The heat isn’t on
You know how hot it’s been the past few days. It’s even worse for us because they’ve chosen the hottest month of the year to re-roof my block. Apparently every HDB block has some kind of cooling slab on the roof, to keep the flats (especially the poor top floor units like mine) cool.
And they re-roof once every 10 years or so. Yes it will be cooler after the new slabs are on but in the days that they remove the old ones to place the new ones, it’s so bloody hot you wouldn’t believe. Like when I open the front door I can actually see wavy hot air in my living room. It’s not even cool in the living room with the ceiling fan on because it’s the same hot air moving round and round. At night we turn on fan and aircon still hot.
They sent a surveyer to look at my house before the re-roofing started, to look at my walls and ceiling. So that they have some backing in case I realise there are cracks after and try to claim from them. And the girl I spoke with said ‘oh it will be very hot. Like an oven, you know?’. Please lor. Just say hot can already la. Not a very nice way of preparing someone. It’s like when you go for facial and before they squeeze the blackheads on your nose, they say ‘on the nose is more painful one’. We will KNOW it’s more painful, but you saying it makes it even worse.
But anyway when I came back today it was nice and cool. Which means that the roofing works have been completed. Yay indeed
And if the gahmen is investing in our block, it means that we probably won’t have to worry about it going enbloc for another 10 years of so. Double yay!
