Building Your Own Shophouse

[Dougal]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

The doors are heavy and made of hardwood.

I know, but why put the hinges in a 2 1 1 pattern instead of evenly spaced out?

[Marmite the Dog]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

The doors are heavy and made of hardwood.

My shitty plywood doors have 4 hinges too....

[dirtydog]

Most of the strain will be on the top hinges.

[jumbo]

Exccellent DD I have enjoyed the build all be it on my snail paced computer hear in Brazil. It has teken almost as long to download the thread as it took to build the shophouse. Never mind another few weeks and I will be back in LOS.
Jumbo

[man with no head]

I really didn't know which thread to put this in:

Hurricane-proof homes too costly, experts say - Yahoo! News

...but here in the U.S. the type of construction used in Thai houses is deemed 'too expensive.'

[dirtydog]

As we can see here they are putting on a fake roof to make the front look pretty.



This is one from further down the road which is an exact copy of the shophouse project we have been following for the past few months.

[man with no head]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

As you can see in this picture they have used precast concrete beams for the floor or ceiling depending which way you look at it, these are about 5cms thick, you can see in this picture that they are supported with wood to stop them sagging or them breaking when they do the concrete pour on top of it, alas they always sag and if it is the roof area this is where water will saty due to the sagging in the middle.

How do the concrete precasts tie into the supports? Do they simply lay there and get held in place by the concrete pour on top? Overall how thick would the floor be counting the precast beams and surface concrete?

[klongmaster]

Hey that's nice...hard to belive it will finish up like that...

excellent thread DD...even a non-techie can follow most of the discussion...appreciate your effort in this...

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by surasak

How do the concrete precasts tie into the supports?

They are just layed, then a rebar grid is made on top of that, then the pour is done, the pour generally is about 7cms thick which really isn't thick enough to avoid flexing, but with a general height variation of about 5 cms plus the 2cms needed for tiling that adds a bit more onto the thickness.

[dirtydog]

Well I had to visit the land yet again today and it seems that work is contineuing on the shop houses, they have done most of the rendering and are now doing the brickwork for the balconeys, you can see in the second picture bits of metal sticking out of the bricks, here they will stick some formwork around and do a concrete pour to strengthen it all up.

[dirtydog]

Here we have a picture of the form work being put up around the edges of the brickwork, into this the old concrete will be poured.



Next up render off most of the balconey, except the edges of course and start sticking bricks on it for that nice ornate look.

[dirtydog]

Well things are looking a bit tidier there and it looks like it is time for the balconey railings to go in.

[dirtydog]

Final touch up of paint, nice stainless railing and nice tinted sliding aluminum windows.

[sunderlandstephen]

Good thread keep it coming please.
Do they have official building regulations i ask because have seen buildings going up in Bangkok that looked like they would be taken out by the vibration of the sky train.