Tag Archives: building

Cementing the GCC ties

We’re having yet another “crisis” in Bahrain. This time, it comes in cementy flavour! FOREIGN racketeers are being blamed for a cement crisis which has crippled Bahrain’s construction industry.The suspension of supplies from Saudi is costing Bahrain’s contractors more than BD4 million a day, says sources. [GDN 12.06.08] Let me first confess that I don’t …

The Plinth

A couple of things I really came to appreciate today: the first is the wealth of information available on the Internet, again, and the second is those manual labourers who we continuously take for granted! The story is this: I wanted to build a regular red-brick column/plinth in the Zen Garden onto which I would …

Treasure hunts

Do you guys know how difficult it is to find the same tiles for your bathroom that you (or the builder) originally chose when you first built your house? Well, let me tell you that it is bloody difficult, especially if you don’t know where to start. The fortunate thing actually is the tile shops …