Thread: Building a house in Nakon Ratchasima province(Isaan)

Originally Posted by ling noi

Hello everyone.
I have very much enjoyed reading of your various exploits doing battle with thai builders. I have sometimes laughed until I have cried and other times my jaw has dropped with incredulity at the sheer craziness of it all. However , my time has come and 'she who thinks she knows best ' has decided we need a house .
Of course , there is nothing for sale in the village and certainly nothing that I would even consider calling 'Home' . But as luck would have it (Hmmm ),Papa's garden is easily big enough to put a house in.
Yes - I know........ I can hear you all screaming now........Don't do it !!
But here I go anyway. I'm never going to outlive my teerak so she will get it in the end so I might as well look big about it.
So I have done my own design of house loosely based on my house in England but enlarged it slightly to work better in Thailand.
The site of my endeavour is in Korat, north of Nak Ratch close to Kham Sakaesaeng.
I have spoken with a local building company whose work I have seen and so far I am hopeful that they will do a competant job. At least they have a good reputation locally and they employ their tradesmen full time .
So, like a lamb to the slaughter, I am embarking upon a voyage that I am sure will keep me more than a little engaged for a while.
I will keep you all posted with developments as they occur .
Best Regards to you all. Mike ( Ling Noi )

Thank you very much for your kind words.I wish you all the best and strenght and passion for your new house.
So you are prepared to start the battle...LOL..

to upload picture here,you have to get familiar with the procedure first,once you know how it works,its easy....i had problems on the start too,until i knew how it works....
looking forward seeing a new house blog.
all the best mate

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Originally Posted by ling noi

Would someone please tell me how to open up a new thread for my proposed project ?
I'm blowed if I can find out because its all new to me ........ Thanks Ling Noi

Go to Construction in Thailand - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum

Half way down the screen on the LHS you will see this button ...



Good Luck little monkey

Thanks for your help mate....

Gday,here are two more links from the progress of the driveway and front wall..I completely forgot to upload part 5 here when i was done in STEEMIT page.
Ive got still a bit work to do,all the little bits and pieces and special wishes from my wife...

i posted this 22 days ago on STEEMIT


https://steemit.com/construction/@ur...hailand-part-5




the last one i just posted it an hour ago.


https://steemit.com/construction/@ur...hailand-part-6


there will be a couple more to come.i hope you guys still like it....i really dont want to do the work twice and i get a nice little reward on top of it with STEEMIT.
cheers

Whilst I (and probably every reader here) totally understand the stress and trouble caused by your dealings with the particular construction company involved in your house build, despite the fact that you have clearly documented the activities and issues in question, a word of caution perhaps to other potential authors of similar posts... there are very stiff laws here in Thailand regarding defamation (Section 326 of the Thai Criminal Code) or Libel (Section 423 of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code).

Here in Thailand, it can be a criminal offence as well as a civil offence to publicly defame a person or company as a named entity, unless that named party can be shown as liable in a court of law. Loss of face is one thing, but I'd be a bit careful about posting negatively about a named company actively still in business. Unless you like appearing in a court of law that is!

Good to see that you are nearing completion, even if the journey was a bit bumpy!

Originally Posted by jonnyenglish

Whilst I (and probably every reader here) totally understand the stress and trouble caused by your dealings with the particular construction company involved in your house build, despite the fact that you have clearly documented the activities and issues in question, a word of caution perhaps to other potential authors of similar posts... there are very stiff laws here in Thailand regarding defamation (Section 326 of the Thai Criminal Code) or Libel (Section 423 of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code).

Here in Thailand, it can be a criminal offence as well as a civil offence to publicly defame a person or company as a named entity, unless that named party can be shown as liable in a court of law. Loss of face is one thing, but I'd be a bit careful about posting negatively about a named company actively still in business. Unless you like appearing in a court of law that is!

Good to see that you are nearing completion, even if the journey was a bit bumpy!

Thank you very much for the reminder.i didnt know that it is that strict.cant know everything.

It's good that you pointed it out,i'm sure there will be many more farangs like me in the same situation sooner or later(im sorry to say that,but hey thats reality here in LOS when you build a house),try to be calm as possible(easy said i know) and take the advise from "jonnyenglish".

with what i went through from the beginning,i reckon i was polite in general....but hey that might not count here in LOS.

Yes im very happy after such a bumpy long road and we officially signed the last paper-work off from our main house builder 2 days ago.got a framed document with the warranties on it.

Does anyone know this question?I got ask and honestly i have no idea...

how much concreting BASE cost in Thailand PER FEET or square metres??

Thanks a lot....

I have layed 600 m2 @ 150mm thick 303.33 per square metre with steel mesh

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

I have layed 600 m2 @ 150mm thick 303.33 per square metre with steel mesh

thank you very much for your quick answer.i guess it was just recent or a few years back??
cheers mate

2 week ago 1750b m3

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

2 week ago 1750b m3

express service..thanks a lot for that info..
sounds as you've done the foundation for a house or so,if you have done 600m2...big place..

Nu just area out side my factory so we can drive truck on top with out cracking the concrete.

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Nu just area out side my factory so we can drive truck on top with out cracking the concrete.

make sense.not really common practice for thailand to have a 15cm slab on the groundfloor for a normal house....

here is the link with the front gate



https://steemit.com/construction/@urs/is-there-a-bit-of-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-project-front-wall-and-gate-in-thailand-part-8

Nice gate.

Originally Posted by showupman

here is the link with the front gate

Nice gate. I like the design of the gate door within the gate. I considered that option as well but steered away from it for a few reasons. Let me know how that works out. The reasons we did not were people stepping on the bottom rail all the time and causing alignment issues, people always having to step over it to walk in, we do not have many visitors, and we cannot get Scooters or bikes out it. Ours is electric so we open the gate up partially to go in and out.

Regardless Nice gate. House looks great and Sod looks good as well.

Originally Posted by Norton

Nice gate.

thank you

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Nice gate. I like the design of the gate door within the gate. I considered that option as well but steered away from it for a few reasons. Let me know how that works out. The reasons we did not were people stepping on the bottom rail all the time and causing alignment issues, people always having to step over it to walk in, we do not have many visitors, and we cannot get Scooters or bikes out it. Ours is electric so we open the gate up partially to go in and out.

Regardless Nice gate. House looks great and Sod looks good as well.

thank you very much.it works well,we have a remote controlled gate as well,to go out/in with the bike...its just a nice thing to have in case of no power...of course you can unlock the gate with the key.we may not use it to much...but better have it than dont have it and ask yourself why we havent done it.....
cheers mate

...i will continue where i left off..it is back and forward.i guess you are used to it by now.
By the end of October 2016,we had fixed power to our house.i finished then all the conduits outside as well.some run to the entry and some to the other side as spare for the future.
as you can see,for the bends i used flexible conduits,not the bends you can buy.why that??because it will be much easier later to run a cable through it.
the length for the outdoor bell (push button) will be around 28 meters,without a junction box in it.it has to go smooth around the corner.







another view




a bit of concrete over the conduits and bends for mechanical protection....than move inside and start with the water pipes..

The contract said they will bring the water to the house.what they made was only bringing the incoming water pipe into the shed and one pipe leaving outside the shed for the distribution of the house.everything in between was my problem...
waterfilter,pump and the watertank was not included in the contract.first i thought we give it to the foreman and pay extra,but this idea we forgot very quickly when i saw how he worked and his leaking pipes everywhere.....
i decided i can do it minimum as good as he would do it....well time will tell....i started with the layout of the filter and pump.
bought a fujika 250W pump and a fujika waterfilter.....and started with the layout/installation.


pump



filter



incoming water pipe from water meter



outgoing to the house

Somehow i had to split pictures.it didnt work with the upload with the pictures in this message....didnt want to start again...
So i layed the pipes and valves out and glued them together.....

on the incoming side:





the layout after the filter:



and slightly a bit different thing when i was finished...




next task gonna be outside and put the pipes together and bring it to their designated spot......where they belong to.....

I hope after this digging it will be it...with digging holes...slowly but surely i have enough of that.Anyway i started to dig some drenches for the water pipes..


The one you see here is the water outlet from the watertank to the pump,which then pumps it through the house




here there is the incoming pipe to the water tank after the water run through the filter




the last one for the water tank is the ventilation pipe





all the pipes for the water tank are done.only one remaining,the manual backwash pipe,which goes to the grey water pit





Fill up the water tank and see if there are some leaks...I was lucky....no leaks at all...im quite happy with the outcome...as a non plumber....

After having the pump and filters a few months running,my observation and review looks mixed.im very happy with the pump so far,had no issues at all...hope it stays like that.
Due to very dirty water supply here in the village,i have to clean the filters at least every 2 weeks,which im not very happy with...
you see the dirt on the first filter,the other ones are quite dirty too,not as much as the first one.have a look for yourself...






Despite the regular cleaning,dirt still gets into the water tank.i cleaned it out about 3 times so far...
not really what i was hoping for...
why didnt i buy a big automatic filter who does the cleaning by itself??a good question...pay a bit more,than you may not have to do all the work and cleaning.
so in the meantime i bought just another big filter and installed it in front of the existing one....will it work??we shall see....








i installed it,cleaned the other filters and the watertank.
and the result??much better,it is about two weeks after i installed it and the watertank still looks pristine.I cleaned the big filter last sunday,which was not quite as dirty as the one you see on the start of this post.i will check them right now and see how it looks like after only one week.....
let you guys know how it went,how the filter looks like......

Your workmanship is superb. You should rent ya self out to the Farang up there and wedge them all up.

I recommend to protect the water and electric lines. They are not deep in the ground and the chances are high, that somebody hits them when working in the garden. I would use concrete half pipes.