Great looking house TD, with that 3rd addition you're going to need to carry a map with you so you don't get lost
What kind of material is being used to cover the structure?
OK - the day has finally arrived!
yet..K.Pot is commencing the final part of the house build today, 17th November 2019. I think he picked the day after the lottery draw just in case he won the jackpot and could hang his work-gloves up for 12 months.. anyway...
Clearly he did not scoop the 6 numbers this time and so..mobilisation has commenced.
Prior to that, we sprayed the work area to kill off the grass and make it clear so that he could find his previously buried piles - if you remember, we piled zone 1,2 and 3 the first time round so that we did not need the rig again.
so... lets see some action!
Yesterday, he made some of the deliveries in readiness to start today - cement, steel, etc.
Will they last once those Laos workers are back on site? ...I think not!!
Round 2 or 3.
Looking forward to the continuing pictorial saga, Dhupp.
Best to ya.
Cheers.
Hey hey.. hi there HL... thanks, yes this is round 3, or part 3 or part C, not sure what we are calling it!
Its a smaller structure, measuring 14m x 4m wide.
2 bedrooms/ensuites upstairs and a gym and media room , plus pool-changing room/ bathroom downstairs.
About 4 months start to finish, K.Pot says
Making a start...
Yep... they have actually started doing something now...machines and people on site.
This time they will not be making a big camp like the first time.... I think one person will be staying overnight for 'security' though I suppose the thinking is, with the wall and gates in place there is already some deterrent and security.
The contract protects me from any material losses incurred during the build.
1st job...those all-important 'chairs' for the rebar, both for slab and column cages.
Meanwhile, the mini-digger makes its second appearance at TD Towers... first job for this one is to uncover the piles already in place.
At least the existing building creates a shaded rest zone for the cars and people.
They have been instructed to NOT start eating lunch / dinner in zone 2 downstairs unless there is a full cover for the tiles.
Oh yes...there was one small 'issue' that occurred just before K.Pot made a start...
He had a load of sand delivered.. trouble was, he forgot to have someone open the gate, so the truck driver just tipped it outside on the road.
across 75% of the road.
It wasn't long before someone could not get through - the police were called, who in turn called.... the Orbortor.
Thank goodness we are friends. He smoothed it over, then got K.Ek (land office engineer) to call PJ
Then he fixed for a tractor to go there and push it all into the verge.
Problem solved (though my bushes got buried) for now, and K.Pot will have to supply the whiskey this time.
Yep - again...it was definitely worth cultivating that relationship.
Hi Thai Dupp. Just a quick question on some of the photos if I may. What is purpose or meaning of the arrow that appears in the top right of some of the photos?
Sorry if the question has been asked and answered previously.
Actually, Nev... I really do not know!
Its from the 'on-site' photographer's phone - I think it must just be in the settings - there is a date stamp too. I will ask him when I go back in December.
At the moment, he's shooting mainly video and forgetting to do the photos - I don't want to ask him now or it might get 'lost in translation' and then I end up not getting anything.
I will get to the bottom of it tho..
You should have just said it was rice, not sand .......it’s apparently OK to cover the roads with rice. Going thru town on the scooter this morning, I am just about to turn down the road to my SiL when I see it is blocked with rice drying. No problem, I’ll go down the next soi.....nope, rice over this one too (but at least they blocked it off at the corner with lengths of bamboo).
Yeah Mike... but we only really got to hear about it AFTER it was all cleaned up off the road.
Funny when we were told 'cos the message was that the delivery truck could not get through the gate, and I'm thinking ''fcuk! the gates 5m wide! how big IS this truck!?''
(not thinking anyone would order material then forget to open that gate...)
Hi TD, I've just done a bit of googling. It appears the arrow might be a notificationn from the phone (Samsung) to tell you that the photo has not been backed up to Samsung cloud storage yet.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/as...does-mean.html
Whoops - I forgot to post some updates pix of the progress...
Here goes:
Uncovering the piles.
Fabricating the ring-beam steel
You can see the pile caps already in place - sorry - I did not have a photo of that. I do have video though, which will appear at a later date.
K.Pot is racing ahead, because he started late and wants to get paid at the end of the month.
All the steel in place
Shuttering fitted. Just waiting for the concrete now...
Ring beam poured and struck
This nearest room will be the media / cinema room
I will get some cinema chairs to watch the big screen and PJ will be on hand to dish out the pop-corn and ice-creams.
well... i have not run it past her yet but there shouldn't be any problem if she gets up half way through the movie to go make the burgers/fries and bring in some cold beers....
The (reduced) build team already marching ahead with more cages
Right... after another long pause, partly due to Museum of the Future commitments and partly due to crappy pix from the ob-site photographer... lets update:
Soil delivery to fill in between that plinth beam. I initially thought of getting k.Pot to dig the required material from the swimming pool area but then... he quoted to import it, and I will be able to use the pool dug material to raise up the area on the edge of 'Mango-land' where the car port will eventually go.
K.Pots famous mini-digger placing the material. The fact that he had all the equipment that he does, and he used it at no charge to me, was a massive bonus.
He has everything.
I did not hire one piece of equipment on the entire build. From concrete skips, vibrators, cranes, diggers, trucks, etc etc I really saved.
A good thing to check for any members planning a build, and looking to narrow down the choice of builder
Soil being placed, and notice all the plumbing is in too. Sorry, I did not have a photo of that, only video
Placement underway
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