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hillbilly

Love your photos!

Loombucket

I'm not sure about that. Most of where the house will sit has been there a year. The bit at the back was hammered flat by the digger, then 'tarted up' by the tractor. I will take any helpfull advice and consider it.

Loombucket

Why thank you. I would love to share everything but we'd be here all week, laughing and waiting for the sever to melt.

sunsetter

lovin it! keep it comin' !

cimboc

What a beast!

Great thread, keep it coming LB

Carnwadrick

Great thread looking forward to seeing the house being built...did you figure out the name of the village..if not you could establish your own, how about Ban Loom Bucket has a nice sound to it, give a couple of years and it might be on the map

chuckd

Good thread. I just completed a house outside Udorn.

It is not an easy project in LOS. Luckily I was in Saudi when it was built. I just sent money.

DrAndy

so chuckd, was the house as you expected?

and LoomB, this thread is good, and you haven't even started building yet

Jet Gorgon

Loomie, will you stock fish in the pond?

DiGGrDuGGr

Loom,

Congrats on getting as far as you have, the best is still to come.

As far as the earth laid down for the house, the key to the whole puzzle is how well the earth will support the weight of the house. As the weight bearing capabilities of the soil decreases, the foundation footprint must increase in surface area.

You have not mentioned what type of foundation you plan to use so will withhold any further comments other than to say that when guessing on foundations overkill is far better (and more expensive as well) than under kill.

Thx for sharing the pics, keep em cumming.

Loombucket

I'm working on it but I don't have the wits to write it down when they tell me. We are due to see the headman next week, he will know.


Yes, anything that swims, crawls or flys will be made most welcome. If I like them, and we get on, they can stay.

Jet Gorgon

^ drunk farang on all fours?

Loombucket

He he he. No, I will strap any of those onto the plough if they come a calling. We can have some curly furrows in the veggie patch.

Loombucket

Still waiting for plans to arrive or a decent connection. We had an intense meeting with 'Archie 2' in the food place in Lotus at Sara Burri, of all places. We made a lot of noise, he made a lot of notes. In the end, I had to do a little shopping, just to get a bit of peace. We have had two sets of drawings since that meeting, but they were not quite right. Now we have been promised 'satisfaction' in three weeks. This is Archie 2, from the first meeting, seen here clutching a large bundle of handy hints on how to draw plans, for stupid farrang, curtesy of Mrs. LoomB.

DrAndy

nice shirt, so that will be Ok then

Loombucket

Yes, I hope so. We gave him a good check over before we gave him any money.

Smithson

Are you close to Saraburi? We've got land in Nakhon Nayok and are looking to build.

I've heard a lot of building products are cheaper in Saraburi?

MrBoJangles

This is something i've been wondering about. We've got some land in Chaiyaphum and as we hadn't even thought about the size or tyope of house etc. the Mrs insisted that we at least had some soil trucked in and put down in the approximate area of where the house will eventually be built.

This was about 2 years ago, so that soil should be fine but if we need to go bigger than what we have already put down, what's the best amount of time to leave it for and to let settle?

Excellent thread BTW Loom, i love the building ones.

Loombucket

No, the family just goes to the temple there, once a month. It was easier to meet the Architect there than drive all the way to Bangkok, to his house.

That may be true but I don't have much experience in this field. It may be better to start another thread and ask that question. You will get a better response, from people that know what they are talking about.

Most people reckon a year is ok, if you are only building a house. If you want to build a castle, the foundations would be deeper anyway.

Loombucket

Meet Khun Mow. He is the general handyman who has been helping us over the past few months. I have met some camera-shy Thai folk but this guy would run and hide every time the camera came out of the bag. I finally caught hime when he was exhausted, one time, and needed to sit down.



Master of the back hoe, Khun Mow will stay on and help us in the garden. Here he is again, disguising the neat terrace work at the outlet side of the drain pipe. Notice, also, that he appears to be having a little trouble with his phone implant, or maybe he knew that I was hiding in the tree.




Now we wait for the Songkraan thing to finish and if there is any water left, we might get connected.