One of my dreams for BaanLoiNaam was to have a “green wall” of plants as the exterior wall to the outdoor bathroom. Initially, I had planned for bamboo, but the cattails thrive on our land quite well. Many of them seem to grow up to 3 meters tall. And they make quite a dense wall…
Painting the water tank for the floating house
As anyone that has followed this blog will have noticed by now, Praew and I like the rustic natural wood look around the land here. The walls are wood, the furniture is wood, and to make the wiring blend in naturally, we even painted our PVC electrical conduit to look like wood. So for the…
Building a gravity fed water tank for the floating house
In the shower we are building in BaanLoiNaam, we would like to mount a water tank as high as possible under the roof and use gravity pressure to run the shower and sinks. But the height difference is not all that much, meaning there will not be much pressure. So I figured it would be…
Building the shower floor in the floating house
We designed a simple wooden structure to form the floor of the shower in BaanLoiNaam and the workers finished building it last week. I’m pretty surprised how nice the wood came out. The concept of this shower is a little unusual. Being a floating house that is designed to be mobile, there are no sewage…
Doors and windows on BaanLoiNaam are done
The sliding doors on BaanLoiNaam were just completed and installed: Additionally, the sliding windows on the opposite side were installed too: Since the roof over the doors extends out more than 2 meters, we aren’t too worried about water coming in, but just in case, we added a slightly raised frame down below: (On the…
Filling in the cracks of a wooden house
This isn’t the most exciting thing going on around the land, but I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before. Since the houses we are building are all wooden, and they use tongue-and-groove connections between the wooden planks in the walls, there are always slight imperfections in the fit between all of the wooden planks…
Sliding doors on a floating house
Now that the walls are done on BaanLoiNaam, the workers are working on the doors. I barely need to interact with them on this now since it is almost exactly the same design as the sliding doors on BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. They have finished one of four door panels and mounted it on rails already:…
Four out of four walls on the floating house completed
The workers have finished the fourth wall on BaanLoiNaam now, so all of the walls are completed. Here is a picture or two of the wall going up: Now, the wall is complete, and if you look at the top, there is a “chong saeng” or small window to let light in at the top…
Keeping the pontoon jig in good order
When we made the pontoons for BaanLoiNaam, I made sure that all of the pontoons were built (and mounting holes drilled) using the same jig so that they would be interchangeable. I noticed the jig rusting on the ground the other days and asked the workers to clean it up and add another coat of…
Mounting solar panels on the floating house
We installed a number of fairly standard solar mounting rails on BaanLoiNaam last week: The goal is to have space for at least 12x 300W solar panels. Initially, I’m only planning on installing 8 of them, which should yield approximately 12-14 kWh of electricity per day on average. This would be more than enough for…
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