Hello all,
As I'm new here let me introduce myself. I'm 34 year old french guy who's been living happily, and recently married, with a thai
girl for 4 years.
I've been reading this forum for months with the idea to get some precious experiences and advices that would be useful when my
turn would come to build something in Thailand for myself or my wife's family.
The in-laws are living near Loei in a very basic house (concrete base + wood) and as my wife and our little boy will go there
2/3 times a year for some holidays until we have our own house, I'd like something a bit more comfortable for them (with a decent bathroom, hot water,
real toilets and so on).
This first construction will also be used as a dry-run in preparation to the building for our own retirement/holiday house that will happen in 4-5 years from now.
Before I enter into more details about the house itself I think there are a few things that are worth mentioning:
1.
First of all, before we can build the new house on the piece of land they currently have (and share with the uncle), it will be
necessary to move the 2 wooden houses that are on it.
The land plot is more or less rectangle but 1/4 of it is allocated to the uncle's house (and no there's no way to convince them to kick him out, I tried already).
It looks like this:
...............................
. ____________________________.
. ____________________________.
. _______________IN-LAWS PLOT_.
. ____________________________.
................______________.
. Uncle's Plot .______________.
. (House)_____ . (House) _____.
._____________ ._____________ .
.______________._____________ .
...............................
Road
...............................
And we'd like it to become this so the new house can be built at the front of the land plot:
...............................
._____________ ._____________ .
. Uncle's Plot .______________.
. (House) _____. (Old House)_ .
. _____________._____________ .
................_____________ .
.____________________________ .
. ____________________________.
. ________________(New House) .
. ____________________________.
...............................
Road
...............................
The new house could be more in the center of the land but as I dont have the exact dimensions yet I've put where we have the more depth.
Total size of the plot is about 1200 square meters but I dont have all the details.
2. We'd like to have a perimeter wall all around the land. Maybe not made of concrete but anything that will allow us to actually
put more dirt/soil on the ground in order to level it up which leads me to the point 3.
3. Add more dirt to level up the ground.
The first quotations received are stating about 10000 THB to move each of the houses and 20000 THB for the dirt trucks.
I have no quotation yet concerning the perimeter wall.
Now let's come to the house that we are planning to build.
As I'm a complete dummy in this area, I opted for one of the Thai government pre-approved house plans that another forum member
mentioned in another thread.
The fully detailed plans can be found here:
Edit: cant post link yet so...
House model number 9 (1 storey, 3 bedrooms and about 125 square meters).
A quotation has been requested to a local builder and he stated about 225 000 THB for the labor, between 700 000 and 800 000 THB for standard quality material and up to 1 million THB for better quality material.
The plan is to start the actual building around February 2009 knowing that the prerequisites should be completed between October 2008 and February 2009.
Any ideas, comments, builder recommendations or even alternatives are very welcome.
Regards,
Johan