Building in Chiang RaiThe backhoe brought in to expedite the preparation of foundationsEbenezer
The Journey Has BegunWe went to the land yesterday and it looked like they were preparing for a primitive moon launch. The house will sit on 11 pilings because the ground in central Thailand is like a swamp where a regular foundation would sink.newhomepages
In the BeginingThis is how the land looked when we bought it in January of 2011. It's a little over 200 square wa in a development of empty land plots near Safari World. It included this little one room house with a tiny bathroom, an address, electric and water already installed by the previous owner. Only one other plot was built on when we arrived, but it had been developed and quickly sold out a couple of years before.newhomepages
Another View of the Land (12 10 2010)I was told that dirt was put on the land 8 years ago and the land is over a meter taller than my In-laws house. One year age one of my wife's brothers had a small house on the land, you may notice where his bathroom was in this picture. That shack/building in the back is the barn where the cow are kept. I agree to build another barn, it was too close to the house and it blocked the river 30 feet behind it. fgrossiii