So we bought the wood for the walls of BaanLoiNaam: It really doesn’t look like much lying there in a pile, does it? The next step is to put up the walls. This was one of the slower parts of construction for both BaanMae and BaanRimNaam. The steel for the structure goes up quite quickly….
Beginning the flooring of BaanLoiNaam
I just thought I would post a quick picture of the floor beginning to be installed on BaanLoiNaam. We can walk around under the roof now. 🙂 The fiber cement board installed in the center is the only “interior” of the small floating house. The rest is either outdoor bathroom or balcony, which will use…
Mounting drive motors to the ferry boat
The ferry boat has been completed in an unpowered form for quite some time now. More recently, I’ve been waiting for the welders to weld on the motor and propeller shaft mounting so that we can begin doing powered tests. I wanted to the welders to focus on the welding of the structure of BaanLoiNaam,…
BaanLoiNaam: The roof is on the house
The workers mounted the roof on the house on Wednesday. As with the other two houses, once the foundation was done, the structure and roof went up in almost no time at all. Now we just need a floor and walls and it will be a house.
BaanRimNaam update: structure going up quickly now
We finished the floor structure in the last few days, and today they started welding the actual building structure. Things are moving quickly now, and the hope is to be installing the roofing on Tuesday. Then it will begin to really look like a floating house. 🙂
BaanLoiNaam: Structure of the floor in place
I took this picture today of the progress of welding of the floor: The smaller cross beams are mostly in place to support the fiber cement board flooring.
Another illustration of the organic biofiltered pond idea
If you remember from some previous posts, the idea behind the biofiltered pond is that when the water is pumped (slowly!) through the sand in the sand filtration area, a thin biological layer of “good” bacteria and other small organisms digest and break down the viruses, “bad” bacteria, algae and raw nutrients (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,…
BaanLoiNaam update: Final pontoon is completed!
Over the past few days, the welders were pressure testing the last pontoon. Having held up pressure nicely since Monday, they floated it today. That makes 5 out of 5 required pontoons for BaanLoiNaam. Now we are ready to begin building the structure on top of the pontoons. Yay!
Second pontoon launched
I was out of town, but I received these photos of the launch of the second pontoon: So we now have two of 5 pontoons completed and floating.
Rain deluge
After a few days of leaving the pond overflow pipe open to drain the nearly daily falling rains, the rains tapered off. And since the pond water level looked like it could go up another 50cm without causing any problems around the land, this afternoon I decided to close it to see how quickly it…
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