Here are some pictures of the BaanRimNaam construction taken over the last few days: The walls are mostly up. We have been discussing with the workers how to build the lower roof which protects the balcony from rain. The posts you see on the last picture will support that roof.

I’m fascinated again by how quickly the outside structure of a house goes up during construction. The workers are now putting up the wooden walls on BaanRimNaam. Every day we swing by to check on things and the house takes shape a little more. Here is a view from the inside: We are using a…

After finishing the flooring (indoors and outdoors) of BaanSuanRimNaam, and then spending about a week on building the window frames, the workers have moved on to installing the window frames. Here is a view of the interior as they are working. Maybe it gives you just a hint of what the house might feel like…

Now that the house frame and roofing is in place, the fiber cement board flooring is going in. As with the first house, the fiber cement board helps to create a “termite barrier” between the cement footings on the ground below and the wood that makes up the house up above. I’m sure it isn’t…

Before heading back home for the New Year’s holiday, our workers finished the roof on BaanRimNaam. Next comes the walls.

Today we started putting up the roof tiles on BaanRimNaam. We chose a red tile: The tiles are made from fiber cement, but we were careful to get Chang brand (“elephant” brand) because they have advertised for a long time as not using asbestos in their products. Here was how it looked before lunch: By…

The building structure for BaanRimNaam has been going up quickly. Today, you can see the floor structure basically completed, both on the first floor and the attic storage space above:

Here is a quick progression of images of BaanRimNaam structure going up… The first poles went up on Dec 16: By Dec 17 all of the vertical poles are up: On Dec 18, the horizontal roof beams are being hoisted up and welded in place: By today (Dec 19), most of the structure is in…