Photo reporting the build of the house we bought in a walled village complex

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This is our house now Anno 2011 and the building of the large extension terrace and balcony on the front of the house can be followed in our other thread : -
https://teakdoor.com/construction-in-...d-balcony.html

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2/Pb011389.jpg

This is not the end of this thread as there are lots more details still to come, like building the swimming pool, gym, etc ......

Please post any questions or comments that you may have and I will try to answer them asap ...

i'm a bit confused with thai law
if you don't mind me asking ,
who owns the house / land ?

Have you got a finished pic of the kitchen. I wasn't keen on the small tiles but will reserve judgment for a final pic.:)

Reason i say that is because we used small tiles in a room at work, they looked great until the grout darkened.

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Originally Posted by blue

i'm a bit confused with thai law
if you don't mind me asking ,
who owns the house / land ?

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The house is in Meechai's name together with the land plot, The amenities, services and security are paid accumulatively, annually by every resident of the complex to a management company.
The first three years all services were provided by the developer, thereafter we the residents appoint a management company.

Beautiful house, it looks like you found a skilled builder. I was a bit confused by the instant landscaping that appeared in the latest post as I thought this was a work in process. Then I realized the build was a few years old. At times I am a little slow on the uptake. Congratulations on your home!

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Originally Posted by Aguda

Beautiful house, it looks like you found a skilled builder. I was a bit confused by the instant landscaping that appeared in the latest post as I thought this was a work in process. Then I realized the build was a few years old. At times I am a little slow on the uptake. Congratulations on your home!

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Hi again ... Thanks for your nice comments. I don't think we actually found a skilled builder, because we really didn't know our personal builder at the time we bought the house. We had done quite a bit of investigation into other projects from the same developer, all the way down to talking to residents of houses that they had built in other projects. Of course there were a few less complimentary comments but I think about 90% of the questions asked were very favourably answered.

Sorry about being a bit misleading but here is everything explained in an earlier posting .....

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Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

Sorry about my following order of posting, and I do agree with you that it's like reading the last paragraph in an Agatha Christie (Although this is really not as exciting as her books!) ...
I purposely have not mentioned the other posting that I have done here on TeakDoor, but there are always some cleaver guys out there! ha, ha!

My actual reason is that I did not know how my postings would be received here on TeakDoor and I had posted the "Extension" first ..

Sorry again ..... Neil

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At the moment I have two other threads that I have started :-

Extending our Existing Terrace and Balcony
https://teakdoor.com/construction-in-...d-balcony.html

Gardening in a secure village just outside of Chonburi city
https://teakdoor.com/farming-and-gard...-chonburi.html

I will now try to show a few close up photo's of various points in and around the house and at the same time try to explain more about the photo.

Some of the photo's were taken on a less resolution digital camera than we have now so I am only able to show quite small photo's in some cases.

As always it is nice to hear your comments, feedback or indeed any questions you may have ...

Left back corner showing the stone facing on the outside part of the shower.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2007_-_189.jpg

The glass block outside wall of the shower area.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2007_-_190.jpg

The downstairs Shower and Toilet is split into two areas with a glass sliding door towards the back half of the room.

Beyond the glass sliding door the area is open to the elements above with no roof and only some decorative form of wood framing.
Since day one we have never used this outside part of the shower room but we will be shortly making it into a laundry room by placing a glass roof on it.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2007_-_191.jpg

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As you can see from the photo's there is also another shower on the interior side of the glass door.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2007_-_193.jpg

This was also an idea that we had but after a while it seemed better to use it for the washing machine.

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It looked so nice in the Show House and we even took photo's of it during the walk around. Later when we moved into our new house we were suddenly faced with the very difficult problem ....

How to switch the water off when you have soap on your hands?
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2007_-_194.jpg
The problem was that they tap part of the construction was so smooth and so (100%) round that try what you did it was impossible to switch off until you had dried your hands ... (We eventually bought another design!) ...