Painting the front portion of the house for CNY

"It has been a long time since the house was last painted and CNY is just two weeks away," dear wife says as she eyes a row of new houses with their brightly and newly painted facades with envy and admiration.

Due to a recurring bad back problem dear wife has to limit her house work to light chores only. Thus painting the house that requires her to climb up and down the ladder is too stressful for her weak back. I and my grown up son and daughter have full time day jobs to take care of. Thus due to the manpower and time constraint problem we decide it is best to let other people handle the painting instead of DIY like in the past. The painting work will be confined to the metal window and door grilles and the walls at the front portion of the house only . As we will supply the paints and the brushes we will only pay the workers for their labour.

Being the ever resourceful person dear wife asked the few Indonesian workers who is living with their families in the same neighbourhood to quote for the price of the painting work. After negotiating with a few people we decided to engage Hassan to do the work. This person said that he would complete painting the front portion of the house for RM200.00 in two days.