Thread: Japanese House

Feb. 9 -12 should be marked with a white stone!
Work finally re-start after ten weeks of waiting.
Sala is a motherfucker, a douche bag, and I have many other names, in french. He kept telling us :" Yes. Come back in 5 days... I will come to finish in one week..."
My wife did not dare find somebody else, we had a contract, he would loose face...
Finally, she confronted him, told him that we wanted to pray in the house for my birthday, feb 28, and I met the guy who had realized all the concrete work, he accepted, and asked for a big pay raise, since I seemed desperate, which I agreed to, I want this thing completed.
He's the perfect guy for the job, he knows where everything is.
He started the wall in the pool house yesterday.

Thursday, he cleaned and installed the 8 injectors on the bottom of the pool.

Put mosquito nets on the scuppers.

View from the bridge.

Note the big tree on the right of the picture.

The tall tree is in flowers and has a giant wasp nest at one hundred feet high.

The rubber trees have regrown new leaves and are in flowers.

There is hope yet! It's spring time with its pale green leaves.

When will you fill the pool with water?

This reminds me that I'll have to put a net over the filter part to catch the falling leaves, at least in Dec-Jan.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

This reminds me that I'll have to put a net over the filter part to catch the falling leaves, at least in Dec-Jan.

You will need a filter sock that will go over your skimmer basket to catch the leaves

At the same time, compost making, that I've been pushing for 3 months, has started.

When it involves shit, Lisus are very delicate, their noses hurt!!!

Since I stopped hosting WWOOFers, they will have to do it and cannot wait for Farangs to do 50 tons of compost because they are too sensitive to odors.

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

This reminds me that I'll have to put a net over the filter part to catch the falling leaves, at least in Dec-Jan.

You will need a filter sock that will go over your skimmer basket to catch the leaves

Well, the way he did it, no leave can go tru.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

When will you fill the pool with water?

Very good question. The well digger talks about March.
I don't dare taking the water from one of the fish pond-mud hole.

When we came back for lunch, radishes were transformed by the girls. The 9 months old baby gets a lot of attention.

She's adorable.

The mother is not bad either, but her husband is very jealous and I have to be discreet photographying.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

At the same time, compost making, that I've been pushing for 3 months, has started.
Since I stopped hosting WWOOFers, they will have to do it and cannot wait for Farangs to do 50 tons of compost because they are too sensitive to odors.

How do you get 50 tons of compost? What is the source of it all?

Mostly rice husk! From a rice mill we own. I should have written 50 cubic metres, which is an approximation...
Add banana leaves, corn stalks and bean plants. Yes, also rice straw.
And some dirt, and some pig shit + lots of water from the pig water pond (water from the dayly pig sty cleaning )
Finally, biodynamic preparations (501 to 507) and, hopefully, biochar.

^ sounds like you've got things well planned. Nothing like good organic fertilizer.

I hope you let the worms have a go at that cocktail too, to really rev things up.

I had not published pictures of the bridge's light.

Even if these are just details being currently added, I'm so glad the work has resumed, by one man only, but he's good... that I want to share.

A place to wash feet before entering, a wife's idea who hates dirt and even more to clean. Stairs sides.
A retaining wall so that rainy season water does not erode under the cement. All this in the course of one day.

The south side got its wall up very quickly.

nice update old monkey, this should be in famous threads

Looks great,one thing is bugging me the light over the bridge looks a bit street lampish it deserves something better.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I had not published pictures of the bridge's light

looks like a council light...you must be able to get something better!

as for your build, it is looking excellent, it must make you proud

nearly there...

WYSIWYD, what you see is what you get, I did not design this, I did let the stainless steel man find the design, a solution to the situation, creativity should be encouraged in Thailand, after it's been killed in school. I find it simple, with sobriety, hard to find around here in general, with their massive woodwork and very little aesthetic sense.
It should last and weather well.

On a clear day, you must have one hell of a view. See if you get a panoramic shot off the second floor balcony one day.