Today, the workers began laying the cement for the parking area. It will be really nice to have a place to park away from the rain and the mud after it is completed. It was interesting to watch them work, though:
Laying down cement for walkways around the house
We began laying down the cement for the walkways around the first house. This house is meant to be for my mother in law, and we’ve been planning for a long time to construct a walkway that can be used to circle the house with a walker for exercise, or even in a wheelchair just…
New thatch roofing on the pump sheds
While I designed the pump sheds around the pond out of polycarbonate because it is a lightweight, inexpensice, easy to source, weather proof and versatile material, I always intended to cover it in thatch (spelled จาก in Thai) for aesthetic reasons. After I saw the thatch roof on the chicken coop, I’ve been reminding the…
Solar panels for second pump shed installed
We’ve been running one of the pumps in the first pump shed using solar power for about one month now. The pump in the shed on the opposite side of the pond has been dormant since we first tested it after installing it. But as of yesterday, we now have the solar panels set up…
Metal trees walkway roof completed
We have now fully completed our “metal trees” walkway. Here are two pictures: The first one is at dusk and the second in full noon-time sunlight. The polycarbonate roofing is a bit more green than I imagined it. I’m kinda hoping that it gets a bit dirtier in the next few months and comes out…
View of pond and BaanRimNaam from balcony
Just for the record, I thought I would take a picture of the pond, the chicken coop and BaanRimNaam (in its current state of development) from the balcony of the first house. It still need more trees and plants, but I am quite pleased with how it is coming along.
BaanRimNaam update: fiber cement board flooring
Now that the house frame and roofing is in place, the fiber cement board flooring is going in. As with the first house, the fiber cement board helps to create a “termite barrier” between the cement footings on the ground below and the wood that makes up the house up above. I’m sure it isn’t…
Roof finished on BaanRimNaam
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…
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