Back in December, I brought the temperature sensor up into the attic to see how my low thermal mass airflow based attic cooling design worked out. Well, based on our experiences recently living in BaanMae, I thought it would be worthwhile measuring the temperature again during this unusually-hot hot season. The following test was done…
Observations from living in a low thermal mass designed house
We spent several nights last week with Praew’s mother living in BaanMae during some of the hottest days (and nights) of the year. We don’t have air conditioning in the house and we aren’t really planning on getting any. The hope was that the unique design of the house would allow it to be pleasant…
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…
Outdoor kitchen finished
The outdoor kitchen for BaanMae was finished today. You can see the finished trellis that was only partially done last time I posted a kitchen update. Also, the sink and faucets are installed. (“Taps” for you Brits. 😉 Under the sink, we installed a UV and carbon water filter. It is a standard 3 step…
Sling wire on the front balcony rail
The workers finished installing the sling wire on the front balcony of BaanMae in the last few days: This was always the plan, but we told them to wait until they had nothing else more urgent. And thus it lingered for several months. But now it is installed. Mostly it is a consequence of our…
Another outdoor kitchen update
Here is a quick photo of the outdoor kitchen progress today. The tiles that make up the counter top are installed and fit together really nicely. You can also see the open style storage shelf underneath the counter. They are working on installing a trellis to block the light of the setting sun.
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…
Outdoor kitchen install going in quickly
The kitchen install is going well. The last time I posted was “day one”. Here is day two: You can see the sink in place on the right. To the left of the sink is the granite tile that we are planning to use for the surface. (It kinda blends in with the fiber cement…
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…
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