Building costs

**in4zip** · 03-03-2006, 12:58 PM

Andy yer land is 336 sqm.. building code here more or less expects you to be about 2 meters aways from yer neigbors boundry, the front road.. at least enough to park the length of yer motor.. so figure that one out and deduct the shack you want to keep, times the remainder surface you want to build and voila you got the checkbin ... now you can go get yer self an architec/engineer and they'll take care of the rest... sic et sempliciter

**in4zip** · 03-03-2006, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by aging one

Each damm floor is not 120 sq meters or he would be building a dang mansion. The total area is 120 sq meters. The size of a BKK townhouse. Still I say dont multiply by three.

AO

120 sqm 3rd fl
120 sqm 2nd fl
120 sqm gf
---
360 sqm x 6500 baht = 2,340,000 baht

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
Don't take umbridge AO but I do hope you are
imparting knoledge in some classical - artistic subjects
at your Uni...

**DrAndy** · 03-03-2006, 01:25 PM

well, I have drawn out some plans, and the total floor is 120sqm AO

maybe I like big rooms? sort of a C shape, with the back being around 15m and each of the wings about 13 and 8m, and all 5m wide approx.

so you get the back block as 5x13, the wings as 5x8m and 5x3m

totals 65+40+15=120sqm

all a bit inexact, and the distance form the edge maybe a bit lees than 2m on one side (maybe Chiang Mai has different planning laws?)

**dirtydog** · 03-03-2006, 01:25 PM

6,500baht per sq meter is an extremely basic building, ie low end bathrooms etc etc etc. last 3 storey house we done was about 25k baht per square meter, but that was basically a granite and marble palace

**DrAndy** · 03-03-2006, 01:28 PM

Thanks DD, I was excluding any "posh" fittings from my estimates

I just needed the basic costings to build the structure

**aging one** · 03-03-2006, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by in4zip

AO 120 sqm 3rd fl 120 sqm 2nd fl 120 sqm gf --- 360 sqm x 6500 baht = 2,340,000 baht Alles klar, Herr Kommissar? Don't take umbridge AO but I do hope you are imparting knoledge in some classical - artistic subjects at your Uni...

Originally Posted by DrAndy

well, I have drawn out some plans, and the total floor is 120sqm AO maybe I like big rooms? sort of a C shape, with the back being around 15m and each of the wings about 13 and 8m, and all 5m wide approx. so you get the back block as 5x13, the wings as 5x8m and 5x3m totals 65+40+15=120sqm all a bit inexact, and the distance form the edge maybe a bit lees than 2m on one side (maybe Chiang Mai has different planning laws?)

Yup I do know what i am doing. I have had two houses built here in Thailand. The first one my wife and I were the contractors.
So?

**DrAndy** · 03-03-2006, 01:54 PM

I was not suggesting anything at all AO, merely giving you some measurements so that you could see that the house plan was around 120sqm

if they give me the permission to build it, that is

**aging one** · 03-03-2006, 02:03 PM

Sorry andy I was replying to inzip, I knew you were building a house not a friggin mansion. 360 square meters is a very big house.

Have a nice weekend mate.

**DrAndy** · 03-03-2006, 02:40 PM

hardly a mansion, but maybe largeish rooms

4 bedrooms with bathrooms and a roof terrace, hopefully

the main problem with being inside the old city is the height restrictions; you cannot build higher than the local temples

but it should be OK

**NickA** · 04-03-2006, 10:58 AM

My house is about 110 sq. m on the ground floor, but the upstairs is only about 85 sq. m 'cos it doesn't go all the way back.

How much would it cost to extend the upstairs the extra 25 sq. m or so, by adding another bedroom with en-suite bathroom and maybe a little balcony?

Would I still be looking at about 10k baht per sq. m for something reasonable or would this kind of job cost more/less?

Here's the house at the back of mine that is the same as mine...

and here is a house next to it with extra room upstairs....

I'd actually like something better than that, but it gives you an idea...

Just dreaming anyway....

**dirtydog** · 04-03-2006, 11:57 AM

Your pics dont work nick, the bathrooms are always more expensive than bedrooms

**ChiangMai noon** · 04-03-2006, 12:59 PM

They work fine for me DD.

**NickA** · 04-03-2006, 01:29 PM

The pics are in the teakdoor gallery, DD, so they should work. So it must be your Kompewter ist kapput, meine freunden.

Alles Klas...

Kalifornia, Uber Alles!!!

Bathrooms more expensive to build than bedrooms, sure, but bedrooms need furnishing and everything afterwards.

Anyway, answer me question DD.

**dirtydog** · 04-03-2006, 01:45 PM

10k per meter should just about do it

**DrAndy** · 06-03-2006, 08:57 AM

good answer

unless there are undiscovered problems like the supporting walls are not big enough

**klongmaster** · 07-03-2006, 01:30 PM

you had the figures right Dr...just the wrong way round

Originally Posted by DrAndy

oh dear, I thought there were 2m=1wah, so a sqm = 4sqwah

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Doc. don't listen to the welshman he's a bit off you know. 2 wah = 1 meter 1sq wah = 4 sq meter

**DrAndy** · 10-03-2006, 12:49 PM

oh yes, I actually have it written correctly here, but I copied wrongly

thanks for that you guys

**otherstuff1957** · 10-03-2006, 05:33 PM

Detached house, concrete, 2 to 3-storeyed 8,050 9,400 11,500 50 2% b

This is one line cut and pasted from a PDF page put out by the Real Estate Valuers of Thailand. It lists the low, average and high costs of construction for BKK in the year 2547. SO... it looks like a lot of Thai experts agree with DD's estimate.

**davethailand** · 25-03-2006, 06:11 PM

Question for dirtydog.
Do you do that sandwash floor surface thingy? If so how much per sq metre please.
(i think its called sandwash or sandstone)

**dirtydog** · 25-03-2006, 06:18 PM

The yellow cement and stone effect with tiny little stones? 700baht per square meter would be a good price for the builder, 500baht per square meter would be a good price for the customer, but hell sod the customer

**davethailand** · 25-03-2006, 06:26 PM

Thanks DD, i must say i favour the customers price though.

**Eliminator** · 25-03-2006, 06:47 PM

There was a product in the US a few years ago and if I can remember correctly, it was called "Miracle Stone". I think it was supposed to be some kind of self levelling mix of small stone and some type of polymer or epoxy. It would self drain and was not slick to walk on but smooth enough to walk barefoot. Don't know if there is any of that here though.

**Dougal** · 25-03-2006, 07:00 PM

There is a site here with some variations on concrete patterning which might be of interest.

http://www.pavingexpert.com/pic03.htm

Don't ask me whether any of this is available in LOS though.

**Curious George** · 26-03-2006, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Eliminator

There was a product in the US a few years ago and if I can remember correctly, it was called "Miracle Stone"....

I think your talking about RiverRock. We have it on our patio and the front stoop. One gotcha though - splattered oil on it, from cooking outside, causes the resins to slowly dissolve and creates spots where the tiny pebbles eventually come off. Other than that, it is a great surface. Also, I have no idea if you can get anything similar in Thailand.

**DrAndy** · 27-03-2006, 11:06 AM

why use something like that when there are lots of cheapish real stone flags around here

much better, and nicer to look at and walk on

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