We’ve begun construction of the counter tops for the outdoor kitchen in BaanMae: In traditional Thai houses, the kitchen is normally outside. If you think about this for a bit, there are some clear advantages to it. Not the least of these is that the cooking smells stay outside. (Do you remember the Thai restaurant…
Permanent electricity hookup installed today
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=208103 Today, the Metropolitan Electricity Authority came by and hooked up our permanent electrical supply. Up until now we’ve been using the temporary hookup people use for construction. (Which costs more than twice as much as the normal rate.) But the electrical inspector came by last week and now we are “on the electrical grid”. That’s…
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. 🙂…
Hooking the air pump up to the aerobic treatment system
We went with an aerobic treatment system (ATS) rather than a septic tank for our sewage system because it is supposed to result in cleaner effluent and we wanted to use the treated (and post sand filtered) effluent on the land for watering (non-edible) plants, etc. (You can see all of the posts about the…
Floating house mock-up launched
Having built a mock-up of the floating house just to help visualize the dimensions and the aesthetics on the land, it was time to launch it onto the water. As you can see from the picture above, we floated it on 12x 200L plastic drums. This provides 2400kg of buoyancy against an estimated 150kg of…
Floating house design update
Back in July I began thinking about how to design a floating house, and wrote up this post with images of a rough design idea. Since then, I have done a lot more thinking and design updates, and even have a name for the project (“BaanLoiNaam”, which means “house floating on water”). First, the 12″…
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….
Front gate is up… finally
I’ve been waiting to have a permanent front gate for the entrance for quite a long time. But there was an inherent order of operations that needed be followed. The gate couldn’t be installed until the driveway was paved. The driveway couldn’t be paved until the land was leveled. And the foreman suggested we not…
Floating wooden posts
One signature of our architect is something he referred to as “make the support posts look like they are floating”. We had intended on doing this for the balcony posts on BaanMae, but due to the “fog of construction”, it didn’t happen. So we thought we would give it a try on BaanRimNaam. Basically, the…
BaanRimNaam update: walls mostly done
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.
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