Why It's Very Hard to Trust Contractors

We've been working on lowering the temperature in our home and making sure we don't get my water dripping indoors. To lower the temp we had vents and whirlwinds installed. It helped a bit, but a curtain of heat would always greet me whenever I stepped out of the bedroom.

We asked advise from several architects and their solution was always quite obtrusive. Eventually, we decided to try a non-obtrsuive solution by a roofing company. 

When they inspected our roof they reported to us that the flashing that was supposed to be installed by a company we previously worked with was only held by wood and a tile. The area was also missing a roof panel.

They had also removed the downspout in the area which caused the front of our roof to be damaged. We did notice that the corner of our front roof would drip a lot. We didn't know that the previous company removed a key downspout that's supposed to distribute rainwater so it doesn't overload parts of the roof.

We had the roof fixed back in late 2022. It snowballed to having other things fixed. We were reassured that the area was fixed and we won't experience any dripping anymore. And that's what we thought.

We immediately reached out to the architect that did the renovations. We sent him the video and all he said was, "Oh, it must have been overlooked". He offered to have it fixed, but his timeline did not work for us since we were having our roof fixed. We told him he could just reimburse us the amount we were going to pay. It was actually the same amount for the work they did not do. 

Roof has been fixed, but the architect has just totally ignored us. Ugh! I'm seriously thinking whether I should write the association he is part of... I'm seriously scared they mucked up other things they fixed.

BTW, the repair of the roof was needed because the original builder of the house did not install flashing and that caused the waterfall in our kitchen and a whole lot of other things were missing in the roof. Good luck to whoever purchases the house beside us. The builder dropped us like a hot potato when all the issues came out.

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Butterbeer?

I've known about butterbeer rlfrom reading Harry Potter books. There were chances to try it, bit I didn't go for it.

A friend gifted us some ginger ale last Christmas. We put it in the fridge since Christmas (haha). We finally tried it early this week and was pleasantly surprised it tasted really good.

We got curious and found out Stanford Brewery also makes butterbeer. It was late night when I decided to order on a whim. By the time I woke up the next day they already delivered my order. Wow! That was really fast!

We'll probably try it this weekend (we're spacing out drinking colored beverages). I'm going to do some research to find out what food I should pair it with. My friend said it's good too, so I'm looking forward to try it.

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Brunch

We were concerned about the announcement that we won't have electricity yesterday morning. We woke up early so we could leave in case we didn't have electricity. Neighbors complained when it didn't go off as scheduled. I told them Meralco must have pranked us, haha 

Since we were ready to go out, we decided to just have brunch at the nearby mall. Miggy wasn't up for it, so it was just Sweetie and me. I got some tapa. It was made more interesting by the pinakurat vinegar. 

Sweetie surprisingly ordered bacon and eggs! He donated some bacon to me (that's true love!).

We walked around to burn off what we ate. We wondered why there was so many people on a weekday. We didn't know it was a holiday (sorry na). We went home after picking up a couple of books at Booksale and a replacement memory card for one of our cams. 

I'm now recharged to sort again!

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Booksale Forever!

To make sure the Booksale near us doesn't go away, we visit it every few weeks to buy something. I'm especially lucky because quilting books are always available and affordable, plus, not many people quilt here.

I've actually ran out of shelf space, so I told myself to hold off buying anything. It's irresistible though and I got 4 books for just PHP120. Two craft books, a home decor guide, and a bird book for Miggy. Not bad huh.

I've managed to hold off buying books for reading because I have a huge reading backlog! I told myself I should make a dent first before buying anything else. :)

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Tried "Delimondo Cafe"

For brunch yesterday, we got curious and tried the "Delimondo Cafe". I've tried their corned beef at home and it's tasty. 

I got the classic ranch style corned beef. It was served with scrambled eggs and pickles. Sweetie ordered the adobo corned beef. We paired the meal with coffee from Yardstick. 

The meal is pretty standard silog. It was pricey at PhP350 per plate. Sweetie's adobo corned beef was better than mine. I think next time I'll just try their buns and just cook cornsilog at home.

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