Thread: Building a house in Nakhom Pathom

I don't think I can get away with that, since it's not in the contract.

I will give them an ultimatum. Either I hire and pay guys to do the work properly, deducting it from the final 10% or they get it done pronto. I can't sit around and wait, for weeks on end, for a PD House crew to come out and fi


But surely that's not in the contract either !


Pay them 1% a month for 10months ..... so they're getting paid .
You're not refusing - just being careful .

Wasp

Love your house Steve, and what a great party. I think you've probably done better out of PD house than some others I've read about, most don't even get a ring back!

Originally Posted by Wasp

I don't think I can get away with that, since it's not in the contract.

I will give them an ultimatum. Either I hire and pay guys to do the work properly, deducting it from the final 10% or they get it done pronto. I can't sit around and wait, for weeks on end, for a PD House crew to come out and fi


But surely that's not in the contract either !


Pay them 1% a month for 10months ..... so they're getting paid .
You're not refusing - just being careful .

Wasp

No, it's not in the contract, but I want PD House gone ASAP. If I tell them that I will pay 1% every month, they will just drag this out 10 months.
Steve

I think the words" Thai" and "attention to detail" should not be said in the same sentence.. Not unless your making a joke anyway!

Sorry, I don't have any news to report on house repairs or other things I want to do to it.

However, it's been busy over in Thailand. My wife's water started to go a week ago and she delivered our boy on April 9 at 7:30 PM, Bangkok time. He was a "wee lad" of 4,300 g. Needless to say, my wife has been a little sore (ie no C-section).

Apparently, he was a little troublemaker in the hospital nursery. Things would be quiet. He would start to cry and get all the other babies crying. He was quickly labeled as the American.

They finally went home the other day and he actually was pretty good the first night. I figured he'd be up and crying all night and my wife would be a frazzled mess. But apparently they slept most of the night. She nursed him twice, and all he did was start to make a little noise before she would nurse him. They would then go back to sleep.

He does have a set of lungs, as my wife has sent me some video of him crying and fussing, so he's not always so easy.

Here's a pic my wife sent me this morning, in what seems to be his favorite sleeping position. It's very cute, but I definitely need to get him some blue colored stuff to wear !



It's good to see him in our house. I can't wait to get over there. Still waiting on a customer to finalize some work before I head over.




My wife also sent me some other pics. It seems we've had a good crop of mangos, including the big ones that we planted 3-4 years ago. We bought 3 trees, from a local nursery somewhere. They were from Australia and the fruit is ~2 kg in size, instead of the usual 1 kg local mangos. I was worried that, being bigger, they would not be that good. But I've been assured they are very good.

We also have another 4-5 mango trees around the property, as I recall.

So, my wife's father is taking them to his local market, where he sells fruit. They were sold very quickly. Maybe we need to figure out a way to get more of those big Australian mango trees (grafting ?).




Sorry no real house news as of late. I figured everyone has been off celebrating Songkran in one way or another. I was really hoping to be there for this year. I was going to load a couple buckets of water in the back of our truck and see what fun we could have. Hopefully next year.

Steve

Cutie!! What's his name?

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Well done Steve and congrats to all 3 of you

Damn! 9 1/2 pounds! Steve, that's a biiig boy, and cute as a button. And from his contemplative "The Thinker" pose, he will be smart too. Either that or a Sumo wrestler. Congratulations and best of luck!

Congratulations Steve, great news. Looks like you managed to get the house done just in time. Well done to you all.

Thanks all.
His real name is Mark.

I don't know what Thai nickname he will have yet. I've been calling him "Yak Noi" ever since we knew he was coming, since there was some excellent Fat Yak Ale (from Melbourne,Australia) that surely was involved, hehehehe...

Happy Easter to all !!

Steve

Originally Posted by stevefarang

His real name is Mark.

Congratulations Steve and a most excellent choice of name.

Congrad's Steve

Congratulations Steve. Looks quite comfortable on the marbled floors of Chateau SteveFarang. We he inherit a title??.....

Congrats Steve. Welcome to the club of raising a Thai/Western child. My son will be 4 years old in a month or so and I enjoy watching him grow.

^^^
Thanks Rick, but he is my second half Thai/half Western kid. My youngest daughter lives down in Hat Yai with her mother (long story, not going to get into it). The plan is to get her moved in by the end of the year. We already have a bedroom for her.

Steve

You are well experienced then, but they are always a wonder to behold when they are that small. Good luck with everything.

Originally Posted by koman

Congratulations Steve. Looks quite comfortable on the marbled floors of Chateau SteveFarang. We he inherit a title??.....

While I do have quite a bit of British (& Welsh) lineage in my background, I'm American. There are no titles !!!

Hell, I might let him keep the lovely carriage Wasp added to the picture of my house ! LOL

He can battle with my older son, for the chrome steel implant in my shoulder, from a motorcycle accident 6 years ago. It has to be worth something, or at least make for a cool paperweight on a desk.

Steve

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

You are well experienced then, but they are always a wonder to behold when they are that small. Good luck with everything.

I know. It's killing me not to be over there right now. But I need some customers to come through with Purchase Orders before I get over there.

Thanks !

Steve

Fantastic news, congrats Steve. House looks great, baby looks great, life is good!

Great house thread thank you , and about insulation on the ceiling , the more you have the bigger your cables should be due to the heat and amps caried by the cable , can result in over load and burn out.
And it's been wired to Thai standard not British.

I was reading page 13 , congratulations on the new baby.

Thanks all for the good wishes. I should finally be back there in about 15-16 days.

Unfortunately, a little problem has popped up that I will be looking for solutions to. My wife told me how her brother had come back to the house the other day and found a baby cobra INSIDE the house. I think it came in through an open window (none of our windows have screens - something I may have to try and find a fix for).
It was disposed of (I think she said he ate it too!!) but I am very concerned about a nest of cobras anywhere near the house.
I suspect they are under the house, as on the west side of the house, we have a large opening that would allow them to get under.



The west side of the house is close to the water channel that supplies the adjoining rice paddies and other areas that a snake would probably like to slither around.

While I'm not certain they are under the house, that's my best guess, especially if they are found that close to the house. This would be a valuable warning to others building houses with crawl spaces, it may end up being very attractive to snakes and other nasty critters.
I'm going to see if there is some one in the area who can get under there and check to see if they are in there. If so, I want them gone and that crawl space made undesirable to snakes in the future.

This includes finally filling in that area next to the house and putting in some flowering plants,as I've been wanting to do anyway. I may try to fill in some of the gaps with cheap red bricks, to help dissuade any thing from trying to dig in and under or dig out from underneath.

Is there anything else I can do, besides get a pet mongoose or two ? When we had the geese, ducks and chickens on our second lot, we had a problem with a python nabbing a few of our birds. They put down some white powder around the perimeter of the bird house, that I guess the snake doesn't like. Can I do the same with cobras ?

If they are not under the house, I want the nest found and removed/destroyed. I have zero tolerance for snakes and having them so close as getting inside my house, is really bothering me.

Thanks,
Steve

Well Steveyourgloriousness , two days have gone and not a single offer to come and stomp all over your load of cobras .

It's quiet around the Threads hey ?


Wasp