bluejets wrote:Get an engineer to draw you up a raft beam floor as someone mentioned earlier.
The whole place can float around without problems then.

It will mean quite an amount of outlay before the structure gets out of the ground i.e. 20mm reo-bar and 6-8mm mesh but you will be better off in the end. At the time, houses like mine cost around $35,000 to built and the extra for the foundation was around $3,000.00 just to give you an idea. This also included higher mpa concrete (35 against standard 20 If I remember correctly)

Never seen anything BUT clay in all of Thailand, same as my place here in Aus that I built "86 using the aforementioned and never had a problem. Many variations in weather here also from drought to water up to the windows in 2013 but the house remains stable. As you may or may not know, clay varies somewhere in the vicinity of 20 times between wringing wet and dead dry.

alanhass wrote:Seems there is no interest in this thread so I will stop posting.


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Nigglyb wrote:I'm interested, just haven't had anything to say or ask just yet

JR wrote:Please keep pictures coming, Alan. Always interesting for us who have built our house or are planning to do it. Are the pillars 15x15 or 20x20? I cannot see which is in and out at your ##### tank. Perhaps the close pipe is from the toilet? If so is there a 90 deg or 2x45deg connection? With the latter the risk of getting a blockage is smaller.