Thread: Aussie Style House Build

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Very exciting building your first home here in Thailand where there is freedom to do many things. Since the house was built I have done so many things that back in the US would had been almost impossible and certainly costly , what with submitting plans , getting permits, having everything signed off by licence tradesman etc.
We also did the double wall 7.5 Q-con on all the outside walls ,



and we are glad we did. House is nice and cool, and our electric bills are reasonable.
And you dont see the columns.
Make sure they build a bottom beam a top beam and side columns by the windows. as shown on the second picture,
Also when they cut the grooves on the Q-con,to run the electric, make sure that when they patch it up , they put wire lath (screen) over the grooves they cut to prevent hairline cracks showing up later on. I was not there when they did the rendering on the walls, and now i see a small hairline crack leading from the electric outlets. I can tell exactly where they run the lines. I suspect they did not tape the grooves with wire screen. When I did another bedroom extension later on ,I insisted on taping the grooves with wire screen, and I don't even have one crack on the walls.
excuse me for repeating things that you might already know, but I don't know what you don't know, so better to be safe than sorry

G'day Buckaroo
Appreciate the advice on the wire lath over the wiring channels. Was well aware of the cracking issue, where render is applied too thick instead of a skim coat, but had not come across the cracking around power points etc, although it would be an obvious conclusion. All window frames have been specified with top, bottom and side beams as the builder isn't doing the window installation