Knock three times…

Well, they certainly knocked more than three times on my ceiling…

…all day, in fact, and I had  to go without the luxury of my usual afternoon nap.

I guess everybody knows by now that I had people coming to my house to do some renovation and repair works. I got them to do something about the cracks in the beam across the ceiling of my kitchen and they got it nicely done…and as they had to paint that, my missus got them to paint the whole kitchen!

I also got rid of my old squat toilet in the ground floor bathroom and replaced it with this new seat toilet…

…and put in new tiles on the floor and the walls. Ok, my dear friend in NZ! Do tell your hubby that I have two seat toilets now, no more squatting ones so when he comes to Sibu and stays at my house again, he will have a choice  between the two – top or bottom. Muahahahahahaha!!!!!

The old plywood bathroom door was peeling away and the frame had gone all rotten at the bottom owing to the years of contact with the water so I had this new one made…

I did not want the knob kind of lock that used to be in the old door – just a latch would do…and they had to paint the walls too after they had done everything.

My backyard used to flood badly everytime it rained especially after my neighbour had the extension made to the back portion of his house without any trough or gutter for the rain water so I had an extension done to the narrow pavement that used to be there…

…and as far as I can see, that has helped to solve the problem. They also used pipes and cement to get rid of the open drain system at the back of the house – now, with the covered drain, it certainly looks a whole lot better.

There was something wrong with my sewage pipes, the old ceramic ones. They said that probably they were broken in places so I had a new pipe leading from the downstairs toilet (from the end of the extension in the above photo) all the way round the house to the septic tank and from the septic tank to the drain outside the house…

I also had the town council  people come and desludge the septic tank as well, of course.

Lastly, the workers also helped seal a crack in the roof by the side of the house – it would leak depending on the direction of the wind and how heavy the rain was.

All that work took around 6 days altogether…and I must say that I am very happy with all they have managed to get done within that time. Total damage – RM7,700.00, inclusive of all materials and whatever used. I don’t know very much about these things so what do you think? Is that expensive or do you think it is reasonable? Perhaps you have something to share regarding this?