Workshop and house, Non Sa-At ½ way between KK & Udon

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 18, 2016, 9:59 pm

March 10~11

: A staple gun makes life easier

: We needed to add some more Shera to block off the gap

: The hole story

: Render unto Caesar

: The SSR engineer found some adjustments were needed

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 18, 2016, 10:15 pm

March 12

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 19, 2016, 8:47 am

March 14~1

: Excess cliplock going back to Bangkok

: PU foam truck

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 20, 2016, 3:02 pm

Sorry about the previous post, I hit submit too soon, the mentioned attachments were never there. If an admin would care to edit the references to attachments 7,8,9 ti would tidy things up.

March 15~16

: Alternative use for the crane

: Goodby to the foam team

: Working on the workshop access and parking area

: Workshop roof

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: Pressure test: not long term but an example to show that it will hold

: Waterhouse and main house roofs

I have one set of data points

Underside of Blue metal roof 54 degrees
Silver foil under Blue metal roof 34
Off white Colourbond. 41 degrees
1" Pu foam Under Off white Colourbond. 34 degrees.

I did not check the ambient temperature.

This suggests that, solely as an insulator, PU is not cost effective. However it has other property's including rodent protection, gap sealing, sound reduction, and on a tile roof thief protection as well.

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 26, 2016, 8:01 am

March 17~22

: The B team at work

: Gifts from SSR and the PU foam company

: Correct pressure test

: One room undercoat

: We needed to paint the columns for the gutter down pipes ad like this colour

: A little more render

: Last day for the B team

: The A team is back

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » March 26, 2016, 6:33 pm

March 22~26

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » April 8, 2016, 7:10 pm

March 27~29

Having been frantically busy because we have to go back to work at the beginning of April if got a little behind on posting

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » April 8, 2016, 7:24 pm

March 29~31

Having been frantically busy because we have to go back to work at the beginning of April if got a little behind on posting

SWMBO found out that the local village is selling trucks of earth for 250baht plus 100 for the tractor so got 4

And having had it flattened started digging holes in it

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 26, 2016, 7:05 am

June

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 26, 2016, 7:49 am

June ~ July

9:44 a.m. Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 29, 2016, 4:26 pm

The garden wall.

If you look back to the beginning of June you will see that the temple pool is undergoing modifications, one of which was the clearing of the trees and deepening it. This ment there was extra earth to put somewhere.

When we built our garden boundary wall 11 years ago there was a slope on the far side going up to the earth surrounding the temple pool. SWMBO has been complaining that people throw rubbish into the gap. She said that the gap could be filled with earth so stopping the dumping, I said that it was not a good idea as we didn't build a retaining wall we just built a boundary wall. However she is there and I'm in Japan so her ideas rule o)

On Saturday a few weeks ago I got some panicked messages while I was teaching and some pictures.

After some discussion on the phone
(I have so far managed to resist all temptations to point out that I had said that what I had said would happen has done, explaining that you are right specially when it is so obvious is counter productive. I getting far more brownie points by not complaining

)
I decided that we would have to pay to have the earth removed as it was SWMBO wo had said OK to putting it there and getting the village elders to pay might have been just possible but would have involved a lot of argument and time, the time we didn't have as heavy rain could have caused a total collapse or much greater damage, the arguments we didn't need.

A significant factor in the decision was that the cost for digging out was not going to be more than ฿15,000 so an amount we can easily afford and with us paying it could happen the next day.

So on Sunday morning in came a baby maco and truck for ฿12,000.

SWMBO bought two prefabricated posts to prop up the damaged posts.

On Monday or Tuesday there was a meeting with the local control group where the village headman (called ketchy even by his wife) didn't want to help us at all but the rest of the group decided to pay for the 2 support posts and another 5

I'm not sure what we will do with the gap, maybe add some stone then shade net to prevent too much earth washing into the stone to provide drainage.

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 29, 2016, 4:44 pm

June ~ July

The first and second contracts are now done

Preparing for posting at 4:34 p.m. Friday, 29 July 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 29, 2016, 4:54 pm

June ~ July

The first and second contracts are now done

Preparing for posting at 4:52 p.m. Friday, 29 July 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » July 29, 2016, 5:13 pm

July

The forth contract is now starting

Preparing for posting at 5:05 p.m. Friday, 29 July 2016

Post by **Nigglyb** » July 29, 2016, 8:43 pm

Looking good
I admire you restraint in not saying "I told you so". I can't always do it & it usually gets me into more trouble $\:D/$

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » August 5, 2016, 9:59 am

August the 1st

The Waterhouse ceiling is nearing completion and is getting the first undercoat

A little problem, the roofing team were not told to use mosquito netting on the main house roof so we now have to find a different way to mosquito proof the house. They are working very fast.

Preparing for the window install.

Preparing for posting at 9:53 a.m. Friday, 05 August 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » August 5, 2016, 10:15 am

August the 1st

The Waterhouse ceiling is getting the first topcoat as a test colour for the house,and it's looking good.

The Windows, doors and glass is arriving

First view of an in the wild Festool in use!

Safety equipment in use!

Preparing for posting at 10:11 a.m. Friday, 05 August 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » August 5, 2016, 6:50 pm

August the 3rd & 4th

Preparing for posting at 6:48 p.m. Friday, 05 August 2016

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » August 5, 2016, 6:59 pm

Now the trees are cut our house is easy to see from the road

Post by **sometimewoodworker** » August 6, 2016, 9:52 am

August the 5th

Preparing for posting at 9:50 a.m. Saturday, 06 August 2016