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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp View Post

    Missy
    Yeesipp
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    Missy's Dad
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    LadyTinyBank
    LadyFruit
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    What a colorful bunch. It keeps getting better. Forget about starting a new house building thread, just start a chronicle of life in ??? (forgot the name of that little village Missy lives in). I am sure it could be several hundred pages.

    Thanks again Wasp

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    Generous words again svendiederik .

    Thank you .


    You omitted LadyKinnyoww and LadyBed from your list but astonishingly also The Indolent Brother !!!

    He will be totally .................... disinterested.


    Thanks again .





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    Smile

    Hi Wasp.

    I haven't been checking for a while but today I looked and I'm pleased to see you're still posting .
    And as funny as ever .

    Cheers.

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    Talking

    Thanks , Brunswick .

    It's just as encouraging as ever .

    And appreciated
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    Red face

    Have to add an outstanding P.S. to this .


    A feature of the whole story was Missy's misunderstandings of the English language . Most notably with Harry Potter being in our garden .

    And all the Roman Kings of course .

    Several weeks ago her friend and friend's family stayed at Legoland which is not far from home in England . They invited Missy to come and look around .
    Missy and I did look around . It was vastly overpriced rubbish .

    Move on to the more recent last few weeks and I have been watching anything at all from the World Cup in Brazil.
    Whereas Missy has only a passing interest in the football ever since I told her Thailand had been thrown out of the tournament for having six Katoys in the team .

    But she's aware of teams progressing and I simply didn't realise just how confused she had become .
    She listens to the commentary as best she can and just couldn't believe when we got to the semi-finals that Legolands was still in the tournament and was playing Argentina !!

    " Legolands has footbonn team derr ? "

    " ........... Yes ! Staff from Legoland has good team . You remember man working bar ? Name Mr Robben . "


    All in all she's mightily impressed that a tiny country like Legolands got so close to the Final .






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    Ha !!!

    Another nice little anecdote Wasp.

    I know this is a Construction thread but I like a break from Q-con bricks.

    She'll be well impressed the " Legolands " even beat Brazil 3-0 !

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    Thanks Brunny .

    She's been waiting patiently outside Legolands to see the team returning .





    I might tell her in a week or so .





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    Quote Originally Posted by Wasp View Post
    Thanks Brunny .

    She's been waiting patiently outside Legolands to see the team returning .





    I might tell her in a week or so .





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    LEGOLANDS ............ NETHERLANDS !!!



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    OK Dear Folkses .............. I stuff around as much as anyone in these Threads but I need a moment's seriousness .

    If you have read this Thread you know the Indolent Brother is a character much known for his sloth . As suggested in the name .

    But I would like to get some work done about now and I believe if I tell him EXACTLY what to do he might be able to do it .

    And I need to ask for your help .


    This is the house as it was left 2 years ago ( with a bit of fiddling around to remove a motorbike and the inevitable dog . )






    And the first change I want to make is to bring that whole balcony out 1.2 metres so it will look like this ............




    Which means posts going under the extended balcony . Four of them.
    But there won't be a lot of weight going onto the posts . Just the balcony itself and of course 2 people occasionally walking along it .

    And a dog .

    The ground has been compacting for 200 years or so .
    How far down do I tell the Indolent Brother to dig in order to put in these supporting posts ?
    How wide all round should each of these base ' plugs ' be ?


    ..... And a totally totally separate question .....can any of you more engineer-minded people show me how I can support this balcony apart from the posts ?

    Clearly there will be beams running along the length of the bikini on top of the Roman Kings but what about Front to Back ?


    Mille Grazie for your wisdoms .



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    Well ..... I didn't get a huge batch of replies to that question and then I went and got into a new Thread .


    HOWEVER ....... a lot of the questions on that Thread are now relevant on this Thread because I'm back to the question of building a bit near a boundary ..... and this is a build that WILL be happening !

    The boundary question on that other Thread was for a " maybe " build .
    Which might happen in order to sell that land .

    Well despite all the nice suggested plans the build on that Thread will not be happening .... because WE HAVE a serious-looking buyer for the land !!!!

    And after all the artistic efforts from blue and Roobarb this fine human being wants to park buses on it !!!!!!

    He might put a tiny workshop on it but it's to be a Bus Park .
    So no copies of the Parthenon will be built there .
    Just a Parkeebus !





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    So ...... bearing the photo above in mind ^^ of missy's house ...... we have the question once again of buildings and boundaries .

    You can see the upcoming changes on this plan ..... on the far side of the present building .



    You can also see at this side right down the back end there is a plan to move the roof up as the kitchen is a bit claustrophobic.

    I'll post a few more views of that far-side extension but it's not quite done yet.




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    Nice to see you back on track
    Luckily I don't know anything about this so I can't give u any advise on this

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    OK ....... another view .

    The difficulty is that I had always assumed that there was just no regulation of building or extending homes .





    We talked about this regulation situation on the other Thread ...... but the plan to fill that space at the side of this house was formed long before that discussion .

    To the extent that I was even considering incorporating the boundary wall into the house ..... so we would be bang on the boundary !!

    Can't do that now of course.





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    The Boundary and ThatOldFavourite The Indolent Brother


    Folks of some familiarity with this Thread will know where this extension is going .

    It's going here ............






    .... and I have been blithely carrying the thought around in my head that the space is maybe 5 or 6 metres wide .
    I can however see the value in having lots of photos ready ( in England ) to show to the worker bees when I get to Thailand .
    And that means I must have plans that are accurate .

    In view of all the advice about appropriate gaps between a construction and a boundary I must have plans encompassing proper measurements .
    But I'm not in Thailand to measure.

    Who IS there ? .......


    The Indolent Brother !!!! . ( )


    So I asked TIB to measure exactly from the metal shutter you can see in that photo up there ^ straight across to the boundary wall ... which is to the Left and only just out of the photo .

    Answer from TIB..... " Not have longy number spingy ".....

    Apparently this translates as " Terribly sorry but I am somewhat lacking in the tape measure department ."

    So Missy supplied enough Bahts to purchase a tape measure and at the speed of a dying slug he bought one .
    A second-hand one that was going cheap and it took him about 3 and a half weeks to track down the guy ... leaving him with enough saving in the Bahts to buy 2 bottles of Leo and a small 16 Baht bottle of poison for the Dad .

    So everybody happy then !!!

    No.

    Getting him now to walk around there and measure the space ( which I repeat cannot be more than 6 metres and is probably less ) is proving as difficult as anything that is very difficult.

    He wanted beer to undertake the task !

    Remembering his own particular little Palazzo Filth is all of 35 metres away and on Missy's land .
    The only objects physically impeding him in the hazardous journey from his bed to the metal shutter are some dogs ( his ) some chicken cages ( his ) some moateebike engine parts ( you will have spotted the pattern by now ) an appropriate hammock and a huge splat of utter idleness .

    " Three bottell Leeyoww peas " ( though I don't remember him saying ' peas ' for anything ever . )

    Three bottles of Leo to walk a round trip of perhaps 80 metres though he'll probably use his Suzuki fz50 for part of the journey !

    120 Bahts were supplied to give him strength for the adventure and to encourage him on his way .

    Money supplied 4 weeks ago .

    Beer consumed 3 weeks 6 days ago .





    Still waiting .



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    Good to see you "back in the saddle" Wasp
    Wondering if Google earth has made a new pass over Missy's abode possibly giving this mystery measurement way. If not this reno is not starting off well.

    Everybody needs parking lots good luck with that sale.

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    Hello Bill !

    Yes I could do some estimating ...... but it should be a very simple matter to get a certain LUMP to move his bum just a few metres around the empty bottles and do a usefulness that would take less than 5 minutes .

    Wouldn't you think ?

    However his character does give me the chance to rant .




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    Now while we wait for the indolent one to send a few electric currents through his synapses to tell his paucity of brain cells to maybe possibly consider thinking about moving his legs 35 metres and back ....... there is also a plan to make a change at the back of the house .

    When the first work was done we extended the low roof to make space for a kitchen .
    Here's the work done ..........






    Those airbricks denote the kitchen area.

    But of course it's one of the Laws of Physics or Architecture or God that as you extend a sloping roof it gets lower and lower .


    .......... and by the time you walk from the door to the kitchen it has become rather low .

    Too low .

    So part of this new work is to take the roof up and then put in some sliding doors to create a more spacious area .
    And there will be an outdoor kitchen for that violently acrid cooking they go in for so much .

    Here's that plan ...................







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    Unhappy

    Returning to the front we have another angle.





    There's a couple of walls not on there yet . That supporting wall is actually the boundary wall built up somewhat and with opaque glass bricks .
    Even if I have no windows in the first-floor walls I'll have to come back a metre won't I ?



    Still waiting for a certain waste of blood vessels and sinews to move .



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    Control your excitement .... but I think the Somchai Thaimes will be out tomorrow .


    Reserve your copy .




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    Wasp - on the 1 meter from the boundary thing:

    If you are not planning on selling the house and the neighbours are OK with whatever you do then you can probably build pretty much how you please.

    The only time it may be a problem is either if Missy chooses to sell the place or if either of you really annoy someone in the village who then decides to have a crack at making your life tough. Even then you'll probably be fine.

    The only reason this distance from the boundary thing came up in the other thread was that you were looking at building a house specifically to sell, and the concern was that any purchaser might struggle to get bank finance on a new build that was not fully legal.

    The greater concern is how much do you trust your BIL's accuracy with a measuring tape. The distance from the metal shutter to the nearest fence post may be six meters, but the distance to the actual fence is only five...

    You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky?

    Well, do ya Punk?

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    Hello there Roobs !

    Isn't it quiet again around here ?

    The silly thing with the plans is that the neighbours across the wall have always been 20 metres set back from that wall and over a road !
    If we did incorporate the boundary wall they would still be another 20 metres away .

    But onboard I do take that we cannot tell what the future may bring .
    There seems to be a rash of oldies passing away and their land passing down to siblings who live in Bangkok , have no interest in returning to the properties of impoverished rice farmers , but get very aggressive seeing the chance to extract money from people who over the years have casually or accidentally moved too close to boundaries ..... or have ignored the boundaries completely.




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    " So what's going to happen around the back of the extension there , Waspy ? " I hear nobody at all asking .


    And I look down the bottom and there's only one person reading and his name is Wasp !

    Well anyway this is what's happening round the back...........








    Might even put a roof or two on it .
    But I don't want to do any more drawing unless I have a couple of accurate measurements .
    Even if ' The Sloth ' is several hundred millimetres out I'll be able to draw it up with a good idea of how it would finally look .
    And ( once again ) there's a huge difference between a 6 metre width and a 4 metre width .






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    Only me reading at the moment! But at least I thought I'd let you know you're not alone, and I love stories about your BIL!

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    Thank you Marty .

    You might not feel so kindly up there in Jamjar when The Somchai Times comes out.





    Today. !!!





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    *** Winter Issue ........ The Somchai Thaimes ***








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