Beautiful Houses in Thailand

[dickie]

dickie dont drag yourself down to these scumbags levels, next you will have to explain about the upvc double glazing and why it is more expensive than the normal stuff, and these guys aint gonna be fitting that stuff to there cowsheds

Thanks for seeing my side of things dirty dog, as you appear to be involved a little in the real estate, building buisness locally it would be nice to meet up for a chat sometime after xmas? My contact details are on my website on my profile page
I was never suggesting you were a cowboy builder, where lom got that idea who knows?
There are a few dreamers out there when it comes to house construction goes, they just have no idea !!!!!
A Merc & a Honda city are both cars & they will both take you to the shops, but there not quite the same thing, like I said earlier you want quality you have to pay for it, nothing is free even in Thailand

[Fingers_in_pies]

I quite liked this one.

Wow thats very nice without going over the top, i think though i would of built over the garage and had it looking the same as the other side.

This is your house Dickie? you should be very proud, its very beautiful.

[dirtydog]

Time for a sober post, yes that is dickies house, just looking at the front door there is 40 to 80,000bahts worth of entrance, did he need to pay that much? of course not, he could have bought a 500baht door, but a 500baht door wouldn't have looked so good, double glazing is it necessary? of course not but if you are air conning a place then it probably is, houses cost as much as you are willing to put into them, yes you can build a nice house for a million baht, but it aint gonna be posted on this thread cos they just wont be in this league, aint no million baht houses on this thread.

[Wallalai]

I like this one, cos it is well situated (away of any main road) and cos it's mine.

[kingwilly]

dickie dont drag yourself down to these scumbags levels, next you will have to explain about the upvc double glazing and why it is more expensive than the normal stuff, and these guys aint gonna be fitting that stuff to there cowsheds

i reckon thats all builders talk and jargon to rip ppl off!

[dickie]

Time for a sober post, yes that is dickies house, just looking at the front door there is 40 to 80,000bahts worth of entrance, did he need to pay that much? of course not, he could have bought a 500baht door, but a 500baht door wouldn't have looked so good, double glazing is it necessary? of course not but if you are air conning a place then it probably is, houses cost as much as you are willing to put into them, yes you can build a nice house for a million baht, but it aint gonna be posted on this thread cos they just wont be in this league, aint no million baht houses on this thread.

Thanks Dirty Dog & Fingers in Pies for your very nice comments on my place, the front doors are solid teak & they cost 70,000 baht, as you clearly said you need to make the rest of the house fit in with everything, you can make a place cheap that's for sure, but this is my place & I wanted quality, any potential client I have ever bought around to look has been very impressed, the amount of people who stop while walking past or slow down when driving past is amazing, the 6 metre remotely operated stainless steel gate cost 120,000 baht for anybody who is intrested!!!!

The bottom line is you don't usally get this sort of quality when you ask builders Thai or Farang to quote sqm prices, my Thai builder will not quote like this, far better to get a price for a complete job, stating exactly what you want, & the builder will give you a bill of quantity detailing the exact building materials,contents, fixtures/fittings, etc, etc.
Basically my builder is not intrested in doing any houses for under 3 million baht, he does quality & in turn thats what you get, you pay cheap money you get cheap quality
More detals on my web site in my profile page

Happy Xmas to one & all

[dickie]

dickie dont drag yourself down to these scumbags levels, next you will have to explain about the upvc double glazing and why it is more expensive than the normal stuff, and these guys aint gonna be fitting that stuff to there cowsheds

i reckon thats all builders talk and jargon to rip ppl off!

Kingwillyhggtb some of your recent comments in this forum including the above show how much you know about building houses in Thailand, you obviously have no clue!!!! or no idea
Your coment that you felt there was nothing wrong with the Bamboo rebar shows your mentality

[Rigger]

Your coment that you felt there was nothing wrong with the Bamboo rebar shows your mentality

Well he is only 55 after all
Anyway dickie take a chill pill

[dickie]

Your coment that you felt there was nothing wrong with the Bamboo rebar shows your mentality

Well he is only 55 after all
Anyway dickie take a chill pill

No rigger honestly I'm fine, it just upsets me when people run my place down & they know nothing about construction, then then wonder why builders try to screw them

Happy Xmas

[Airportwo]

Dickie, it is a nice place well done, but your original statement was it would take 7.5m to build a house like this was ambiguous to sat the least, then you went on to include pool and garden, then we are supposed to notice all the quality fittings you used inside and out.
I stand by my original statement that you could build a house like this for less than half your stated amount, what you spend on "outfitting' is a whole different ballgame. my house structure went up for 3 million, the final amount of money spent was a little over 8 million.
What estate agents are advertising houses for is totally immaterial! how many are they actually selling?
Cheers

[dickie]

Dickie, it is a nice place well done, but your original statement was it would take 7.5m to build a house like this was ambiguous to sat the least, then you went on to include pool and garden, then we are supposed to notice all the quality fittings you used inside and out.
I stand by my original statement that you could build a house like this for less than half your stated amount, what you spend on "outfitting' is a whole different ballgame. my house structure went up for 3 million, the final amount of money spent was a little over 8 million.
What estate agents are advertising houses for is totally immaterial! how many are they actually selling?
Cheers

I totally understand what your saying, but don't think I could have built this without fixtures fitting, floor tiles, upvc windows for around 3.5 million baht, I think i would have still cost 4.3, I also think I said it cost me 6 milion in total, the 7.5 was the total cost including fittings today,
But I agree that you can spend a fortune on fittings out the interiors, there is no doubt on that
As you no doubt also know the real estate market through out Thailand is very quite at present, but there are 300 sqm houses on 100tw near to me selling for 12 million baht+ & there fixtures & fittings are a bit grim to say the least, so it suggest that my place on 323tw is worth well over 20 million baht +, the only thing what appears to be selling at present are cheaper condos from what I gather? They can be put in a farang name as I'm sure you know?

[Airportwo]

I think the point you make Dickie that many don't realise is, if you want quality you pay for it.
Cheers & All the Best to All readers for the Festive season.

[dickie]

I think the point you make Dickie that many don't realise is, if you want quality you pay for it.
Cheers & All the Best to All readers for the Festive season.

Exactly !!!!! But also that if people pay peanuts they get monkeys

[dirtydog]

This thread probably needs to be split as it has gone off topic slightly, anyway keeping it off topic a little bit longer I was thinking of what essential item in a house could there be the greatest price variation for basicaly the same thing and I decided on kitchen sinks, now my kitchen sinks are the freestanding 2,000baht ones, they do the job, ie turn on the 75baht tap and water goes in, so lets have a look at this kitchen sink.



This stainless sink was about 9,000baht, the main tap was about 6,000baht, it also has hot water which normally would mean a 7,000baht heater, ok so this one is actually solar powered, the small tap is for drinking water and is connected to a 12,000baht water filter, black granite surround at about 6,000baht per meter, still only does the same as my 2,000baht sinks though

[Curious George]

All I can say is that bragging about your expensive fittings is very materialistic.

Now, here's a practical 'portable kitchen sink' that costs less than 30 Baht, and by using nature's water, no filter is required.

[breezer1]

Nice Kitchen

[dirtydog]

This is quite a nice house in Ban Chang.

[Fabian]

I like that, how much?

[dirtydog]

This house is by Silver Lakes, something like this would do me I suppose

[dirtydog]

Both of these houses are in Ban Chang, got to admit I wouldn't mind either one of these.

[Eliminator]

DD, can you get the plans to this one? It's the closest I've seen here to a single story house and I would like this.


thanks,

Eli

[dirtydog]

I have never seen anybody there, it has been empty for over a year I believe, the plans for a house like that would cost less than 10,000baht.

[klongmaster]

^^DD: what do you think happens when a place like this appears to be finished but remains empty?..

have they run out of money...got divorced...died...or hidden dirty money in something like this...

[dirtydog]

OK, I am going to take a wild guess on this one, and remember this really is a wild guess, I think the owner is American and it is such a small money house for a rich American he aint bothered moving in or anything, the land plot is well over one Rai and the footings for the wall are quite big so he is gonna be building a big wall for privacy, now remember this is a wild guess, but I really don't believe a Thai would actually build something as nice as that to live in.

[Anonymous Coward]

here's a practical 'portable kitchen sink'

Here's ours:



Can't wait to move, though....