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Old 08-01-2008, 04:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The construction of my new house..
After months of faffing about, we finally decided on a house design.
a little 3 bedroom bungalow affair that is affordable without having to sell my other place.

I was actually ready to get going a few weeks back but January the 8th was deemed an auspicious day by the monks.
No way am i being blamed for any inevitable future misfortunes because I insisted on starting on the 2nd or something.

I will try to update the progress at least twice a week when i have time to get up there and also post a running cost tally.

We finally settled on a local team of builders, primarily because the head builders father is a decent chap that lives opposite us and also they were cheaper than anyone else.

cost: 126,000 baht.

I went up there a bit earlier and was pleasantly surprised to see how much they had managed to do so far.



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Old 08-01-2008, 04:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I think the front door is going to be where this old chap is working.
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My wife is in charge of this.

She is buying all the material herself.

We got the cement mix, stones, and sand from a local building yard in Sang Kampheng.
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A hole being dug with a hoe.
I don't know.

Why do Thais work with hoes.
They are fukking useless tools I think.



especially when they could use one of these things that is just sitting there in the sun.
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126,000 baht
That seems extraordinarily cheap for a 3brm house! Anyways, good luck with it. I shall be following this thread with interest.
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So far i have paid out a total of 76,000 baht for the stuff that we have there, whatever it is.
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That seems extraordinarily cheap for a 3brm house!
for the labour only of course.


we had other quotes in the 165-200,000 baht range.

they are saying it will be done inside 3 months.
not overly bothered about the time scale so long as they are on a fixed fee.
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^ Still seems cheap to me, but I know feck all about the subject and costs involved..... I'll be watching this develop as I may be in the same boat one day... Good luck with it all.
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^^ Even then it's still pretty cheap. Our extentsions came to about 170-180,000k, that was labour and materials but still...
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I dunno, 5 blokes, around 40,000 a month.

Say the boss man gets 20 a month and he gives his minnions 5,000 each.
seems about right to me.
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^ Don't get me wrong, more power to you I say. I'm starting to wonder why ours cost so much
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I should think that quite a bit of yours was materials though Ant.
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^ Don't get me wrong, more power to you I say. I'm starting to wonder why ours cost so much
Could it be because your a Lawyer and people just lurve to sink their teeth into a Lawyer.
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^^ Yep I expect you're right. Which reminds me... What do I have to do to get you to come and take this door and shite away, pay you!?!
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Could it be because your a Lawyer and people just lurve to sink their teeth into a Lawyer.
No that can't be it. I may be a lawyer but I'm a throughly decent chappie otherwise.
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Yep I expect you're right. Which reminds me... What do I have to do to get you to come and take this door and shite away, pay you!?!
a small tip to the driver should do the trick.
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lucky sod, at least you have managed to find a builder and underway, I am still pulling my hair out seeking a builder and a price range. keep us posted on the progress
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I think you'll find rather a difference between Phukett labour prices and little backwater village prices in San khampeng.
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Good to see you finally started Noon, that is cheap, cost me about the same to do a complete top floor over an existing ground floor place in Korat.
That included an A'c in bedroom and fully insulated walls and ceiling.
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that sounds very cheap to me if it includes material.

I think we are looking at around 600-800,000 for material.
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