Before heading back home for the New Year’s holiday, our workers finished the roof on BaanRimNaam. Next comes the walls.
Parking area roof installation
In addition to beginning the roof on BaanRimNaam today, we also started putting up the roof on the parking area. We went with a semi-transparent polycarbonate sheeting. Here are a few pictures:
BaanRimNaam: Putting up the roof tiles
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…
Metal trees: second type tree prototype finished
Here are two pictures of both prototype “metal tree” design roof support poles side by side. The left one is the prototype from last week, and the right one is a new one just built today: When viewed from the top, the left design has a “T” profile, and the right has an “X” profile…
Sewage tank prefilter
This was an idea Praew and I came up with. We will be experimenting with slow sand filters to treat the grey water sewage before using it for watering plants and realized we should filter for any loose hair or whatever that gets down the drain so it doesn’t clog the pump. Therefore, before the…
BaanRimNaam: floor structure
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:
Metal trees: Prototype built
Back on Nov 9, I posted about a design for an organic “tree like” structure to support a walkway. Today, we finally put up the first prototype. The first “branch” went up in the morning: By sunset, the entire support structure was welded in place: (It is quite dark, so it is a bit difficult…
BaanRimNaam: looking like a house now
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…
Parking area roof is going up very quickly
I apologize that I have been quite busy recently. Haven’t posted much this week. But there has been quite rapid progress on the parking area over the past week. Here is a sequence of pictures of the construction… First pole went up Dec 15… By Dec 16, most of the poles were up: By Dec…
BaanRimNaam update: we’ve begun the metal structure
I’ve been a bit too busy to post photos of the progress on the second house. We call it “Baan Rim Naam” now, which just means “house at the edge of the water” since it faces the canal on the back side of our land. Here is a photo from today: You can see the…
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