The family next door is having the finishing touches put to a brand new villa. I spotted the scaffolding from our balcony - it may not seem unsafe (or at least not unusual) to many of you but where I come from the construction site would have been shut down immediately due to safety hazards! Many of the wooden planks appear to be just loosely laid down...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Scaffolding Kuwaiti Style
The family next door is having the finishing touches put to a brand new villa. I spotted the scaffolding from our balcony - it may not seem unsafe (or at least not unusual) to many of you but where I come from the construction site would have been shut down immediately due to safety hazards! Many of the wooden planks appear to be just loosely laid down...
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Hehe, this looks all ok to me, compared to what I have gotten used to seeing here. The planks are usually reused, so they take them from the bottom and shift upwards as they go up - meaning that there are no planks on the lower levens untill they need to go down again. Guess they dont have that many ;-) Also, when its time for painting the building, theres usually no safety at all ... the painters just stand at the unfinished balconies (sometimes without a rail yet...) and lean out with extended rolls. Or sit on the edge of the windows... these things gives me a funny feeling in my stomach when I see it :-)
ReplyDeleteBrian, you are quite right, this is still civilized. I have seen the maids of some local families trying to wash the outside of the windows - that gave me a funny feeling in the stomach, too! I have also seen an attempt at window washing in a high-rise office building - didn't look too good either. Will see if I can get some better (worse) pictures in the future :)
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