Thread: Aussie Style House Build

It's been a while...

After a rush of activity earlier this year, things went very quiet on the house building front as we navigated our way past the Agricultural Land Reform Office and our quest to obtain a chanote. In between spending a lot of time researching the ownership history of the land we are building on, we also took time in getting set with a good builder.
So here we are eight months later and work on our 'forever' house has started. While the issuing of a chanote will take some time, we are confident we will get one despite the speed bumps we've encountered during the ownership certification process. Finding the right builder, who understands farang standards, also took some time, but we've got one now, and he's good. Bloody good in fact. Koh-kay Constructions out of Roi Et were able to demonstrate a level of professionalism we've not experienced in any of our previous dealings with Thai builders over the last 2 years.
The owner is a qualified Engineer, with a long history of farang builds - he knows what's expected and makes sure that's what he delivers. We took the time to inspect two of his jobs prior to signing him up. One was a semi-complete house for a Swiss couple, the other an almost complete large contemporary home for a German couple. Both were built to Western standards. The detail finishing on the German couple's home was equal to project home builds in Australia.
We were happy to delay commencement of the build until after the wet season. No sense making the build more difficult when a month's delay meant the build team wouldn't be sloshing around knee deep in sticky red clay.

Setting out took place Monday 24 Oct.