Well this house build is actually in Pattaya near my land, about a year ago they added about 40cm of topsoil to raise the land, a lot of that washed away during the rainy season, and a couple of weeks ago they started the build.

The land area is around 20 meters by 20 meters, ie 100 farang wai, maybe slightly bigger, the only problem I can see is there won't be a garden, they have left about 1 meter down the sides and 2 meters at the front, no off road parking here as the soi is too narrow so the parking bay must be part of the house.

The land with the holes dug for the footings.



You can see they used a digger and didn't dig out by hand, got to admit on seeing those holes I thought it was going to be a block of 3 story shop houses, as this is a dead on Soi with the maximum potential of another 5 houses being built and only 1 there at the moment it wouldn't be a good place to open a business.



Anyway I caught them working today, it's going to be a single story house, but a big one, think there is about 25 posts so thats going to be a lot of rooms.



The footings supported on breeze block, pretty big area for a single story house, got to assume the soil is soft here, you can see the 3 by 3 by 3 breeze blocks that have been used for the form work, each breeze block is 40cm by 20 cm so the footing will be 120cm by 120cm.



Little spindly posts using 12mm steel for the uprights, they are going to look pretty ugly once the building is complete, still, it is a Thai area.



Completion is estimated at 3 and 1/2 months, doubt they have taken into account Songkran in April in about 2 and 1/2 months, still we shall see if they complete in time.