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Plasterboard suspension.A lot opf people on site today, electricians installing the consumer units in the rooms and the fans, and the ceiling men working in all the rooms at the same time. We had also started touching up the welds and scratches on the steel with red oxide, but gave up and started digging footings for the perimeter wall instead.
The materials for the ceiling come to almost exactly 100 baht per square metre.
The complete invoice details have been posted on the forum.jazzmanMar 13, 2009

Ceiling fansCheap, 48", only 590 baht in GlobalHouse. This one is just spot welded to the beam. It will be taken down again and the tube will be cut to the correct length for suspension in the circular ceiling recess.. The hook will then be securely bolted to the beam and the welds repainted.jazzmanMar 13, 2009

Day 26 RoofThe roof is almost finished with just a few small snags to tidy up. Remember that there are no drawings for this project and it's a question of make-it-up-as-you-go. It's also a training excercise for my workers. We still have a lot to do on the land including a frontage wall with gate and motel gatehouse at one end, and another gate with archway at the other end of the land, a large sala as a dining-room restaurant, a floating sala on the pond, and a meeting room/classroom on the field behind.jazzmanMar 09, 2009

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.jazzmanMar 09, 2009

Green House MotelThis is the only sketch that was made. No plans or blueprints were produced. It probably won't look anything like this when it's finished. basically, the foreman was given the dimensions and a floor plan and left alone to figure it out. What he's not sure about , he comes and asks.jazzmanFeb 28, 2009

DISASTERS !!!These are some of the things that W I L L happen if you go away and let the builders get on with it under the expert supervision of your Thai partner, your inlaws, or just with no supervision at all. People with pots of money can just laugh these things off. In the worst case sceneario, the cost of putting it right may be more than what is in your retirement fund .jazzmanFeb 26, 2009

More superb engineeriing.Click the image for a full screen view. A load-bearing concrete corner column. Notice how the whole weight of the corner of the roof rests on the too thin rebar of the columns that were made too short. The ring-beam is only a single c-section 4 x 4 steel girder; it should at least be a box section - better would bee two C-sections welded face-to-face. Viewed from the outside, the tiles lifting up a couple of milimetres at their bottom edges demonstrates that the roof is sagging already.3 commentsjazzmanFeb 26, 2009

Strong Roof Truss...Click the image for a full screen view. The double-C ridge purlin - the most important load-bearing part of the roof - was too short so they just extended it with a bit of rebar and connected all the hip purlins to it. Notice the superbly clean welding and the neat job of repainting the welds.
Only about one in six of the tiles had been tied down, the rest were just in place under their own weight. Hopefully this region of Thailand is not susceptible to high winds.jazzmanFeb 26, 2009

Very nice bathroom finishingClick the image for a full screen view. They must have broken a corner off the expensive black marble top and hastily repaired it like this.
An electric socket this close to the washbasin is TOTALLY inadmissible.2 commentsjazzmanFeb 26, 2009

More neat finishingWhat the blanked-off hole was supposed to be is anyone's guess. And of course there should not be an unearthed 2-pin socket here. One wonders if there is even an earth wire in the 3-pin sockets. You can guess...1 commentsjazzmanFeb 26, 2009

Neat finishingNeatly finished switch unit. Notice the blobs of white paint ion the switches.
jazzmanFeb 26, 2009

Quality wiringThis is a major wiring junction in the roof space. Wires twisted together with insulating tape and no junction box.1 commentsjazzmanFeb 26, 2009

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