I already hired a private guy to do my AC installation setup who understood the importance of the AC Vacuuming process, even at a higher cost than what I would give for a company installation guy. Installation was scheduled on Saturday with a private party. Meanwhile, I also raised a complaint with Panasonic regarding the technician. They also shared a direct contractor guy’s contact number to speak with him this time. When I spoke at first, he shared that it’s not required for a new AC. After that, I requested him in a nice manner to at least do for my AC. Even I openly told them I could pay ..read more

I recently bought an AC online for my home office. I guess it’s already 6 days over… Still, installation has not yet been done. After raising a support ticket yesterday, some technicians came but didn’t bring the AC vacuum pump. I noticed and asked them. They said, “we hadn’t bought it”. I informed them not to install the AC without doing the AC vacuuming process. They left immediately saying other will come and do.  Ac vacuuming is an important process that needs to be done for all ACs, even for the brand-new ACs. But most of the technicians don’t do this step. Suppose we install th ..read more

I’m just back from the temple and writing this email calmly. From the last two days onwards, while I was casually watching YouTube shorts, I came across videos where the sump cover is covered with an FRP Cover. What an irony… Even some experienced builders make the same mistake when they construct buildings. I came across that in one YT video recently. That’s why I’m writing this email. Once, one of my friends in my village also asked for suggestions about using FRP for a sump cover…. I clearly told them not to use that for the sump cover. It’s not designed for that. They look cool and hold go ..read more

I was shopping for AC and computer components to build a custom PC for my home office yesterday. I prefer online shopping to offline shopping for convenience and savings. I can always find good discounts and offers in an online shop rather than offline shops. These days, I learned one more lesson that I would like to share with you to save even more. I used to ignore this for a few years, but one day, I decided to change this after seeing my brother getting more savings than me. The lesson is — To have as many credit cards (CC) as possible. Just for having CC, I saved Rs 2,250 using OneCard CC ..read more

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. He said they were collecting. So again, I guided him to go inside the office and check again… The next day, he went inside and noticed they were stil ..read more

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. Now owners are staying in 2nd and 3rd floor…. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to make such a mistake. Because of a lack of proper planning during construction, the owner is now staying on the 2nd floor. I to ..read more

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. So, I decided to share some of my experience keeping track of expenses. See, during house construction, everyone will be bu ..read more

Today, I noticed something interesting. Today, the waterman left water on our line/house. Our sump got full and started overflowing at 12:08PM. So my dad closed the valve. (We have an automated valve closing in our house. We once removed it, we didn’t put it back. I will talk about that in the Sump Automation Guide) At 6 PM, our opposite house sump got full and started overflowing. Today, no one was there in their house, so I called our area water man to stop water in our line. He also stopped it. See the time difference between both houses. It’s 6 hours difference… I don’t know whether any po ..read more

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. As far as I can see, his work is not that great. Recently, he did two projects near our house. In both projects, he paused construction at the end stage. In both cases ..read more

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. I don’t think the building owner doing any other work elsewhere as well… The two guys who came on the spot are also pretty new faces. I didn’t understand what happened that ..read more