The construction of Ms. Buad hai's house

[Lily]

Furnishing the house sounds like a good idea for the next thread.

[buad hai]

all good threads must come to an end!

Amen!

[a. boozer]

Furnishing the house sounds like a good idea for the next thread.

No doubt, with BH's vision and skill with handicrafts, he will have already had his eye on some bamboo and trees, to cut down and fashion into some usable furniture.

Come on BH. don't rest on your laurels, get cracking!

[mrsquirrel]

48 more posts to hit 1000

[a. boozer]

48 more posts to hit 1000

I hadn't noticed that fact, but it has been a great tale, and well told and illustrated.

[DrAndy]

48 more posts to hit 1000

mind you, it was started by AC all about his house, then it got deviated to BH house

I could never understand why it was not split

[dirtydog]

I think we mergered it. hmmm, thats a word and a half aint it.

[Propagator]

Congrats BH - you look really happy in the kitchen photo - glad it has finally worked out for you. Shall miss this thread as I must admit that it was the first that I lookled at every day. Hope that you get the furniture side sorted out soon. I remember when I moved into my place after the split with the now ex wife I was able to furnish virtually all from car boot sales. Looks like you could do with a few in Korat

[Jet Gorgon]

hope that bottle of wine wasn't too expensive

Birthday present. First bottle this year. Drunk it over a three day period ending with the first meal I cooked in the new kitchen. Spaghetti:





As you can see, we're sorely lacking in the furniture department....

First off, I gotta say, take that sticker off the dam pot. (I always had a peeve about Thais leaving the stickers on their appliances -- fek, can't even see the whole movie cause of the stickers stating "it's a Sony" or whatever stuck on the screen.

Second, even if you get furniture, the fam is going to sit on the floor to eat, watch telly, whatever. Buy another plant. 555

Finally, thanks DrA for info about AC. I know I read this from the start, but was new, and then after I always wondered who the heck AC was when Mrs BH was Mrs B...

[dano]

i was hoping for a nice aglio olio but it looks like bolognese.......... with a side order of garlic bread

[buad hai]

First off, I gotta say, take that sticker off the dam pot.

I'm with you on the stickers. But, I was in such a hurry to cook that I simply forgot....

As for furniture, I've been living on the floor for the past 30+ years. No couch or easy chairs for us. But, we do need some bookcases, cabinets and other storage. I really hate the Index/Koncept/SB crap, so we're going to hold out for real wood. There's a shop in town that custom makes stuff out of old used house wood. It's a bit crudely done, but sturdy enough and I like it.

Sorry about the name confusion. The construction thread started here:

https://teakdoor.com/living-in-thaila...y-a-house.html

And then moved here:

https://teakdoor.com/building-in-thai...-progress.html

Both of those were when I was using the nick Buadhai. When I got tired of the TV harassment I became Anonymous Coward and started this thread. I tried to go back to Buadhai, but had forgotten the password so I became "buad hai" and simply continued with this thread.

[dirtydog]

Should an amendment be made to the titles, ie Part 1 etc, and also links put to each part in the first post? Looking at the size of this thread I had assumed they were all mergered, I think mergering them all would put off anybody new opening the thread as it maybe several hundred pages long.

[DrAndy]

BH, you got tired of TV harrassment!! you should have said that was what was happening and we could have seen them off

never mind, alls well that ends well

it is the end isn't it?

[Eliminator]

Naw he's got to make the thousand mark and I'll help. Good on you BH.

[Art Vandelay]

I'll help too. Great thread. I can't say I've read every post though. I kept losing track of where I left off. That 'view last post read' thing doesn't work too well when you jump into a long thread like this. These construction threads have been excellent.

[buad hai]

Since I went to all the trouble to have the house wired properly I decided it was time to make sure all the appliances take advantage of the correctly grounded outlets.

As most of you know, most products made for the Thai market have no grounding pins on the plug.

This old washing machine (on loan) actually has three wires in the cable, but the grounding pin has been removed:



I thought it might be easier (as suggested above) to fashion grounding pins rather than install new plugs on everything. I made this one out of some heavy gauge wire (removed from a discarded hunk of eight inch hardware cloth):



I'm kind of surprised that some enterprising entrepreneur doesn't market these pins for people who actually care about the safety of their family members.

Anyway, the pin slides right in and is held in place by some spring steel inside the plug. I checked continuity with a meter. Two ohms in this case so I know I'm good to go:


(Sorry, but it's pretty hard to photograph the LCD screen on my multi-meter.)

[Sir Burr]

^
We'll take your word for it BH that it says 2 Ohms. Great thread.

[ThisOldHouse]

^^BH, you're such a MacGyver kinda guy! I love your ingenuity.

(for those who never watched this ancient American TV series, relevant info is here, or "MacGyver" (1985) - IMDb user comments)

[MeMock]

Phew - finally caught up on this thread.

Great to see those two pics of you on the bridge and cooking.

Well done.

[Jet Gorgon]

Groan. Those plugs and points snaps and commentary just send me to Nodsville. Sorry.
Furniture. You build it, BH. A new thread for us!
Bookcases: old planks with old bricks stacking levels at each end.
Chairs: You can build them out of tamarind old tree rounds. Just add cushions.
Bed: Well, you gotta buy a mattress.
Get the internet in, BH!
I'm baking apple crumble tartlets right now. I'll send you one.
PS, was this thread split and remerged so it'll take more posts to make it 1,000, DD?

[Butterfly]

This old washing machine (on loan) actually has three wires in the cable, but the grounding pin has been removed:

it has not been removed, it's the European system, the ground pin is usually on the wall plugs

Since the wall plugs here use a mix of US/Euro connectors, you need to buy a small adapter to add the ground pin to the plug, available everywhere at HomePro (don't ask the staff they won't know where, it's in the electrical section, look hard)

[lom]

^I usually save the two pins from the plug if I have to cut the cable and remove the plug.
Those pins fits perfectly in the safety ground hole in the plug.

[gusG]

I've got a water cooler that has a 2 pin plug and an earth wire screwed onto the body, so I just put the plug in one socket on the wall, and stick the eath wire into the earth ground hole in the socket next to it,which is unused.

[buad hai]

Since the wall plugs here use a mix of US/Euro connectors, you need to buy a small adapter to add the ground pin to the plug, available everywhere at HomePro (don't ask the staff they won't know where, it's in the electrical section, look hard)

Ah, now I see. I was at HomePro today searching, but didn't find. Can you give me a hint as to the sort of packaging I should expect?

I went to a big electronic supply house yesterday and asked if they carried the pin, but they just shook their heads.

[Jet Gorgon]

Yawn. Do pin plugs come in a selection of decorator colours?