Thread: Building a House in Khon Kaen

I'm not exactly building it myself but the contracter has started and I'm a bit confused about a few things.
We bought two plots of land in a new estate to the West of the city.
They started the foundations yesterday - they had all these little cylindrical cement things that they said they were going to put at the bottom of the holes. They called them 'look boon' - does anyone know what these are and what their purpose is?


Cheers! I'll be around here asking many more questions in the next 3 months.

Seems that they're called 'rebar'


Let me google that for you

They lift the rebar off the ground so when it's poured, you can be sure that the rebar is fully encased in the concrete - luk bpoon in action:

PS.
It means they are doing it right, as a lot of country lads don't bother.

Originally Posted by Necron99

PS.
It means they are doing it right, as a lot of country lads don't bother.

Well that's reassuring. We've got the foundations done and waiting to pour the columns. Waiting for the next crew to come.

How deep from the surface are the footings and how big? Is it a one-storey house or more?

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Originally Posted by Racin

How deep from the surface are the footings and how big? Is it a one-storey house or more?

One storey house, 3 bedrooms, 2 toilets.

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Originally Posted by ChalkyDee

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I see you burried a couple of the workers head first, were they not performing?

Where are your flowers.. and Buddist shit.
It'll fall down or get hit by a meteorite... I'm telling you.

Where you have come up a few courses to get off the ground Chalky have you filled in solid there or is it beams across , sorry I cant see from the pics

Originally Posted by the dogcatcher

Where are your flowers.. and Buddist shit.
It'll fall down or get hit by a meteorite... I'm telling you.

What??

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Where you have come up a few courses to get off the ground Chalky have you filled in solid there or is it beams across , sorry I cant see from the pics

They had beams, then put concrete 'planks', then added concrete.
Here's an earlier photo.
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What's wrong with the pics, I can see them, who cares if it has "IMG" written. Good thread, keep posting the pics!

Originally Posted by Wizard of Oz

What's wrong with the pics, I can see them, who cares if it has "IMG" written. Good thread, keep posting the pics!

Thanks Wiz, , I will.

Looking good Chalky !! I bet you're excited to get it going.

As far as the IMG tags, I'm assuming you are entering IMG tags and then pasting from photobucket? However, when you paste from photobucket, it automatically adds the IMG tags, so you don't need to include them. I know I had that issue early on in my house thread.

Do you have a pic of what the finished house should look like ?

Steve

Looking good Chalky ,, can we ask about the price of your place ?

Nice too see more new projects,i will look forward too see how you get on

Looking good, how is the stress level?

Originally Posted by the dogcatcher

Buddist/ Thai shit.
When you buy the land you get it blessed.
I get this done "in house" cos Laosy is a part time Budddist nun..
First blessing involve "joss sticks?" pigs cock and balls, three colours ribbon, three colours drinks, three colours fruit.
Second blessing was before building.. ie before the builders went onto the land.. they wouldn't until this was done.
Same thing but a chicken had to meet it's maker this time.
Next blessing was before the roof went on.
9 baht in each of the holes for the roof supports, plus 9 leaves.
A garland of flowers was hung on the 9th roof support, how they worked out which one that was I don't know.
More joss sticks and a pigs face?

Wow - my wife is a Buddhist - goes to the temple once a week and gets up at 5.30 every morning to give the passing monks some food. Never did any of that stuff you mentioned. Never mentioned a ghost house yet either.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Looking good Chalky ,, can we ask about the price of your place ?

Sure - the house and land would cost 2,000,000 Baht. We got the plot next door for a larger garden so the price was 2,500,000 Baht.