Mick's House Build

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Post by mickojak » December 20, 2016, 2:26 pm

Been a bit slow the last few days, but all holes drilled now and all posts onsite.
Started placing and leveling.
Expect the posts to be concreted in about Thursday.
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Re: Mick's House Build

Post by FrazeeDK » December 20, 2016, 4:44 pm

Mick, for the Post and Plank fence what is the cost per meter??? We've got a mini-estate planned right next to our land plot and a 1.5 or 2 meter plank wall would provide a level of privacy the current chain link fence does not...
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Post by mickojak » December 20, 2016, 4:50 pm

About 2500bht per/ m.
Depending on height
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Post by Barney » December 20, 2016, 5:32 pm

mickojak wrote:Been a bit slow the last few days, but all holes drilled now and all posts onsite.
Started placing and leveling.
Expect the posts to be concreted in about Thursday.
Mick
Good luck pouring the posts mate. This is where all those council workers come into their own. Holding the post straight, hopefully, while the concrete dries.


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Post by old timer » December 20, 2016, 10:22 pm

mickojak wrote:outdoor hut for wife's mum
Chock Dee with that one

OT........ \:D/

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Post by Barney » December 22, 2016, 9:50 pm

Nice to visit today Mick. Thanks for the royal tour, with coffee and your own homemade cheese cake. House looks good and the fence guys are moving well with the posts.
Can't believe how good the breeze was from your ceiling fans. ;)


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Post by mickojak » December 23, 2016, 4:32 pm

Progress slow but steady, Thai style.
Yesterday, I though the crew just sat around all day and did nothing, but in the evening, I realized that they had been mixing a couple of buckets of hand slurry concrete and pouring into each hole and setting the poles level etc.

This morning the concrete truck turned up and filled the holes up more.
Apparently in a couple of days they are digging the first horizontal section into the ground to sit closer to the concrete footing.
Will be interesting.

Funny thing is they poured the concrete into a big bucket then hand poured it down the holes.
Don't know why they did not just pour it straight from the chute on the truck?
But that's Thailand.
Probably do a few people out of a job?????
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Post by mickojak » December 25, 2016, 8:14 am

As anticipated, the crew dug down to the concrete footing to lay the fist sections.

Coming along nicely now.

Sure is a lot of handwork with his wall, but looking good to me.
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Post by mickojak » December 27, 2016, 6:10 am

Getting closer to completion.
Just finishing everything off now.
I'm very happy with the result so far.
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Post by ajarnudon » January 5, 2017, 6:39 pm

Looks a quality job Mick

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Post by bluejets » January 6, 2017, 6:24 am

mickojak wrote: Funny thing is they poured the concrete into a big bucket then hand poured it down the holes.
Don't know why they did not just pour it straight from the chute on the truck?
But that's Thailand.
Probably do a few people out of a job?????
Mick
The reason is to maintain the concrete strength. A similar approach would be to run to concrete from the chute down a "slide" made from say, a scrap piece of corrogated iron roofing or similar.

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Post by alanhass » January 18, 2017, 8:09 pm

mickojak wrote:Getting closer to completion.
Just finishing everything off now.
I'm very happy with the result so far.
Mick
That's some wall, so when do the prisoners arrive Image


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Post by ajarnudon » January 18, 2017, 10:28 pm

Hi Mick
What size are those posts - hard to guage just from the pics - are they 20 x 20 cms?

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Post by mickojak » January 19, 2017, 4:40 am

ajarnudon wrote:Hi MickWhat size are those posts - hard to guage just from the pics - are they 20 x 20 cms?
I'm not there at present, but that size is about right.
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Post by JR » January 19, 2017, 1:58 pm

I have the same type of wall as Mick. I believe that is where he got the idea from. My poles are 15x15cm. According to instructions these poles should be hammered down to solid ground, not rest in a small puddle if concrete. But of course this way is easier and cheaper for the builder. Let us hope this wall will be strong enough anyhow.

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Post by ajarnudon » January 19, 2017, 5:51 pm

Don't think there will be any problem JR. The holes are 2 metres deep, and for the most part it is just a screen, not a retaining wall.

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Post by mickojak » March 22, 2017, 5:56 pm

Hi All,
Back home for a week and things have started on my pool.
Can't remember if I have spoken about it yet but here goes.
I am using Swimming Pools Thailand, the company with the advert on the top left hand side of the Udonmap home page.
I ended up chosoing them after talks with many other pool suppliers did not convince me that they quite understood exactly what I wanted as I have designed the pool myself and it is a little different than normal but in no way complicated.
The price was also very competitive.

So, now we have a big hole in our back yard that was dug a month ago.
Concrete footing being poured.
Mick
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Post by vincemunday » March 22, 2017, 6:24 pm

I'll be really interested in following this, I'm thinking about building my own swimming pool here, I had a pool in the UK and would like one here but I'm quite keen to build it myself, I've done a bit of research and don't think it'll be too tricky but watching your posts will help me decide on way or the other which will be to hire a pool company.
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Post by Barney » March 22, 2017, 6:42 pm

Good luck Mick
Have you changed the orientation since I was out your place?
Sorry I cant visit again but in the desert of Abu Dhabi.

You'll have your baby in there in no time doing the Australian Crawl.

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Post by mickojak » March 22, 2017, 7:02 pm

Ok Vince, feel free to ask question if you want.
I will not be here all the time so correct answers may take a few weeks.

Yes, Barney I have changed the orientation.
At first the plan was to be 90 degrees from the house but when I marked it out there was too little space between the end wall so decided to go at 45 degrees as I stiil want to be able to view the whole pool from my office and kithcen etc.
Mick

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