The Dogs Land

[dirtydog]

This thread will probably run for several years cos it takes us builders so foking long to finish anything, anyway this will be the story of my land.

Its about 1.6 rai and i have finally decided wot to do with it, now as you can see by the pic below its reasonably sort of squarish,(my land is the plot on the far left).

the first step is to raise the land on the right hand side boundary, this will be where i build 3 3 bedroomed bungalows.



you can see the road coming into my land at the top right, even as i post the nice young lady at city hall is drawing up my plans, well, she probably aint and is out on the piss, but i gave her the rough plans a couple of weeks ago and for the sum of 7 or 9 thousand baht she is going to draw up my plans, i really cant remember how much we agreed to, shes probably robbing me anyway regardless of price, na only kidding, i believe she is the lesbian lover of my galfriends brothers daughter, or something like that anyway.

[dirtydog]

and here we have a pic of my prime porky worky land, plus my neighbours house, as you can see at the moment we have a lot of space to park cars there, this is due to not actually having a house or garden yet, but these things take time, now as soon as i have some spare staff they will build a camp here and live in the squalor they are used to



the truck is owned by the broker, im not sure how much he earned out of me but if you see it feel free to set it on fire.

[dirtydog]

My pond.

I got a 50 met by 10 met pond, at this moment in time nasty thai ppl are stealing my fish, now i was gonna infill most of this pond, but i have decided to be creative, thats cos im too stingy to buy the dirt to infill it, im gonna build MY house over the pond, yep, on the hot days i will pump water from the pond onto the roof to cool down the building, this will then flow into the guttering and a fake pond on the patio and then waterfall into the main pond, thats got to put a million baht onto the price of the property

[dirtydog]

Well things are rushing ahead even as I type, yep I just picked up the plans
about 20 pages in all, this for a mere 7,000baht and a 500baht tip, and it just so happens that this woman is friends with the civil engineer at the local council who has to sign the plans off, wheels within wheels or something like that, anyway she has asked us to phone her b4 we go to the planning office so she can phone her mate to speed things a long a bit for us, so next week is planning office week

[dirtydog]

Well things have seemed to have slowed down a bit, but I have decided what to do with the land, now on the plan my land is the big plot on the left, this i will section off a plot of about 25 meters deep and 20 meters wide, here I shall build the bungalow, this will then give me a sectioned in area behind the plot to plant the fruit trees and veg garden, i really dont want to eat veg and that that me dogs have pissed on, obviously the bungalow will be up for sale next week and maybe I will start building it soon.

anyway next week is section off the land week, lets see how that goes....

[dirtydog]

Damn, i been busy, i havent even got spare staff to build a camp there yet.

well for a mere 4,500baht they have agreed to section off the land and issue 2 new papers, yep on sept the 1st they are coming down to put the concrete markers in, now i could have paid an extra 3,500baht and they would have done it tonite, but hell im a cheap bstard and i aint in no rush, still got 270 meters of walls to build round the land first anyway.

yesterday i went to look at the land and my neighbour is nicking all the water from me pond, he wants to be careful cos i might nick his pump thats on my land, but then again i will need to use his electric in the future as my generator is too expensive to run to use power tools.

he still hasnt put up a wall to divide our land and obviously i dont really want to do that wall as its about 50 meters long and would cost about 50k baht which is equivelant to about 30 odd short times, should my sex life suffer just for a poxy garden wall? of course not....

[Fabian]

Looks like a big parking lot now. Too bad it is not inside the city.

[machangezi]

Where's this piece of land located? NSEW?

[dirtydog]

5km from lotus in south pattaya, fabian if it was in the city i would have had to add another zero to the price

[klongmaster]

.. im gonna build MY house over the pond, .

Just out of interest DD, won't that attract mossies etc?

I've seen many places in Thailand built over a pond ..without the fancy xtras your proposing and have also wondered about the mossies

[dirtydog]

I think as long as the water is strongly circulated it stops mossies breeding there, also loads of big fish which you don't feed very often should help

[dirtydog]

ok the good news is i got staff starting on it tomorrow, yep 6 of them will be there digging holes for the next couple of weeks so expect some exciting pics of holes being dug, yep a tutorial on how to dig a hole thai style, the main one is gonna be 7 meters deep, this will be my well for the first house and for the orchard,can you call a 20 by 20 meter area with fruit trees an orchard?

anyway i got about 30 fruit trees already of all differant sorts all about a year old, so in 12 to 24 months i will never have to buy fruit again

tomorrow i shall post a pic of me bell peppers or capsicum, yep one of erm has a pepper exciting stuff ahh....

[dirtydog]

[Fabian]

I think as long as the water is strongly circulated it stops mossies breeding there, also loads of big fish which you don't feed very often should help

Or put enough of DDT or whatever they have instead now into the pond.

[dirtydog]

As you can see we have pumped the pond out and now we are digging a well into it, this area around the well will then be infilled to bring it up to the level of the rest of the land, so that should cut the pond size down to 10 by 30 meters which seems a more manageble size

[dirtydog]

[MeMock]

Is that a half built tee pee?

[dirtydog]

erm no, not quite memock, its actually a pulley system to lift the dug out dirt out of the hole/well, we are quite sophisicated here you know

[MeMock]

Wow, what a great improvement, we still use spoons.

[dirtydog]

This picture was taken just an hour ago so far we are 3 meters below the water table and still digging.

[dirtydog]

Well things are rushing forward at an expensive pace, today we are building the staffs camp, yep corrugated tin shacks, as you can see from this pic they will be living in the luxury they are accustomed to

[dirtydog]

The next pic is of the dining quarters, this may have to be enlarged to accomodate them all, yep I don't mind splashing out another 200baht for 4 more bits of wood and some more material.

[dirtydog]

next we have the completed well, whether any of the staff were left in there or not I shall know next payday.

[Marmite the Dog]

This picture was taken just an hour ago so far we are 3 meters below the water table and still digging.

So why isn't there 3 metres of water in it? :?

[dirtydog]

we pump it out of course marmite,sometimes i think your really an aussie in disguise