Thread: Japanese House

This has been a great thread,I am exhausted just reading it all.I cant imagine the amount of energy required to run the farm and do the build.
All power to you brother,you are an inspiration.

We have been getting alot of rain in the Surin Area...


I guess up north it has been light?

Back at it! Time to finish the kitchen!
I'm fixing to get water now. The well man has been promising to come for more than six months... Long live Thailand!
Yesterday, we cleaned the top water tank, the bottom was covered with muck. We used bleach and rinced, and rinced.

Great to see you back and good luck!

I have problems with photobucket!
If you know of another site where I can keep photos, please tell me, I have a few for you.

TD's very own gallery?

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I have problems with photobucket!
If you know of another site where I can keep photos, please tell me, I have a few for you.

imgur: the simple image sharer

When I try to upload, it asks me to sign in, impossible!
When I ask for a new password (no choice) it promises to send me a email, that I never get! I've been paying for a couple of years for this!

I found workers, finally!
The filter was not holding its water.
A leaky joint in the plastic, I don't know where exactly.
Back to the drawing board!

First, the rocks in the pool's filter were moved to one end, small bucket by small bucket. I thought that I needed to order 3-4 more truckloads! These are 3400 TB each. River bed round rocks.
The plan was to have one foot thick everywhere. There was a 4 to 5 foot stack at the end where the trucks dumped, and 6-8 inches everywhere else. The law of least effort is applied 100% of the time, in my absence!
This is physical!
Happily, it's not April! Cooler.
3 days of hard work.
Next, we removed the geotextiles sandwitching the plastic.
Then we poured concrete, with a waterproofind additive and a light reinforcement on the cleared half of the surface.
I want to put the plastic on the concrete to avoid contact between the cement and its chemicals with the water.
Then, a geotextile, then the pipes, and the rocks four inches thick, then a geotextile and the remaining 8 inches of rocks where water plants will be.
I'm trying to think of a way to separate the sand and the rocks, these river bed rocks were not washed. There is a bit of sand.
I have 24 hours to find a solution, or be ready to live with the consequences?? of having sand present.

http://i.imgur.com/Sd9oC.jpg
I'm trying with the new photo site.
The rocks are moved away, left are the plastic with a geotextile under and over.

The rocks are at one end. Small bucket by small bucket!

Then, we prepare light steel reinforcement.

They try, if you notice, to work in the shade as much as possible, but slow!
Except when a farang doubles the workload...

I wanted to get a ready-mix truck for the floor, but, there was a 3 days delay...
So,

The swimming pool looks good, look forward to seeing the finished pictures. Expensive?

blimey, OM, you do like to make things complicated!

more so than a swimming pool

I hope it all works well, no more leaks

Excuse my ignorance (long shot asking that here, of course) but is the pond part a feeder / filter for the pool then?

By the way - heavenly pool. Top work!

^ you have not been paying attention, have you?....

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Excuse my ignorance (long shot asking that here, of course) but is the pond part a feeder / filter for the pool then?

By the way - heavenly pool. Top work!

Admittedly, it a big thread.
Yes, he is building a big bio filter for the pool.

Originally Posted by woodenshoe

^ you have not been paying attention, have you?....

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Excuse my ignorance (long shot asking that here, of course) but is the pond part a feeder / filter for the pool then?

By the way - heavenly pool. Top work!

Admittedly, it a big thread.
Yes, he is building a big bio filter for the pool.

I sort of have been paying attention, and knew what it was right until the part in his last post that said "The filter was not holding its water. A leaky joint in the plastic, I don't know where exactly" thus sprung into my mind a traditions filter system somewhere with the plastic pipes etc forgetting he might have meant seam (not joint) in the plastic underlay. I then recalled talk of Koi carp, and thought the top part might then be Koi pond, especially useful when the hot japanese girl is there peering into the pond at the fish and he can sit on the bridge with his camera and take pics of her norks for us all to enjoy.

DrAndy blimey, OM, you do like to make things complicated!

more so than a swimming pool

I hope it all works well, no more leaks

Thank you for your good wishes.
More complicated, always when you do things your way, or if it is the first time... I sometimes have to reinvent the wheel!
Experiences are always more time consumine and/or more expansive. The story of my life..
But it keeps me young, happy, on my toes.
This risky seams system, especially since I was not there when it was installed, and the workers chose to use tape rather than folding the edges one on top of the other, like I had said, this was a risk I was willing to take. I lost, I face the consequences now, I pay for learning...
I live with it, in fact, I spend a bit of time everyday with the workers, carrying buckets of rocks, working out, sweating and laughing with the cougar woman and her 20 years younger husband. Makes me feel good.
Now, the whole filter surface will be concrete, this should hold its water. On the surface, I put the plastic to cut the contact between water and the cement. This was the main reason why I did not decide to pour concrete there in the first place. Once again, I hope the my solution works, I think it will.
This also gives me the opportunity to add more pipes and to have different surfaces at different levels, for different types of flowers.