0:37 They make metal roofing shingles to look like clay. So it might not be ceramic. I'm writing from Trinidad btw. And new options for roofing have come on the market in the past decade or so. When it comes time to change out the corrugated galvanise, some homeowners are moving over to the new materials. So you see more variety nowadays.

5:20 Our enclosed carport did not originally come with a garage door. It was open like this one. It now does because of crime. We don't have the automatic ones - because that wasn't really an option at the time. Instead, we had a wrought-iron gate installed as most of our neighbors now do. Our front gate has also been upgraded from the regular ones that you open by hand, to an automatic sliding one that you use a remote. Primarily because it is handy to be able to open the gate when it is raining and secondly - again crime. People have been robbed when coming out of the car to open the gate. Now automatic gates aren't 100% foolproof but it shortens the time that you are vulnerable. When the day comes that we decide to change out the garage gate, we might think about installing the automatic doors there too. Sorry to have to tell you this, but as Guyana's economic fortunes rise because of the oil industry, these are things that you all are going to have think about. Mady from Trinidad. Edit: 7:25 I see that some people have entered the razor wire phase already. The new thing over here, is spikes.

Great video, both of them. Just an FYI. I am writing the history of the builder, Hari Prashad, and the history of Prashad Nagar....Baytoram Ramharack ONE, ONE DUTTY BUILD A VILLAGE IN GUYANA: The story of Hari Prashad and Prashad Nagar

@RaphaelNation

11 ай бұрын

Would love to read your book.

These houses look like houses I saw in Bangladesh

Nice housing area..

Nice ... Inspiration me to sleep up my repatriation to Guyana...😍

6:19 A/c costs a lot of money on your electric bill - so just remember that. Of course, you can sleep in comfort when it is hot and humid but just remember that you have to pay for it.

For those who do not understand. These are mansions in South America not Miami.

FYI, I lived in Prashad Nagar in the late 60s and we had an indoor kitchen and all the houses built in Guyana -always have a verandah. Don't know what generation you are from; please do proper research before giving misleading information.

4:32 When people were cooking on coal pots and clay firesides with wood or coal, it was in fact necessary to have your kitchen separate to the house to keep soot out. This was more about necessity than aesthetics. But if people are now cooking with gas or electric, why do you still want the kitchen outdoors? It would be like wanting an outhouse even though you also have indoor plumbing. lol.

@RaphaelNation

7 күн бұрын

I think it has to do with heat. Keeping the heat from the stove from the rest of the house is important in tropical climates. They do the same in Singapore and Malaysia which are also located at the equator.

Manshion is built on acres not plot of land.those building r ugly comberson blocking breeze from flowing.

@rosedookie2760

Жыл бұрын

So true, that is why the poor and younger people cannot get house lots to build a home

@marvinpercival4717

Жыл бұрын

@@rosedookie2760 any body with a peanut size brain would know that geargetown is below sea level and with the global warming and the melting of the artic ice that everything below sea level will be lost within the next 20 yrs..i guess when u r living in a bubble u greed is all that matter.

@CG-cx9fv

9 ай бұрын

That somehow reminds me of what the Fox said when he couldn't get the grapes.

1:15 I live in Canada it looks like my neighbours house 😂😂

Is that the residential area That area look so run down just the houses look little good

Good job sir ❤❤❤😂

My aunt and uncle live in that neighborhood

Bro tell u pm dacctazzz haleeeeee to make those road with d hIlll money

All I see is they are building a lot of North American houses that are square with no style and poor air flow that's why they have to air condition them because they have no natural air flow which results in high electricity bill...

@rosedookie2760

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true

Like how u mentioning canada caw ppl bk home does think only the us foreigners come from

@RaphaelNation

9 ай бұрын

I used to live in Mississauga. Also lived in New York

Dude u sounds out of Breath . y

@RaphaelNation

5 ай бұрын

I Ran 8 miles before starting to record this video.

The late Harry prashad was my mother uncle.