I swung by to check out the mounting of the solar panel rails on BaanLoiNaam on Friday evening and took this picture of the house silhouetted against a striking sunset.
Three out of four walls of floating house completed
As of Friday, three out of four walls on BaanLoiNaam are completed. Now we just have to get the forth wall and the sliding doors and it will be a closed building.
Crazy modular sliding bed design in BaanLoiNaam
The interior of BaanLoiNaam is only about 3m x 4m, which doesn’t leave much space to squander. Sure, we have an outdoor bathroom and kitchen area (washing dishes, cutting vegetables, and gas cooking range) to try to leverage the balcony space as much as possible to complement the limited interior. And when the weather is…
BaanLoiNaam: More progress on walls, doors, and windows
The second of four walls is now completed on BaanLoiNaam. It is now really starting to look like a house: The nearer wall with the door in the middle is the way out of the house to the outdoor bathroom area. The roof overhangs this so it should be mostly sheltered. The dream idea is…
More synthetic thatch
I posted recently about our choice of synthetic thatch for added thermal insulation and aesthetics on BaanLoiNaam. But it occurred to me that someone out there might be interested in seeing the selection of other possibilities. We ordered the samples from here. They distribute the Palmex products that I posted the video about their fire…
BaanLoiNaam: Turning the house 90 degrees
Last week, I noticed that the orientation of BaanLoiNaam when the workers were building it had the longer roof facing west. Since BaanLoiNaam is designed for a completely disconnected operation, it will be getting all of the house electricity from solar panels on this roof. And being in the norther hemisphere, the sun is generally…
BaanLoiNaam: one wall completed
We have now finished one of four walls! Just three more to go. 🙂
BaanLoiNaam: Walls and windows going up
The walls and windows are starting to go up in BaanLoiNaam. They started by installing just the windows: Then the built the walls around them: Also of interest you’ll notice in some of the above pictures, the white Shera Board for the balcony areas around the house are partially installed: In case you are wondering about…
Synthetic thatch roofing
We experimented with very thin thatch roofing over polycarbonate on the pump sheds in the idea we might use this for BaanLoiNaam eventually. I like the traditional rustic look and the improved thermal insulation properties of thatch compared to bare roofing. But our biggest reluctance to doing this for a house we will be occupying…
Preparing the wood for the walls of BaanLoiNaam
So we bought the wood for the walls of BaanLoiNaam: It really doesn’t look like much lying there in a pile, does it? The next step is to put up the walls. This was one of the slower parts of construction for both BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. The steel for the structure goes up quite quickly….
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