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....
Today something happened with our family. At 11:58 am, my Mom, wife, and brother’s wife were doing rice cleaning outside. I… here in my room writing an article about a temporary shed for construction purposes on my bed with my laptop. Suddenly… my wife burst into my room and said, “Who is having my ₹4,000” she asked me. I replied – “Mom.” Mom is telling you have that. No… call Mom....
A few days back a new house opening happened near to our house. It’s a Luxurious house. The owner has spent good money on the decoration and all… But it seems like the owner didn’t have some basic knowledge about electrical stuff, and now they made some serious mistakes. They installed a “Meter Box.” to Compound Wall! Nothing wrong with installing a meter box anywhere they want. But in this case, they made a serious mistake installing a meter box in the Open Space....
Recently, one of my subscriber cum customer requested me to write an article about the “Curing” guide on my blog… I responded to his email with some tips. That response never be as detailed as a dedicated article. So I decided to write a sperate article on that topic… I’m already on it. Maybe by tomorrow, I’m going to publish it on my blog. While writing… I mentioned one point: “Buy pump offline… not online”....
This incident was recently explained by our electrical laborer who is doing some old building electrical alteration work. That old building is none other than the cement trader shop where we used to buy cement first. Until today, the building owner did open wiring for temporary purposes for his shop… but now, he wants his commercial shop to rent to others, so he is preparing that unit. So they used our electrical contractor to spice up the rental unit to make it modern....
Last month we were making some changes to our existing house related to some electrical things. And it’s only for our own house and doesn’t include any of our rental units. On a rough estimation, it easily cost us more than 15,000 rs on labor costs alone. These are not any major changes… These are only small changes which we felt if we had that electrical features would help to make our job easier… some are cosmetic, some are functional, some are mistakes done by our contractor, and a few are structural changes....
I just finished watching the Karnataka election result. I hope Congress fulfills all it’s free guarantee to all the houses 😅 One of their guarantees is to give 200 units of free electricity to all the houses every month! I still don’t know what rules they will add. I just calculated how much it costs to the government monthly from our house. We have around 10 meters + 10 meters + 1 meter....
While our construction work was ongoing, one incident happened near our building. The building is a double building (similar to ours)… owner did wiring to his building, and he removed the security guard from his job for some reason. The security guy left the job from that building. Within a few days, the owner lost 6 lakh worth of electrical wire from the building 😱 The lost Wire was never recovered....
When our electrical contractor work was almost complete, our contractor asked me - “Sir, Payment.” Ok… After checking with my system, I told them ₹5,000 is what we have to pay. Our contractor - no, I think it should be around ₹10,000. Hmm… again, some conflict. I checked again roughly, and it showed the same ₹5,000. Now I asked our contractor to give me one day time. I will check and let you know where that difference amount is missing....
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....