After 3 hours of tense discussion, Mr Linakane decided to just drive off…Ntate Sello and all the rest of us were left there looking at his car drive off wondering what had happened! Ok the conversation was not going that easily, can’t really say that it was going his way… I was not prepared to give in on this one.
I don’t care if the top of the wall detail is not going to be as fine as I had expected… Don’t even care too much if the windows are crocked (not saying that they are, but really couldn’t care too much if they were…) but I do care if I feel that roof is not properly secured and resistant!
So as I insisted, and insisted, that I would not feel comfortable if we did not brace it my way. When he drove off I thought it was the end of it, specially when I called him and he didn’t pick up, but soon after he called Ntate Sello got a phone call, and since he had already understood my point he managed to reach an agreement.
I will not get all that I asked for (the purlins will not be put in, and to his defence, I did visit quite a few sites and never saw any) but the bracing will go in every other one, thus making it more rigid. Diagonals will also be put in place and like this I think that I will able to sleep at night…
Just for the record, the discussion was mainly about the fact that he though that I was over-designing/spending (we are both on the same side, he should understand this) by wanting to brace it 9 times as opposed to 7!!!!
It was a morning well spent nevertheless! And it seems we are in for a long battle now…
Because I don’t like to finish on a negative tone, I’d just like say thank you to Liau and his friends for having finished today the concrete for the playground!
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