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Qcon and superblock are load bearing and ok to use for no colums we use similar in the uk all the time the problem you will have is convincing the thais to do it for you I beleive MGV12 built that way A lot of the thais will not have come across the blocks let alone used them so will want to stay tr...

Having trouble functioninhg today picture credit (developer3d waffle pod design) Caution this sort of foundation is designed to sink ??? as a whole so the house survives the movement or if it tilts the house survives the movement it spreads the load evenly over the surface b ut you should consider k...

You are both lucky somtimes i have become very verbose with explaining some thing and it eats it off it goes to computer heaven never to be seen again one day soon i expect i will put the printer on and it will spew out a book with all my lost posts to CTH I thought rodger did it deliberate to get h...

@ geordie ... Thanks for you fullfilling info.. But I can't jack the house up. It's already done with casted pillars in concrete. But I will try to do more improvements here and there, til I can get a loan to do a modern 2 storey home. :P In that case all you need to do is a survey to see what you ...

O so true i thought when i saw your name here it was about to be a reprimand ?? the posts supposed to be about morgages maybe MGV12 could relocate the building discusion which seems to be developing
And of course rename = Building half a house in Thailand ??

You see from the earlier post i swing for a bungalow and precast with lightweight roof Two floors will require casting on site for the frame so i should have clarified sorry still not the end of the world and can be done just larger stages :) Start with the height and style of the wooden house if it...

The problem with the link was it was more about a franchise than the product ? but that was inadvertant ?

Yes the answer is you can build one floor then the other although thailand they do it the other way top floor first then infill the ground floor later but its easy enough to do and design that you build in pieces at a time and that way you could tie it in with holiday visits eventually :lol: :lol: :...

Don,t be blaming me although this new laptop has the touch mouse pad and i do keep deleting my own post

maybe gremlins the post on k blocks is missing i posted a comment and its not showing

I had a similar situation with my inlaws repair after repair after repair then the goverment put in proper drainage higher than her driveway so flooding the house !! In a strange sort of way it made me happy because the money sent for repairs did not add up a lot would dissapear before a repair was ...

I cannot speak Thai but i get the feeling there is no Thai word for "logic" if there is it needs to be exercised more often

The 400000 seems reasonable compared to the daft prices i was getting shown land for And i am talking outskirts of village We were lucky though and bought 12 rai for nothing vitually 10 years ago about five mile from her mothers near enough to be sociable but far enough to have a life of our own My ...

The way i see it you are taking a 2 million bht gamble its bad enough being a farrang and risking the potential loss of all you own to your thai other but why enhance the risk putting it in the hands of her family personally i would rather find a small plot and secure it than take a gamble on losing...

Not whinging today everything has speeded up beyond beleif download upload and topic changes atlthough can still develop a stutter somthing,s improved