Progress on the party place
Preparing for posting at (Japan) 9:05 p.m. Sunday, 24 September 2017

Preparing to paint We both like blue so it's the colour for our bedroom, joint choice

The bathroom is going green (SWMBO)
The wall in the living room the television will be on gets a mid grey (SWMBO)
Then we have a nice yellow on the kitchen wall and outside the security room (SWMBO)
Preparing for posting at (Thailand) 9:21 p.m. Thursday, 31 August 2017

The painting is going along quite nicely

SWMBO's outside dining area is also going up quickly
We don't have fairies at the bottom of our garden but we do have a place for them to sit
Preparing for posting at 22:18 Sunday, 24 September 2017 (Japan)

Looking very good mate

Impressed with some of your ceiling designs, Sometime. Looking good.

SWMBO is testing out the dining area

The front security door being made.
The crane is in use for the installation of the gate hinges
The gate is now in place.
Preparing for posting at 18:31 Friday, 29 September 2017 (Japan)

Thanks for the comments AlexO and Fantone.

The living room/kitchen painting is mostly complete
This is almost the final look of the room, there are still the top ceiling lights to fit.
The balcony seating areas and railings have now been started.
Preparing for posting at 18:35 Friday, 29 September 2017 (Japan )

This has been done since we've been back in Japan.

The balcony railings and seating is well underway.

Preparing for posting at 07:15 Tuesday, 26 September 2017 (Japan )

Hi Jerome and Nui
Looking great!

ajarnudon wrote: ↑

October 1, 2017, 6:40 pm

Hi Jerome and Nui
Looking great!

Thanks it's still progressing

More work since we've been back in Japan.

Seating area outside the kitchen together with the garden access stairs
The front balcony seating area
And my breakfast seats with a small built in table.

Preparing for posting at 10:56 a.m. Sunday, 01 October 2017 (Japan )

You guys have been really busy

The seating area is coming along nicely
The breakfast seating area is also doing well
It includes a built in table for my morning coffee
I wasn't sure if it would be big enough so we have a few things one a cardboard mockup
Preparing for posting at 2:16 p.m. Sunday, 08 October 2017 (Japan )

Prior to my visa run we went to wood street to look at chairs. We found some old growth teak armchairs that should do nicely.
We then needed 4 armless chairs to makeup our eating table set and found a pattern chair (an armchair) that would do OK for that once they are made without arms, we were persuaded to go for old growth teak for those as well.
Next it was on to doors, we started with 2 for the living room.
Then 2 custom sized custom thickness doors, one between the house and workshop, and one for the rear workshop door. These are all made with kiln dried wood so there should not be much movement.
To top this all of while we were competing the paperwork we noticed the comfortable little stools that we were sitting on and ordered a couple of those too.

Water again.
Fortunately the educationally challenged person whose grasp of the laws of physics might rival a 5 year old has not visited for several months now so this should now be a non controversial subject.

To recap our intention was to have low level water storage which we do at about 6,000 litres
The tanks fit nicely under my paint shop, this may keep the water a little cooler. The tanks are connected with a 2" pipe and can be isolated from each other. Our village has just upgraded the water supply system to provide a much better, higher pressure, supply. This has ment that for now we do not need the pump from the low level storage until we have a village water cut, all we need are a couple of non return valves at the low level so that when the pump is used it doesn't form a loop or pump back into the village supply.
All the pipe used is PP-R 32mm this has allowed some flexibility in the lengths.

Having connected the high level tank the day before yesterday we had running water in the sink, in the workshop shower/toilet/hand wash room, also in its toilet as well. This afternoon I connected two mixer taps in the shower rooms though there was a bit of a problem. We now have a cool water low-ish pressure shower available.

So the high level tank is performing as predicted, giving sufficient water flow and pressure for everything apart from hot water showers with no pump currently in circuit. The water system will be perfectly usable when we have power cuts (FWIW there was a 7 hour cut yesterday.)

SWMBO has had enough of building, she decided to extend the outdoor kitchen and eating area roof
Roof mostly complete
We are installing the outside power, the workers have some really nice kit

The boss, an EGAT worker, actually uses safety equipment when using wired tools!!! Rubber gloves, glasses and a hat.
21:41 Friday, 15 June 2018

SWMBO decided that we would have a couple of lights on our original wall
She also wanted a street light over our gate
The lights and power points in the outside kitchen, eating area and toilet Preparing for posting at 9:30 p.m. Monday, 18 June 2018

The outside is coming along quite quickly

The electrician and his team work really long days. They arrive a little before 8am take a very short lunch break and don't finish until 7pm or 8pm. Then they have about an hours drive to get back home.

Here are the party lights in the Waterhouse
SWMBO is checking the switches More work around the outside kitchen
All the work is done to a good professional standard, this is what we hope for but seldom get in Thailand.

Preparing for posting at 21:37 Wednesday, 27 June 2018

The outside electrical work is now complete, though my picture posting may not


The Nanarnia lamp post in the middle of the garden Working on the Waterhouse fish feeding lighting
The Waterhouse lighting is now finished and being tested

A night view without the fish feeding lights
A night view of the drive
Preparing for posting at 9:23 a.m. Sunday, 01 July 2018

We can now be lazy or stay comfortably in the car
Preparing for posting at 5:27 p.m. Friday, 06 July 2018