Thai kitchens

[lom]

I think it maybe time to go for fire insurance and have a big barby

Just PM CMN when you're ready for it

[Airportwo]

Rigger:-
If your happy with the price? why worry - Think whatever you do somebody will know someone who could do it cheaper, better quality, faster - etc.
You did tell him you were Oilfield trash? so he could add % to make up for his increased fuel\electric bills???

[dirtydog]

Thai kitchen so I can have my western kitchen back and motorcycle work shop as well as a double length carport 460,000 bht,

My quote was 4.6 million baht, you must have missread it, or did you sneakily go and get a second quote?

[stroller]

1; stroller got to choose the tiles.
2; the 2 raised points either side of the hob should have had full tiles and the cuts should have been done at the far ends of the counter.
3; stroller obviously had a misspent youth of taking way too many drugs.
4; the lower point where the hob stands the tiles should have been centered, ie work from the middle to the outside edge, now as we can see his awful 70s style horrid bird tiles are not centered up.

There is are reasons the builder works for 150/day, though he's better than some others around here...
I could have spent more time myself planning stuff, but have ltd experience, and found it pretty hard to get the workers to do things my way - well, not that I think you'd appreciate the 'stroller design'.

The tiles are the way they are, because there put down to match the floor tiles:

Now, having the floor tiles go up like this wasn't my idea, one of the things the little twit did when I was out for half a day, against my instructions. Anyway, after a second look I like it, it looks trippy.

5; as a closing summary if stroller ever visits your house, DO NOT LET HIM INSIDE", he may have some redecoration ideas and you may fall for them and be ridiculed for the rest of your life.

I'm pretty good at finding cost-saving short to medium term solutions for interiors, and am open to accomodate unconventional ideas into my artistic designs. I offer initial consultations at cost, i.e. travel, food, lodging.
Interested parties may contact me via pm.

Do you have a tiled bathroom that may interest us Stroller?

The bathroom turned out rather boring. Again, he finished the job while I was out, setting the tiles in a regular, symmetric pattern, while I wanted the fish-theme tiles spread randomly amongst the plain ones.

Thinking about it, I don't really like the guy, he's the brother in law and prefers to listen to what the missus says.

[Rigger]

Rigger:-
If your happy with the price? why worry - Think whatever you do somebody will know someone who could do it cheaper, better quality, faster - etc.
You did tell him you were Oilfield trash? so he could add % to make up for his increased fuel\electric bills???

I am not to worried I was just wondering what you guys think a job like that would be worth. I didnt get into the building of our house to much left it all up to the wife.
And I think I will leave it upto her again except when it comes to the work shop. Think I will stick to what I am good at drinking piss and riding bikes and working hard like all good Oilfield trash

[dirtydog]

Come on stroller, admit it, this whole thread is a hoax done with photoshop, I mean nobody in their right mind would have that sort of color scheme in their kitchen, yes it was a good troll and some of us fell for your photoshop pictures, anyway well done and it's probably time to bin this thread

[Dougal]

Anyway, after a second look I like it, it looks trippy.

I don't think I would want to walk into your kitchen after a few beers without being warned in advance of what to expect.

But my kitchen is not much better and I agree that if you aren't there hovering in the background you are going to get whatever the tiler thinks would be 'nice'.

[Butterfly]

^ that's the thing. They always manage to finish things when you are not there. It's like magic. They must be thinking something along those lines: "let's finish quick before the boss come home and bitch about the work done and make me redo everything"

The guy in charge of my furniture got into this little routine: he says yes to everything I say then goes to lunch and don't come back before 2 or 3 days, only to return when I am not home, and then hurry to finish everything. The truth is that you have to micro-manage them and be behind their back at every minute or else they will manage to fuck it up even when everything is straight forward. Must be a Thai thing. No wonder the whole country is fucked up !!! oh well, at least labor is cheap and I am not paying before it's done like I want it to be done.

[NickA]

Fucking hell man, have you got any acid up that way - I'd love to do some mushrooms and then lie on the floor and pretend I'm climbing up the walls like spiderman.

[Airportwo]

I am not to worried I was just wondering what you guys think a job like that would be worth. I didnt get into the building of our house to much left it all up to the wife.

Hard to comment unless you have all details, I did a kitchen recently, it was 200k for construction, then, 15k for windows, 6k for door, +++ for cupboards +++ for granite tops etc, etc, depends whats included in price, as a ballpark sounds ok.
But as we will all be coming for the grand opening party?

If your doing ANYthing resembling Strollers kitchen - it's far too much!

[Rigger]

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Hard to comment unless you have all details, I did a kitchen recently, it was 200k for construction, then, 15k for windows, 6k for door, +++ for cupboards +++ for granite tops etc, etc, depends whats included in price, as a ballpark sounds ok.
But as we will all be coming for the grand opening party?
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Good idea as I will need help with the important stuff like were the beer fridge is going to go

[Airportwo]

beer fridge

ALL fridges are beer fridges, just sometimes you have to keep other things in them!

[stroller]

If your doing ANYthing resembling Strollers kitchen - it's far too much!

Now, now, let's not get nasty in this nice thread.
But yu're right. The kitchen and the upstairs bathroom were about 120.000 total.

[stroller]

^ that's the thing. They always manage to finish things when you are not there.

And it's always the things you had a long chat and a slight disagreement about before. They do it on purpose, it's their non-confrontational way of getting their way or having a go at you.

It's so obvious with "my guy", as he'll drop an unfinished job and start what he's not yet supposed to do as soon as I am gone a couple of minutes, or, even more sneaky, when I sleep in...

Bastard, I'll put some ground glass in his curry on the last day...

[Marmite the Dog]

I would've made him do it all again.

[stroller]

That's when they get ill for a few days or help a neighbour with planting for the rest of the week...

Anyway, it usually works out ok, I'm fairly easy and appreciate the guy's input.

[Butterfly]

that's the thing with building properties here. They are too lazy to finish the work. That's why I don't see the property market booming for too long. Soon enough the farangs driving the price up will get tired of waiting for their project to finish.

[Wallalai]

Mine :

[Silent Ninja]

^
That's a nice and big kitchen, but how come none of you have an oven? Don't you miss throwing a cake together, etc.?

I might die if I weren't able to make lasagne.

[stroller]

There's an oven thread here somewhere.
Personally, I've learned to use the rice-cooker for making breads and sort-of-roasts.

[Silent Ninja]

I have just shown Stroller's kitchen to my colleagues. I'm sorry to say so, but they all agree that it's the ugliest kitchen they have ever seen...

Stroller: No that I demand a reply after such an insult, but how are the roasts made in a rice cooker?

[Silent Ninja]

The oven thread:
https://teakdoor.com/food-and-drink/7...oven-time.html (New oven time...)

[Wallalai]

That's a nice and big kitchen, but how come none of you have an oven? Don't you miss throwing a cake together, etc.?

I'm planning to buy one but I've not yet decided if I should bu an all-in-1 (owen+ 3fires) or just an owen, and gaz or electricity. I'll give a look at the owen thread, maybe some good ideas in there.

[stroller]

Stroller: No that I demand a reply after such an insult, but how are the roasts made in a rice cooker?

I'm not replying to this, I'm sulking.
Play nice if you want to know my secrets.

[Marmite the Dog]

I'd like to know how to cook bread in a rice cooker.