Last week, we finished the east half of the walkway around the pond. It is going to be a really nice jogging path. This last picture is the section that will connect to BaanRimNaam once we finish the house.
Building the walkway around the pond
We’ve begun building the walkway around the pond. Here are a few pictures of the first section starting at the driveway:
Walkway light posts prototype mounting done
The workers welded a steel mold for the base of the walkway lights. Here is our prototype mounted up: The test was to see how stable it is. It is quite stable. If you really try to push it over, it tips… but this is probably a good thing. The metal is not very strong,…
Next test of prototype walkway lights
I wrote yesterday about hacking a 220V AC walkway light to use 4 of our 7W LEDs. After testing it, it was painfully bright. We intend to put individual dimmer circuits on each light pole, but why waste money on unneeded LEDs just to dim them? So we switched it out to a single LED…
DC solar powered walkway lights
We weren’t so happy with our options for outdoor DC walkway lights so we decided to try buying normal AC walkway lights and hacking it. We decided to buy this model from HomePro for hacking: (The photo here is at HomePro and shows it with an AC 220V compact flourescent bulb inside for display.) It…
Finishing up the trenching with the excavator
K’Tanawat has been using the excavator for a number of days now to dig a very long trench from the main electrical box all the way to BaanRimNaam. We learned a lot about making the soil softer to make the digging go faster along the way. There were also a few distractions, so we paused…
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…
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…
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…
Metal trees: second type tree prototype finished
Here are two pictures of both prototype “metal tree” design roof support poles side by side. The left one is the prototype from last week, and the right one is a new one just built today: When viewed from the top, the left design has a “T” profile, and the right has an “X” profile…
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