Suddenly my Grundfos water pump of 9 years (installed in 2013), couldn’t start. I thought it was due to clogged pipe to the water pump.
My Grundfos Water Pump type is CM5 and 1 horsepower.
I called plumber and electrician whether they can do but on second thought better I called direct Grundfos Support Service.
I contacted Advanced Pro Solutions, reseller and Grundfos repair specialist. I contacted early in the morning and able to get appointment on the same day! To my surprise, response and appointment was very fast.
grundfos water pump near the water tank
Inspection of Grundfos Water Pump
According to the repairman, after inspection it was due to the capacitor and Grundfos controller / regulator needs to be changed.
capacitor should be 20 to be considered good – showing 15old controller grundfos show burning color – it should be transparent
Grundfos Water Pump Repair
So the repairman has to change to new capacitor and new controller. It took around 1 hour place to do the inspection and repair.
new grundfos controllernew grundfos controller – insidereplacing the grundfos water pump controllerold and new capacitor
Cost of Repair
Labour: RM150
Capacitor: RM20
Controller: RM550
with 6 months warranty on the controller.
Testing After Repair
Ensure you do these 2 tests to ensure the repair is correct and complete.
Open and close water tap to check the water pressure coming out from the water tap
When the water taps are all closed, the water pump will stop pumping
Contact Details of Grundfos Repair Service
Advanced Pro Solutions
Tel: 012-3562678
Address: 22. Jalan Bayu Impain 14C/KS9, Kota Bayu Emas, 41200 Klang Selangor
Overall Experience
I found the repairman was expert in Grundfos water pump. He can detect quickly the cause of it, professional and very fast response and responsible person.
We visited Entopia on 13th December 2022 around 230PM.
The place was quite big, I didn’t know it was that big.
Itinerary of Entopia
You will find butterflies flying around and seeing Koi fishes.
The you will discover frogs, spider and scorpion at first
Along the way more butterflies and can try to touch and put them on your hand
At same time you can see few iguanas and tortoise.
At the end, you will discover more on insects like ants, worms, and bugs
Finally you will reach to souvenirs shops and Entopia’s founding history.
For this visit, I didn’t go to level 2.
entopia – frog like a leafentopia spiderentopia – tarantulaentopia – iguanaentopia – touching the butterflyentopia – butterfly with liesha for more than 20 mnentopia – insectsentopia – worms
Visiting Hours
9:00AM to 6:00PM daily with last entry by 5:00PM.
Ticket Price
For Malaysian
Adults (13 to 59 years old): RM49
Kids (4 to 12 years old): RM29
Senior citizen (60 years old and above): RM29
We have a long holiday to multiple places this December 2022.
Places we visited:
Genting Highlands
Legoland Johor
Taiping, Perak
Penang
holiday december 2022 – itinerary
2nd & 3rd December 2022 – Going to Genting
We picked up my nieces at KLIA2 around 10PM++ . Then we went straight to Genting Highlands. We arrived around 1AM++.
The next day, we went up to Genting Highlands by cable car and let the kids played at Zombie Outbreak.
Before going to the cable car, I installed towels hanger at my Airbnb unit in Genting Permai.
By 4PM, we went back to Shah Alam.
my nieces arrived at KLIA2installed towel hangerfoggy at gentingposing near the genting cable cargenting mall at genting highlandszombie outbreak game at gentinggenting mall lamp showarrive at Genting airbnb
3rd December 2022 – back to Shah Alam
We arrived at Shah Alam by 7PM then we ate at Dominoes Pizza Bukit Jelutong. It was tiring traveling day.
dinner at dominoes pizza bukit jelutong
4th December 2022 – Go to Legoland – Theme Park
We had our breakfast at Restoran Mak Uda and we reached Legoland Theme Park around 12PM.
Then we checked in into our Airbnb around 352PM. By 5PM we went back to the theme park. We played till 8PM when the theme park was closed.
breakfast at restoran mak uda before going to johorarrive at legoland johortruck play at medinilegoland seaworldour homestay at johor legolandposing in front of lego elephantlego boat tower
For dinner, we ate at McD near EduCity and it was full house.
5th December – 2nd day at Legoland Theme Park
It was heavy raining we could ride only few rides. Then we stop by 1PM. We had our lunch at 7 spices.
Then went back to our Airbnb unit and took a good rest.
For dinner we ate at Mana Cafe and had ice cream as dessert. After dinner we went to JPO
7 spice for lunchmana cafe at iskandar puteri for our dinnerice cream at mana cafeJPO posing while waiting for our ride to come
6th December – 3rd day at Legoland Theme Park
We did till 2PM the theme park because the kids were fully enjoyed all the rides by this day.
For lunch we had Subway.
We had our dinner at TKR a mamak restaurant at Iskandar Puteri. Then went to JPO but this time Deef and me stayed at our homestay because Deef was not feeling well.
legoland theme parksubway for lunch at medinidinner at TKR restaurant at iskandar puteriJPO at Johor
7th December – 4th day at Legoland Water Park
For breakfast we ate at Mana Cafe and lunch at Chicken Rice Shop at Medini. For dinner we had Dominoes pizzas and did our laundry.
ride at legoland water parkdominoes pizza for dinnerdoing our laundry next to dominoes pizza restaurant
8th December – Going back to Shah Alam
We had our brunch at McD.
For dinner, we just ordered food from Restoran Mak Uda Denai Alam. Then we visited an auctioned double terrace house at Denai Alam.
breakfast at mcd before going back to shah alam from johorvisit auctioned house at denai alam
9th December -Rest and Play Badminton
We rest most of the time in the morning but around 3PM we played badminton for 2 hours and we ate Nasi cincang for lunch and dinner.
playing badminton
10th December – Arrived at Taiping after 1o hours of traveling
We had our breakfast at house where we ate bread, scrambled eggs and hotdogs.
We went to Taiping at 1030AM and arrived only at 7PM. 10 hours of traveling! It was really jam due to school holiday.
For lunch we had Dunkin Donuts sandwiches because all the other restaurants at the RNR were full. Only Dunkin Donuts less crowded.
We ordered for Mcd Delivery for our dinner. We stayed at Hermitage Boutique House for our 2 nights stay at Taiping.
11th December – Off Road ATV & Night Safari
We had our breakfast at Mcd Taiping. Then we did cycling and riding boat at Lake Garden.
After that we did off road ATV for 2 hours. After the ATV activity, we had our lunch at Nasi Kandar Beratur. After lunch, we had CU sundae and I had my favorite Gula Melaka Coconut at ZUS Coffee.
The kids went for swimming at the Hermitage Boutique house swimming.
We separated with my nieces as they stayed at Taiping while we were going to Penang by tomorrow.
riding bicycle at lake garden taipingriding boat at lake garden taipingATV adventure at taipingplaying at river after atv ridenasi kandar beratur at taipingswimming at hermitage boutique housenight safari waiting for tramposing after night safari
12th December – Eat Passembur & Penang Batik Factory
We had our breakfast at McD Taiping. It took 1 hour to reach Penang.
For lunch we ate Taco Bell and bought Chateraise bread at the City Junction.
Then we check in to our room at Mercure Hotel. After then went to visit Penang Batik Factory. After Penang Batik Factory had our dinner at Jalan Gurney eating Passembur and laksa Penang.
our room at hotel mercurepenang batik factory shoppenang passembur
13th December – Visit Bukit Bendera & Entopia
We had our breakfast at Naina’s Roti Bakar but before that we ate bread that we bought from Chateraise. Then we went to Penang 3D Trick Museum but at the end decided not to go because hard to get parking.
We went to Bukit Bendera, but we had to wait for 3 hours before could go up then decided no to buy the ticket. Immediately we went to Entopia, Butterfly Farm.
We had our lunch at Fried Chicken Master. After Entopia, we had drinks at Starbucks. When reached hotel the kids played at the beach.
Our dinner we had at Lotus food court nearby Mercure hotel.
eclair from chateraisenaina roti kosongbukit bendera counterfried chicken master – indomeentopia butterfly farm penanglog cake at starbucksplaying sand at beach in front of mercure hotel
14th December – Going back to Shah Alam – end of vacation
Checked out at Hotel around 1030AM then we had our lunch at IKEA Batu Kawan. Moving back to Shah Alam around 1230PM then arrived in Shah Alam around 6PM.
We had our dinner at Marry Brown Denai Alam.
It was a great holiday going to different places. A first in our holiday.
On 11th December 2022, we rented bicycle at Lake Garden and did a boat ride there as well.
The bicycles were OK only the brakes were not in good condition.
The cycling and boat riding experience around the lake was fun. It was tiring as well.
It was tiring because we did a boat race among us who could complete the lake first.
rent a bicycle at lake garden taipingposing bicycle ride lake garden taipingjetty boat ride at lake garden taipingboat ride at lake gardenview of lake garden taiping
The Bicycle Rental Rate at Lake Garden
City Angel (adult): RM5 per 30 minute ride.
Fatty Angel (adult and my 8 years old kid): RM20 per 30 minute ride.
bicycle rental rate at lake garden taiping
The Boat Ride Rental Rate
For 4 seaters: RM20 per 30 minute ride.
For 2 seaters: RM12 per 30 minute ride.
We had our holiday in Penang from 12th December till 14th December 2022. We booked 2 connecting rooms with one king bed size room and two queen bed size room.
Hotel Mercure is a 4 stars hotel.
The Rooms
Rooms were really comfortable with good air conditioning and really clean.
What I don’t like only the shower water pressure not that strong.
room with king bed size hotel mercure penangbig screen tv at mercure hoteldouble queen bed at mercure hotelbathroom at mercure hotel
The Mercure Hotel
hotel mercure penang tanjung bungahlobby area hotel mercurehotel mercure penang swimming poolhotel mercure penang beach viewbeach view hotel mercure penangwaiting area for lift hotel mercure penanghotel mercure penang corridor to the room
Amenities
Mercure Hotel provided toothbrush, toothpaste, shaver, tea etc.
Besides you could easily find F&B within 20-30 minutes drive from the hotel.
In term of parking a bit hard to get parking nearby the hotel. You had to go to basement park next to the hotel.
Mercure Hotel also provides drinking water using 3M filter.
drinking water tap at mercure hotel penangdrinking water using 3M filter
Price
We booked our hotel rooms at booking.com. We got it at RM350 per night per room.
We went to Penang Batik Factory so my kids could learn how to do batik. Unfortunately we went late around 4PM and they said it was already closed.
Even for next day they were fully booked and it requires 2 days to do the batik. One day to do the coloring by your own and another day for them to die the batik cloth and dry it.
Fortunately the person in charge was really friendly and showed us the factory and brief us on the making of batik without any fee.
The Factory
The factory is situated just behind the batik shop.
penang batik factory in the makingpenang batik factorypenang batik factory floral pattern
The Shop & Souvenir
They sell their made batik at the shop and you can buy souvenir to the adjacent shop.
penang batik factory shoppenang batik factory souvenir shoppenang batik factory souvernir shop
Price
Penang Batik Factory charges RM35 to make your own handkerchief batik.
We had our off road ATV adventure at Park Larut Taiping on 11th December 2022. It was our first time to do off road ATV.
the ATVs at Taiping
There were 9 of us with 8 years old kid.
My son of 12 years old and my daughter of 13 years old ride their own ATV.
At first the guide will teach us how to ride ATV. After that they will ask us to follow them on simple path to see whether we can handle the ATV for climbing and going down a slope.
If everyone can do it, then they will allow us to ride our own off road ATV. Fortunately my children of 12 and 13 years old pass the test.
The Adventure
They were 9 of us riding the off road ATV. There were 2 guides assisting us in our adventure. They were really helpful in ensuring our safety so no one was injured during the adventure.
It was really scary at first going down the steep slope or climbing up a slope. Sometimes you have to do sharp turn if not you going off to the cliff.
During the adventure, the guide will take your photos and videos and later will share them via telegram with you.
stop at river before returning to base ATV Taiping
Glamping
If you want to stay there, you can rent a glamping for your staycation. They have few type of glamping.
glamping at ATV Taipinginside the glamping at ATV Taipingglamping inside old bus at ATV Adventure at park larut taipingglamping inside the old bus ATV adventure taipinginside the bus glamping at ATV adventure taiping
Amenities
ATV Adventure provides Coway for your water needs.
The toilets are also really clean.
wash your feet after the off road ATVfour toilets at ATV TaipingATV Taiping toilet is clean
If you stay they and want to do BBQ, you can rent the BBQ pit at reasonable price.
Minimum Age
Minimum age is 16 years old to ride your own ATV but if you pass the ATV ride test, the guide might consider your kids to ride their own ATV.
