Looks like its coming along a treat!
How did you find the wooden house for sale? Are they everywhere in your neck of the woods, or did you put the word out via family etc?
How did you know it would be okay for the plans you had an architect draw up - I mean quantity wise, supports, quality? Or did you do it the other way around and buy the wood first?
Sorry for so many questions but as you can tell, I'm not a builder!
Is there no roof overhang on the back (sunny) side? That would mean sunlight would warm up the house through the windows right?
well, we just asked around, neighbours, friends, bus drivers anyone
someone always has a relative who wants to sell something!
we bought the house first, then we more or less knew how big we could build. We have had to buy extra wood, as the new house is different in style to the old one.
we bought extra wood from a second hand wood yard nearby, and also the government wood depot (for the tree trunks we will use to support the staircase)
I have reported your post
no, not much. Partly my fault, as the roof does have an overhang on part, but we decided to extend the bathrooms a bit, so lost some overhang
mind you, the back part only has small windows on purpose. The bigger window upstairs does have the overhang protecting it for most of the day
the window downstairs would be very difficult to shade
we will be planting a big tree that side sometime, which should help
piss off Marmite, it was not like that before
thanks DD
so many changes, so much to do....
OK it works, back to the thread
so, we drained the pond and took advantage of the fishys left stranded.
we had a little BBQ and feast
then they dug the muddy holes and put in the concrete
so that was nice, now we can go back to the roof and stuff
there were a few beasties about, seeing what we were up to
this is a large caterpillar -8cm -which turns into an amazing red butterfly
often seen in souvenir shops in glass boxes, the bastards (the sellers, not the caterpillars)
and a few lizards too
this big beasty was seen swimming across the pond, so they thwacked it with a pole
then they took it home and ate it
Here is a view of the house from the rice fields
and this is what the roof looked like from inside the house
and the floor of lovely old planks. Some of them were 40cm wide or more
they will eventually get sanded down to a smooth finish, after all the messy work has been done
They started the staircase by ercting the teak wooden posts
we got these from the government wood depot, all confiscated from naughty people
as you can see, we have left the bark on. We may remove it later, we may not. Insects may burrow in a little under the bark, that gives the wood a nice look
so this is what it looks like now
and like this too
I bought some wonderful floor planks from a 2nd hand woodyard, they were over 3m long and 50cm wide, and 4cm thick. They must have come from a palace!! It hurt to cut them up, but we managed to get four stairs from each plank. The stretchers were also from those planks, two from each plank. We will use the others for making a stair seat and for the kitchen worktops
Last edited by DrAndy; 01-06-2007 at 04:39 PM.
we were thinking of building a nice bathroom like this, but we decided against it...well, the wife did
Hey I like that bathroom! The home looks like it is coming along. Keep us updated!
I thought you said "cottage". Looks palatial to me.
Excellent pics and a lovely looking gaff.
Very cool place.
thank you all
It is nice when something you dream up on paper works out even better than you hoped
more to come, some progress, some not!
actually it is only a wooden house on stilts, not palatial at all
upstairs there are two bathrooms and a kitchen, all in the concrete bit at the end
then there is only one room, about 7m square, and a verandah 7m by 3m
OK, as you will ask, we have two bathrooms as the wife and I could not agree on how the wall tiles should go (horizontally or diagonally), and what type of shower head. So we each designed our own. I will post pics when they are finished later on.
I bet mine is better, we shall see
I bet your wife arranges for the workers to make some irratating mistakes in your bathroomOriginally Posted by DrAndy
I will have to watch carefully
mind you, it works both ways
her toilet bowl could face the wrong way
Tell her she has a complete free hand to have any sort of bathroom she wants.
The budget is unlimited as she is paying for it herself.
no problem Thetyim, and she is also paying for mine
she lost a bet that I would not eat some snake
that was easy, drinking the blood and whiskey was not
Shit, that bit is easy. Only did it once but I liked it and would do it again.Originally Posted by DrAndy
All the chewy 'meat' is inedible.
maybe you should get a better cook!! mine was fine
drinking the blood was difficult because of the thought, not the reality
shudder, gulp, swallow, retch
^ OK thanks.
Maybe I should give it another try.
I ate cobra before, do you know if other types taste better.
Certainly looks nice! When's the housewarming party?
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