My bike repair lesson

Yesterday, my brother went to the bike service centre to show some issues with my bike. As it was a little far… he handled such stuff. If it’s near, I handle it. The showroom guys suggested some other problems while checking the bike. Whatever the other issue they suggested it cost us - ₹9412. So what should we have done? Repair or take back the vehicle without fixing the suggested problem by the mechanic?...

September 24, 2023

The Real Cost of Having a Borewell in the House

For quite a few days, I wanted to talk about this topic. But I couldn’t get a mood to write on it. Today I felt, let’s do it… If you are interested in drilling a borewell in your new or existing building, read this and then decide having a borewell. Do you need a borewell in your house? Let me explain with our own story. We have 2 buildings right next to each other....

September 1, 2023

Our relative material contract story

Yesterday one of our relatives came to our house. It’s just a casual visit to our house. Their house is somewhat near to our house. They recently constructed their building… before starting their construction work, they visited our house just to discuss their construction plan and to take suggestions. Me and my dad gave a few suggestions while discussing. I shared a few very important things. Auncle got a little bit impressed with my suggestion....

August 23, 2023

First time when we did sump cleaning, we realised our mistake…

This issue happened to our first sump. We decided to use 2 manual labourers to clean our sump. And our sump is 30,000 to 35,000 ltr capacity. In the beginning, we didn’t have any issues… Everything went smoothly… until the labours reached the ending stage of cleaning. That time we realised our sump design mistake. My dad and I were standing outside the sump cover and talking about the mistake that took so much time to clean the sump....

August 22, 2023

Not getting water to the Sump

I watched a youtube video about connecting to the main water line connection to the sump video. In that video, one comment got my attention. His comment says: _____ I also did the same procedure. But I am not getting the water. My neighbour is not having this issue. In our society, some house’s like me not receiving water. Can you please suggest any solution? _____ The thing is… It’s a popular video on youtube....

August 21, 2023

The Right way of choosing an Electrical contractor

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....

August 17, 2023

Sump cover installation mistake

Yesterday I was not feeling well, so I went to the clinic with my brother. This is a small clinic but a very popular one. Within one day, regular diseases will get cured (personal experience). To this day, this doctor charging only ₹50 has his consulting fee… and that too in Bangalore city. The only problem is the waiting time. Minimum 1 hr we need to wait. This doctor runs his clinic in a small house....

August 11, 2023

If you delay applying temporary connection…

This happened to us in our second building. We informed our electrical contractor that we need a temporary connection as we will start the construction work. Our contractor told let’s wait some more days. He told us like that to save money for us… because the earthwork takes time, so let’s manage like that as he informed. He also told me he would manage if anyone from the BESCOM department came....

August 8, 2023

Arun, can you help me? I can pay you?

A few days back, I got a call from a CEO of a mobile app company. Let’s call her “Dee.” Arun… I’m Dee. Remember me? Ya… tell Dee. I made some mistakes and need your help fixing that problem. What help? I tried something on the server by seeing online guides, but now my company website is not working. I don’t even have a backup. Can you fix it? You can CHARGE it....

August 5, 2023

Cleaned HER Scooty for this mistake

Our painting labours painting our wall in the new building. We alerted all our tenants to keep their belongings things to keep inside. Everyone did so. But we underestimated where and all paint can fall. When the work was going on… I got a WhatsApp message from one girl saying: ___ Hello Good morning The paint is all over the scooter. If you had informed me, I would have moved it....

July 28, 2023