and you will never believe it... he's MexicanQuote:
Originally Posted by Norton
...always paddling across the klong looking for work
K.Pot won't employ him though because he wants to sleep the whole afternoon....
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and you will never believe it... he's MexicanQuote:
Originally Posted by Norton
...always paddling across the klong looking for work
K.Pot won't employ him though because he wants to sleep the whole afternoon....
Lol...I am a Floyd fan too..:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Klondyke
Me too, make sure Kpot is authentic Thai with the wall and ensure there is no block overlap just looks plain ridiculous if they stagger the courses:)
How deep did they make the wall post foundations?
I like your thinking... why make problems? no need to cut all those half blocks...just make the uprights match the gap for whole blocks..Quote:
Originally Posted by NamPikToot
or even better... forget the uprights altogether..
and... to finish off, only colour it with 1 coat of watered down paint so that everyone can see your state-of-the-art block work and the builder can get tons more work off the back of his efforts.
It's win-win, right?
I'm just checking Dennis... i think it was just over 2.5mQuote:
Originally Posted by dennis4558
I will have the answer later.
Do you intend to render the wall as done on house walls?
Hi Norton...render yes but not made up my mind about the colour. ..might be a touch to much magnolia!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
Black is good. Cuts down on annual cleaning to remove ugly black mold. Out of sight. Out of mind. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp
My wall same color as house.
i was thinking more trad, as I want to blend in with the local thinking..Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
lurid pink, dayglo green or electric sky blue, anyone...?
Gold to enhance your royal doors?
I think PJ wants 'off-white' so.. that's that, then...Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
Just thinking the same...Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
Novelty never goes outta fashion.
Boundary wall base 1
He's racing for this one - must be something to do with cash
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/361.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/362.jpg
not even shuttered the bean, let alone cast it... and the blocks are there and waiting!
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/363.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/364.jpg
Ahh..here come the shutters
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/365.jpg
hes rushing but... the chairs are all in place.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/366.jpg
Lol... err.. no:)Quote:
Originally Posted by HuangLao
Boundary wall base 2
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/354.jpg
yep... its stepped too.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/355.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/356.jpg
K.Pots famous shutter bracing...
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/357.jpg
and of course... the pillar steel
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/358.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/359.jpg
Right! wheres the concrete!?
Boundary wall base 3
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/372.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/373.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/374.jpg
Behind Chonburi Hilton, where the concrete truck will run...
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/375.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/376.jpg
...and here's the concrete!
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/377.jpg
Boundary wall base 4
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/367.jpg
vibros in use...
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/368.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/369.jpg
finished this bit
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/370.jpg
thje step is poured
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/371.jpg
Exactly, Kpot is going to have to work twice as hard to get an authentic Thai lean on that wall with those footings, he's going to have to get the uprights at a 20 degree angle now off the piles, Christ on a Bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp
So whats the plan for No Mans land? rolled barbed wire, AP mines or claymores?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp
Better than that.. I told him, half finish it, then 'accidentally' back that truck and lean it over, ideally with a couple of cracks as well....... then pick back up with the build but back on the vertical.Quote:
Originally Posted by NamPikToot
standard build practice in some parts of BKK...
Jeez I hope hes not reading this and getting ideas.
I will quietly let it grow back over, apart from a small footpath from my back gate up to our other plot 1 where the resort will go, eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by NamPikToot
Long term the govt are saying they will put a small lane there... not sure who for though since we own most of the land behind it!
Actually TD, its a little known fact that non-overlapping block courses and a leaning wall are in fact deliberately built into boundaries as ingress deterrents, we think its just shoddy workmanship but generations of Thais can't be wrong - you try to scale one of them you are taking your life into your own hands. Make sure KPot gets this right and ensure he's used 7:1 sand cement mortar mix.
Just how high is this wall going to be ? That rebar for the posts must be at least 4 meters high judging by the number and spacing of the stirrups ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/01/356.jpg
that bracing certainly beats the usual stakes hammered into the ground, or bits of scrap wood nailed across the top !!
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikenot
lol it looks 4m mike, but in fact its only 3.85m. angles can be decep... ok..ok ..! I will tell him. its actually 2m in the main but on the front side its 2.5m so we don't see the road when we are looking out from the balcony.
That's the idea anyway.
yes... he's used that shutter bracing all the way through... I did not see it before but maybe its been used else where