DrAndys Wooden Cottage in the ricefields

[dirtydog]

You know you have to gloss polyurethane first to seal it off before you matt finish it

[Loombucket]

Dunno. I'm starting to question the lucidity of LoomB...cold cha? Mugicha, OK, but green cha...call the food police.

Green tea with honey, yum-yum. I do cocktails as well, but only for about twenty minutes. After that I need to lay down in a darkened room for a few daze

[DrAndy]

You know you have to gloss polyurethane first to seal it off before you matt finish it

Thanks DD, it depends on what type you use. Some are exactly the same as the gloss, some do need the presealing

It is not easy to find the stuff in Thailand, but it is there

The last time we had some guys doing it, they used the wrong thinner, so the polyurethane took about a month to dry in patches...good fun

[friscofrankie]

can you get Epoxy coatings here? Better vapor barrier, better penetration into the medium being coated. Longer lasting. Probably MUCH more expensive though.

[Thetyim]

can you get Epoxy coatings here?

Yes. I got some in CM for a mate who wanted it for his boat

[DrAndy]

Thanks guys

I think just polyU is good enough. It is just to stop the bamboo sheets getting too much dirt ingrained, and makes them easy to wash down once every 10 years

The floor will need some more thought though, prob will use gloss for that but not yet sure which product is the best. The one I used on my city house is a bit soft and can scratch easy - US made

[DrAndy]

This is an orchid we had in the city and never flowered in 3 years

we took it out to this wooden house and.....



must be the fresh air

anyway, we are now having the inner roof lined, using teak we have had cut into thin boards. We bought the teak trunks from the government yard





This is the view towards the wall at the bathroom end; we are using the teak to also fill the gap above the kitchen and bathrooms



and towards the other end we are using the bamboo boards for the wall

[buad hai]

Looks like it's going to have a nice feel to it. Nothing like wood.

[Lily]

How have I missed this thread?????


It looks great!

[DrAndy]

dunno Lily, maybe because they hid it in the famous threads subforum

Just a small detour, I want to show you how the guesthouses are progressing. They are really neat places, with lots of nice features (which is why we bought them). We got three as we had to buy the lot.

This is the outside of one, in progress



This shows the doors; they are temple style, made from one large panel and not square




The window shutters are similar, but cannot be seen here, just the neat bars of wood




and the walls are all lined now and the ceiling too

they are quite high roofs on these houses





each house will have a main room with bed, a kitchen and a bathroom, and the verandah outside

as we have three, we may think about letting two for long term rent

depends

[DrAndy]

Our guard dog Jil is always ready




a view over the ricefields from the main house verandah




another view towards the temple




I think that the Buddha always looks surreal in that environment




we will be back to the housebuilding next post

[Jet Gorgon]

Did you get Jil from the police department?

[DrAndy]

no, Jak and Jil were brought by my nephew from Bkk

[DrAndy]

The inner roof lining in the main house is now complete, so we have a happy carpenter



another view including one end




and the main part




It has worked out better than expected, especially as the architect kept saying that the lining should be terminated across the horizontal beams

Although that would have given a flat ceiling in the centre, I prefer the space that is showing. In addition, the breeze can go through the room now (there is a wood grill at each end), not just the space above the beams

hoooray!!

[DrAndy]

and now a slight deviation

The guy that helps farm our rice is now hiring a combine

A lot of farmers are still doing it all by hand, cutting and threshing etc, but the machine takes a tenth of the time


it cuts the rice, threshes it and saves the grain, then dumps it later

this guy still does a lot of hand work! he took our rice straw


He takes it away to make fertiliser, mixed with buffalo shit


so, all our rice is in, earlier than many of the surrounding fields as it was planted earlier

fresh rice from your own field, delicious

[Marmite the Dog]

fresh rice from your own field, delicious

Because you used a combine, did the rice end up costing you money, or did you still make a saving/profit?

[ChiangMai noon]

I'm confused.
Are you back in Chiangmai Andy?

[DrAndy]

We let the farmer take all the costs and we get a percentage of the rice, Marmite

CMN, don't worry, it is all done by remote control. My wife is acting as project manager and sends me the progress pics. I will be back in a month

[DrAndy]

Ok a small update on the main house interior

The bamboo boards have had the joins covered and held by battens



so that is the walls all finished. We now have to get the sanding machine in to get all the floors sanded and sealed

We have been quoted B70 per sq m. but that seems a bit expensive, so we are talking.....

[DrAndy]

OK we go back to the guest houses and their land. We are now filling in the rice field around them, bringing the level of earth up so that they will not flood

first we had to make a small bridge over the irrigation canal so the lorry could get access. They used these concrete pipes



and lifted them into place



four made a bridge



the truck dumped the earth, covering the pipes

then the earthmover got to work

[lom]

We now have to get the sanding machine in to get all the floors sanded and sealed We have been quoted B70 per sq m. but that seems a bit expensive, so we are talking.....

I'm sure your constructor can find a cheaper seal
The price you got is very fair..

[DrAndy]

A sad thing, this mongoose got caught in a fishtrap, prob trying to get one of the fishes

never mind, he was not wasted, apparently he was delicious



Here are a few pics around the guest houses, as the earth gets delivered






They are continuing to build the g/h, these are the verandah poles



another shot



we are just using teak tree trunks, stripping off the bark

so, after a long day spreading the earth, it is time for a small whiskey, or two, in the sunset light

[DrAndy]

We now have to get the sanding machine in to get all the floors sanded and sealed We have been quoted B70 per sq m. but that seems a bit expensive, so we are talking.....

I'm sure your constructor can find a cheaper seal
The price you got is very fair..

the price is just for the work, we pay for all materials including the polyU

[Jet Gorgon]

Looks fantastic. The guest houses are beaut.

[DrAndy]

Thanks Jet. They are quite unusual; in this area nearly all the old wooden houses in traditional style are Lanna, those g/hs are Sukhothai style

Don't know why the original owner had them like that unless he moved them up north when he bought them.