That's the power for the extractor fan that will be installed above the hobs.Quote:
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That's the power for the extractor fan that will be installed above the hobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
We're in the final stages now, just few bits here and there plus a clean up and I think we're good to go. We've decided to move in first and then let them do the carport and the garden while we're there, my mum's arriving next Friday so that's incentive enough to just move in.
The outside, still a few little bits left to do on the wall, but not much:
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Here's my shed / hide out, and as you can see there's still a lot of tiding to be done:
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The veranda now has tiles:
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The kitchen now seems to be the dumping ground for all the builders stuff:
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The stairs turned out well, only having wood on the treads worked out a lot cheaper and looked pretty good I think:
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Hopefully the next time you see pics we'll have moved in and you'll be looking at the finished product!
Lovely place that, well done and thanks Chris!
Very nice.
How much of your hair have you lost during this project?
Too much. Although I've come out of the other side now, getting to the point where instead of getting angry I just do a half deranged sounding laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino
There's that list somewhere of the most stressful experiences a person can experience in life, was surprised that building a house in Southeast Asia wasn't listed.
Very nice house and even if you're only slightly batty after the experience, you have something you and the wife wanted. It looks really good and you should be very proud. Hope your mum liked the place and had a nice visit.
Jim
looks great and very big
enjoy
Hi Chris,Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisInCambo
Firstly, congratulations on a superb build.
I am soon to be having the ceilings done in mine and I want to get the same look as yours. Have you got any more pictures of the framework and what systems did you use?
The ceilings are the standard khmer very light weight furring channel where the hangers,main bar and furrings are all the same section screwed together.
Along with the 9mm gyprock sheet where they never stagger the joints.
In the west we always stagger the joints so the flushing is less noticeable and it is less likely to crack.
Her it doesnt matter,no one knows why?
^^ What he said
Just looked through my pics but didn't get any good ones of the mountings. Thailand also use concrete slabs for the floors in residential buildings so I'm sure they do it the same way there.
Looks great Chris. Thanks for posting this ongoing masterpiece. Must be interesting living over there in Cambodia.
I echo what everyone else said. Congrats. Can't wait to see it when you have moved in.
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Originally Posted by OneSureThing
You won't have to wait long, we're moving in tomorrow. There's still work to do on the outside, but we figured it would be quicker to get it wrapped up with us there.
We've also had to delay some things like the landscape gardening and motor for the gate due to cash flow, a customer decided to pay late at the worst possible time. So those things will have to wait.
All in all the budget was pretty accurate, when all is said and done we will have come in $10k over, but that was mainly due to scope creep and price increases on curtain materials. It was a huge amount of stress building ourselves and sourcing all of our own materials, but at the end of day it meant we got a hell of a lot more for our money than we would have if we had of just gone and bought from a developer. it also has those small personal touches that are missing on cookie cutter houses.
Next week's a holiday here, so I'll have some time to fiddle around and clean up the little bits of sloppiness left behind by the builders.
So we've finally moved in, but don't think that this means the place is finished, there are still builders here and lots to do. Lots of little touch up jobs on the inside and quite a bit left out side like the car port and some work on the fence that sits above the exterior wall.
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As always there have been some teething problems, the water table is insanely high at the moment due to all of this flooding, in fact it's higher than the inlet to our septic tank which create a trapped air pocket in the pipes when water is passing through, bottom line is that the downstairs toilet doesn't clear quickly when flushed. Plumber thinks the water table will be back down in a week or two.
Also had a few electrical problems, firstly we had irregular voltage, which is a common problem here, under heavy load it was sometimes dropping as low as 170v which obviously isn't good for any electrical goods with motors as they risk over heating. Had to fork out $450 (which I'd rather be spending on furniture) for this bad boy, now steady as a rock 220-230v:
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Second problem is we're paying the price for skimping on the wire from the box 400m away to the house, bottom line is that we have a 63 amp connection but can barely draw 50 amps, only a problem under heavy load, such as loads of air-cons on and oven etc, but still something I'd like to get fixed at some point (when I have any money again, 2022 estimate).
Well done Chris ,, looks fantastic , I love your choice of colours on the outside of your home , I bet your missus is well pleased
What a lovely home. Well done, Sir. And congrats.
Cheers
Very nice, especially those little vanities you went with. Good call. Last house I had built for me was 20 something years ago in North Wales. I reckon I had more hassle than you did!
I was just looking through some of the older build thread on here and was thinking how annoying it was when you got all the pictures of the build, but the minute the poster moved in the pictures stop, so you never really see the finished product.
I then went to this thread and realised that I'd done exactly the same. So here's few pics taken today, about three months after we moved in:
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thankyou
that's good Chris
and a lawn....
came out great.
Tell us, what was the total cost and how close was it to the estimate?
It cost roughly $100k, not including the land. I was aiming for $80k, but had budgeted for $90k. But the spec also changed as we went which contributed to the increase more than any major miscalculations. Things like air-conditioning the ground floor, having an outhouse/shed and buying aerated septic tanks all pushed the price up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phuketrichard
Also the price of some materials like bricks and sand flew up at the end with the flooding causing supply shortages.
Also that cost includes costs that weren't construction:
Hard title + tax: $5000
Planning permission: $600
Architect: $1650
Power connection: $885
Water connection: $500
The power and water usually only cost a fraction of that to connect if the street is already wired/plumbed in. We were the first to build on our street, so that wasn't the case, so some grease had to be applied to make it happen.
Even though we went over budget I think we got a lot of house for $100k, when you consider that most of the new developments a similar distance from the city are usually $200k above the land value. Also I'm 100% sure of the build quality and the quality of the materials used, which are often suspect at these new developments.