Thread: Ootai's wife builds a house

good day had by all,went to one last sunday morn.good chanting by the monks,good food i dont know where he got to know i needed some tins of the devil juice 9am but i did get some good sleep afternoon,once again good luck for the future might meet at imm.got to go 9feb.and 7mar.the wife likes your new dineing table/chairs we bought the same set.

The house looks great, but personally I wouldn't have bothered with this crap.





Each to their own though.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The house looks great, but personally I wouldn't have bothered with this crap

not crap; it is quite entertaining though - all that chanting is great

we had our house ceremony for our concrete box this morning; five monks with good chants, healthy appetites and lots of respect

they went away happy, and our house residents and guests thought it was fine

to those that made postive comments thank you.

marmite.... I think I found someone else who wishes we hadn't bothered, a mate of yours?



I suspect that you would have been more interested in this spirit house! Thanks for commenting as I don't mind what she does if it doesn't cause me any grief and as I said before Thai's believe in that stuff.


anyway the house is finished as we have moved in.
this is the new Thai squat dunny

and Thai shower


the view from the back showing the new extension


from the front showing south end of the estate


the front, the tents are for the house warming party.


"The Party".
I thought these made enough noise during the blessing ceremony but..


then they started to get serious about making some noise.


the caterer's turned up and made their own kitchen.


I didn't know there was going to be this stuff happening.


the singer was a stunner and had every male there drooling and dribbling, the missus asked me a few times if I needed a tissue.


most of the village was there and those that weren't invited just danced in the street


the gold chairs and special tables for the elite?


and finally I must say that the house looked good from the street side


so I reckon that's about it from me. I won't be posting any more pictures for a while as I have done myself a mischief and tried to sever my right leg so I am immobile (for a month) and can't get around and take pictures.

For those interested in the gory details a blade came off my new brushcutter (I didn't check that they were tight) and gouged a channel through my right tibia as well as fracturing it, lucky there was no displacement along the fracture. It also completly cut 2 muscles and a tendon that operate my foot. So I suppose all I need to worry about now is whether the Thai doctor can stitch better than the Thai welders can weld.

Once I have recovered I will be off to Indonesia to work so whenever I return here I will try and take some pictures of the garden and post updates.

Thanks again to one and all (even Marmite) for viewing and posting replies.

as they say at the end of a Warner Bros cartoon.

"THAT'S ALL FOLKS"

My God Ootai " your the man " ! what a party ,, I aint gonna let Jan see these pics incase she gets any ideas after our build ,,,,,,,it will be a much less grand affair , I am afraid my pockets aint that deep !

You really have done yourself proud mate well done and all the best wishes for recovery of your leg ,,, it will be nice to see some pics of the garden take place at the rear , mabe I cann call round next time were over ,all the best mate. Nigel

blinding thread, get well soon thanks muchly

Originally Posted by ootai

Thanks again to one and all (even Marmite) for viewing and posting replies.

You've done a great job, despite what my in-built miserableness says. Well done!

(PS - I wouldn't have had all those people over for a party either...)

One must respect the expats that actually manage to build places like this.

Mate you are a legend.


Cheers

Already been said but that is one hell of a party! Was clean up bad?
Can you upload a shot or 2 of the spirit house after being assembled? I see it in the corner by the speakers but would like a better glimpse if you don't mind.

nigelandjan........in my opinion it wasn't all that expensive the net cost to her was about B25K. The caterers were B24K to feed 120 people, the band B8500 so in comparison to my daughters wedding last year in Australia it was cheap. If you ever want to visit send a PM first as I may not be in Thailand and the missus is a bit wary of visitors.

sunsetter and terry57.........thanks for your comments

marmite.....I think I preferred to old nastier persona be careful the new nicer one doesn't become permanent.

JoshuaInMukdahan........the clean up wasn't too bad as she has a big family with lots of kids. As for the spirit house this is the best I have.


apparently someone reckons she built it wrong and that's why I hurt my leg.

well done Mrs Ootai

a good job you let your hubbie sit back and relax whilst you did all the building and organising

and the party too

Originally Posted by ootai

marmite.... I think I found someone else who wishes we hadn't bothered, a mate of yours?

That's Marmites doppelganger !

someone else with a smile,that would make a good brawn,good thread and good luck and hope your leg heals quickly.

Wouldnt dream of turning up without an invite Ootai no worries mate ,, hope your leg keeps getting better .

agreed 25k in the scheme of things if you are still a working man as you are isnt a big deal , but 25k here and 15k there and another 30k here etc on various "things " soon eats away into the pot when you are retiring early like I hope to be.

Outstanding build thread, very well documented and described. Sorry to hear you've had a little incident (well maybe not so little), here's hoping you heal quickly and completely. Look forward to any and all updates, like the garden area and other developments around the "estate". Maybe change your name to "Country Squire". May the lord and Budda bless you and the missus.

Shiloh Jim

^ thats a nice looking bit of kit in your Av Jim

Nigelandjan said: "thats a nice looking bit of kit in your Av Jim"
Thank you, I'm pleased with it, that was my 65th birthday present to myself almost 2 years ago. Really enjoy riding since I retired and live out in the country. Raising a family kept me off bikes for about 25 years. That is a Honda Shadow 1100 cc, I upgraded from a Honda 600 Shadow, much better motorcycle.

Shiloh Jim
thats a nice looking bit of kit in your Av Jim

Ootai, hat's off to you and your missus, the house (bungalow?) looks great, congratulations to the pair of you, hope you will be very happy there for many years to come.

Get well soon!

(p.s. got that singers number?)

Great build and I give you all the credit in the world to let the little lady do everything. Not sure I will be doing the same, but it appears to have worked well for you. Congratualtions and get well soon!!!!!!

Just read the whole thread - very informative, thanks for posting.

Well its been a while, about 8 months actually, and I finally managed to get home for a visit a couple of weeks ago, so I have some pictures to share on what it looks like now.
I would have posted them while I was at home but some bastard knows when I come home because they steal the bloody phone lines off the poles and I end up with no internet connection. Maybe its time for me to get up to date with the new technology and go wireless.
Anyway on the morning I am due to leave work, I get up and look outside from my balcony. Yep, the weather looks good so the buses should be flying.



Her come the first bus


Bugger missed that one but the extra hour in bed instead of in a queue at the booking counter will be worth it.



Hope the weather stays clear for the next trip. It would be nice to hitch a ride on this racy machine though.



Anyway next morning when I wake up I go out onto the bedroom patio and see this.



And this



Then this. I still can’t get over why she used so many different colours of roofing material


I walk around the corner of the patio



And a bit further



The grass we planted around the spirit house is still going Ok but I like the natural stuff in the next picture better. I hopes it will survive when it gets a bit drier.



Later from the front of the house looking toward the bedroom patio



Will post some more soon…..

Thanks Ootai mate for the trouble to post ,,,, it ,s looking good in the ol garden now it,s gettine quickly established, true what you say about the multi coloured roof,s , but as you well know they do have some funny ideas

nigelandjan
Thanks for taking the time to post a response I appreciate it

Once upon a time I did say that I was hoping to convince her to put guttering around the house. Well she did and it works great. Here's some pictures.









This is one of the two rain water tanks we have. They are 2000litres each which should give us enough water to last through a dry season. They both filled up with the first shower. We didn't put the pipe into the tank until we had let some rain wash the roof first. The problem now is trying to control the overflow as it doesn't exactly go where I planned it to go.



The one on the right is rain water and the other for bore water for the showers and toilets.



Nothing is ever perfect so we ended up with 2 "leaks". This one just drips.



This one is a lot worse. When they were putting the gutter up I asked them to put a bracket each side of every join but when they put this short "closer piece" in they must have forgot. Unfortunately this gutter runs all the way along the back of the house, around 20m, and this break is just before the tank downpipe so the gutter would have got very full and it come apart.



As for more details. The total length of guttering is 84 metres and we only put in 5 downpipes, 2 of which go into the tanks. There are 9 outside corners and 5 inside corners. The cost was approximately (she would know exactly but I 'm not there at the moment to ask) B34000 of which B7000 was for the guys who did the installation (B80/m) plus a tip.
When we got the guy who was selling the guttering to give us a quote it was B85000, she told him to take a hike. However he did say that according to his calculations we needed 8 downpipes to cater for the roof area. Unfortunately there wasn't room for any along the back of the house so as I said we ended up with only five.
I also got the guys to put brackets every 750mm instead of every metre to help support the extra water in the gutter due to having less downpipes and each side of a join as well as each side of a corner piece.
So with the gutter, the cement path all the way around the house and a good drainage system we have no problem with water or mud around the house which is great.
until next time......