I am in Malacca since last Sunday. The weather has been great, with sunshine all throughout the week with some intermittent rain in the evening... The scene from my window is great as usual, the sea, the horizon, the setting sun, the white clouds, the palm trees, the casuarinas tree has grown tall and all this make a picture perfect postcard like scene that changes as the day goes by.. This is one advantage of having a house beside the sea, you get to see the setting sun always except when it rain and even that you can still see the amber light of the setting sun as it goes down the horizon....
I am alone here for the whole week. The reason has been that our apartment here is going on a renovation of sorts. We are getting the floor change, from the original wall to wall carpet to a complete tile floor... The carpeting came when we bought this condo some thirteen years ago and it has shown its wear and tear for the uses all the time. Moreover we know now that in the tropic carpet is not really suitable because of its humid condition. It has become a breeding ground of million of dust mite which are rather difficult to get rid of. I am told that the only way of getting rid of these mites is to dry it in the sun. If it a small carpet then it would be easy but with fixed wall to wall carpet it is just impossible. Vacuuming it would be just impossible, so the best way is to change it with something that is more easily clean. We had a choice of either using laminated wood flooring or tiles but because this apartment is not always in use, it would not be wise to use laminated wood since limited wood would be damage if cover with water for a period of time. The front part of our apartment is facing the sea and it is only about two hundred meters away, so when it rain and together with strong wind, water sometime leak into the front part of the house and in that part our carpet get wet and dry by its self, leaving patches of dried up are in all shapes and sizes.. If it had been laminated wood flooring it would have been completely damages by water... So for that reason we choose ceramic tiles for our new floor...
It would take almost a week for this renovation job to be done. For them to carried our the works, I had to removed all the furniture and for this I was lucky that the adjacent apartment that belong to an American owner is vacant and with permission from management I used it to put my furniture for the time being of the renovation works.. The American who owns this apartment at this resort has since left for the States and we are in the process of getting in touch with him and hope that we would be able to deliver good news to him, in that this resort in Malacca is starting to be operating like before again.
After four days of works, the skilled craftsmen finish the jobs of laying the tile, each tile is two by two feet and it is rather heavy.. The workman did an excellent job and now I have a new floor gleaming with a clean look.. With the helps of the resorts workers I move the furniture back... I then spend the next two days redecorating the apartment and voila!! I finished it with a reward of a better looking apartment.. The new tiles floor actually enhance the look and its now look more spacious then before... Well I am indeed happy that this job was well done...Our species never seem to satisfied with same living environment and continue to do changes from time to time, so these changes we continue to enjoy living,as usual until another time when we makes the next changes... Well Life is like that....
I am alone here for the whole week. The reason has been that our apartment here is going on a renovation of sorts. We are getting the floor change, from the original wall to wall carpet to a complete tile floor... The carpeting came when we bought this condo some thirteen years ago and it has shown its wear and tear for the uses all the time. Moreover we know now that in the tropic carpet is not really suitable because of its humid condition. It has become a breeding ground of million of dust mite which are rather difficult to get rid of. I am told that the only way of getting rid of these mites is to dry it in the sun. If it a small carpet then it would be easy but with fixed wall to wall carpet it is just impossible. Vacuuming it would be just impossible, so the best way is to change it with something that is more easily clean. We had a choice of either using laminated wood flooring or tiles but because this apartment is not always in use, it would not be wise to use laminated wood since limited wood would be damage if cover with water for a period of time. The front part of our apartment is facing the sea and it is only about two hundred meters away, so when it rain and together with strong wind, water sometime leak into the front part of the house and in that part our carpet get wet and dry by its self, leaving patches of dried up are in all shapes and sizes.. If it had been laminated wood flooring it would have been completely damages by water... So for that reason we choose ceramic tiles for our new floor...
It would take almost a week for this renovation job to be done. For them to carried our the works, I had to removed all the furniture and for this I was lucky that the adjacent apartment that belong to an American owner is vacant and with permission from management I used it to put my furniture for the time being of the renovation works.. The American who owns this apartment at this resort has since left for the States and we are in the process of getting in touch with him and hope that we would be able to deliver good news to him, in that this resort in Malacca is starting to be operating like before again.
After four days of works, the skilled craftsmen finish the jobs of laying the tile, each tile is two by two feet and it is rather heavy.. The workman did an excellent job and now I have a new floor gleaming with a clean look.. With the helps of the resorts workers I move the furniture back... I then spend the next two days redecorating the apartment and voila!! I finished it with a reward of a better looking apartment.. The new tiles floor actually enhance the look and its now look more spacious then before... Well I am indeed happy that this job was well done...Our species never seem to satisfied with same living environment and continue to do changes from time to time, so these changes we continue to enjoy living,as usual until another time when we makes the next changes... Well Life is like that....
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