Today at 7:13 Am, I got a call from an unknown number. As it’s early morning… I was still sleeping, so I didn’t receive the call. I immediately got a WhatsApp text, which I didn’t notice. Again, I got a call from another tenant. I saw that it was our tenant. I now received a call while I was on the bed. On the other end, “Bro, water not coming…”...
A few days back, my brother and I installed CCTV cameras that we bought during this Amazon big billion sale. Installation was also over. When we switched on the DVR, we noticed out of 10 cameras, 3 cameras were not working. Again, my brother attempted to fix the issue; out of those 3 cameras, 2 started working, and 1 camera had some issues. Did you know why 3 cameras had such issues?...
One of our student tenants escaped from a common mistake made by our electrical contractor team. Luckily, he got only injured on his shoulders, and nothing serious happened. This incident happened a few days back. When we were distributing housewarming invitation cards, we were not there in the home. When we came home, the student came to our house with the electrical device. He said it fell on my shoulder… the item was also slightly damaged....
Today at around 11:20 PM, the BESCOM meter reader started calling, “Sir.. sir… are there in the house?” standing in front of the house. My Dad and I were there in the hall. I opened my CCTV app on my mobile to double-check he was calling us only. After seeing him in front of our gate, I got confirmed. I got confused seeing him today. Because today is not meter reading day, but the meter reader is calling us....
Today, one of our favourite mason who built our two houses came to our house. His name is Shafi… Good, talented and fast-working guy. He often visits our house, have snacks, discusses with us, and leave. Today is one such day he visited our house just to speak to us… While discussing, he shared where work is going and how it’s going. One thing that caught my attention is… The building he is working in is a big building which has 17 houses in it....
A few days back, the power suddenly went off at night in our house. Initially, whenever the power went… we faced some dark issues in our building. Even though we have 2 battery Inverter setup in our house, we didn’t properly set up, or I can say we didn’t properly utilise it. We missed a few things like any beginner do. When the power failure started, we realised what we had missed and wished we could have done that thing....
This afternoon, some sound came. Out of curiosity, I opened my CCTV visuals on my mobile. I noticed someone taking hallow blocks from next to our building construction spot. I watched who the guy was… it was none other than the neighbour’s house. They took only two blocks to make some sitting arrangements outside their house. Interestingly, they have their own hallow block right next to their building. But they didn’t use their blocks…...
Yesterday we were not in our house till 10pm… within that time someone took outside blub. My guess is it’s our tenants. All our tenants are college students. I guess someone’s bulb might gone, and they took the shortcut to replace it. I haven’t asked any of them yet. And I won’t even plan to ask. If we had installed CCTV, we could have easily identified who the guy was....
At 8 pm, around 8 BESCOM person came to our new building for our Building inspection. Once your building is complete, when you apply for a Permanent electricity connection, they will do a spot inspection before you get approved. It didn’t happen in our first building. But it did happen for our second building. The reason could be… In our first building, only the G+1 floor is constructed. I guess because of the less built-up area and less building height; the BESCOM team didn’t bother doing a building inspection....
While building our first building, we learned some lessons the really hard way. One such lesson is hiring the wrong electrical contractor. When we hired the wrong electrical contractor, we not only faced issues with electrical work in our building. But we also faced an issue getting the final permanent connection from the electricity department. After completing our building work, we waited 2 to 3 months for a permanent connection....