Coffee, quick shower and the typical stuff before 8:00 AM when Salad, the contractor we call the Burma Man came at 8:00 AM and answered all the questions we had about the job. Our questions were can we get oval bowl toilets instead of round bowl? Who will do the electrical work? What will the door material be for back door? Will he put dead bolts in, too?
About 8:15 the crew that is doing the roof tile came and we gave him 20,000 THB more to buy 
the tile, sand and cement. We came back about a half hour later to tell us the tile we had picked out was not available. He had another sample that instead of being light green with a little brown was light brown with a little green. We said okay.
the tile, sand and cement. We came back about a half hour later to tell us the tile we had picked out was not available. He had another sample that instead of being light green with a little brown was light brown with a little green. We said okay.The crew started getting things done. They punched in the two holes for the emergency drains in case the main drain stopped up. It did stop up last night and we had about 3 inches of water on the roof before we cleaned the drain cover. That is a lot of water, about twelve ton (24,000 pounds) on the roof.
Just about then the Cat Telecom crew called that they were on there way. We walked out to the street to see the crew with at least three sets of bamboo ladders, two men with bamboo poles holding up the wire and another man with a spool of wire.
They ran new wire from the main street to our place, hooked up everything and we now have Internet. They said another man would be here later to couple the Internet & dish together to get English television.
As they were leaving a dump truck dropped off a load
of sand next to the building.
of sand next to the building. About an hour later the tile crew came with all the tile a
nd maybe 20 bags of cement to do the roof.
nd maybe 20 bags of cement to do the roof. The Cat Telecom men hooked up everything and we now have wireless Internet and English TV! YEA, we have not had TV for about 10 days.
Daeng also pointed out the law of "Supply and Demand
" She said last week an asbestos roof panel was around 28 THB and now with the hail storm breaking all the roofs, the cost today is 33 THB a panel. That is a 17 percent increase.
" She said last week an asbestos roof panel was around 28 THB and now with the hail storm breaking all the roofs, the cost today is 33 THB a panel. That is a 17 percent increase.From our roof, everywhere 
you look you can see roofs being repaired.
you look you can see roofs being repaired.The tile men got all the tile on the roof and said they would see us in the morning.
All we had left to do is give Salad a deposit to start the new bathroom. We felt good about the day except it started raining again. The good part it only rained a little for about a half hour and stopped.
It was a busy day but not typical.
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