We spent last week trying to get ready to move into BaanRimNaam. Over the upcoming weekend, we will start living there to identify and fix any outstanding issues. We got a bed and mattress in: And installed a mosquito screen: We need to get sawdust for the composting toilet to be ready to use: (We…
Using reclaimed water
Now that the rainy season is over, there isn’t very much rain water collected from the roof of BaanMae anymore. But we have a sewage processing system that first reduces the biological oxygen demand (BOD) using an aerobic treatment system, then runs it through a slow sand filter to fully sterilize it. The next step…
Keeping the pontoon jig in good order
When we made the pontoons for BaanLoiNaam, I made sure that all of the pontoons were built (and mounting holes drilled) using the same jig so that they would be interchangeable. I noticed the jig rusting on the ground the other days and asked the workers to clean it up and add another coat of…
Solar powered pump controller upgraded
Almost exactly a year ago, the prototype for the solar powered pump controller was installed and working. It was a hand wired and soldered on a perf board but it worked fairly well. But it is usually good to switch to printed circuit boards (PCBs) once the design has stabilized. We actually printed these a…
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…
Nice sunset
I swung by to check out the mounting of the solar panel rails on BaanLoiNaam on Friday evening and took this picture of the house silhouetted against a striking sunset.
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.
Crazy modular sliding bed design in BaanLoiNaam
The interior of BaanLoiNaam is only about 3m x 4m, which doesn’t leave much space to squander. Sure, we have an outdoor bathroom and kitchen area (washing dishes, cutting vegetables, and gas cooking range) to try to leverage the balcony space as much as possible to complement the limited interior. And when the weather is…
BaanLoiNaam: More progress on walls, doors, and windows
The second of four walls is now completed on BaanLoiNaam. It is now really starting to look like a house: The nearer wall with the door in the middle is the way out of the house to the outdoor bathroom area. The roof overhangs this so it should be mostly sheltered. The dream idea is…
Pond water level has peaked
At the end of the rainy season in late September and early October, I decided to close the valve on the pond overflow pipe to let the water level go up a little bit higher and see what would happen. The idea was to get a little more water in so that the evaporation over…
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