Visited The BH Whose Owner Walked Into The House LAL ............................

 

While in KK, Sabah I was asked by Rakanwalit to view a BH in Beaufort and perhaps provide the necessary comments on what the contractor have done.

Since the owner ordered all the BH sound system from me I was asked to show the installer how to line up those tweeters.

This same BH was the one whose owner fell down through the LAL (The hole on the floor).  The story I received was that he was in the BH at night when the temple at the other side of the river was playing those fire crackers.  He wanted to check weather his BH is sound proof.

While listening those crackers sound he forgot about those LAL, KEPUK  he fell down the hole. 

He was lucky that his wife and kid were with him. No major injuries but some crack in the skull according to the Doctor.

What surprised me was that just after coming out of the Hospital he wanted to listen to those Marvelous Cloud external sound.  I think he found a new way of using external bird sound.

Now you can use bird sound to cure your illness.  He he he......

The moment I arrived I took a round walk to see the house construction from the outside.

I was happy with the external features but the surrounding needs some clearing.

First the fencing around the BH was not totally completed, the water pool or drain around the BH were not cleaned and there were two tall coconut trees in front of the main entrance hole.

"Please cut those coconut trees so that it will not block the path of those bird when they are coming home plus prevent those owls from using it as an observation tower."

Upon entering I quickly climbed those staircases and straight to the attic.  I wanted to view how those birds will be entering the house and how to get down to the nesting room.

I was very disappointed what I saw.  The house seems to have so many mistakes and it will be a huge task to get the birds even to enter the roving room and the top most floor.

The contractor covered the monkey house with a thick cement slab and open only 1/5 of it.

The other mistakes were:

* The LAL holes were not big enough and not placed at the right locations.

* The nesting planks orientation inside the VIP rooms were running parallel to the birds flying path. They need to be in perpendicular and not parallel.

*There were no water supply pipes on all the floors.  Water is needed to moist and cool the nesting rooms.

*There were no light points in the entire house.  You need lights to perform any maintenance works.  We cannot work in the dark and without light some one will fall down the "LAL" hole again.

*There were no water drainage pipes.  If by any chance the house was flooded due to any pipe burst or leakage the whole floor will be flooded and the only way down and out will be via the LAL.  This will eventually damage those nesting planks at the lower floor.

* The exit hole to reach the roof of the monkey house was blocked in total.  How are we going to climb onto the roof to install those hexagonal tweeters?

* The roof construction was a bit too short.  Yes the overhang was less then 5 inches.  I was expecting 1 meter so that the shadow will help to prevent direct sun light on the BH walls.

* I cautioned the owner about the requirement of wiring hole between floors.  We need to pull those cables from all the floors to the data room.  The hole on the floor needs to be properly done to prevent any possible water seepage to the data room via the cable.  He need to perhaps locked those hole with a 5 inches diameter steep pipe preventing the possibility of water seepage.

* I took all the trouble to get the wire man to know how to install those tweeters.

After the visit plus all the list of things to be reworked the owner and his brother send me a "Big Thank you" for every sincere comment made.

"Pak Harry, thank you for your comment about our new BH.  Sorry that there were so many errors. All your recommendation will be done. We are hacking the monkey house floor now."

Good for him and he was very lucky that I visited the house prior to launching. If not, I told the owner, there will be a huge problem of getting the first bird shit spot on any of the floor.

He wanted my presence when the house is ready to be put into operation.

The Chinese Temple View from the entrance hole at the monkey house.