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Mini consumer unit: close up.Note the amperages: mainbreaker 32A, Lighting & fans 10A, sockets and shower units 20A.jazzman00000
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220 V and co-ax TV sockets.Most TVs and audio surround systems have 2-pin plugs,so these sockets a re ok for equipment that does not need earthing.jazzman00000
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Used in the motel.Light switch and fan controller.
Fan controllers are supplied with the fans.
The trick here is to use one conduit under the rendering for both the light switch and the control box.
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Socket used in the motel.This brand is cheaper than the bTicino?® I used in the house. But it is still not the cheapest.
Not the cling film to protect them from scratches and paint.
The escutcheons will be removed for painting the walls. Most workers don't think to do this and get paint everywhere.d.
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This 9 cm thick breezeblock is for heavy duty use. It is made with high grade portland cement. It can be used for load bearing walls if rebar is used and the holes a re filled with concrete. They can also be used for building small swimming pools.
They cost 8 baht each.
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Day 27 Gable ends.While the roof was going on, all the wiring, switches and sockets have been installed. I am only counting the days actually worked. The foreman has bought a new car (I'm obviously paying him too much) so with that and a wedding in our family no work was done for over a week.
The soffit and the Conwood are leftovers from building the house. Tomorrow the ceiling team is coming to do the plasterboard ceilings (sheetrock) that will have circular recesses for the ceiling fans.
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Strong Roof Truss...Click the image for a full screen view. The double-C ridge purlin - the most important load-bearing part of the roof - was too short so they just extended it with a bit of rebar and connected all the hip purlins to it. Notice the superbly clean welding and the neat job of repainting the welds.
Only about one in six of the tiles had been tied down, the rest were just in place under their own weight. Hopefully this region of Thailand is not susceptible to high winds.
jazzman00000
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Very nice bathroom finishingClick the image for a full screen view. They must have broken a corner off the expensive black marble top and hastily repaired it like this.
An electric socket this close to the washbasin is TOTALLY inadmissible.
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More neat finishingWhat the blanked-off hole was supposed to be is anyone's guess. And of course there should not be an unearthed 2-pin socket here. One wonders if there is even an earth wire in the 3-pin sockets. You can guess...1 commentsjazzman00000
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Neat finishingNeatly finished switch unit. Notice the blobs of white paint ion the switches.
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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.
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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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