After the initial work (the breaking of the arches and the floor), they put up the windows for the side area. The door will be moved to the front too and will be bigger than the present one. Tomorrow they will put up the window ledges and the door but they have to plaster the walls first, which is still not done. According to the window man the walls need to be plastered and painted before he can put up the windows? Our contractor Lai Ah Yee has not even plastered the walls! And he didnt come at all today, yet he promised us he would finish it by the third week, which is this week! Sigh...
Finally after a lot of waiting, Lai the contractor (who happened to also be Repin's cousin!) came and in one day worked his miracle. A whole crew came and fixed the plaster, put up the windows and fixed the ceiling. However he couldn't do anything about the doors because the door man was in KL doing some other work and would only be back in Malacca on Monday! Talk of exporting our talents! Can't KL find their own door making experts? The following pictures show the transformation.
The finished product does look nice, even 80% completed as it is now. Next will be the floor and the wiring as well as the outer door.
2 comments:
Know how you feel about contractors not keeping their promises. Wish I could do all renovations myself but I can't. So I do the simple ones. It takes ages but who cares as long as I am happy with the results.
your renovations are coming along wonderfully!
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