Monday, March 18, 2013

Made my ulcer churn like a cement truck

I dislike berating work ethic.
But there are those occasions when they 
can make my ulcer churn like a cement truck.

Road construction in front of my house started February 20

The project sat abandoned for about ten days.
The road to my house was like an unkept dirtbike trail.




Drainpipes were connected while we were at the Udon Football game on Sunday.  
Charge 700 Baht

 



Of the three pipes leading to my house, only one was actually connected.
Two pipes were simply burried.  No connection made.
The site supervisor happened to watch me furiously digging the pipe out to do the job correctly.
He "convinced" the crew to do the job right.

Wasn't able to change the third pipe before the cement truck arrived.  It's about a foot in the wrong direction and a foot too high.
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I'll have to do some serious remodeling to use the pipe provided.  Parts and labor I estimate 5,000


The main drain is quite dry.  An indication that no one has connected their waste water to the drains (yet).  Surely the apartment complex would have generated plenty water by now.
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The road crew worked overtime to complete the entire street. 
The cement patern obviously shows when it got late.













































































A thunderstorm or a few over the next days will put the drain system to it's test.
I can tell when these local storms arrive, by the amount of the humidity, usually my eyebrows begin to sweat like a fawcet.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

REMEMBER,TIT. THINGS AIN'T THE SAME AS BACK HOME. NOT DIFFICULT TO TELL YOU'RE A TEENY WEENY BIT UPSET OVER THIS!