Thread: BD dream getting there

A fantastic thread....I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it....goodonya

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More photos tomorrow people.

That restaurant will be completed in no time.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

guttering

You posh git...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

You posh git...

One does try what what what

Disaster oh disaster
Just when sod the fish was gaining ground some numpty started a thread because they want to change there unused swimming pool into a fish pond. The Wife read this with interest. But to make matters worse it got a reply advising bottom feeders, top feeders, algae eaters, fountains with bloody filters, habitats for fish and using bloody rocks !! rocks for gods sake !!! how am I supposed to contemplate life the universe and such like in Wat BD with the above mentioned abominations.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Disaster oh disaster
Just when sod the fish was gaining ground some numpty started a thread because they want to change there unused swimming pool into a fish pond. The Wife read this with interest. But to make matters worse it got a reply advising bottom feeders, top feeders, algae eaters, fountains with bloody filters, habitats for fish and using bloody rocks !! rocks for gods sake !!! how am I supposed to contemplate life the universe and such like in Wat BD with the above mentioned abominations.

Dear me BD, this is serious indeed. You must adapt to changing circumstances no matter what. This swimming pool conversion that has crashed in on your life must have been done by an American....they have a tendency to overkill you know....with algae eaters and rocks in this case.......and with sheer firepower when it comes to minor international disputes......Tomahawk missiles when a 12ga shotgun would do...

I would try to negotiate a bit....maybe suggest a few rocks...smallish ones, just as an opening position, but hold the line on top feeders and fountains. Once the ground is well established you could quietly lose the rocks over time. There are always ways.... but in this case stealth seems the way to go.....

^ By and large I'm with Koman on this.

Speaking for myself BD, I'd be far more relaxed using the pool in the knowledge that I'd also excluded bottom feeders from there.

I do understand that its a lifestyle choice though, so each to their own in this regard.

BD, ignore Roobarb and Kooman, they are too PC.

1) Don't let your wife read anything that may conflict with your commandments.

2) Discourage your wife from reading, she may forget completely over time, and that's a positive thing.

3) Assert yeeself! It's a manpool!!!

4) Inform her, if she wants to read at all, then she can research outdoor beer fridges and the like.

5) If need be, smack her bottom.

Repeat 5 every few days.

^ ... and if she wants to paint it pink then absolutely insist that she let you choose the shade - unless of course she doesn't like your choice in which case..........

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Typical armchair warrior, talking from the safety of the male dominated
Emirate thousands of kms away....

....the same warrior who recently funded an aging pickup truck purchase without even knowing about it until his wife closed the deal ....

Stick to that A, E. C chord change....

BD, ignore the PC crowd. The modern man is a strong man, compassionate but firm, with a manpool.

I happen to like pink, buying Izuzus for Thai relatives, and playing the guitar. The fact that I've trained my wife to know exactly what I like and stick to it was a tough process, but has proven very worthwhile.

I'm not going to mention Frankenkitchen or termites.

BD, your wife will be very busy with the lovely new restaurant and car park facility, so she won't have time to worry about the manpool - refocus her efforts upon oven design and restaurant tables...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I'm not going to mention Frankenkitchen

Well, that's a first.......

Gentlemen thank you for your varied opinions and advice. Betty hoping she will forget how to read English is a no hoper. I have mentioned before the Wife is fluent in English ( she has been an interpreter ) in fact she corrects my spelling all the time. However I think we have reached a compromise. Previous pics of the pond/manpool show it to be rectangular in shape. Here is a photo of the recently completed extension. Regardless of what goes in the main bit this section has been allotted official Wat BD status.

Bankao ......

I'm majorly surprised because I thought I had read your Thread ... and I haven't !
I know your house - it's in the Gallery - we've spoken to each other - I don't know what happened - so I started today and it's really interesting .
I love the simple opening " We bought 3000 m2 of land " . Blimey . It's like the start of Out of Africa.

Anyway ... I'm only a few pages into the story and you've just raised the home on the columns and I need to ask about that .

On my thread I was never there when they were putting in columns . So I've read other people .
For example koman driving 7 metre concrete posts into the ground first . Needed for the weight of Franky.

On yours you kind of skipped that part but I'm needing to order some posts ( 15 of them ) to be constructed so I want to know what you guys did there .

I can see the concrete posts in the holes but what preceded that ? Please ?

I know I'm late to this particular party but I'd appreciate knowing and I know I'm going to enjoy the story..

Thanks . Wasp

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Originally Posted by Wasp

I can see the concrete posts in the holes but what preceded that ? Please ?

Underneath the concrete base posts all we have is a rebar crisscross but then all the base posts were linked together with a rebar and concrete ground beam. Happy that you are reading the thread Wasp please feel free to ask questions.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Originally Posted by Wasp

I can see the concrete posts in the holes but what preceded that ? Please ?

Underneath the concrete base posts all we have is a rebar crisscross but then all the base posts were linked together with a rebar and concrete ground beam. Happy that you are reading the thread Wasp please feel free to ask questions.

I thought you'd tell me off for not reading your Thread yet ! I don't understand why I haven't read this .

Anyway .... I can't picture what a " rebar crisscross " is .

I assume it's a block of cement - a " plug " - with rebar going through it ? And if it is then how deep is the plug ?

I know there are plenty of other builds showing this but I can never get a firm understanding . Clearly koman went for an extremely strong base .
Driven poles and then plugs on top of those . But with Franky he needed to . Then with other guys it looks like they've dug down maybe 2 metres and filled up one metre with cement and bar .
But it looks like they didn't always go down to a rock base .

Have I got that right ? Have you any photos ' in the hole ' ?

I'm asking all this because I have no faith at all in the builders that Missy used .
She only employed them because they are her cousins !


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Sorry Wasp I haven't got any photos showing a hole. Our house being wood, not that big and sitting on 16 posts which spreads the weight didn't require the extensive ground work you see on some other builds. In the bottom of the holes we placed rebar then the concrete bases then poured concrete up to the top of the hole.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Our house being wood

.....Wood has one great quality that other building materials do not have and that is the ability to flex and adjust. Wooden houses (even quite large ones, can be jacked up and moved on a platform to be re-located) Wood houses, if constructed properly, will withstand a pretty sever earthquake without suffering any great amount of structural damage.

In my old stomping ground on the West coast of Canada virtually all houses are build of wood....which is plentiful being as the place is mostly covered in forests; and so it's much cheaper than here. My last house there had 2 x 10 Douglas fir framing which is almost unheard of these days, but it had been built by an old logging contractor (Russian) Nothing would knock that bugger down.

The main concern with wood of course is fire....and the cost of insuring wood frame houses can often be double that for masonary structures. (depending on the quality of fire protection)

Wood does have a tendency to burn very well; especially when it is old and well seasoned, and the very nature of a wood house is that it is an almost perfect combustion chamber... so get your smoke detectors installed...and buy a few good extinguishers .... Even with good fire protection and quick response times we would see constructive total losses with old wood houses on a fairly regular basis.




This happened just last week in New Westminster, BC A wood frame apartment building. A multi million dollar total loss with 5 fire departments within range. If this building had been concrete and steel they might have lost 2 or 3 units instead of 37.


Here endeth the first lesson on fire loss adjustment.....

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

... or termites

Oi, Betty. In your own thread, and probably within 30 minutes of posting this, you said about your own place, and I quote "If I do live there then I'll likely knock the bloody walls". I think a couple of termites in BD's or my wooden places will have nothing on a Betty scorned.

BTW Koman - I've not got me specs on but it looks to be a nice sunset in the picture above.

Originally Posted by Roobarb

BTW Koman - I've not got me specs on but it looks to be a nice sunset in the picture above.

....well, it certainly lit the place up for a few hours...and unlike sunsets, caused a bit of traffic chaos, according to the local press.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Here is a photo of the recently completed extension. Regardless of what goes in the main bit this section has been allotted official Wat BD status.

The extension looks like the corner nearest to the fridge BD, and building it has brought you a metre or so closer to the source of cold beer?

It would be a masterstroke in negotiation if that is the case.

This is nice, the wife has given you a little corner, we see who wears the trousers there... From your little corner, you can look over at the wife's aquarium, or you could have if one of the two MiLs weren't sitting in your seat drinking your beer...

Having said that, I am confident that, unlike Franekitchen, the Manpool will turn out very well.