Ootai, after thinking about the gas tank situation, a gas leak alarm mounted in the cabinet should work, they're only about $25 here in the states, can take one with.
dennis
The alarm would be OK "if" it is always operating and well maintained something that rarely happens here. If it is battery operated someone needs to remember to check the batteries and replace them if needed. If it is mains power operated then remember the voltage difference between here and the US.
As for your front entrance I agree everything here is "at your own risk" no liability or responsibility for anything.
As for JPPR2's comment about the gas cooker, we made an inside kitchen in our house and as I said put the gas bottle outside BUT in nearly 10 years the cooker has never been used.
My missus finally said (about 2 years ago) that the house is too big, something I tried to convince her of before we built it.
That may help Dennis. When my wife and I designed our floor plan I think she was thinking more "Western" ideals versus reality when we moved back. Our upstairs kitchen even has a very nice stove and oven. My wife uses the oven to bake cookies and cakes. That's it.
Yeah we are in 5 years now and the stove top gas burners have never been used upstairs. After moving in the reality of location, inconvenience and mess moved it to a "I'm sorry Pe, We should have built the kitchen outside as we never will eat up here" apology. All good. I like the kitchen set up outside and my wife loves it. Now the upstairs kitchen is basically my wet bar area and a refrigerator with an auto ice dispenser so all is good.
Denis, my advice on plant/trees is take your time. Its cheap and easy to throw lots in but they soon outgrow the space. Take your time and think what you want. I like limes and lemons, get them all year, keep them in pots, Red Dragon fruit, small easy to look after, Pomelo are easy to grow, flowers smell lovely and the trees are small - essentially your plot is not to big and you need to plant accordingly. I prefer buying seasonal fruit and grow the ones that are small and produce year round. Just my two pence worth.
They look like young "Moke" plants (โมก) - Wrightia Religiosa / Water Jasmine.
If so, they are quite slow growing and easy to maintain and their small white flowers look nice when the plant is covered in bloom. They don't grow very tall at all so you won't have the problem of them outgrowing the space they're in. They'll need to be watered regularly though.
Great advice NPT, ones lot size takes proper planning and consideration.
Adding to that, trees that grow large can crack cement with the trunk or the roots or knock over cement walls. Messy trees plug gutters (if you have them) and give birds lots of nesting material. The hedges in the picture above have wonderful smelling flowers but tend to grow poorly when not planted close together and take a lot of work to get them nice looking. They also take a lot of water to get established. Also check where your water will run off the roof. You surely do not want to plant a tree where the rain water will beat it to death. Again just some comments from having learned from experience whether our own or seen elsewhere.
It would be battery operated, and the ones we have here when the battery gets low it starts beeping, hopefully they have the
brains to replace the battery and not just remove it.
We have the gas cooker in the thai kitchen and an induction cooker in the inside kitchen which I don't see getting used much unless we're there.
Everyone echoed my thoughts when I saw the gas bottle in the kitchen cabinet.
Alarms are fine, but a vent is great.
I'm not a gas man and not sure of gas 'sinks' or 'rises' ... but I'd definitely be putting a vent in with an insect screen so the crawlies don't enter.
If gas 'sinks' (heavier than air) then the vent should be at the floor of the cabinet.
That said ... great work with the Home thus far.
Hi NPT, I keep telling the wife that the lot is small, so I don't think we will plant too many trees, how big do lemon
and lime trees get? I suppose if in a pot a lot smaller than if planted in the ground. Other than a lemon tree I'd like
to try to get a noi naa to grow and produce. There a lots of mango and jack fruit in the lot beside us so don't need them.
The only other one I'd like to try to grow are a small brown fruit (longan). I've seen noi naa in this area but not longan.
Hi JPPR, They're not under the roof line, so should be OK if they get watered enough, we won't be planting
trees close to the house, we had several removed in the neighboring lots removed because of that. We didn't
put gutters on yet, it's a wait and see how things work, I know on the Thai kitchen roof we will probably put a
gutter on and maybe on the back side of the small building, nobody cleans gutter over there except me so I don't
want too many to clean LOL
Here's a surprise, looks like they're redoing the deck surface, not sure what that's all about.
Looks like they're peeling off the paint, I'll have to see if I can get some more info as to what's going on.
They've also started on the main gate.
If you want to save space citrus trees can be espaliered along a wall. Fix some wires a few cms away from the wall and train the branches along them in any design you fancy, lots of Youtube videos and other info on the web. Of course you will have to convince everybody thats never seen it before that YES, Thai citrus trees are same same as rest of the world and it can be done.
Deck is finished again, we'll have to see which way the water goes, I was told there was a swimming hole in the center before,
this will be the third fix counting the original pour.
Hope they let it cure before painting, last time they had some paint bubbling.
^and spray water on it regularly...
Couple pictures of deck getting leveled.
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