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CuringCement mix or concrete mix does not dry - it cures and the process must not be accelerated. These racks just allow any excess water to evaporate slowly, and to prevent the bricks damaging each other.
To build a wall, allowing for mortar, 13.5 bricks are needed for 1 square metre. The method is much stronger, cheaper, far more insulating, and much less labour intensive than using the small traditional red clay bricks still favoured by some constructors.jazzman (5 votes)
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Local tradition.BEFORE you start, please remember that all prices cited in this story are now nearly FIVE years old. Click thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the tiny clapperboard if you want to start a slide show (but without the comments). 15 November 2006: After the foundation holes had been dug and the reinforcing wire cemented , the whole family and the village turns out for a ceremony with the monks. Some mumbojumbo takes place and well wishers throw flowers and coins into the foundations.jazzman (5 votes)
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Bathroom plumbing.??n absolute minimum of plumbing goes under the floors. In the side-by-side bathrooms it was kept as close to the outside walls as possible. In the UK, plumbing like this is often on the outside wall - a headache for those cold British winters - where it can be recognised by its swathes of lagging - strips of sacking!
Prepared and installed correctly, PVC piping is perfectly adequate. A lot of it is used in Europe.
For hot water piping see http://www.siamgpi.com/solarpower/multipipe.htmljazzman (4 votes)
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Back filling the floor spaces.The floor spaces between the runs of ground beams were filled in using the leftover earth from the footings and some of the earth that came out of the hole for the swimming pool.jazzman (4 votes)
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Formwork for the window sills and lintels.The lintels were concrete which contained 2, 3-hun reinforcing bars.
Click on thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the clapperboard to start a slide show. jazzman (4 votes)
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This was ten carts of soil which we bought to raise the house.... I am told that it is auspicious to do that but I think it will need quite a few more carts yetpaulm (3 votes)
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Master BedroomAt over 20 m2, big enough for a master bedroom in a budget English style bungalow. What you can't see in the photo are the walk-in wardrobe, the en suite bathroom and the door to the bedroom's private patio.jazzman (3 votes)
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Pool Chlorinator Control Unit[pic before installation] Wall mounted control unit for saltwater chlorinator. Includes timer for filtration cycles. Sensor in catalisor unit measures Chlorine level and switches the pumping cycle on and off as required, producing chlorine to the required level. jazzman (3 votes)
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Consumer Unit LargeConsumer Unit (pre equipped, modified by Jazzman), steel box, for 12 circuits, eg; Lighting, wall sockets, kitchen, 2 water heaters, 4 air con, garage/workshop, perimiter lighting and gate opener, swimming pool (goes to another sub consumer unit).
Can be surface or flush fitted.
Brand: Green
Equipment: 2-pole 60A master, minature RCBO with variable senitivity, various MCBs from 30A to 10A
Price: about 3,000 bahtjazzman (3 votes)
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pool1 meter wide deck of cement with riverstone finishthaimic (3 votes)
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Aluminium 3Frame for a double sliding window with sliding fly screen. 1.5mm extruded aluminium, white expoxy enamelled.
Click thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the clapperboard to start a slide show. jazzman (3 votes)
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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 (3 votes)
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