My Udon Home Building

End beaters have double joist as well as 30 x 0.5 mm metal strapping to hold straight and tie down

: Install Bearers 200x 75 bolt and fix, 6 x 5mt lengths @ b200mt = B6,000
Labour cut and place

Day 9 Monday: Install flooring screwed to joist, and glue
Flooring ply wood pine parquetry 2400x 1200x20mm 12 sheets main room lounge @b1200 Total B14,400
Flooring plywood standard finish 2400x 1200 x 20mm bedroom bathroom 8 @b600 Total B4800
Nails glue fixings T B3000
1 x 4 lt rubber seal paint for wet area B1000

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Total Costing to platform stage all material labour as seen above, ready for walls

B60,000 @ 60mt2= B1,000 a mt2,

does not include drive way fence, just the building platform, and costs accossiated with construction the home.

Earth works, fences, power, telecommunication, landscaping, not included, just the costings to build the home

Day 10 Tuesday: Make walls, a new learning experience for the local carpenters, after putting on all the extra tie downs to the platform stage, the crew get instructions on making the walls on the platform, the standing them up, the crew had no idea about making timber frame on the deck then standing it up, they stood the first stud up in place and were about to skewnail it, got me thinking how they would hold the stud there while the nailed the second one, and how they would put the top plate on.

Most word spoken out of their mouths, Good idea, they were amazed at the speed of construction, but weren't to sure about all the bolts strapping, that seem a waste of time to them, but they soon learned about the wind and tie down, stud spacing, flex of the floor, to them putting glue on the joist was a waste of time money, there is a theory behind every thing, when explained why its done that way they can see the quality.

First wall goes up late after noon after spending the day cutting out the frame for the home and all the walls first, now it's a big jig saw puzzle to put all the cut timber together, to make the frames

PHOTO One of the laboures, carpenters wife, measuring the wall spacing for the bathroom wall position, ready to flick a string line marking the walls position on the floor

Aussie Boy,

Dont know if you open to questions, I understand if not, look like u busy enough with the building and posts on here,

You using Hard or Soft wood, whatever, look like u got it graded, if using softwood be interested in where you get it from,

Good luck, Franco

Aussie Boy,

Dont know if you open to questions, I understand if not, look like u busy enough with the building and posts on here,

You using Hard or Soft wood, whatever, look like u got it graded, if using softwood be interested in where you get it from,

Good luck, Franco

Franco wrote:Aussie Boy,

Dont know if you open to questions, I understand if not, look like u busy enough with the building and posts on here,

You using Hard or Soft wood, whatever, look like u got it graded, if using softwood be interested in where you get it from,

Good luck, Franco

Its a hardwood at the lower end of the scale, in Aussie terms F14 grade, iron bark rates up to F28, don't know the spicies type used, but I brought it from the shop on the left side of the road 100 mt pass big C going out from town, cross over the ring road, near the over pass.

Much of Australia's softwood and hardwood timber is now mechanically stress-graded whereby a lateral force is applied to a piece of timber with the amount of timber deflection providing a strength rating (refer Australian Standards 1748 and 1749-1978). Australian hardwoods range in F rating from F4 to F27 while softwoods are commonly in the range of F5-F8 with some mills now cutting lengths to F11.

The timber was sized on two faces, have not seenplantation soft wood in
thailand, this timber is easy to work with, but not as straight as platation pine. studs were 1/12 x 3 at 16" centers

http://www.outdoorstructures.com.au/grading.php

Day11 Wednesday. Continue to make frames, fix 30x0.9 strapping for bracing tie down and locking the main structural conponants together. fixed with flat head 40mm nails,

Day11 Wednesday. Tie washer used on the top and bottom plates, 65mm x 3 mm , threaded rod 12mm at max 1.800mt centers and either side of all openings




Under tie 1/12 x 4 fixed to under side joist full length of home, bottom plate tied down, with 12mm bolts under windows, all other areas full length rods from top to bottom

Tie brackets 30x30x1.5 fixed to every joist bearer crossover, with 3 x 40mm flat head nails and 2 x 12 mmx 2mm wafer head screws to steel joist

Thursday/ friday 26th holiday

Costings for wall framing, material 1/12 x 3 @B45mt x 550mt = B25,000 delivered
Nails bolts fixings, strapping screws----------------------------------B05,000
Plywood bracing 12 sheets 2440x1220 x 3mm b200x 12----------B02,500
Labour 3 x crew days b1300------------------------------------------B04,000
------------------------------------------------------------------Total B36,500

Costings 60mt2 per square metre floor area ---------------------Bt 600

Costing per linear mt wall-------------------------------------------Bt 900 @2.7 wall height

Costing per Mt2 wall @ 2.7 height----------------------------------Bt 360

Any one wanting to build using timber can do a estimate and the total linear metre of walls that they will have in their home by the linear mt costing, at 2.7 mt wall height.

Ajust the cost for your material and labour per day rat and you will have a good estimate of total cost.

Labour used is 2 Toy carpenters and 2 laboures, their wifes, Toy carpenters are not real carpenters yet, still learning to be the real ones, but this crew will have plenty experience with timber when finished, and the western way of good construction methods.