A friend's house

I was shopping at "Pasar Borong" in Sengkurong last Saturday, and saw this house. It's a friend's (and also nephew - dad's 3rd cousin's grandson) house, currently under construction and should be ready early next year. 

It's a massive house, with very nice double stairs. See the construction here and their current travel (studying) Down Under here.

6 months on (well, 7 months). . .

It has been almost 7 months since we moved in, and Henry Ling, the contractor came up to check out the house for any touching ups (part of his contract).... well, there were a few cracks here and there but it's just on the surface. 

Apparently its usual especially in our case the house gets quite warm during the day and airconditioned in the evening, all the contracting and expanding resulted in the hairline cracks. As well as the wooden floors too, naturally it will contract slightly as it dries up, hence the contractor has to fill the gaps with special fillers - wooden colour - and you wouldn't notice it until you look very closely.

What else.... oh yes, we have three broken tiles, also related to contraction/expansion - see the photos below.  The main door, custom made from solid wood also shrank by one cm (width wise) leaving a gap when the door is closed. The contractor has to add one cm additional wood at the base of the hinge close the gap.  All else? Alhamdulillah, so far so good and long may it be.

How much does it costs us again (the touch ups/repairs)? Surprise surprise its all free! Including re-painting of all the interior walls!  Even coming from work for the past couple of days reminded me of us just moving in back in May - the smell of fresh paint! Enjoy the photos below. And have a great weekend and Salam Aidil Adha.

  

the main door being worked on

  

walls at the second floor being re-plastered where the hairline cracks appeared

more plastering done... the family lounge...

and outside Iman's Room

Tiles near the garage cracked. Probably not enough cement during tiling last time round.

   

A wall tile cracked in the wet kitchen, as well as a couple of tiles under the bar. These guys did a great job, 'cos it just didn't show that they were replaced.

hairline cracks near the light switches were re-plastered

as well as at the big wall at the living room

the wooden floorings contracted over the 7 months, so the contractor filled the gaps, and applied the water-based coat, to give that shine. Nice.

Muhammad's room - if you can see carefully the plaster covering the cracks were like grafitti...