The kitchen building has been mostly on hold while we finish up a number of things on the floating house (BaanLoiNaam). But we did manage to finish all of the walls on it. Next we need to schedule the workers to install the doors and windows. After the Songkran holidays, though.
Window frames going up in the kitchen
The kitchen is now the fourth structure we have built using the same style of steel structure, wooden walls, fiber cement floor, and acrylic windows. It also might be the last. 🙂 The process is getting almost routine now. Once the steel structure is up, next is the window frames, and then the walls. Here…
Returning to finish the kitchen building
Praew’s standalone dream kitchen has been on hold after doing the pilings, floor and roof for a month or two now while the workers were finishing the walls, windows and doors of BaanLoiNaam. But now that BaanLoiNaam is nearing completion, we ordered the wood and now we are shifting a few workers over to begin…
Filling in the cracks of a wooden house
This isn’t the most exciting thing going on around the land, but I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before. Since the houses we are building are all wooden, and they use tongue-and-groove connections between the wooden planks in the walls, there are always slight imperfections in the fit between all of the wooden planks…
Sliding doors on a floating house
Now that the walls are done on BaanLoiNaam, the workers are working on the doors. I barely need to interact with them on this now since it is almost exactly the same design as the sliding doors on BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. They have finished one of four door panels and mounted it on rails already:…
Four out of four walls on the floating house completed
The workers have finished the fourth wall on BaanLoiNaam now, so all of the walls are completed. Here is a picture or two of the wall going up: Now, the wall is complete, and if you look at the top, there is a “chong saeng” or small window to let light in at the top…
Mounting solar panels on the floating house
We installed a number of fairly standard solar mounting rails on BaanLoiNaam last week: The goal is to have space for at least 12x 300W solar panels. Initially, I’m only planning on installing 8 of them, which should yield approximately 12-14 kWh of electricity per day on average. This would be more than enough for…
Three out of four walls of floating house completed
As of Friday, three out of four walls on BaanLoiNaam are completed. Now we just have to get the forth wall and the sliding doors and it will be a closed building.
BaanLoiNaam: Turning the house 90 degrees
Last week, I noticed that the orientation of BaanLoiNaam when the workers were building it had the longer roof facing west. Since BaanLoiNaam is designed for a completely disconnected operation, it will be getting all of the house electricity from solar panels on this roof. And being in the norther hemisphere, the sun is generally…
Kitchen update: Roof is up
After putting up the structure and roof on BaanLoiNaam, the workers moved over to do the same on the kitchen. This is a very small and simple structure, almost more like a toolshed than a building, so we are using the same kind of light construction that we used on the floating house. You might…
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