Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Happy Medium

Instead of tearing the gypsum walls down we arrived at a compromise: we'll leave the bedroom part walled in gypsum, possibly filling in the hollows with polystyrene or some cheap insulating material for maximum firmness and minimum boing when you knock on them, and in the bathroom part we'll take out the inner panel and instead line the outer with some sort of lightweight white brick made from recycled something-or-other (paper or rags I imagine).

Nek left happy, taking the old doors, my kitchen sink and 20,000 Baht with him. The gaping hole in the kitchen counter is going to baffle the maid and may alert her to the fact that her time is up. Good riddance. When I was away she didn't clean the floors again, or anything much really, as if I wouldn't notice.

Whingeing about the maid: the expat's favourite pastime.

Meanwhile I'm thinking maybe a high stone threshold would be nice between the bedroom and the future bathroom, to be looked into in a few months.

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