Thread: BD dream getting there

Originally Posted by Roobarb

Oi, Betty.

Sorry, that was a cheap shot, and all things considered - not wise.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

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.

How deep were the holes ?

Originally Posted by Wasp

How deep were the holes ?

About 0.7m the ground where the house sits is quite solid.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Originally Posted by Wasp

How deep were the holes ?

About 0.7m the ground where the house sits is quite solid.

............ and ( this will seem strange ) what actually IS a sala ?
You've just raised your sala and I'm always reading about salas but I don't know what it is .

The dictionary says it's a Waiting Room ?????

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Please refer to page 7 of my thread Koman asked the very same question.

Sala...Sitting and lounging area!

Very apt if I say so.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

My refuge is not much closer to the fridge unfortunately but I have embarked on cunning scheme. A couple of the recent emancipated turtles frequently try to escape the sanctuary that they have been placed. So I am trying to capitalise on their movement qualities and are training them to fetch beer from the fridge to Wat BD.

Well, it might not be entirely correct to say that your idea's got legs BD, but nonetheless I reckon you might be on to something:

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A few pics of the finished tiling underneath the house.











I have more pics but the internet connection is a bit slow tonight and I am falling asleep waiting for them to load

Very nice - great living space that is.

Well Bankao it's all looking very very nice .

I've said on another Thread that I wasn't sure with the idea of the teak Thai houses .

Then I saw them raised with the sala and I loved it .

And then you did all that extra stuff with the cement blocks .... and I loathed it - which is quite a swing .

And then you painted the additions with that Burnt Sienna colour paint .... and I love it all again .

But in those shots of the walkways upstairs with all the highly polished dark wood it doesn't look like it's Thai at all .

It looks Japanese . It's great BD .


Wasp
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Thank you Betty and Wasp we went for the dark stain because thats the colour houses where painted around here long ago. Every one who sees it say we haven't seen a house that colour for years.

Now as Wasp asked previously if we had any pics of what went in my holes. I am sorry I neglected my holes but to try and make up for it here is someone else's holes.
The Sala being built for the Wat across the road from us.





Update on the restaurant thing showing the kitchen, notice we have gone for the Vietnamese prison look, a style that has been neglected of late.





Our tiler has finished now and he enjoyed working for us so much he didn't want to leave. We also needed a fountain in our pond. So we came to an agreement benefiting all of us.
Grandad Porn is now our fountain although he point blank refused to be spray painted gold, you can't have everything I suppose.

If you don't mind a bit of objective criticism BD, I think you may have erred by pouring a concrete floor for your restaurant. If you are looking for authenticity you need to rip that out. Dog urine can not soak into concrete, and chickens can't scratch in it properly.

In most of the really authentic restaurants I frequented around here, they used dogs for cleaning off the tables, and the chickens to keep the floor free of food scraps and crawling things.

Not having these low cost solutions may drive up overhead and make the place less profitable. When I was in business I was always on the lookout for economies in order to remain competitive. It is a mostly capitalist and very free enterprise society here after all... and competition in the restaurant business is pretty fierce...

Otherwise, an excellent effort. That Vietnamese holding tank look will be a big hit I'm sure...

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I did consider the dog/chicken cleaning system. The local restaurants around here use that method. I thought it might make a nice change for poeple to eat without animals running around. I will try the human with cloth and brush method first, but if it is not cost effective then I will spread some dirt on the concrete and get some chickens. Im ok for dog cleaners as we have 7 muts who waste most of the day sleeping.

A couple of pics of our new guttering. The down pipes are made on site out of sheet metal. Unfortunately I didn't get a pic of them hand forming them as we had to pop out somewhere.

This one is on the front which will empty into our posh pots.



This one on the back will connect to our big storage pots we got the other day. ( Roobarb will be dismayed these also came of the back of a travelling lorry)

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Grandad Porn is now our fountain although he point blank refused to be spray painted gold

I had to re-read this sentence once or twice...

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Roobarb will be dismayed these also came of the back of a travelling lorry

'Ello 'ello 'ello.

Wot all this then?



- Hidden 'round the back of the house eh?

- Signs of a hasty paint job?

I think you'd best be comin' along quietly sir...

Originally Posted by Roobarb

I had to re-read this sentence once or twice...

Yes I had to read it twice myself but you know over here depending on age, status and stuff people are cousins, aunty,uncle,grandma or grandad. Our tiler's name is Porn which I think means holy or something similar,and the Wife calls him Grandad because he is getting on a bit. Hence Grandad Porn

Originally Posted by Roobarb

I think you'd best be comin' along quietly sir...

No no Guv there Kosher honest to God I aint done nuffing wrong honest.

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

No no Guv there Kosher honest to God I aint done nuffing wrong honest.

Even the pots appear to be raising their eyebrows in surprise at that statement...

^there seems to be a couple of yokels looking to steal a few pieces (back right)...

^ there seems to be a couple of yokels looking to steal a few pieces back, right?

Now I just got to say I do love your hole bankao .

Though you missed an opportunity here to lob in a Roman or even a Greek .

But on the subject of this particular hole BD .............

1. Is there any steel running through that cement at the bottom ?

2. How deep is that cement base ?

3. How long did you allow that cement base to set ?

and 4. Is that rebar construction just standing freely on the cement base ?
............. And how much of that rebar will be in the ground ( Meaning I assume you pour in cement to ground level now and then form your columns ?)

Maybe a new design for that ? Tulips ?



Wasp

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I have no idea Wasp its a foundation hole for a new Sala at the Wat over the road from us. I wasn't there when they put it all in. I don't want to ask them at the moment because there has been an almighty ruckus over there. You see its a joint village effort and the elder ( a former village chairman ) who was entrusted with the plans and told to go and buy all the rebar, decided in his infinite wisdom and without consulting anyone that the specified steel was too thick and too expensive. So he bought everything 2mm smaller than specified in the plans.
Everyone else was totally ignorant of this fact until !!!!!! The main Wat for this area has a monk who is also a qualified engineer. It is his responsibility to to go around and check that the work is being done correctly.
When he realised what the elder had done he went into full on Bishop Brennen mode. By then it was too late all the rebar was in the ground.
So you see dear friends it happens to Thais and not just us Farangs.


Now the 2 characters that Betty and Roobarb think want to steal my posts are in fact the lads who have to bash it with hammers and attack it with machetes until it looks like this.



The Vietnamese prison / Kitchen is coming along.



The worktops or cells underway.

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Splendid looking place. The Thais really are very good at making things out of sticks. I was amazed at some of the creations my building guys came up with....fish traps, cages for birds and animals, chairs....give them a bundle of sticks and can build just about anything. I predict Isaan will have a bamboo nuclear power station one day.....

....is there an interrogation room planned for the restaurant/prison?

Originally Posted by koman

is there an interrogation room planned for the restaurant/prison?

Yes there is it will also double as a toilet when not being used for poking sharpened bamboo into transgressors.

Originally Posted by koman

The Thais really are very good at making things out of sticks

I agree watching them put this place together has been very interesting. They have pretty much got freedom to do what they want. They run there ideas through with me and wife first but everything they have suggested just looks so cool.