Some users planning to start house construction are searching “house construction expenses excel sheet'. If you look at Google results, you will see a lot of fancy Google Sheets/Excel sheet templates designed to track house construction expenses. Tip: If you are interested in knowing our detailed house construction expenses, then visit here. I tried a few of them, but they are not designed for real house construction users. Some are not even relevant to the Indian market....

Today, I noticed something interesting. Today, the waterman left water on our line/house. Our sump got full and started overflowing at 12:08PM. So my dad closed the valve. (We have an automated valve closing in our house. We once removed it, we didn’t put it back. I will talk about that in the Sump Automation Guide) At 6 PM, our opposite house sump got full and started overflowing. Today, no one was there in their house, so I called our area water man to stop water in our line....

Yesterday, I shared about one contractor’s real incident that happened near our building. I promised to share about this contractor story today… So, I’m writing this blog post. This contractor’s house is near our area. And he did a few projects here. One good thing about this contractor is that he always asks for low contract prices compared to the market rate. So, people looking for a cheap contractor go with this contractor....

Yesterday, after lunch, I was returning from our first house to the second house through the backside door. I guess the time was around 3:30pm… When I came to my home office, I noticed something strange near the house construction spot from my window. Two guys came by scooty, and the building contractor put one cement bag on that scooty. That time, the owner was not there… They immediately took to some different locations....

This morning, I got an email from one of our reader. Below is his email: Hi Your emails are too good. Any experience with regards to building a house in a large plot / sort of a farm house in a village? Landscaping plans, planning trees, laying pipes for watering, motor, long Distance electricals and fence. What kind of irrigation for scattered plants. How to make a dry land a bit green with shades,...

A few days back I went to our village house. I haven’t shared that house story yet. Maybe this story could help someone who has an old house and wants to do Renovation work. When my dad was about to retire, he decided to go and settle in his hometown. He got an old house after a property partition happened between both brothers. The house he got is a pretty old house....

Right from my home office room window, I can see one new building construction work is going… I may get a few ideas I could share here while watching the construction spot. The owner is an experienced guy. As far as I know, this is the 3rd or 4th house construction he is doing. Today, I got one idea when I saw their labourers taking a submersible pump from the sump....

This morning, I noticed something that was going unnoticed for quite a few days… I’m bathing mostly in cold water instead of hot solar water. In our first building, we have solar hot water available. But we are not using it when it’s doing its job at its peak time. That is during summertime. If we turn on the hot water tap, the hot water is always ready. But we all prefer to keep our bodies cool as much as possible during summer, so we use cold water for showers....

A few days back, I joined Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (MS Ramaiah Hospital) for Kidney stone treatment. There they have two buildings. One is an old building, and another is a new building. In both buildings, the same doctors treat, but the charges and facilities differ. In the old building, they charge less for treatment, and in the new building, they charge almost/more than double for the same treatment. We have decided to join the new building....

Now I’m back to Bangalore. While I was in my village, I noticed in my friend’s house they are using Flat Rod for handrails. I feel Flat rods are not good in terms of grip or holding experience…. I believe round rods feel much better when held than flat rods. When I went to Mysore, I noticed similar flat rods used in handrails in one construction building. After seeing the same thing at my friend’s house, I shared this small tip....