Face to face with our first cement supplier…

Few days back we met our first cement supplier when we went to vegetable shopping there. He started speaking to my dad and asking “why you are no longer doing business with us.” For your information, he not only sells cement and steel. He also has shamiyana and light items as well. Usually, for any of our functions, we used to order from his shop earlier. After realising the cement price difference between his shop and another secret shop, we stopped buying cement, steel and shamiana items from his shop....

January 31, 2024

Our Saturday Shopping Lesson…

Today is Saturday. It’s a vegetable shopping day for us. What do I do? I will be sleeping at that time. ha ha… Before I wake up, my brother and dad will usually go shopping. But I make sure I wake before they reach home 🙂 Okk… Why I’m sharing this vegetable shopping story today in an email? Read it, you will understand. We have many veg stalls near our house....

September 2, 2023

Why you shouldn't sell empty cement bag

While constructing the house, every time molding was over, one aged guy with a child would come near our construction building and ask if we had any empty cement available for sale? Me and My dad… we always used to sell some excess empty bags by keeping some with us to those guys. If I’m not wrong, the guy used to buy each bag for around ₹0.60 per bag. After counting empty bags, this guy used to pay around ₹120 to ₹150 each time he bought....

June 20, 2023

Cement Expiry Date: What You Need to Know

Did you know that cement has an expiry date? No no… it’s not an expiry date. It’s shelf life, and cement quality can deteriorate over time after that shelf life period. Many users prefer “Cement Expiry Date,” so I also call the same word instead of shelf life in this article. When we started our first building, a laborer one day said – “sir, it’s old stock cement. That’s why it has so many lumps in this cement bag....

May 28, 2023

Cement Becomes Useless if You Don't Protect It

It’s raining here in Bangalore… and I’m receiving SMS from Gov’t regarding rain alerts. They are saying the rain will continue for a few more days. I’m not the only one receiving such SMS in my family. My other family members also received such sms. It’s a Good move by Gov’t alerting its citizens to take care. During the rainy season, here is one tip to remember to protect your Cement Bags in the SHED....

May 26, 2023

New Building Buying Cement in Autos

Near our house, two new construction work is going on. I can clearly see those constructions from my building. In that, one building owner is an EXPERIENCED house constructor. The reason is the new building he is constructing is his 3rd House. He is not a professional builder. He is just like us. All those buildings are owned by his family itself. In that one building, they recently sold for around 1....

January 11, 2023

Cement Suppliers Price Compared

Yesterday… I had to order cement. I just needed to order only 10 bags. Because our building is already in the finishing stage, the method I explained in cement pricing secrets won’t work in low quantity orders. So I had no option but to look for a nearby cement seller. It was afternoon… I took my bike to check pricing with all the local sellers. Here’s their response. Visiting cement shops… Shop 1: This is the cement shop nearest our building....

October 3, 2022

All Cement Price List Today

You are looking for all cement price lists Today to compare that cement price with the local cement shops and order cement for your house construction, whoever offers a similar price. Although I’m not going to share Today cement Price List on this post, I’m going to share some helpful information for users who are all looking for such kinds of queries on google. Because most users are not aware of how a web page works, they are simply looking for the latest cement price on google to know the current cement price....

January 16, 2022

How Cement Unloaders Cheat Customers

Have you ever bought cement in bulk, like 50 bags at once? Then you might get cheated without actually knowing it. It happened recently to me. I’m still not sure I got cheated or not. But somehow cement bag count was missing and not tallying with the actual cement bag I ordered. Usually, I order 130 bags of cement during molding time. While unloading cement bags during molding time, one of the gang owners alerted me regarding how one of the cement unloading guys who is unloading cement bags cheated 7 bags of cement on one location and how he got caught and warned me correctly to take count....

July 12, 2021