Yesterday, K’Tanawat finished digging the trench for the water overflow pipe in the pond. The idea is that there should be a pipe at exactly the height such that if the water level in the pond ever gets over this level, we want the excess to dump out into the canal bordering our land. We…
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…
Digging a trench with our DIY excavator
As some of you might remember, we built our own DIY excavator back in May/June of last year. Since then, it hasn’t gotten much use. The main reason for this is that the workers that we’ve hired are more familiar digging with hand tools than with the excavator, so they seem to avoid using it….
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.
Walls going up on BaanRimNaam
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…
More progress on the driveway
We’ve been laying a lot of cement recently, and yesterday we laid down a bit more. Here are some pictures of the driveway almost completely done: Pretty soon I will be able to use it to park the car!
BaanSuanRimNaam update: The window frames are going up
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…
Building the driveway at long last
We had designed the driveway many months ago but decided to wait until the paying area and walkways around the house were done first. Today, we are finally getting to the driveway: The gate on the far right is our temporary construction entrance. But the area between the big fat brown piling the temporary gate…
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