Thread: Japanese House

they prob have, Terry, he just hasn't noticed yet

Originally Posted by DrAndy

they prob have, Terry, he just hasn't noticed yet

I'm pretty much over their shoulder all the time, and my wife has a tiger eye, and no, up to now, no fuk up, this thing is level, straight, it's overbuilt, true, there is much too much steel and concrete, but then, that's the way it's done here.
I have a problem with my master man not coming these last days, he takes care of his business, but what the hell, it's hot, very hot now, I would feel like staying home myself if I was in his shoes. There is no snow coming at the end of the month...
If there is one thing I learned from building houses myself, and boats, it is : "Don't fix a deadline when it will have to be finished, this doesn't happen, all you do is make sure to add stress to tiredness at the end of a long, heavy trip." Rain will happen, shit will happen...
So, i asked the 3 guys who were willing to work to come build and install a gate to the wall surrounding another project I have going 12 km from the farm. They are now renderin the last wall.
Want to see photos?

Sure!

What I do now, is waiting for 6:00 and go watering the floor with a hose. The concrete is hardening and we will be able to remove the bamboo supports after 3 weeks. I forgot to say earlier that I object also to the excess water they put in the cement, this being done to make the placement easier. This will make it crack, I keep saying. And it does.
But, again, this is poured over precast concrete with its own steel reinforcement, it will be covered with tiles on a bed of cement, so, invisible...
Finally, I think that we, farangs, are often too severe in our judgment of the work done in Thailand.
True, there are horror stories here, and we hear plenty about them. But this is also true about the building industry where we come from, green wood behind plaster sure to crack, overpaid workers starting to gather their tools 20 minutes before 5:00, contractor cheating on material quality, and quantity, contracts in Europe this time, which last for months and months... Powerless customers who pay and pay for 30 years, and rules that add and add to the point where very few people can afford to own their own house.
There is a lot of freedom left here, let's take advantage of it, and see the glass half full rather than always being sure that it will be half empty:-)

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Want to see photos?

come on....dont tease

Well, off the tread, the gate and the wall of a small factory built in March. The wall is there to stop people to walk in during the night. It's the cheapest way! This is 500 m from a chinese village on the border with Burma, with speed freaks and heroin addict in larger numbers because of this. In fact, a large fraction of the very rich houses of this village are unhabitated, the owners are dead or in jail...

On the extreme left, bedroom for employee, shower and toilet, then rice mill and corn mill, next door, oil expeller, and last door: storage.
Total cost excluding lot and machines : 120 000 tb

Rice mill. This was on the farm for 5 years, we moved it there, where it's more needed.

^ looks fun

you could probably adapt it to make LaoKao too

Oil mills, one small expeller in action, one big one for later, all from India.

Looks good so far, a nice thread

BUT why is the title a Japanese house?

you did say you wanted a roof like the Golden temple, but other than that?

even Rika does not look Japanese

Lao kao?

Rika is 50% japanese, the eyes and the legs, the other 50% is canadian, tall, full breasted, not shy, not afraid to show what she's got! In one word, perfect!
The japanese house will have the roof, I hope and the walls, shojis, sliding doors... That's the best I can do, here.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Lao kao?

local rice spirit

Lao Kao

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Rika is 50% japanese, the eyes and the legs, the other 50% is canadian, tall, full breasted, not shy, not afraid to show what she's got! In one word, perfect!
The japanese house will have the roof, I hope and the walls, shojis, sliding doors... That's the best I can do, here.

sounds nice

a Canadian Japanese house then

And storage, the largest room.

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

And finally for this subject, the motor that makes all these machine work, a stationary 18 HP indian diezel motor, will probably run like that 10 years from now, on the oil that we'll extract!

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

with speed freaks and heroin addict in larger numbers because of this. In fact, a large fraction of the very rich houses of this village are unhabitated, the owners are dead or in jail...

colourful area you live in


what are those black things in post 117, at the back of the shed?

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

damn, my geography teacher was wrong then, Quebec is not part of Canada!

me, from London, which of course, is not in England, not at all, nothing like it

yep, Japan is fascinating although the Thais can make a tree lean over much quicker

Being from the west coast of Canada and traveling through Quebec once I have to say they seem to be fairly nice.

Originally Posted by sunsetter

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

with speed freaks and heroin addict in larger numbers because of this. In fact, a large fraction of the very rich houses of this village are unhabitated, the owners are dead or in jail...

colourful area you live in


what are those black things in post 117, at the back of the shed?

This is niger cake, what is left after we press the oil out of this seed, niger, guizotia abyssinica, sold as a bird seed also in farang pet shops. We introduced this yellow flower 4 years ago in Northern Thailand, because my wife was disturbed by the apparition of high blood pressure and cardio-vascular problems in lots of members of her family. Before they migrated from Burma, these were unknown. She thought that the only major change in their diet was the oil. They were now buying cheap palm oil for their cooking. Before, they were growing a yellow flower just after rice and there were presses in every village to press oil out of it. So she got 3 bags in, we grew it, got 30, next year, we grew it around, then we imported one expeller from India, and for the past two years, the mountains around here are yellow.
Families bring in 2-3 bags of seeds ang go back with 25% of the weight of the seeds in a very healthy and delicious cooking oil. We keep the cake to feed pigs.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Well, I can't deny I was born in Canada, but my culture is not canadian, it's quebecoise.
Where are you from?
I was always fascinated by the japanese culture. On my visits there, I cried viewing so much beauty at cherry blossom season, they have so much, as far as gardens are concerned, and we are children compared to them. 800 years to get the branch of a tree to lean towards the water, just so!

damn, my geography teacher was wrong then, Quebec is not part of Canada!

me, from London, which of course, is not in England, not at all, nothing like it

yep, Japan is fascinating although the Thais can make a tree lean over much quicker

Well, maybe your geography should have been completed with a bit of history! Quebec is a french speaking province which was conquered by England in 1759, but who was never assimilated by the English, athough they tried. It has its own very rich culture, and is still very different from the rest of Canada. Read a bit about it. Or was that another example of the famous British sense of humor?

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

Or was that another example of the famous British sense of humor?

well spotted

they did teach history at my school, as well as Geography

I know there is a seperatist movement in Quebec, but until that happens, you are part of Canada