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Consumer units499 viewsEach room has its own mini consumer unit with a 32A 2-pole main breaker, a 10A and a 20A MCB. The units cost 500 baht each, fully equipped.
Doing it like this will ensure that if a guest overloads a circuit in the room, only the room breaker(s) will trip and not leave all the rooms in the dark.
The entire building will have a larger consumer unit with an RCCB - of course.
For more details of this and other consumer units, see the Electrical Fittings album.jazzman
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Plasterboard suspension.498 viewsA 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.jazzman
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Ceiling suspension: clpis490 viewsThe rails cost 25 baht per 4 m length. One is installed vertically, the other horizontally. The metal clips that hold them together cost 1.20 each.jazzman
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Window frames481 viewsWooden (Mai Deng) window frames for louvre type windows. 1 x 1.2 m. 700 baht each from local village hardware store. There were some cheaper ones but I decided to go for the better wood with a better finish - I worry about wood warping in the rainy season. These will be sanded, primed, and painted off-white to match the doors and door frames.jazzman
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Window winder475 viewsWinder for louvre type windows. Nothing like the heavy duty quality die-cast used on our kitchen window. These cost 35 baht each from the local hardware store; better ones can cost 80 - 150 baht.jazzman
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Roof tile475 viewsThese composite roof panels are 120 x 50, so it's two for 1 m2. The usual price in GlobalHouse or HomeMart / HomePro is 56 - 59 baht each. We ordered them through our favourite village store and paid 48 baht. The area to be covered by this roof is 140 m2, that's a saving of 2,500 baht. All these little savings add up.jazzman
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Day 12473 viewsThe bathroom walls were built, and the door frames fitted. The PVC doors cost 790 baht complete with frame - from GlobalHouse.jazzman
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Rendering473 viewsThe rendering of all the interior and exterior walls is now complete. We used 35 bags of rendering cement (boon chap) and sand carefully sieved through blue plastic netting. This cement is sold in 40 Kg bags, not 50 Kg, at 100 baht each. We added plasticiser to the mix - a 100 baht can was enough.jazzman
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Wall sockets.471 viewsFor more on the motel electrics, see the Electrical Fittings album.jazzman
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Day 11469 viewsFront walls, doors and window frames.
Completely up-to-date comprehensive steel prices have been posted on the forum.jazzman
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First snag463 viewsThis huge drainage ditch goes along the entire 40m frontage. The plan is to lay concrete drainage pipes and fill it in for parking space. The workers dropped one pipe getting it off the truck - 150 baht 'down the drain'.
Never mind, if that's all that goes wrong on this project, I'll be happy.jazzman
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Louvre mechanism458 viewsThese cost 145 per pair complete with aluminium strips (not shown) for the interior of the window frames. Again, not comparable with the heavy duty mechanisms on the aluminium kitchen window. The louvres will be of plain 4 mm glass with non-ground edges.jazzman
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