House Construction

Planning to construct House in India? if this is your first time then you might be interested in knowing House construction steps in India. Here in this post I and my Dad will be sharing all the house construction activity starting from purchasing of the site to finishing the construction of our house. We are not a Civil Engineer nor a contractor. We are just a casual user like you who went through our house construction process and we will be documenting all the steps, difficulties, mistakes we did, things we learned while constructing our house and many more things in this blog....

Today, around 4PM, I casually spoke with the opposite house aunty. The topic is diabetes… While speaking, they shared one incident that I want to share here. She is explaining how one of our neighbour’s aunty who had diabetes got hurt during their house construction and how long it took to cure the infection, & how it happened. It’s not just that Aunty got hurt in their house construction. Even in our family, My dad and I got hurt during our house construction....

I strongly believe that “everyone makes mistakes in their first house construction”. I did it… Many of my dad’s friends did the same in their new building. There is another instance I noticed recently near my house. Right in front of my home office window, one building construction is happening… I didn’t understand who the owner of that building was for a few days. Now that the building’s ground floor moulding is over, I see one guy coming daily for RCC curing....

It’s April. Tax-paying time for property owners. I informed my brother to see if our municipal office is collecting tax. As this time, no announcement is being made publicly. My brother took a Notice board photo and sent it to me on WhatsApp. And informed me that due to the election, the office does not collect taxes. When I checked, I noticed it almost worded like that itself… I asked the local waterman when he came to collect his regular bribe....

Today, I visited our relative’s house, Gruha Pravesh, which is near ours. This is a reconstruction work. Initially, they had the Ground floor and 1st floor. The owner used to stay on the ground floor, and the 1st floor is for rent. Now they felt the ground floor space was not sufficient, so they decided to do reconstruction work on top of the 2nd and 3rd floors with the duplex house....

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....

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....