back to work..

I was working on my house in early February when suddenly my father and myself were down with fever for 2 weeks and we had to stop working altogether..

Now that we are able to stand and walk straight again, we quickly continue from where we have left.. we worked on alternate days and i think the momentum is building up positively.

I haven't mention that my unit is located on the top floor and that area is apparently a pigeons "gathering" area. I went up the roof the first time to check on the roof leak; but what i actually found had really gave me a shock. The ceiling was full of pigeons dropping. Can you imagine the whole 480sq ft of ceiling is full of bird's dropping in about 2" thick.. as GROSS as it sounds, somebody has to get up there and scoop it off!!

Something that looks like rubbles is actually bird's dropping that has been there for a few years

My father had removed a piece of broken ceiling so that there was ample ventilation in the working space.

I have to scooped the dropping with a shovel and later sell it :)

Not just droppings but there were corps too!!!

Hola Its me!! who else!! mind the glove and hard hat,  took it off for photo shooting!

I scooped the whole thing alone, it took me 3 days. I could only work for half hour the most. The working space in the roof cavity is too limited. I have to work squatting down, and i have to know which area that i could step on and which i couldn't. the 1st day on the roof, i accidentally stepped on the asbestos ceiling and well.. it cracked. thank God it is not broken!! thank you to my fitness.. thank you self for exercising everyday that enable me to work in that condition.. I dont think i am even able to fit into the ceiling opening if i'm overweight. in my Building Survey book, the author did mention that, the main criteria to be a Building Survey is that that person has to be fit apart from whatever paper qualification that he might obtained beforehand.

I was not convinced with his statement until i myself make an effort to climb up there and do my survey on the roof. as a surveyor, we need to personaly verify every single defects that we found in the buildings that we are working on. If we delegate and our subordinates did not furnish us with the correct information, we are going to be liable for whatever consenquences or loses that our client might face in the future.


I managed to tackle the leak problem, the roof is chipped about 6sq inches and i just apply a bituminous tape all over the hole.. it has been a few months now, seems that my the bituminuous tape is working. So far so Good.

This is the root cause for the watermark on the ceiling (picture below)

Water mark beneath the ceiling

The silver coloupe is actually a 1" bituminuous tape. I bought 2 strips that cost me around RM2 and earlier a contractor was asking RM500 to change the whole roof and ironically asking me to find a ladder that could reach the second floor. Apparently i have saved myself RM488!