman Usahawan.

Neighbouring areas

Close to Kepong Baru:

• Kepong — the wider Kepong area, including Jinjang and Metro Prima.
• Desa ParkCity — the master-planned township to the south-west.
• Sentul — the old railway town to the south-east.
• Selayang — across the boundary into Selangor.
• Mont Kiara — the condominium district further south.

Sources & official references

The local facts on this page were checked against the sources below on 29 September 2026. Council procedures, forms and fees change — confirm the current position with the council before you start work:

• DBKL — guidelines (garis panduan) — terrace renovation guideline for standard lots, 1-3 storeys (in force 1 Jan 2017).
• The Star — Kepong Baru revisited (Nov 2015) — little change in forty years.
• The Star — Kepong residents want solution to recurrent floods (Jun 2026) — April 2026 floods in two Kepong Baru neighbourhoods, causes, drain works.
• The Star — seeking an end to Kepong’s flood woes (May 2025) — Sungai Keroh, retention pond and flood wall measures.