The Real Cost of Owning an Inverter

If you want to know how much it would cost to maintain an inverter for home use. Here is my experience of owning it. Currently, we use a Luminous inverter and 2 luminous battery setups in our house. Inverter cost usually depends on the number of batteries you use. Most house owners use only 1 Battery setup, which is sufficient to maintain a few lights for a few hours. If you go with 1 battery setup, you cannot use a fan on it....

July 27, 2023

Painter Fell into our Sump (video available)

Today while our painter was doing their work, one of the painters accidentally fell inside our sump. Fortunately, nothing serious happened. Only his leg got little hurt… and he was in shock for some time. He is completely inside the sump… While falling inside the sump, he held the sump opening by his hand so he didn’t completely go inside the sump. Immediately two other painters lifted him upside. We are lucky our sump is not full....

July 26, 2023

Paid Extra for Our Inverter Setup and How to Avoid

This happened in our first building. When it was time to implement the Inverter setup in our first building. Our electrical contractor said this was not included in the contract, so he didn’t do that work. That was discussed while discussing the contract, but the contractor said not discussed. So he didn’t do that work. After all the building work, we hired another electrician to implement the Inverter setup. This happned in 2018....

July 25, 2023

Don't make this Inverter mistake

Yesterday, my brother and I were filling distilled water to our inverter battery. That time I remembered what mistake I could have made if I placed an inverter inside our house. If it’s for rental property, then it’s ok. If it’s for your own house, I don’t recommend keeping the Inverter setup inside your house. There are various reasons behind it. I’m not going to mention all of those here…...

July 24, 2023

How did this guy get scammed out of $82,000 by a Contractor

I subscribed to many email newsletters by marketers that I love learning from. A few days back, one guy shared his story of getting scammed out of $82,000 by a contractor. This guy is not from India, so the currency is in dollars. Even though this story is from a different country, I believe this is relevant here as well. This guy paid a contractor $82K to construct a 30% pool in his house....

July 21, 2023

His Electrical contractors feels like a fraud…

Today I got a comment on my temporary electricity connection article. Below is the exact comment: -– How much does it cost to make permanent connection from Temporary connection taken while construction of the house.. Our new contractor from this layout is telling us to Pay 2 lakhs rupees which includes NOC 800000 and rest all amount for DD and connection itseems. I feel he is fraud. Could you please tell me the correct procedure....

July 19, 2023

Few things to keep in mind during molding time

Here are a few things you must be aware of on molding day. It will be a busy day. You need to manage and arrange a lot of things during molding day The more family members were available that day, more helpful You must arrange food for all the laborers on the molding day. Some owners order outside, some arrange themself, and few give money. If you arrange food outside, don’t inform the hotel that it’s for laborers....

June 27, 2023

Our Ground Floor RCC Slab Could Have Collapsed

The day before yesterday, while I was reading a book on my Kindle at 1 Am, suddenly, one picture came to my mind. Our ground floor RCC slab/mold could have collapsed during molding day due to a centering/shuttering mistake. As soon I remembered this incident, that time I learned how I could not have shared this story yet? So here I’m sharing that real incident. That happened during our second building’s ground floor molding time....

June 26, 2023

My wife suddenly started scolding the fan.

I just entered the room. While my wife is making my 1.6-year daughter sleep. She suddenly saw the fan and said, “Idiot fan… air not all coming here,” kind of world she shouted in the Kannada language. Me… while standing outside the cot started explaining why you were not getting air there in your place and explained what our electrical contractor did mistake that time. She didn’t respond back after I explained the reason....

June 8, 2023

Painting outside during the rainy season…

We were doing repainting work for our own house. All inside work is done… Only the front elevation painting work is pending. We are trying to finish that front elevation painting work from last week onwards. But it’s not happening due to rain. The problem with rain is… LOSS Usually, it rains from 2 Pm onwards for a few hours. For outside painting work, a minimum of 3 painters will do the job....

May 30, 2023