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    Costs of building a loft home?

    in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership

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    OP, for your proposed design I recommend the following:

    Framing in steel; as the thai concrete trade here for single family residential projects is abysmally low-tech and actually would be dangerous for the spans you indicate in your photos. One of the other poster's comments about the amount of water in their concrete is spot-on. And add the improper rebar placement, poor forming & shoring, and stripping of forms before the concrete has set, all make for dangerous structural concrete beyond 4m column spacing if even that. Concrete overhead on your project would be a bad idea, depending on final design of course.

    As for all projects, you must get a proper set of drawings in Thai (for builders) and English (for you to play along) for architectural, structural, electrical & plumbing. These are required for getting a proper building priced and constructed. I can do these for you, whether steel or concrete frame, loft or otherwise. pm me if you would like to pursue this.

    As you have zero experience in construction, this will be your biggest challenge to a successfully delivered project. As you are clearly very particular on what you want, you'll need to bird-dog it full-time, buy six months of an experienced, English & Thai speaking construction manager's time to manage the trades and interpret drawings alongside you and head off mistakes before/as they happen... and they will happen weekly, if not daily. Possibly thrice daily, as you are not going "Local" in your design.

    Where is your site, either already purchased or preferred? IF you are upcountry, you should stop now with the idea of building "outside the [Thai] box." If suburban or urban you have a chance of success with the right team.

    All the best,

    Looks like You found what/who You needed..

    I made vids of the concrete work, which was top notch, by hand and mixer on "our house".

    Metal framing is the way in Thailand, roof and wall framing.. I gave our roof welder some earplugs for the LOUD cutting of metal beams as well as cutting plastic wood..actually I gave away many earplugs..growing older is hard enough without hearing loss..《servere》Alohz

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    The lack of eye contact

    in General Topics

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    I lived in an Asian culture, Hawaii..lots of eye contact in Thailand..or not. We lived with a govt. Architect in Chaing Mai, we looked each other in da eye mos' times.

    Smiling at strangers works. Pointing at my Hawaii shirt..maybe I'm autistic..didn't make any bars..they know lots of our oldies..sing harmony..Aloha! Back soon..

    Costs of building a loft home?

    in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership

    Posted

    My friend built a house in Chaing Mai, 15x3.5 meters with brick walls and steel roof and framing.

    Brick cabinet too..actually it was the stand for the stove..brick..but the inset for the sink was brick, your drawings are lovely, though.

    The contractor was fantastic, and a couple of ladies were stone masons and all around carpenters!

    600k baht.i was told that 3/4 of that went to contractor and crew. Brick bearing walls and stucco!

    You're not building in Chaing Mai, but I know a good architect.

    Good luck with project and Aloha to You All!

    Costs of building a loft home?

    in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership

    Posted

    Having build five houses on Phuket, all original designs, I have found the key to getting things done is a good architect to design the detailed working prints, and a good contractor with good subcontractors for the plumbing, electrical, aircon and carpentry work. Also that I personally spend a daily hour on the site carefully inspecting the work that is being done; errors will be found every day, guaranteed.

    Avoid any exotic or new materials and techniques that the workers will not be familiar with. Your desired loft can be created very ably using the conventional Thai ferroconcrete post and beam construction method.

    WOOFing in Thailand

    in Farming in Thailand Forum

    Posted · Edited by metisdead
    13) Not to post email addresses in posts due to potential spam problems.

    I have no idea where...You are..I got moved out enforcing good practices on my very afflicted lady (liver fail)..I understand that the set of Johnson baby lotions was a gift, but when I re.over it from our room where they were doing work on Her..I got booted..I was lble to see Her today in Hospital..where to cut it..You can find Her and talk about being a help on Her land..New house.. New dirtYou could possibly work there for Dr. Kandis ( Blakely, ^ Google Her Rainforest paradise^ Croatia..Australia, the girl is awesome..well were in our sixties..from the sixties....check.out the tree mounding post if You haven't.. Good info..I need help in Hawaii..She Kandis, might.help improve my rainforest land in Hawaii..please send me an email..the app is better..<<email removed, please use PM function>>

    What are the ways to make living/money as an expat in Thailand?

    in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments

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    I'm new here, but I would like to help..We have enough assets with social security that I don't need to work over here..but I would like to get together with some of you and try too find a way to pull in some cash..more of a workshop for me, until we come upon a good score. I would like to help with some of the web stuff..I have an awesome facebook network..Artists, Producers and Movie folks..We live with locals, and my friend in Hawaii has a Thai wife who WAS doing ebay sales a few years ago..Let's see...Aloha

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