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Kitchen view 2The cooker hood was got cheap for 6,500 baht from Home Pro, Udon. Normal price was baht 13,000 but it was in a sale because it had been a demo on a display board in the shop. The two-ring glass cooker hob cost about 4,000 baht (if I remember rightly) from Global House, and the stainless steel double sink and drainer cost about 2,700 complete with tap (faucet), drains, and underneath plumbing pipes and U-bends.jazzmanOct 28, 2010
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Kitchen view 1We keep adding bits to this kitchen and it's still not complete. A breakfast bar still has to be built from the left hand side near the fridge to halfway across the archway. And the fridge will be replaced with a side-by-side. Cost: there is about 65,000 baht's worth of KITZCHO?® units. The solid granite counter tops cost about 18,000 baht including installation. jazzmanOct 28, 2010
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wall 5Then it fell over. One night of rain was enough. This wall will be rebuilt using correct engineering and correct drainage. Another 40 trucks of dirt will be needed to top up the infill that was washed away. Probable total cost: around 250,000 baht.jazzmanJan 29, 2010
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Gutter and soffitGalvanised guttering worked out at about 178 baht per metre, installed.jazzman
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Bathroom plumbing.??n absolute minimum of plumbing goes under the floors. In the side-by-side bathrooms it was kept as close to the outside walls as possible. In the UK, plumbing like this is often on the outside wall - a headache for those cold British winters - where it can be recognised by its swathes of lagging - strips of sacking!
Prepared and installed correctly, PVC piping is perfectly adequate. A lot of it is used in Europe.
For hot water piping see http://www.siamgpi.com/solarpower/multipipe.htmljazzman
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support for soffit3" wide Sheraboard planks were used for soffit. The suspension rails pictured here were leftovers from the ceiling supports. jazzman
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wall 3If a perimeter wall is to be used for retaining fill dirt, it needs some careful consideration. This wall is (was) 100 x 20 for 1 metre of in-fill.
Think about the 20 cm thick, steel reinforced walls of your tiny 4 x 8 swimming pool...
jazzman
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Small 50W dichroticI thought this would be a good idea for the lighting round the house in the soffit, but with 20 of them at 50W each that's too much to leave on all night. We used the 220V ones.The 12V versions one have the added expense and 50X is still 50W. We're going to change them for 5W energy saver bulbs in small recessed fittings. We're keeping the ones in the bathrooms.jazzman
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kitchen archThe kitchen arch now complete made of plasterboard, (Rigips) or what Americans call shitrock?
There are four swivelling dichrotic lights embedded in it.
Click an thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the clapperboard to start a slide show. jazzman
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Day 27 Gable ends.While the roof was going on, all the wiring, switches and sockets have been installed. I am only counting the days actually worked. The foreman has bought a new car (I'm obviously paying him too much) so with that and a wedding in our family no work was done for over a week.
The soffit and the Conwood are leftovers from building the house. Tomorrow the ceiling team is coming to do the plasterboard ceilings (sheetrock) that will have circular recesses for the ceiling fans.jazzman
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