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Phala - "The Beginning"

This album will show a series of photos starting from plot buying through the process of the layout and hole digging. The plot is in the Banchang district of Rayong in the sub-district of Phala Beach.At the end I have included a floor plan of the house.

25 files, last one added on Dec 30, 2008
Album viewed 187 times

Our Phala House - Architect's Rendering & The Finished Look

This album shows the view of the land and house from the architect's view. As with most projects the final finished look will be different. How close did we actually come to achieving the look the architect drew up?

18 files, last one added on Jul 05, 2009
Album viewed 490 times

Phala-"The Foundation"

This album continues the build with footing hole preparation, rebar form work and concrete pouring and includes photos of the "official" day of beginning construction led off by the Shaman making a blessing and we all raised the columns and chanted

38 files, last one added on Jan 06, 2009
Album viewed 230 times

Phala - "Foundation after the Blessing"

This album is the continuation of the Foundation part of the build. We show you views and comments from the Blessing Day forward until the footing holes are refilled and the beam work commences.

24 files, last one added on Jan 12, 2009
Album viewed 167 times

Phala - "The Floor Beams"

13 Jan.2009 This album continues with the construction of the floor support beams. Starting at the form building through the rebar work and then the concrete work.

29 files, last one added on Jan 25, 2009
Album viewed 221 times

Phala - "The Floor comes next"

This album continues the build with a series of photos from the beam form removal up to the floor panel install and concrete pouring. Slowly a house is starting to rise above the dirt and weeds. When we started I told the Mrs. if she prays to Buddah and keeps watering the weeds a house would grow and it seems like its working. Spreading some baht around also helps to fertilize the soil.

31 files, last one added on Feb 14, 2009
Album viewed 171 times

Phala - "The Roof"

This album will continue our house build focusing mainly on the construction of the roof. The beginning of the roof started on 18 Feb 2009 when the men delivered some of the pre-painted steel sections. This album will follow the erection process of the steel superstructure that will follow with the install of the CPAC Monier roof tiles.

24 files, last one added on Mar 09, 2009
Album viewed 210 times

Phala - "The Roof Tile"

In this album I will post the photos of the installation of the CPAC Monier roof tile from start to finish which should include the reflective foil under the tile and the sheet metal and valley work.

21 files, last one added on Apr 15, 2009
Album viewed 201 times

Phala - "The Walls"

When you look through this album it will contain the picture story of the wall building. We are using the Q-Con brand of wall block. I chose the 7.5 cm wide blocks and we will be making double wide walls in and out with a cavity in between the blocks. I will of course add comments as we go along to help the viewer understand the process.

54 files, last one added on Apr 15, 2009
Album viewed 250 times

Phala - "Ceiling"

I decided to change this album to "Ceiling" only and make a separate album for the water pipes as there are too many photos that need to be in each album. So now this album is only ceiling work related to the gypsum (drywall/sheetrock) both for the inside and outside of the house.

25 files, last one added on May 27, 2009
Album viewed 173 times

Phala - "Plumbing"

28 files, last one added on Jul 10, 2009
Album viewed 193 times

Phala - "Electrical"

In this album I will try to detail the electrical part of the house build in pictures and some narration. The house will have a 3 phase supply rated at 15(45) amp service. I will take advantage of the 3 phase and install a higher power water heater and later a ceiling AC for the living room. All the wiring will be in pvc conduit and wireway above the ceilings and HDPE conduit to the pole.

28 files, last one added on May 05, 2009
Album viewed 208 times

Phala - "Electrical 2"

In this album I will continue to detail the electric work. This may have to be a 3rd and 4th album as when the file grows to big its too hard to sort. I want everyone to see that a quailty electric job can be had here.

26 files, last one added on Feb 26, 2010
Album viewed 147 times

Phala - "Electrical 3"

This album was added today as the first two are getting full and its easier to load the photos. This will continue the electric works.

35 files, last one added on Jul 05, 2009
Album viewed 149 times

Phala - "Electrical 4"

This will continue the electrical series

20 files, last one added on Aug 12, 2009
Album viewed 114 times

Phala - "Kitchen"

In this album I will try to put only kitchen related photos as we move now into the finish phase of the build. We hired a built-in cabinet company to do the work. Our cabinets are not solid wood but wood and wood products. No pressed board or particle board that I have seen and the outer surfaces are teak veneer.

18 files, last one added on Aug 12, 2009
Album viewed 223 times

Phala - "Windows & Doors"

30 files, last one added on Dec 05, 2009
Album viewed 210 times

Phala - "Pump House"

I decided to add this album dues to the separate nature of this work. The pump house will be in the beginning a open style building with one wall. The budget is being stretched and to save a few baht I chose to only build it with a roof and one wall. So this album will follow the building and fitting out of this room.

31 files, last one added on Aug 12, 2009
Album viewed 153 times

Phala - "Other Stuff"

Here we will have a collection of photos that are just general in nature and I can't seem to find a place for them. I think this one will fill up quick

31 files, last one added on Apr 23, 2009
Album viewed 193 times

Phala - "Other Stuff 2"

Just continuing Other Stuff here with photos that don't fit any particular category.

21 files, last one added on May 18, 2009
Album viewed 91 times

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July 21Mrs thinks it's time to move so she brought in some stuff we can store away for now.pklongball

2 JuneAnd to end this segment we have the Thai Tileman's version of a wet saw for cutting tile. It's a small Makita circular saw with a small tube of water being siphoned from a bucket to cool the cut and bladepklongball

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4 Jan 09 Site visitThis is what we saw on arrival today. All the rebar forms were trucked in today and the foundation crew was hard at it carrying and placing them into position for all 31 holes. Hot, thirsty work. But they look like they can handle it.pklongball

June 23Here is Tile man 1's main helper. She does all the finish work after tile man sets the tile. In this case the granite install cleaning and finish groutpklongball

11 MayA more distant shot of the cabling installed for the 3 phase power and meter. The closer pole is the pole we installed for our connection. The pole opposite is the project installed pole. We had to have the cabling and pvc installed to get ready for the new meter in a month or two.pklongball

The Blessing finishedOne of the 2 columns that we raised during the ceremonypklongball

27 OctoberView from the pump house walk to the new walk to get to the house. pklongball

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