Vision of Life; by Sanjay: Knowing the Right Facts about the Right Home!

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
― Ben Shapiro

"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details & the facts."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, well, I am super happy for this writeup not just for the subject but the quotes rather the person of which I can use the quote (finally) for my sharing. And keeping due respect for Mr Shapiro who himself is a great thinker but it’s the other name which is like “the God” (Disclaimer: no hard feeling to any believer of any religion) for me & his creation also; yes, its Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes, who is word-son (I invented this term) of Sir Doyle, for being able to use their quotes. Reason is, this guy, Mr Holmes is so clear about his thinking & logical while the industry like ours i.e., real estate is never known to be fond of these two characteristics so I rarely get opportunity to use his quotes but today’s topic speaks about facts & who better than Holmes can be there when its commenting about facts! Though Mr Shapiro has said facts don’t care about your feeling it’s the Sherlock Holmes who took importance of facts at new level may it be solving a crime or helping some innocent who has been tagged as guilty by the world, it’s always the facts which comes to your rescue via Mr Holmes & so they are here for me too even in choosing right home!

Another aspect is logic, as when you don’t have facts then apply logic & in the fourth episode of “Right Home” (Holmes Vs Homes, lol, sorry for PJ) one aspect of real estate which I wanted to share since long is, knowing the right facts about a home! One may say how there can be a term like right facts as isn’t the facts are just facts & you are right but, in a country, where even copper can be presented as gold just because both are yellow (which is a fact too), there is high need to make people understand difference between right facts & wrong facts while you chose your right home! Rather when you understand the “right facts” concept then you will realize most facts about a home which you are thinking of as facts are actually just some myths which we can say are wrong facts. To start with I will present you a simple analogy; many people doesn’t prefer top floor flat (in Pune) because it gets hot in summer & in Mumbai the reason is possible leakage from terrace (even in Pune) & these are facts that such problems exist, making top floor flats considered as wrong homes! But the right facts are, agreed in Pune top floor may get hotter only if proper care in planning & construction is not being taken by the developer. As if all rooms are with good cross ventilation, then air don’t get stagnant in the flat making it warm & if terrace slab has been designed as right (read as more) thickness with brick bat layers & heat reflection paint on surface along with air holes in terrace parapet to allow air flow on terrace near slab level then there is no problem of top floor flat getting hotter than the below floor flats. Same is with top floor leakage issue, if proper slopes are given to roof terrace along with right numbers of rain water draining down-take pipes in position the water won’t accumulate on roof slab which only leaks down. And post possession no damage for any reason to the roof slab should be allowed such as erecting a shade on the terrace or fixing solar panels or AC units or any such activity which will obstruct flow of rain water as well damage the waterproofing of roof slab. If you ensure this, then there is no reason to be worried about leakage of roof slab making the top floor flat completely safe as I myself live in a top floor flat of a building which we only have constructed! This is what I call about knowing the right facts about your home!

And real estate is full of such wrong facts which I call as myths & thanks to Vastushastra (no hard feelings or offence to those who believes Vastushastra) & so called experts right from having transformer (read as Agni) in some corner to having water tanks (read as Jal) in other corner of plot making it a wrong fact as this has nothing to do actually with your home use! The list is on & hundreds of things which made me use the quote of Mr Shapiro that, facts don't care about your feelings; here I will correct Mr Shapiro with due respect as it should be, "the right facts will take care of your feelings" especially when it’s about your home! As though I am a non-believer (read as, non-blind believer) of Vastu as any shastra which is supposedly means science must be only based on hard facts & not on some individual experiences however great & nice they may be yet I believe in technical aspect of Vastu which directly deals with environment science! Yet I will keep away that aspect of facts & Vastushastra while choosing a right home as when it's a matter of faith & belief there is no point in putting forward facts, right or wrong! So, coming back to right facts aspect for a home (or office or shop) then the best way to learn or define right facts is ask right questions about the issues which you are concerned about & then analyze those answers logically & with physical proof, as a fact is something which is logical & can be proved in the physical world repeatedly as well it should not be a just one-time fluke! For e.g., another wrong fact about a home is, having anti-skid tiles in toilets/ bathrooms prevents accidently slipping fall, especially for elderly people in wet areas. But the right fact is, if a floor of bathroom is properly given slope so as no water will accumulate on the floor as well if your wipe the surface with dry/rubber mop after using water then there is lesser chance of slipping down on such surface even the floor may be of granite which has surface as smooth as glass! And even if the floor is of anti-skid tiles which has a rough surface it can reduce (not avoid) accidently falling down only if they are kept dry because in the rough surface areas the soap water remains by forming a film on such surface & becomes more slippery! This is not a right fact because I say so, but this exercise you can try at your own home in its bathroom & then if you are satisfied with the result of floor slipperiness then it becomes a right fact!

I can keep giving hundred such examples when it's home building i.e., real estate because I myself am an engineer & second, I go by right facts whatever I build, that’s what has been taught to us! Even I too can make mistakes in the execution as most of the construction activities in the housing industry are still being done by hand yet if I follow the right facts (read as workmanship) then the chances are less to build a wrong home! And this is why one should ask as many questions to the maker of your home (read as the builder) if you are not sure about what is right facts about every such aspect, may it dimensions of rooms as one more wrong fact I always come across by the client is they feel the rooms are too small or too big but if you go by the facts of planning then you will analyze the rooms sizes as per what is needed in right way for best use of those rooms! Because small or large can change as per your feelings as well your budget but if you understand what’s use of your bedroom & what kind of furniture your lifestyle demands (and afford) & the time you will be spending in that room then you can decide right size of the room which is a fact & then all you have to do is, check the dimensions the builder is offering with your facts! Same is applicable to car park size, if you can’t imagine the drive ways or turning radius then ask him what is the size of car he has considered while creating parking space, compare it with your car (and with your future buy also) & then decide whether its the right parking space for you are not! In the nutshell what is most important while defining the right facts about your home is, not what you have read or heard or believe, it’s what has been done around, study the science & logic behind construction process as well planning of the home you are looking at & then compare it with your right facts & trust me 90 out of 100 times you won’t have to regret your decision of choosing such right facts home ever!

To conclude, I will advise only this much; a home is made up of nearly three hundred-plus items & thirty-plus trades which includes fitter to mason to tilers to plumber & all this is engineering (read as science) & everything in engineering goes only by the facts which is what makes the laws & rules of construction, this is why when you buy your home it must be built on the right facts i.e., right engineering, mind it!

Sanjay Deshpande

smd156812@gmail.com

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