Material Shifting Tips

If you are building a multi-floor building that is bigger in size, then shifting materials with manual labourers may not be the right solution.

In manual labourers, shifting materials takes time, and labourers easily get tired of climbing staircases.

I sometimes feel it is an inhuman way to do work. So we went with material shifting with Gang.

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Smooth Wooden Finish – a Conversation with my Brother

My brother and I talked a few days back about How new labourers made smoothing finishing to wooden frames, which we didn’t know about earlier.

Until a few days back, we were unaware that painter’s task involves these things and that they can do those smooth finishing work for wooden frames.

Our 1st painting contractor stopped working on our building due to personal problems.

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Meter Reader Praising our Meter Box Setup

After taking the permanent connection a meter reader came to our new building to take readings.

I was there right next to him.

While he was taking the meter readings, he had to open the meter box and noticed our setup of the meter box.

He said, “Sir, nicely and properly done meter box setup.

Me “Ya… my dad is an electrical engineer itself”, so it’s his plan.

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Bigger Vehicle Problem

A brick unloader vehicle came backside our house.

It’s a bigger vehicle.

While returning, the vehicle damaged another house drainage stone.

Immediately house owner’s wife and neighbour’s ladies gang came and did a spot inspection ?

The construction house owner’s son and vehicle driver were both where staying there. 

The owner’s wife called the owner’s son and told him in a good way about the damage.

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While spending, keep this in mind

One important thing I recommend you to keep in mind is that until plastering work is over you don’t need more money.

The real picture starts during the finishing time of your building.

If in case you thought…

We still have plenty of money left and start spending on expensive things. Then you may end up with a problem during finishing time.

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DP Switch story

One of our tenant’s DP switches was not working, so we asked him to bring a new switch to replace it.

He went to store and bought it immediately.

I asked him how much it cost. He replied ₹185.

Within 3 days, we also bought the same switch for ₹123—no bargain… nothing.

We bought only 6 switches, so definitely, it’s not bulk order pricing.

Then why the price is so big difference?

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Painter Fell into our Sump (video available)

Today while our painter was doing their work, one of the painters accidentally fell inside our sump.

Fortunately, nothing serious happened. Only his leg got little hurt…  and he was in shock for some time.

He is completely inside the sump…

While falling inside the sump, he held the sump opening by his hand so he didn’t completely go inside the sump.

Immediately two other painters lifted him upside.

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