Not a House Building Thread .

[terp80]

Haha. Well done (again) Waspie! But you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers . . . except my story does look pretty accurate.

[BKKBILL]

I clicked on the headline wanting to get the full story of the restaurant failure but nothing happened.

Is there a paid subscription fee?

My internet has been acting up lately maybe that is the problem and it will fix itself by the morning.

Oh also saw 2 members and 3 guests viewing so that part is working.

[Wasp]

BKKBILL

I clicked on the headline wanting to get the full story of the restaurant failure but nothing happened.



Didn't the Restaurant Failure show you the menu ?
And then under that I think there are two more articles ?


W

[bankao dreamer]

Excellent edition of the Somchai Times, and I feel honoured to have 2 items. Well done again old bean and I especially like the miniature swimming pool.

[Wasp]

............and I love stories about your BIL!

INDOLENTOGRAM




An earthquake in Issann !!!!!!

Some movement from the Blob !!!!!

We have a communication from he-of-little-movement .
He has acquired a device of incredible accuracy and has managed ..... without any serious damage to his personal self apart from some weariness ...........
to move the necessary 30 metres !

And after some minimal training and encouragement he has used ' long number spingy ' to measure the distance I need from the shutter to the boundary wall.

And the answer is ...........

It is 6 metres .



Or 6 metres 70cm .



He can't remember .



He didn't write it down.





Wsp

[Wasp]

Of course it's improbable that we can get another measurement out of him this side of New Year .



He's unlikely to be passing that way .






Wsp

[Wasp]

So there is Missy ....... looking for songs on Youtube .
And only looking for the stuff she knows .
Which is of course " Hotel California " and " Bohemian Rhapsody " . .

Can you imagine someone who has never heard of all the wonderful artists that you and I take for granted ? Never even heard of The Beatles !!!

And she loves guitar riffs .

So I introduce her to Led Zeppelin .

" Stairway To Heaven " . Fabulous ....... and she's air-guitaring away like crazy.

" Stairway To Heaven " " Stairway To Heaven " .
She knows the name and she loves the track .

And I ask her 3 days later what the song is called.


" Walk Away Up , Up Up !!! "



Well she tries.




Wasp

[BaitongBoy]

Heh...Stairway to Isaan...Gotta love it...

[Wasp]

Heh...Stairway to Isaan...Gotta love it...

Asked her again today .

Answer ...." Walk To Buddah !! Up , Up , Very High "

She's getting closer so I rewarded this with Bonny Tyler ' Total Eclipse of The Heart ' .
Which she thought it was sensational !!!

" But what is eecripss ? "

Try that one for yourself , BaitongB .

Find yourself a sweet , uneducated Thai and explain what an eclipse is !
Fortunately I did buy 4 boxes of Paracetamol yesterday and they were all needed as the conversation descended into vampires and Draculas !



Wasp

[FatOne]

HaHaHa, I love these stories of Missy's learning. My darling loves western music and Thai music, she has an app on her Samsung phone that will give her the name of any song she listens to, and another app that lets her download any song for free. Play Take me to your heart by "Michael learns to rock" for her, she will love it!!!!

[Wasp]

Play Take me to your heart by "Michael learns to rock" for her, she will love it!!!!

Will do , Marts !

It gets scarey here when she decides to sing along with the lyrics even though she absolutely does not know the lyrics .
Because she does pick up the odd phrase and she's so pleased with herself she screams the words .

Hence in Bohemian Rhapsody we suddenly get treated to ... " No! No! No!! No!!! No!!!!No!!!! NO!!!!!! Mamma Mia , Mamma Mia , Mamma Mia , Let Me Go !!!!! "

Vishmilla .... NO !! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO !!! "


Bloody Nora !! The neighbours must be reaching for the phones .


And with " Totarr Ecripss O De Harrrr " we get Missy screaming " I REALLY NEED YOU TONIGHT !!!! " which simply makes my naughty bits shrink .



Wasp

[FatOne]

You've gotta love 'em

[terp80]

^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ etc.

[BaitongBoy]

Try that one for yourself , BaitongB .
Find yourself a sweet , uneducated Thai and explain what an eclipse is !

I would probably cheat and tell her it was something hot and nasty which all women are bound to perform for their man, and this one is simply really wanting to do it again tonight...Maybe...

[Neverna]

Find yourself a sweet , uneducated Thai and explain what an eclipse is !

A picture is worth a thousand words (they say). A dictionary is worth it's weight in Thai baht.

[Wasp]

I've given up on the "eecripss ."

Told her they are internet crisps .


We could all do these stories about language confusions .
I'm sure of that .
But Missy just seems to have confusions that are so believable .
And another one during this past week . Mercifully she has moved on from Totarr Ecripsses o Derr Harrrr and is addicted to " Halleluyah " " Halleluyah ..... "

The downer about this is she only knows one word so it's " Halleluyah ! ..... Halleluyah ! ..... Halleeluyah ! ...... Hallelooooooooooooyah -- Mumble Mumble Mumble Mumble Mumble ---- and back to strings of over-enthusiastic Halleluyahs again .....

This week's big confusion is her friend showing off to Missy because this friend has just bought a new car from ALDI .

Now for those of you who don't know ... ALDI is CostCo .
It's a shit crap store which actually does have some bargains but it's at the bottom end of the food ladder in the UK .

Waitrose and M&S at the top ....... ALDI and LIDL at the bottom .

So the friend is swanking away about this car they bought from ALDI.
And to be honest I didn't know ALDI sold cars .

MISSY is decidedly unimpressed . " Iss RUBBISS shop ha ? " ..... " Iss same Piemark ? " ( Primark ) . "

So this must be one majorly crap car .

And just today we have to go for a drive to a Thai food market for her treats .


And on the way she sees a big car dealership near Guildford .
" Look !!! ...... Iss crap car shop for crap cheap car !!! Huh !!! "





{ It's AUDI !!! }





Wasp . :

[Wasp]

Well ............. I have another construction to report on .

An actual complete construction/renovation to rival anything that skanky old splitlid can throw together ...........

But before putting it all together I want to ask Roobarb , Bettyboo , Bankao , bkkkevin , Dillinger , katie , splitlid , loombucket , baitong , ootai , marty , terp , koman , bkkbill , 6kon , svendiederik , biff , stevef ---- all that collection of extremely dubious characters to look at something for 4 minutes .


Because it's beautiful . ( Connect to some good speakers ).



This .................


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Wasp
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[FatOne]

Very Nice Waspie

[terp80]

"Because it's beautiful "- indeed Waspie. Thanks for a nice break for my head.

[BKKBILL]

Thanks for the tune Wasp got all tingly ...... but it could have been anticipating that complete construction/renovation thingy.

[Wasp]

Thanks for the tune Wasp got all tingly ...... but it could have been anticipating that complete construction/renovation thingy.

The build won't make you as tingly as the song .

I promise you.




Wasp

[Wasp]

Billiam ........ if you found that song to be tingly you should look at the original video that was with the song .




..... and if you like the music enough then play the cd which is also on Youtube .

They are Pink Martini . Best CD would be ' A Retrospective ' .

I just think they are a very classy set-up.




Wasp

[BKKBILL]

Thanks Wasp did enjoy that one.

[Wasp]

Had a change of mind.



Wasp

[Wasp]

I’ve stolen stuff !!!!

From LEGENDARY .



I have said from time to time that although I'm clearly something of a Design genius this Thread about Missy's home is all about a Renovation.

Not a Build .

So I don't have the experience of constructing the fundamentals .
And this in turn has meant asking very basic questions of you more serious builders from time to time . Especially the issue of putting a solid ' plug ' into the ground on which to stand the supporting pillars.

Now ..... in January I'll be in Thailand again after a 3 year absence and though I have strong doubts about living there I did promise to do an extension for Missy .

So I have to start with one of the very simplest of tasks ... making footings upon which to position posts .
And if I am planning the wrong thing please do tell me .

But I have been following LEGENDARY ‘s work and he has a video about constructing Column Footers which is so clear that even this Dummy can understand .
So my credit to Him…… as I’ve stolen his material .

I'll refer to this stuff myself when I'm in Issan … In fact that's why I'm putting it here. But maybe someone wants to tell me it’s not the way to go .

So ……how to make a solid Footer for a pillar to go onto .


1.) Get some reinforcing bar and get a handy Thai who has his own 'crowbar' and he will bend the bar into loops and bends .



2.) Your handy Thai will then shape the bars into cages .





3.) The cages are attached to a square of more rebar and then the whole thing is inverted into your hole in the ground .





4.) Pour your cement /stones / concrete mixture into the hole .





5.) Then cap it all off with a lovely level concrete topping .






See !! I can be serious . It IS a construction Thread ( sometimes ) .
But have I got things right and will this support a balcony and maybe a Q-Con room ? I think LEGENDARY went down 6 feet.


And at the same time ........ you peoples ..... I remember folks talking about different types of rebar . It wouldn't have occurred to me that there could be high and low quality rebar . All looks the same to me .
So if an expert ( splitlid ? ) is able to tell me specifically what to insist on as spec for rebar then I'd be full of grate .




Wasp