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Renovations - the Vietnamese way

Posted By Russell On 14/05/2011 @ 09:03 am In Tam, Vietnam, me | No Comments

Here I was at Easter, minding my own busines,  little did I know that Mama and Papa with Tam, had bee planning house renovations.  The idea being - so I thought was to fix the leaking roof, which I wanted to attend to, and make space to accommodate a car.

Then it was decided to make Tam and mine’s bedroom, larger, - so okay, I will go with that because we needed a new bed etc..

When the day arrived did I realise renovations of this nature were about to take place.  I understood the roof was going to be repaired and the rooms were going to be changed, and space for a car..but little did I realise the following would happen, look on and enjoy, renovations, the Vietnamese way.  No half measures here.

I guess I knew it was going to be serious business because we started by lifting the tiled floor….

[1] Mama, cousin and Pap’s legs[2] View to the street[3] Looking into the house with the debris..so far[4] looking up at the roof..[5] khoi 4, where we live[6] Hmm -what shall I demolish next?[7] Now how to remove the wooden joist?[8] Extremely heavy[9] Hold on..don’t drop it[10] Demolished![11] Now that is renovation the Vietnam way

..Following this we went to Vung Tau and Saigon before I returned to the UK.  Renovations should be finished in 2 weeks (around 21st May).  All change for when I return.

[12] Tam points the way [13] Me with Vung Tau behind

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