Thread: Japanese House

great to see this thread up and running againn

With their help, I was reconciled with Photobucket!
In the second half, the rocks are removed.Tons of rocks!


Almost done.

I'm very happy with those doors.


Wormanship and super quality of wood!
This looks like the final touch, the rest will be details.
We sleep there, and we'll cook too as soon as the stove is installed, tomorrow.
The water is there too, but I still wait for the artesian well to be dug. This was promised close to one year ago!
This was a long trip with long interruptions. Time enough for me to get the money!
I did not borrow for this one.

A clear varnish brings out the grain of the rose wood.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I put the plastic to cut the contact between water and the cement

people who keep kois do this

1. For those ponds made out of concrete and cement, it is awfully important to treat and neutralize the toxic materials that are in the concrete and cement. Once leached into the water, these are very potent to your kois and will kill them in no time. From my observations, these toxic stuffs will make the water more alkaline than it should be.

Solution:-
You would need an acidic medium to combat these nasty stuffs. I will recommend several bottles of rice vinegar to be put into the water and let it soak for a week. In addition to this, you can always buy several pineapples, cut in half and rub them to the walls and the pond bottom. In addition, you can also cut a banana tree trunks into 1 foot pieces and put them into the pond and let it soak for at least a week. If you want to be doubly sure that all the toxic stuffs are all gone, you can always do a second treatment i.e. a second dose. During this process, please do not put your filter materials into
your filter chamber and no UV lamp either. After the stipulated timeframe, get rid of the water and all, thoroughly rinse the pond, and put in new water. Make sure you put the antichlorine, aerates your pond and put in the filter material in your filter chamber. Let the system sits for 24 hours. By now, you can introduce 1 to 3 kois that you do not care losing. These are the guinea pigs for your pond.

as for those double doors, I have almost identical ones, but old and made of teak

when they are folded completely back, as yours can, the opening is wonderful

Old Monkey, this bog filter, is it going to have standing water or is it a flood and drain type?

This type of filter system, to my knowledge, has never been done at this latitude, so, I'm treading on thin ice.
Algae, the effect of the cause alkalinity, is the only thing that I was made afraid of with my research.
So I made a plan B, even a C, and the valves that will control the flow of the water when the pump will be moving 25 000 litres per hour.
Second I made the total volume of the filter plus the pool as big as I dared and I could. I left the trees close by and it's shaded a long time everyday, to reduce the light in the filter.
The pump will not be on normally, but if there is lots of people swimming, it will be on, perhaps at night, or in the morning, I will adapt as much as I can with what I will observe.
At best, in a year from now, when the filter is established with its working bacterias, we will bathe in soft clear water at a warm temperature.
At worst, this filter will become a water flower garden, independant of the pool, with salt in the pool and a pool filter.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I put the plastic to cut the contact between water and the cement

people who keep kois do this

1. For those ponds made out of concrete and cement, it is awfully important to treat and neutralize the toxic materials that are in the concrete and cement. Once leached into the water, these are very potent to your kois and will kill them in no time. From my observations, these toxic stuffs will make the water more alkaline than it should be.

Solution:-
You would need an acidic medium to combat these nasty stuffs. I will recommend several bottles of rice vinegar to be put into the water and let it soak for a week. In addition to this, you can always buy several pineapples, cut in half and rub them to the walls and the pond bottom. In addition, you can also cut a banana tree trunks into 1 foot pieces and put them into the pond and let it soak for at least a week. If you want to be doubly sure that all the toxic stuffs are all gone, you can always do a second treatment i.e. a second dose. During this process, please do not put your filter materials into
your filter chamber and no UV lamp either. After the stipulated timeframe, get rid of the water and all, thoroughly rinse the pond, and put in new water. Make sure you put the antichlorine, aerates your pond and put in the filter material in your filter chamber. Let the system sits for 24 hours. By now, you can introduce 1 to 3 kois that you do not care losing. These are the guinea pigs for your pond.

THANK YOU DR ANDY, I will certainly do that, and twice. Banana trunks, I use to feed my pigs. I invented a machine to chop the trunks, and there is always a one foot long piece left...
Emptying the thing is what I find more difficult, I will be accumulating water from my surface wells and this compete with the water we use actually in the houses, so it takes me a long time to fill two 40 000 litre tanks!

An artesian well should be dug, as it was promised to us close to one year ago

Today, we should finish the concrete for the second half of the pool filter. I keep reminding the placer that steel reinforcement does not work if not incorporated in the cement, but still, I'm satisfied that it's been done.

It could not be simple... 264 tiles were not placed properly, they unglued under the sun. I have been using wall tiles, which, according to my expert, was wrong.
He refuse to put them back in place, insist that I go find floor tiles of the same color and size. I will drive to Chiang Mai tomorrow and try...

During that time, he will make the unseemly pipes dissappear. The photo is too dark, I'll take some more later.

Retiling the whole pool or just the ones that fell off?
Floor tiles are thicker, if it's just the ones that came off....

Originally Posted by Necron99

Retiling the whole pool or just the ones that fell off?
Floor tiles are thicker, if it's just the ones that came off....

Yes, you're right, I was told this would make a slight rise.
If I cannot match exactly the color, I will try to find a solution, at worst, have him put the same back...

The photo is hard to read, there is too much shade, some branches will have to go.

Comin on OM well done mate .

BTW just as an aside you have a beautiful camera there ,, the colours are so true to life ,,, I am taking a pure guess at a Canon Ixus of some kind

No, Fuji Film, good results every time. The only weakness is its slow trigger. Good movies too. I'm very happy with it.

Originally Posted by Necron99

Retiling the whole pool or just the ones that fell off?
Floor tiles are thicker, if it's just the ones that came off....

Just the ones that unglued. I could also remove the 6-7 at the end of lines and put another color.
I go to C Mai tomorrow.

This is the central point of distribution under the rocks of the filter. I hope I have put a sufficient number of pipe to make it efficient.

The elbowed pipe in the middle comes directly from the pump.
This ws earlier today

The pipes are protected from sand clogging by a strip of geotextile.

The pump has a capacity of moving 510 litres per minute. I estimate having 300 000 litres in the pool, so this should move the content twice a day.
I've prepared for 3 different scenarios depending on the results.
#1, The water is taken from the top and pushed under the filter, and comes back to the pool with the current.
#2, the water is pulled from the bottom of the filter to be injected under the pool by way of the 8 injectors on the floor of the pool.
#3, If the 2 options do not work, the water will be taken from the top and pushed throught a conventional pool filter. The bio-filter will be completly separated from the pool and will be a water flower garden. I'll use salt.
Ther is also the option of using a UV lamp, and probably a solar water heater, will see.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

64 tiles were not placed properly, they unglued under the sun. I have been using wall tiles, which, according to my expert, was wrong. He refuse to put them back in place, insist that I go find floor tiles of the same color and size. I

If you used cement, they may have got too hot and the cement dried too quickly, but wall tiles and floor tiles should be no different (except strength for walking on)

you can glue them back with Weber Special glue cement, just a thin layer combed on

That's quite a distribution system OM, and uphill, is your pump going to be up to the job? Are those pipes perforated?
Option 2 won't work I think, as the bottom of your bog will collect silt and debris.
I think Ive asked before, but how are you going to control mozzies?

Originally Posted by Necron99

That's quite a distribution system OM, and uphill, is your pump going to be up to the job? Are those pipes perforated?
Option 2 won't work I think, as the bottom of your bog will collect silt and debris.
I think Ive asked before, but how are you going to control mozzies?

He'll be wanting these bad boys.

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keep saying the same things about this thread, bloody brilliant watching it come along!!!