Last edited by dennis4558; 14-10-2019 at 07:29 AM.
The beatings helped, here is a video link to first walk through of house.
https://youtu.be/ySaXjoiVOCM
^ Now you just have to train her to turn the camera and have horizontal video
Daughter found a video of how the reflective foil sheeting is to be install and posted it on our construction Line page, now the builder shouldn't have a problem knowing how we want it done.
When I was in Thailand last year we went to some building sites, all the houses we looked at had the reflective foil under the roofing tiles, when asking the builder about it, they just said "that's the way we do it", that comment eliminated several builders.
Last edited by dennis4558; 19-10-2019 at 09:03 AM.
I truly enjoyed watching that instructional video.
Cardboard washers, safety gloves and helmets.
Heck, they even had enclosed shoes on
But reflective sarking is a must with a new build in Thailand if it's within the budget.
When we partially renovated the Thai Family Farmhouse, we used in the areas we inhabit.
Hi David, I'll bet that won't be part of our crews safety gear, lol
We just had a meeting last night about the reflective sheeting and he was complaining about installing it that way, because a different crew does the shingles versus the crew that is doing the steel rafters, he thinks the sheeting will be damaged by weather before they get the roof on. " Not our problem" that's the way it's going to get done. I was surprised that's what wife and daughter told him.
We also had a issue with the shingles we wanted, the one's we had picked were an extra cost, he said 30,000 baht, I said no way put on what was in the bid. By the time we finished with our meeting he cut that price in half to 15 t baht. So we went with the shingles (roof tiles) we wanted. I think the reason he cut the price that much is because these shingles can be delivered sooner. If the sheeting get damaged and he has to replace it, it would be a big expense for him.
They have a good start on the roof steel, most of the main steel is up, just some bracing then the reflective sheeting and purlins.
I bet you guys are all jealous and wish you had a ladder like this at your house
Daughter said there are just two guys doing the steel work, when they finish another crew comes in to do the roof shingles (tiles)
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The Thai's are very slow when it comes to insulation, I had a young man snigger and say, we dont use unsulation in Thailand.
Even the big building supply store's keep a very limited range, well that was the case 4 or 5 years ago.
[QUOTE=Norton;4017989]Looking good. Steel and foil looks ok. Forgot what roof tiles you are going to have? Assume many more steel slats to attach will be needed and installed on top of foil?
Thanks Norton, Here's that photo of the tiles.
Not really a good picture of finished roof but gives you some idea.
More progress on putting on the reflective foil.
It doesn't look like they've installed purlins on top of foil to hold it in place. Question, don't know where or how to space them or not there job, roofing crews job, but why put the foil on if you aren't going to hold it down.
I tried to get the daughter to go on top to get some pictures, you can guess what she told me.
Hi Dennis, thanks for the thread and write up very helpful as always to follow these. I had a question as to how they will finish the top of the columns to the steel roof beams? as currently it looks from the photos like they are connected only into the rebar out of the top of the column with a space- are they going to put another concrete form along to tie that in later? I’m no builder in Thailand (yet) but interested to see how that is done. Cheers
Something, if you could explain for me.
To do with how the Roof joists/bearers are attached to the posts?
What I don't understand is why the rero (steel reinforcing) in the concrete upright posts is bearing the weight of the roof?
I've seen in other constructions and when we did our carport, that the rero protrudes through the concrete post, but the bearer sits on top of the concrete post (so that the weight of the structure above is carried by the post and not the rero) and the protruded rero is simply welded to the bearer.
As in when we built our carport ...
I'm sure there is a logical explanation.
Maybe Thai logic?
Good question Knows & David, I just posted the picture and asked the same question of our construction group on Line, we'll see what kind of answer we get.
This is the same question I wanted to ask as well. I think it probably came about because they didn't make the concrete in the pillars high enough, which could have been due to them not having long enough formwork or they just didn't fill the forms full.
Anyway the way I have seen this issue "fixed" is for them to come along later and add concrete to the top of the pillars by hand to fill the gap which then protects the steel from rusting.
While (in my opinion) this might look OK it isn't the best as the weight of the roof then is on "fresh" concrete. So the end result is your roof is virtually being held up by the steel in the pillar.
So if were me the main thing I would want them to do is fill in the concrete ASAP and preferably before anymore weight gets added to the roof. I didn't really make out whether your tiles were concrete type tiles but if they are then they weigh a lot.
As for the 'Thai" solution it will be " Farang think too much!"
Ootai, I had the wife read spec's on tiles, she said they weigh 5.1 kilo each, so that's alot of weight on the roof.
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