Thread: Off we go ! Our little home construction in deep Issan

There's a lot to love about those bricks. Are they expensive, Nige? Easy to source?

The blocks are around 45bht each Betty, and as I said before Andy the guy putting it all together for us also has one of the factories here that make them.

I believe it's a franchise operation with the blocks ( but don't quote me )

Looking good nige, i would love to check it out, i am planning a trip to udon early next month, mind if i drop in for a nosy? your somewhere around there eh ?

We both love it anyway the way it's taking shape.

It's all going up at a rate of knots and the sooner we are in the better, at the moment we are staying in a room in one of the family homes about 7 foot by 9 foot so it's cosy to say the least.

Coupled up with the fact that the toilet door has an alarm on it wired up to the other 3 houses on the plot to alert them all to assemble by the bog door and talk to me as I am vacating my bowels.


The new house has 3 doors all with locks on them and signs made up ready with rude words in Thai ,, the second one translated means OFF !!!!

Love to see you BLD mate, , will pm you my number, , your welcome anytime ( if you can find us )

I've never seen a house built like this before in Thailand...It's looking great but we ( I ) need more pictures please

Nigel - delighted to see the first pic was a great big lorry squeezed into a tiny little space - you've not lost the plot yet...

Sorry to hear that the IT side is causing you so much grief but hell, it wouldn't be a TD build if there wasn't some form of disaster. Glad at least the important bit - i.e. getting the house built - is going to plan.

To echo others, I'm interested to see how the 'Lego brick' construction pans out. Looks a really sensible way of doing things.

Thanks for hanging in there with the updates.

Shame the old doc seems to have flounced off , it would have been nice to have his ten pence worth, , all though love him or hate him he has over the years contributed a lot to the build threads if nowt else.

Having said that ending up where he did I can't blame him for leaving the building, ,

Have noticed a few new faces in here though

Nigel , great job , expensive bricks nearly £1 a brick , saying that the brick is well designed and the house will withstand a tornado for sure and as for DrAndy he is about for sure , still sulking , God bless him ,

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

And we have strictly come dancing in cement ,, please don't try this at home !

Are they seriously walking with their bare feed in concrete? It can be quite dangerous as the PH-value is 13-14 and can cause severe burn wounding.

Thai's feet are like leather .

Initially you said the blocks were going to be filled with concrete on the first 3-4 base courses... Your latest pics show concrete fill much higher?...

Also what is the total block count you will need to complete the project?

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

Looking good nige, i would love to check it out, i am planning a trip to udon early next month, mind if i drop in for a nosy? your somewhere around there eh ?

Ah fuk it,

I'm coming up as well for a look see, bring a cartoon of Dark Beer Lao with ya.

Cmon down Tel, more the merrier,

I should get the rest of the pics up later today from this week, they're worth a look.

Kevin it is only in the first 3 layers, it just gets poured around window / door lintel areas with reb ar for support.

Not sure on block count, will go out with me abacus a bit later

It's coming along nicely Nigel and looks good. Definitely keep posting pics when you can !

Cheers,
Steve

Thanks Stevo will do mate. The Internet shop I used to use in Ban Dump was gutted yesterday so I had to use another place full of dodgy software on pc, s running with diesel powered celeron chips.

Gonna use the SIL, s lappy on her hospital wi fi today.

It's very frustrating at times especially when your used to instant access like at home.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Thanks Stevo will do mate. The Internet shop I used to use in Ban Dump was gutted yesterday so I had to use another place full of dodgy software on pc, s running with diesel powered celeron chips.

Gonna use the SIL, s lappy on her hospital wi fi today.

It's very frustrating at times especially when your used to instant access like at home.

No excuses now - get them pics up (after another snooze of course)!

Trying mate, here goes my first go on my own loading pics direct from my pad.

If some Japanese porn comes up either blame or thank Marmite as he showed me the ropes

Whay !! We're off now



A view down the rear side showing the window areas being formed

The bathroom end

Filling in around the balcony area 3 blocks solid

A view of the front door area, we're putting in a 900mm reasonable middle of the road quality wood door.

Looking good Nige. Coming on fast.