Air con installation at the house and fan mounting on the ground floor
So it's been a while since I last posted. I was busy all the time.
They came with the air-cons early july to install them which took them 2 days, they have done a good job.
i in the meantime mounted all the fans up on the groundlevel and installed the outdoor lights,after PD sort of finished with the paintings.
the contract with PD ended officially by the end of June.penalty rates apply....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...56725/air1.jpg
our sleeping room to the right and our boy room to the left
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...56725/air2.jpg
thats where those 2 aircon gonna sit on
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...56725/air3.jpg
the finished product.the air con on the right bottom is for the living-dining-kitchen area
all the wall lights are up by now too.i was so glad,they were a pain.no room to connect and hide the wires.they look good...LED wall lights from Australia
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...56725/air4.jpg
me started with the ceiling fans.the finished downlights in the living-room
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...56725/air5.jpg
the finished fan in the guest room with the downlights and the base of the smoke detector.
Contract finished officaly,start of the frontwall and gate
We just organized a local contractor from the neighborhood to start with the frontwall and gate.
we dont wanted to wait until PD has completely finished...
WE OFFICIALLY SIGNED OFF YESTERDAY,BUT ONLY PAY HALF UNTIL THEY FIX THE CRACKS IN THE WALL AT THE EASTERN SIDE AND SOME MINOR PAINTING STUFF OUTDOORS AROUND THE HOUSE.
THEY REPLACED THREE TINTED GLAS DOORS YESTERDAY DUE TO PAINT WHICH COULDNT BE CLEANED.
THEY WANTED IT DESPERATELY DONE IN JULY...PRESSURE FROM BKK
OUR CONSTANT PHONE CALLS WITH BANKOK HEAD OFFICE DID ITS WORK,FINALLY.T:bananaman::bananaman:
To see the progress of the frontwall,i refer you to 3 links which i posted so far on STEEMIT.
i let you guys know if there is a new one up again.
its a new social platform based on the blockchain and you can earn money posting content.i came to steemit through my cloud miner,it offered a new coin to mine.
i will and do the continuation where i left off after last August 2016 right here on teakdoor and the finishing of the house,only the frontwall,gate and walkway around the house will be posted on STEEMIT.COM
the frontwall and gate progress you find here:
[Part 1](https://steemit.com/thailand/@urs/is...hailand-part-1)
[Part 2](https://steemit.com/thailand/@urs/is...hailand-part-2)
[Part 3](https://steemit.com/construction/@ur...hailand-part-3)
Thanks for that.I may see some of you guys over there too,just leave me a comment or upvote.It is still in its very early stage,(still BETA)a bit more than a year old,but i think with a huge potential....
see it for yourself.
Cheers
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curtains and floor socket
me and my wife(more my wife) choosn the curtains a long time ago at the home expo in BKK...we sent them the drawings,they made them and finally they came after 9 months and installed it.....(didnt think its gonna take that long)
im quite happy,they dont look too fancy...
have a look for yourself:
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../curtains1.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../curtains2.jpg
now to the floor socket...i choosed the one from haeco as you can see...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...or_socket1.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...or_socket2.jpg
btw,somchai cut too much around,despite it was a white cover over it....so i had to put a bit of silicon around.once the cover was on,you can only see it on 2 sides a bit....thai precision work as usual...
no,fair enough,otherwise this sub contractor who has done the laminate has done a good job in overall...
furniture,beds,table and chairs are coming
All this happend from early July to mid July.
we moved stuff from my parents in law place(which is only about a 100 metres away)into the new house.
as i said in an earlier post,the officially contract ended by the end of June....
so we moved in mid july....
PD House second boss talked about bla bla bla,why we moved in?why we started with the entry gate and the driveway?
we just said,end of contract,your problem not finishing in time....they went quite...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...25/kitchen.jpg
kitchen with boxes and stuff everywhere
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...ng_kitchen.jpg
the newly brought dining table and chairs.our dining light pendant brought from Switzerland...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...ing_living.jpg
dining area with living room and new TV
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...725/guest1.jpg
guest room with little office desk and chair...bags everywhere...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...725/guest2.jpg
the TV we took out from the condo in BKK...
Back To The Past Where I Left Off ---early September 2016---
so back in time and to page 10....its the continuation from there.....
i know i know its a bit chaotic....same as the house-build was...LOL....told you so that i switch forward and backward.....i really tried to avoid it too many times...
PD HOUSE worked on all corners early september and our hopes were still high to finish around January/February 2017
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...6725/doors.jpg
Putting in the doorframes.....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/c1.jpg
finishing off with the gyprock on the groundfloor...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/p1.jpg
install the hot water pipes (green ones)....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...t_tiling~0.jpg
start with the tiling in the bathrooms...(you guys have seen the finished ones in previous posts...)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...afety_gear.jpg
...and working safely on the 2.floor,doing a bit of silicon work about the eaves....
Mounting the main electrical board and main circuit breaker
I started to mount some cable trays on the wall,main circuit breaker and the main distribution board on the ground level.
have a little board on the top floor and one in the shed....
the cables(feed to all the power supplies) i pulled in with my wife on several occasion before.internal wiring are all normal 1.5 sq mm single wire..power points lights,fans etc etc
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/e1.jpg
so that was my little corner there,where the bucket of paint is....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/e2.jpg
cable trays first,bought them at GLOBAL,then mount the (HAK-from Switzerland))main circuit breaker on the left side and the board on the right side(from HAECO)
main feed from HAK to feed the board and one cable after another to connect to the board....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/e3.jpg
some junction boxes easy accessible,i dont have any junction boxes in the ceiling or elsewhere....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...shed_board.jpg
the finished board....almost...1 cable missing....to powerpoint where the generator gonna be plugged in..you can see the switch which has a 1-0-2 position...
1=main power
2=generator
the materials for all that come from Australia,Switzerland and Thailand(multi-national board)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...t_finished.jpg
voila...the main cable to the meter is the only big thing left here...
Some Subcontractors doing the Roman poles
By around middle of september 2016,they came and have done the roman poles in the front of the house and in the carpark.
it was in the specs so we just left it....its alright....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/r2.jpg
they had to chip off a bit around the edges...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/r1.jpg
the front of the house
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/r4.jpg
...now its just the top which is missing...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...s/56725/r3.jpg
fitting the top...and finished....
impressed by their work...
A couple of examples of precision work from PD HOUSE
All this pictures i have taken mostly during September and early October 2016....would have more....but I just want to show you some of them....
They all got fixed in the end,I picked them all up(who else)they would not say anything and hoped all the time I will not see things....Wrong adress mate...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...ight_tiles.jpg
it's probably straight enough for PD HOUSE...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...o_90_angle.jpg
perfect angles....what is the farang complaining about????
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...a_90_angle.jpg
it needed the engineer as confirmation...i told them its out of whack....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...aking_pipe.jpg
..one of so many leaking pipes......
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...th_gyprock.jpg
some precision work on the ceiling....nothing wrong with it,is it???
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...reat_align.jpg
love this alignments from PD House for the sink.....the best ive ever seen....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...low_floors.jpg
hollow floors....all over the place,not only the picture you see....it was almost in every room.....well go.... do and fix it....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...o_plumbing.jpg
looks like some plumbing has to be redone.....
well,the foreman thought the pipes from the pissoir doesnt need to go to the septic tank,the grey water system is enough...
well i didnt think so.....
there would be so many more things.....i stop here for now....
So you really want to build with PD HOUSE?? ARE YOU SURE??
More electrical boards...
In the meantime,PD fixing stuff,i did the electrical board in the first floor and the one in the shed.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u..._upstairs1.jpg
cable duct is up and the cables are sorted out...some of them anyway..
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u..._upstairs2.jpg
nearly all done,only a couple of wires left to hook up...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...6725/shed1.jpg
same story in the shed
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...6725/shed2.jpg
another angle...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...6725/shed3.jpg
..and the finished board...
a lot of spare for the gate,pumps,outdoor stuff etc etc...future projects...
Conduit laying to the electrical pole-electrical meter/main power
while we were a couple of days in Bangkok,they came and put the power pole in place.
we organized it by ourself on the end....somehow it was too hard for PD HOUSE...
went smooth...
with PD HOUSE we would maybe still wait for it today....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../powerpole.jpg
I dug the trench in the back in stages....got sick of digging at the end....LOL...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...5/conduit1.jpg
thats where the conduits stuck out since march 2016.....they go into the shed or main board....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...5/conduit2.jpg
the view to the other side..some conduits gonna go that way....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...5/conduit3.jpg
important things first..lay the conduit to the front where the main power will come from...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...5/conduit4.jpg
almost ready to join them together...
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...5/conduit5.jpg
all in the ground to the front and covered with sand for now....and dug the other ones who come from the house a bit deeper down....
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../cane_toad.jpg
had one cane toad who was watching my work......