Thread: Watery Construction

Just build a raft house, like that famous floating village down Phuket way ....google for pics of Koh Panyi.
Demolish the old house and use the rubble as a base for a parking spot on the shore, pour some concrete over the top if you want to be extravagant. Moor the raft next to it.

Think you are homing in on a simple low cost solution Wasp.

Originally Posted by Wasp

The dwelling is teetering anyway .

Blimey.

Demolish that and all the others. Build a row of shop houses straight over the middle of the lake taking inspiration from the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. They can then set up a range of financial endeavours from the shops, such as Fish and chips (fish from the lake and potatoes from an aquaponics set up).

Seeing as we are doing pictures, something like this.



I can see already the reviews on Trip Adviser. "Florence of Siam"

^Excellent graphics, have you worked in Commercial Real Estate Financing for long?

Originally Posted by OhOh

^Excellent graphics, have you worked in Commercial Real Estate Financing for long?

Ummmm .. well. ... yes. That is our new development we are offering. Would you be interested in investing? Guarantee to realise 100% of your investment in returns.

A bit expensive taking all my rubble to Italy like that !

Wasp
I understand better now about the land issue and why they all fight so much, its worth some money and probably more money than they can even comprehend.

So I know you want to help Missy but you probably need to remove yourself from the immediate decision making as it will only do your head in especially if doing it from abroad.
If you fill from the edge out then the risk of subsidence is decreased because the fill is not surrounded by water, it would be further reduced if you used rubble rather than soil.

I think David has the right idea, determine how much you are going to contribute and then pay as the work is done. Let them decide how and what they do but make any suggestions you feel might help. By help I mean them and you in that later you could say "well I did suggest...." In the end they will build what they want/can and it will probably not meet our (expat) expectations but then if your not going to live in it who gives a toss.

From what has been said so far 2 things stand out as issues:
1. The road which may not be put in for another 8 years so "no problem".
2. The effluent management system, shit in the pond and feed the fishes so "no problem".

How about this idea, fill in around the current house (and it is a house even if our description is a hovel) so it doesn't slide into the pond and continue on until the road coming forces a change.

I know you said early on that you would not come back here but then later contradicted that so if you do return please let me know so we can catch up. You could even take me and show me what you paid for and what they did.

Cheers

A question of (Thai) family's duties and the consequency of a positive or negative approach is surely not easy to answer and understand by others.

Anyway, after all (and despite of) the advices, when seeing the picture of the pond filling, I would go on this alternative - so easy in Thailand and for the family. Then have it settled over the next rainy season. After one year, in these months, to make a 50cm deep foundation ring, pehaps in the corners a footer 1 m deep, then have the simple house 10x10m built.

You will get rid off the headaches with family and it will make them happy. Then bye, bye...

For better understanding the situation, why you don't find your place in Google Earth, save it in jpg and show it to us, us trustworthy advisers?

Originally Posted by Rubberneck

Tell them you're building fuck all and then gauge the response.

They never ASKED me for anything .

It's just me planning ahead to help some decent people . She has to stay on that land or forfeit maybe 7 Million Baht later.

Guage it?

Video it more like.

Waspy’s Missy has a house
but all’s not quiet as a mouse
Some time a road is coming past
To give her ears a mighty blast
So now he’ll wave a magic wand
to relocate her to a pond
The wise old hands may suggest
for that a boat is surely best
Others here will take the view
that trucks should dump some rocks into
The muddy hole to make new land
on which may rise a shack that’s grand
And someone thinks a bit ahead
enquiring ‘yes, but where’s the head ?’
(since she’ll almost be at sea
a vessel’s head is where you pee)
To rid the house of smelly turds
the plan is not to feed the birds
but instead to push it down
into the pond where it will drown
amongst the fish and evil goo
So those above will never spew
Maybe these plans will give hot grief
or possibly some cool relief.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

..... the pond filling, I would go on this - so easy in Thailand and for the family.

For better understanding the situation, why you don't find your place in Google Earth and show it to us, us trustworthy advisers?

Sensible idea Klondee ......



As you can see ...... a huge piece of land in an excellent location for shops and apartments .




Just above the daughter you can see they've shaded a 'road' in . Right now it's just an earth trail wide enough for one vehicle .
That will become a roadway.

Until I looked at this image I hadn't realised how much infill they have done over on the Left .


Wasp

Out of interest Wasp, where did you meet that family?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Out of interest Wasp, where did you meet that family?

I was working as a Cashier in a bar in Pattaya.

Wasn't being funny.....

I just thought it strange that there's never been any mention of any of that family or community living in the sticks, ever going to work in Bangkok as taxi drivers, factory workers or whatever, as I thought most people from Isaan do.

Was it a gogo, soapy or beerbar where you were tallying up?

Who's this geezer then? Cycling round the back of the place in 2014.

That's me .

Originally Posted by Wasp

She has to stay on that land or lose her share .

What is the title on the Land?

Originally Posted by docmartin

If enough cheap sealed plastic drums could be strapped and decked.

My first thought.

Cheaper alternative as well.

Wasp
You have destroyed me, am I not worthy of a response (Post#58).
I cried myself to sleep last night you miserable ….