A few days back, I watched a YouTube video and found an interior designer video. In that video, one interior designer shares why chajja is not required in homes. I’m talking about the chajja that comes inside the room. Every new house these days comes with a wall drop. Most woodwork guys, building contractors, and interior designers suggest not doing room chajja. If you have a wall drop, room chajja is usually not required....
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 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....
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....
This early morning, we decided to go to Shri Chamundeshwari Temple, Mysore. One of the most famous temples here in Mysore. Whenever we visit Mysore, my wife demands to go to this temple. Always. This time, we went in the morning because a less crowded darshan happened soon. After finishing, while returning from the city bus, my wife alerted me that it was the Mysore Zoo and Lokaranjan Aqua World Underwater Zoo....
I’m back from my wife’s hometown function today. While I was there, I met lots of our relatives. I felt good speaking to some of our relatives. While going to have food, one of our relatives started conservation related to constructing their rental property near their home and showed me the building plan. I didn’t see the building plan properly because it looks small on his mobile. Instead, I simply asked a few questions about their construction and the contract terms he made with his building contractor....
We always make some changes while doing construction work. Similarly, we also changed the window placement on our first building. The building contractor labourer already built a wall and placed a window. After that, someone came to the building and gave a good and valid suggestion. That time, we decided to accept that suggestion and make changes in our building where labourers had already done the work. If it’s small work, usually labourers do that themself....
This incident happened in our first building. Our construction work is over. We also moved to our new building… Everything is going well until the rainy season starts. When the rain started, we noticed some mistakes but didn’t take them seriously. As days passed, we repeatedly did the same problem-fixing task. We thought we could have used some of our brains at that moment. If we properly think that time… now we don’t need to bother fixing that rain issue every time it rains....
A few days back, while I was writing the Rainy Days guide, I was collecting related images for a better explanation. Our building images I already have. I also tried to collect a few nearby building images who made similar mistakes in their house. I took images differently. I used Google Street Maps to take other building images. The reason is, how could I go in front of another house and take photos?...