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

No ties between the concrete columns and the blocks......

i wish you all a happy,healthy and prosperous new year.....

so lets go again a little....ive got some time and the internet connection isnt to bad yet......

Originally Posted by Tassini

No ties between the concrete columns and the blocks......

now that you say it...right....

i think,if i told them while they were laying the bricks,they would looked at me as i would come from another planet.....another continent is enough.....and i had bigger problems back then,,to look that the walls are there where they should go,according to my plans.....and put my conduits in....no time for daydreaming

while waiting for the plaster,the crew started digging holes for the 2 shit tanks...

one of the two



no. 2

and some more pics from the roof.......



from the front.....
and now on the roof itself......












very nice lineup of the tiles......love their work....signature of good tradies....and of the company (SCG)

the truck with the plaster for the rendering is coming........and there is no slowdown yet.....






...and starting off with the ground floor......




me and my wife are still working upstairs on our conduits......



some started already with the frames on the doors and windows...



this one are for the corners,around doors and windows.....
the foreman asked me if i want them....i said a clear YES.....otherwise who would know how straight the corners would be....its still questionable....anyway.....



they moved this mixer upstairs now.....what a noise F#@&^* that is.....

there are some random pictures which some had to be modified,redone because it was simply not right.....
my knowledge is not very great but i know that there has to be roughly a minimum slope of 3mm for 30cm-quarter inch per foot.....if im not wrong......

i had to tell the foreman too to get some U-Traps....i think he would have done everything without(money in his pocket)

if you wanna know more about plumbing,please go to some other theard which goes specific into it......

i think that ive done as much damage control as i could at this stage......

more later.........



p-trap wrong way around and wrong T-piece...



right T-piece but wrong way around.....



inside......and outside......



you clearly can see the slope here....i dont know how many times i had to tell them....



..in the big bathroom...

things go along nicely.....
us finishing off up in the 1.floor....




and doing the "Main switch" for the aircons....



single switch up to 20A by Haeco



all the plumbing is now hidden....



the shit tanks are sort of in the ground.....



the plaster boards-or gyprock they say here,for the ceiling is sitting in the living room....



the scaffold is arriving too...some more bricks came too.....plenty of work...

they have done the scaffold,and starting outside with some work too.....

we went to Korat PD office at the 23.5.16 to choose the tiles,Laminate and made some more changes which affected the finish time for the house.

i completely forgot to tell that we made the first change early 2016,because i was not happy with the small doors for my electrical in the original plans.

the 2.change was at the 18.3.16.....before the roof came....in the contract they have 3 inch roof insulation.....i wanted 6 inch roof insulation on the ceilings....
plenty of time for them to change it without any hassle.....well....

it ended,that we had to go to homepro and buy the 6 inch insulation...after several phone calls........

they gonna pay us back,take it off from our last payment.

so while we were in the office,i asked what kind of toilet fans they put in.....
showed us these ugly ones for the walls,with shudders on the outside.....
on heavy rain,its gonna rain in and big bugs can walk in as they want......changed to a ceiling fan with duct to the outside.....

and some paint for the interior i changed too,from "Supershield Duraclean" to a"A+"


a change in the original contract means they get 1 month more finishing time before penalties for them apply(500Bht a day)for each change...

so with us there are 3 months on top off the original timeframe....which is due at the end of february 2017......its gonna be May 2017

.....its not gonna happen anyway......





some small stuff......




..fair a bit to fill up here....thanks that i dont have to pay for extra rendering materials.....