House Remodel, BKK

[KevinCorr]

Looking for a contractor or craftsmen to remodel a small old house in BKK. Looking for a job? Know someone reliable? Wife's bro got a bid for 1 million baht from a contractor! I have been in construction for 32 years and could probably build it from scratch for that. Something doesn't add up. Where can we get some reliable help? I would do it but the time to get set up with tools and materials, transportation would be hard. The roof seems fine. The walls are eaten up by bugs. Plumbing and wire ok.

[MeMock]

Over to you DD......

[MeMock]

Sorry Kevin...I see that you are still online probebly waiting for an answer. Dirty Dog is the best man to answer your question but he has a habbit of going to bed at 5am so check back in later this arfo.

[KevinCorr]

Thanks. I have been posting it on several forums. Very interesting stuff I had not seen before.

[Captain Sensible]

Hi Kev, the dog is the guy with the answer to your questions so far as this forum is concerned and I have pmed him the link to this thread. He should be along shortly with his two bobs worth.
In the meantime welcome to Teakdoor.

:CS:

[aging one]

Hope you are not American!!! Cause he wont work for my. Asked him to build my retirement home in the future. He's a good contractor though.

[KevinCorr]

Why would that be?

[dirtydog]

I assume that if the walls are eaten by bugs that it is mainly a wooden house, wood is damn expensive here, last year we built a teak wood staircase, this only went up one floor, just to buy the unplanned wood cost 80,000baht and the structural supports for the stairs was already there.

[KevinCorr]

Couldn't we use tin studs, as we do regularly in commercial blds? Or use some type of cement or block?

[dirtydog]

what does look nice and is quite cheap are the top and bottom cuts from a log, ie with the bark on.

Tin studs? no idea what they are.

They have cement board here but it would make the place look like a thai slum dwelling in my opinion.

[KevinCorr]

I guess we can just get more bids and see what the proposals are.
In commercial blds, hospitals, hotels etc we don't use wood studs anymore. Light weight metal ones are standard now. Naturally I won't even think of introducing anything not standard there. Thanks. kc