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    How much do you have to pay for sand up there? They charge by the cubic meter here and not the truckload, and it's getting bloody expensive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by koman View Post
    How much do you have to pay for sand up there? They charge by the cubic meter here and not the truckload, and it's getting bloody expensive.
    we pay 700 bath a truck

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    Quote Originally Posted by Udon Dreamhouse View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by koman View Post
    How much do you have to pay for sand up there? They charge by the cubic meter here and not the truckload, and it's getting bloody expensive.
    we pay 700 bath a truck
    Sounds like a deal...depending on the truck. Sand costs about 400-450 per m3 here...so if you get a decent sized truck load it would be really cheap sand at that price. Gravel is now 550 per m3 and even dirt is selling at 250 for a smallish truck load ....

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    Its NOT sand ! just normal dirt fill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mykthemin View Post
    Its NOT sand ! just normal dirt fill.
    I think you're right....looks like regular dirt to me too. If that is the case then 700 Thb for a truckload is bloody expensive. We just paid 250 a load for 50 truckloads of pretty decent topsoil..

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    I agree totally with Koman we have 40 trucks coming next week 200 Baht a truck and the truck is bigger than the one you have had. Be careful with the prices you are being charged that is over 3 times the price AND a smaller truck. When we raised up our land a year ago we here charged 230 Baht a truck your size. I thought THAT was expensive.
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    It seems that prices vary wildly for soil. I think we were charged 800 Baht per truck load for low-grade fill soil and 1,000 Baht for the decent topsoil.

    I have no idea on the truck size so trying to be clever I checked my thread - and found that we had both six wheel (16 foot?) and 10 wheel (24 foot?) trucks delivering. I have no idea how they worked out the pricing...

    Anyway, I see that that the Udon Dreamhouse's land was all filled in August last year. I hope he won't mind me saying I have faith that, as a Dutchman, he would have ensured that he had driven a good deal...

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    Soil or top quality soil, does it honestly even matter? You won't see it in the end anyway and if the plant's don't grow, throw some buffalo droppings on top and everything will be fine. Poor draining properties? Get yourself some pipes to fix it.

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    Nice thread, good luck with the build.


    Quote Originally Posted by Koetjeka
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    I'll give you a fookin' left ook if you come out with anymore of that!

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    I'll give you a fookin' left ook if you come out with anymore of that!
    I'm sorry! I thought the guy didn't speak English at all!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Koetjeka View Post
    Soil or top quality soil, does it honestly even matter? You won't see it in the end anyway and if the plant's don't grow, throw some buffalo droppings on top and everything will be fine. Poor draining properties? Get yourself some pipes to fix it.
    Agreed it doesn't make any difference at the building stage (which is why we used the cheap stuff) but it's got all sorts of rocks, some bordering on boulders, in it so for a top layer we may well splash out on the pricey stuff.

    The thing is on a cost per truck I guess it's just what the local market dictates, as well as truck size...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roobarb
    The thing is on a cost per truck I guess it's just what the local market dictates, as well as truck size...
    That is exactly what it is....whatever the local market will bear. We have paid anywhere from 400 -550 per m3 for gravel locally over the past three months.

    There were a couple of times when all the suppliers ran out because there are so many commercial projects going on in the area. We waited several days for gravel and of course paid the top price. The old supply and demand thing you know.

    We have paid 250 per truck load for rocky fill and then the same for top soil....again timing and supply/demand.

    You have to watch every load sometimes because when people excavate a pond they often sell off the soil. If you get the top layers you may get really good soil for growing things.....if you are down the line a bit you get the clay, shale and all kinds of crap from deep down in the hole, but you are expected to pay the same rates to the delivery trucks....

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    Our hin kook was 625 per cube

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    we started one week ago here is a update

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    we had to wait for a couple of day,s for the cement truck but now it can go on

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    Keep it coming !

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    Looks a nice solid foundation

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    A last a few new photo's from our house te build



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    Great pixs .. keep up them coming. I'd be interested to know how you managed the project. Did you design yourself, did you employ a local builder etc.

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    We are in the Netherlands, my brother in law is a building this for us .the name is
    Apisak Kaewsatorn in Udon Thani he is a engineer This project will by ready end of may this takes longer than normal ,because this is a in between job and we are not in a hurry

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    Hi Udon,

    I am about to start a construction in Isaan too, congrats on what you have done so far!

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    Today we got new photo,s from the house they start to make the roof




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