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Aluminium 3Frame for a double sliding window with sliding fly screen. 1.5mm extruded aluminium, white expoxy enamelled.
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deliveriing CPAC (ready mixed concrete)CPAC is a brand name that is used as a generic like 'Hoover', 'biro', Kleenex', 'Scotch tape' , 'Sellotape', 'Tesafilm', 'Tempo' etc. Totally indipendent suppliers even paint their trucks in the blue & white CPAC trademark colours. See Jazzman's sticky on the forum for all you need to know about concrete.jazzman
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Holes cut in the brick base for the cupboards.The light shining through is a special cupboard for the gas tank. There is a steel door on the outside. You drive up with you car with a new gas tank and push it in through from outside. Saves carrying the heavy tank all the way round the back to the kitchen.
Lacking any better ideas, the fronts were tiled with leftovers from one of the bathrooms.
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brick formwork for ground beamsInstead of using expensive wooden shuttering, the formwork for the beams is built at ground level with the Thai 'cinder' blocks. These are extremely cheap, and they stay in place afterwards thus adding even more strength.
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grease trap finished'Grey water' - that's the stuff from kitchen sinks, washbasins, washing machines and showers - generally doesn't contain contain solids that need to be bacterially decomposed, and is already largely disinfected by the additives in soaps and detergents. These detergents float on water and can be separated in a grease trap before the water is led away to leach. Keeping the grey water separate from sewage also helps prevent the bacteriological process in the septic tank from getting over-diluted. jazzman
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Tuscan PillarsThe drain pipes were carefully lifted and let down over the rebar and filled with concrete. If you wanted to save a lot of time and money and did't mind having round columns everywhere instead of square section ones, you could make them all this way. It would be a very strong construction, and give rise to some interesting comments about your architecture. We will be building our hexagonal sala (gazeebo) this way
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Living RoomSeen from the kitchen. For a small house, the living room is deceptively spacious. The whole floor space is usable, no wasted nooks and crannies - a result of cunning interior design.jazzman
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'Nok' stopThese plastic strips fit under the tiles between the tiles and the eaves board (fascia). Stops birds getting into the roof and nesting. 60cm long, about 7 baht each. (packets of 10). Did YOU remember to install them? They come with profiles to match most tiles and corrugated tin. They also stop mice. Mice like to gnaw away at plasterboard (sheetrock)...
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sau romain, fixing the capitalContemporary Thai architecture favours fake Roman columns. (Like the Brits with their pseudo Edwardian porticos, some people love it, some find it totally kitchy - problem is, you can't choose and build your own house in the UK). Some local Thai workers refuse to build to any other design. We refused to be pressured into Doric columns at over 5,000 baht each, we used concrete drain pipes to have Tuscan pillars.
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Formwork for ground beamsThe brickwork form for the beam gets a final height adjustment with a row of red bricks. This is much cheaper than using wooden formwork. It stays in place and adds enormous strength to the beams, and provides the 'plinth' that can be seen around the base of the house.
jazzman
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Sewage FarmNo everyone's tastiest topic for discussion. This is a correctly designed double chamber system, separating the grey water and the black water. The back yard will be raised flush with the tops of the silos and the pipes will be buried.jazzman
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