Time to renovate your old Thailand condo or just get it finished then this is the thread you want, these 2 condos are in Pattaya and luckily in the same building next door to each other, otherwise the neighbours would be real pissed off to find we have knocked through their wall.

So to start we got 2 shells, no bathrooms, a few electric wires that barely meet the grade, but they do have an earth cable, a couple of balconies, one of which is a bit badly tiled slope wise but can be lived with, so we have 2 shells with pipe works for 2 bathrooms and 2 kitchens, as its being knocked through we don't need all those pipes so they are a bit of a problem job

First on the knocking through of the 2 units, you got to cut the walls with the old angle grinder to weaken them up a bit, this if I remember correctly will be a 3.4 meter entry to the bedroom and bathroom area.



After cutting the walls you got to knock the poxy thing down, this is actually pretty easy, but you don't want big chunks of concrete and bricks and that slamming down onto the floor.



Leave all the rubble on the floor till you have all the big bits of concrete down, this also helps to protect the floor a bit from structural damage, ie you get an over eager idiot decides he can whack down that 400kilo piece at 3 meters high in one go its impact distributes a lot better on top of a pils of rubble than on a nice floor that aint got much flex in it.



Your gonna end up with a lot of rubble, ie pick up loads of it, now this is where it becomes difficult to make a price on a condo job, all this rubble now has to be bagged up, this rubble then has to be taken to the lift, it then has to be taken downstairs, loaded into a pick up and dumped somewhere, I reckon we got 100 bags of rubble out of this little knock thru, thats a lot of time in lifts your staff are going to be spending, also you are generally only allowed to use one lift in most condo units so your staff are enjoying their day whilst waiting for lifts, luckily I have calmed down a bit in my older years and don't make the gits carry it all down the stairs



So we got to carry on making a mess, get all the shitty messy work done first, water pipes that are not going to be used need to be hidden and capped off, yep start smashing out more bits of wall, this you really have to be carefull with in older condos, ie the walls are only 10cms thick and you need to smash out 8 to 9 cms, they got nice expensive wall paper on the otherside your going to be paying for a major redecoration job, nowadays most use superblock so you got about 15cms to play with so it isn't too scary.

These are ready to take out the extras and cap for good.



Get those electric runs in, nowadays in Pattaya at least your electric runs have to be in conduit, also I think they are reasonably a bit serious now about having an earth on your breaker box, so we are going way hi tech in Thailand now, although I know the guy who does the checks for new buildings and he hasn't checked anything I have done in the last 5 years, anyway earths are a good thing, who wants to read about a customer dieing in their shower.



Now chisel out a load of brick and mortar and your away, electric cables coming this week in lovely gray conduit, hmmm, "gray"? Yeah seems they got away with gray at this condo, normally yellow would be more acceptable here in Thailand, not that it makes much difference I suppose, gray is a bit thinner and cheaper than the yellow and is generally used for air con water pipes.