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26 Feb. 2009It's been a week now since they started working on the roof steel and now we finally can see a shape. This work is some of the most difficult I've seen on my place and the sun is not relenting at all. Very hot every day and the scaffold work can't be easypklongball00000
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26 Feb. 2009A view of the back of the place and now a shape is apparent.pklongball00000
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26 Feb. 2009The back of the housepklongball00000
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26 Feb 2009Here we have a look from in one of the rooms showing one of the "steel workers"pklongball00000
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26 Feb 2009Another view of some of the steel work. I am surprised at how much cutting and fitting needs to be done. But these guys are up to it and from my perspective they are doing a great job.pklongball00000
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Garden?Americans say 'yard', we Poms say 'garden' - even if it looks like this.
I agree it's looking a bit of a mess at the moment, but when everything is finished I hope we'll have a beautiful garden like ThaiFly's.
jazzman00000
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Day 19The tiles arrived today. The last couple of days the workers have been adding the purlins, struts and battens to the rafters, and finishing the plumbing and drainage.
The 3" C-section rafters are spaced at 1m. The battens are spaced at 1m. Left over steel off-cuts are used for V-struts. The 1" x 1" x 6m battens cost 140 baht each.
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Roof tileThese 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.jazzman00000
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Ridge TileSee how they go together in the next pic. they cost 50 baht each.jazzman00000
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Interlocking Ridge Tiles- and they go together something like this. One has a small radius, and the overlapping one has a larger radius. It's quicker, easier, and cheaper than using capping tiles, although capping tiles would look nicer on a proper house.jazzman00000
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First snagThis 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.
jazzman00000
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Day 15 rendered walls - rear viewOur solution for the bathroom windows can clearly be seen: two glass blocks at flanked on either side by a ventilated brick. The glass blocks were left over from the construction of the house, but they can be bought from 38 baht. The vented bricks cost 5.50 baht each.
There are no zoning regulations here. To maximise on our land, the rear wall is 1 metre from the land boundary.
jazzman00000
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