Since I am new here a big "Hello" to everybody! I have enjoyed the building threads here very much so I decided to start my own. After we bought our first house here in an estate and have enjoyed it for almost 10 years now it was time to built our dream home on a plot of land we purchased about 3 years ago.

The land was a fruit orchard and we had to level it and fill it in to street level. The first minor mistake happened when we filled the part where we were planning the house later-at the same time.
2 1/2 years past and the land had plenty of time to settle - the time was used to save up the funds for the building.
First setback was "the wall" around the land (2.5Rai ) so we asked for quotations and one was more outrageous than the other!
Wish I would have known my builder by then he would have done a better job -I know now - as we decided to go with the "quick fix" from PCC - the wall was up in no time and we will see how we can make it look nicer later!

I should mention here that we are already well into building the house and hope we will be finished in about two month.

We had consulted several builders and architects - but all where far to expensive or seemed expensive for what we wanted to built.

Starting with the plans we where quoted between 45.000-65.000 Baht but got them done by the architect who works at the Orportor for 25.000 Baht . It is the same office where you get your building permit - so no problems there - only the time he took was ...- well this is Thailand and I know from experience here to expect delays.
Next was the decision how to built - have the whole thing done by a company or hire a builder and crew and purchase all the materials ourselves.

We did some research into construction materials and thought it might be much cheaper to do it that way and we have never regretted it! Although it is a bit unnerving if you start building and have no idea how much it is going to cost you!

Let the adventure begin!!