So one feature of BaanRimNaam that is interesting is the bedroom and bathroom have a ceiling which provides a floor for a loft space up above. This can be used for storage or whatever, but does involve climbing up there. Rather than have a permanent staircase (which would take up a lot of space) or…
Lightning rods are up on BaanRimNaam
After putting up the lightning rods at BaanMae, we had the workers put them up on BaanRimNaam. They used a slightly different design for the welding, but if anything I think it looks even nicer: The 10sq mm electric wire has been run between the two lightning rods just under the roof and then down…
Drawing BaanRimNaam
Today we hung out on the balcony of BaanMae and Praew made a sketch of BaanRimNaam on her relatively new Samsung Galaxy Tab A. At least one of us is artistic. 🙂
Gable window prototype pulley mechanism working
Since we built the experimental gable window, there have been a number of holidays and other projects going on, so we didn’t get the chance to install the pulleys and test out the opening and closing process. But we tested it for the first time today and it works quite well. From the inside, you…
An experimental gable window
On BaanRimNaam, we’ve decided to experiment with a gable window that can open for air flow. Here is a picture of the gable on the house with no window in it: Since the roof is fairly high, a window up there would need some kind of mechanism to be opened by a person standing on…
Electricity wiring between the houses
I wrote recently about the biggest digging project we’ve had on the land that we used our home build excavator for. Since the trenching was completed, the next few steps turned out to be much more complicated than I had planned for. Not difficult. Just complicated. It starts with the story of the AC 220V…
BaanRimNaam: painting the under side of the roof tiles
For BaanMae, we went with the Onduvilla bitumen roof tiles because they were very light weight. But they ended up quite difficult to source when it turned out we didn’t order enough. And the supplier kept changing prices and types of pieces. So for BaanRimNaam, we decided to try going with the more standard fiber…
Finishing up the trenching with the excavator
K’Tanawat has been using the excavator for a number of days now to dig a very long trench from the main electrical box all the way to BaanRimNaam. We learned a lot about making the soil softer to make the digging go faster along the way. There were also a few distractions, so we paused…
BaanRimNaam: Time to start running the power
Now that we are basically done with the AC electrical wiring for BaanMae, we have begun digging the trench to run the electricity to BaanRimNaam. Since the house is quite deep into the land (well over 100 meters), this is going to take a few days to dig. Good thing we have an excavator. 🙂…
BaanRimNaam update: building out the balcony roof
We’ve been making incremental progress on BaanRimNaam recently. Mostly, we’ve been focused on building the balcony roof. There have been some small SNAFU’s to deal with due to the fact that the architectural drawings had the roof over the main balcony come down to about 1.3m high. This is quite low. So we adjusted it….
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