Fitting out your Thailand condo

[DrAndy]

I had to put a ridge in one of my bathrooms, but afterwards

the floor was sloped towards the drain, but not enough, so the water spread across the bathroom. I just stuck a line of solid marble pieces aross, not very high but enough (about 1 cm)

looked fine and worked well

[dirtydog]

So lets see how things are progressing, the kitchen stuff is now ready to be brought to the condo and the final finishing touches applied, the cabinet maker garaunteed to be finished in 2 weeks but we all know that is impossible as the bstards were closed for Songkran week, not that their delay makes much difference but it would be nice if they were realistic about times for delivery and that, they need another week to finish while it is in the condo, this cost 110,000baht without electrical appliances, got to admit it don't look like 110k bahts worth of kitchen but will do when it is finished, nice red granite tops and all that



The people doing the bathroom counter doors and frame are finally open again and they have finished so I got to pick that stuff up, these pictures are of the form work being done for the bathroom counter, this will also be classy red granite.



He has gone a bit over the top with the form work and tried making it into a work of art, really no reason to go that far apart from it being tidy work, but basically all it has to do is hold the concrete in place till it hardens off.

[dirtydog]

Amongst other things that are being done to day the bathroom counter has had its concrete pour, that should have been done yesterday but they got confused with the sink size



Tomorrow afternoon the kitchen people will bring the counters and cupboards and start fitting them

[dirtydog]

We are now at the stage where we need the ceiling finished and the kitchen fitted, the kichen people want the ceiling guys to finish before they start which is a bit of a pain but they should finish by Wednesday.

This is where the kitchen will go.



And here are a lot of bits of the kitchen ready to be fitted.



The bathroom counter is setting off quite nicely, most of the front has been tiled now but not in this picture.

[Spin]

What about the value of this place when its finished?

It looks like the bloke bought 2 empty units and is paying you to finish off. Is it possible to flip them when they are finished and make a profit, or is it possible to buy a finished unit for a similar price to what the units and fit-out cost?

[dirtydog]

I think it comes down to who is selling it for you, quite a few guys fit them out and sell them on, can't imagine they do it for a loss.

[dirtydog]

Time to chuck the sink in its hole.



Final pour of concrete on top and it is now ready for the granite man.

[dirtydog]

Finally got the ceiling people back in, wanted them to finish it over the weekend but something went wrong with that plan, should have all the plaster board up today and taped and jointed tomorrow.

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I am always amazed about the high safety standards in Thailand.

[Mid]

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arr , why don't the locals align the sinks with the front of the counter ? ,

like this your sure to get wet trousers

[dirtydog]

Shouldn't be a problem, the owner isn't an Aussie and there is a toilet that can be used

[Mid]

should of known ..............

seriously though , is there an accepted practise ? the kitchen sink here is deadly .

[dirtydog]

The plasterboard is all up for the ceilings, next job is the taping and jointing, then finding all our electric cables

You may notice in these pictures that the walls have turned a strange color, this is just a quick undercoat which was supposed to be a nice soft cream, for some reason the paint doesn't match the color chart and it is bright yellow, looks pretty awfull, still it is only a base coat so don't make much difference.



The kitchen guys are hard at work fitting the cabinets, they actually got quite a bit of work to do to finish these off.





Looking more like a kitchen now.

[dirtydog]

Well the kitchen is nearing completion, they got about 3 more days of carpentry work to do then it is the final stain and laquer.



Nice red granite counter tops.





Ceilings all taped and jointed.



Someone else's worker having a nap by the lift

[MeMock]

Originally Posted by Fabian

I am always amazed about the high safety standards in Thailand.

Whats the problem? At least one of them aren't wearing those dangerous flip flops

[jizzybloke]

I did go back to look on the thread (not very well) but can't find if you said how big this place is, is it a studio type thing?

[dirtydog]

Well after a little holiday it is back to work, the ceilings are all nicely finished and painted so time to get the lights in, the vogue for the last few years has been halogen lights, also got some hidden uplighters in there for evenings of romance.



The lights going in, with these halogen lights you need a 12 volt transformer, there are 2 ways of doing this and one is really the wrong way but cheaper, you can use a wired transformer with the big coil in it, this saves a lot of money but really causes problems with dimmer switches and also if the transformer dies the whole section of lights don't work, or you can use electrical transformers, for this you need one for each light, this is the proper way to do it.



The kitchen we had a few quality control type problems, not sure what they were thinking but this has been sorted out now as kitchens are bloody expensive here.

[Alex DeLarge]

I wonder why nobody ever has a carpet?

Much better than tiles.

[dirtydog]

I bet you have a 3 piece carpet set in your bathroom don't you, the carpet cover over the toilet that you piss on when pissed, the carpet piece round the toilet that everybody pisses on as they sway about whilst having a piss, bet your bathroom smells real good