Saturday - da shiao qu

I’m getting ready for school which starts Monday. I’m expecting DHL to come thru sometime this am. After the trauma of the first aborted delivery, my package is now under Taipei-based Agent Meico’s personal care.

Ryan has winter school thru Thursday. Ivo and I are spending this Saturday morning vacuuming and trying to get the house in a little bit better shape… Our landladies 4 are coming to visit. They are gonna do a bit of an inspection of the work that was done at the beginning of the month. The work was SHODDY. The kind of job that looks good when the workmen leave but begins to flake away the following day. I emailed them pictures but never got a response.

Several walls in our house have “wall cancer”. It’s very hard to get rid of but easy to fix! It’s a fungus or mold which thrives in the moistness of the cement walls. Are there leaking pipes there? Is it the position of the house vis typhoon winds? Is it that the walls were painted before the cement was completely dry? Does anything completely dry in this urban subtropical humidity?

I’ve been told that the only way to really get rid of it is to knock down the walls and pour new cement. I’ve also been told that it can be contained by coating the walls with elmer’s/pvc glue.

So we’ll see.