Water still leaking through roof of Thailand’s new ฿12bn parliament building

[snoop1130]

 

Rain water leaked through the roof of the parliament building onto the ground floor again last night, requiring workers to bring buckets and wheelbarrows to catch the drips, said former Democrat MP Watchara Petthong in his Facebook post today (Wednesday).

 

Even though the rain was not heavy, he claimed that the ground floor of the new 12-billion baht building was drenched with water, which had leaked through the defective roof, adding that sandbags were seen stacked up at the entrance.

 

The former Democrat MP, who has been critical of parliamentary authorities for accepting delivery of a “defective” building, said that it has been dogged by leaks, to the surprise of numerous visitors.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/water-still-leaking-through-roof-of-thailands-new-฿12bn-parliament-building/

 

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[keith101]

Would you trust a Thai to build a life raft , not me .

[Tropicalevo]

Pretty well sums up all of the policies of this illegal government.

Leaks everywhere.

[Wuvu2]

The government took delivery of the building during the dry season. That's the oldest contractor trick in the book ???? 

[Crossy]

Meanwhile the wet is also piddling in through the roof of the Pink Line Operations Control Centre, not made it into the news ???? 

 

Same civils contractor!

 

[tomacht8]

Taxpayers pay very dearly, a lot of money. And until completion, the money leaks out everywhere, until the scrap is booked in the state budget. Now another repair bill is probably due at taxpayer's expense.

 

[warrima]

Sounds very similar to Suvarnaphumi Airport. Likely so many hands out during construction that they had to cut corners to get the job done. Big contractor gets the deal due to connections and brown envelopes then in turn subs parts out at half the price to another contractor. 

[proton]

Comes to something when even the government can't get a decent builder, I know we never have.

[darksidedog]

Come on, this is Thailand.

We should be grateful it was built at all, rather than the money just vanishing, and that it hasn't already collapsed, due to the same poor engineering that has resulted in the leaking roof, not yet having manifested itself in the rest of the overpriced and shoddily built structure.

One can but hope, given the nature of the creatures that will do business inside, that those weaknesses will one day manifest themselves, leading to a tragic loss of however many scoundrels make up the parliament, when it comes crashing down on their heads.

That would be justice, a thing rarely witnessed in the Land of Smiles.

Cutting corners, turning blind eyes, taking "commissions" which lead to not enough money for the right materials and engineering for the project has bitten more than a few in the proverbial backside after all.

[Celsius]

But but but my 4.5 million Bangkok bedsit is built to Western stadards

[mikebell]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

workers to bring buckets and wheelbarrows to catch the drips,

Does this refer to the MPs who sanctioned this building?

[harada]

And who’s family connections installed the roof. ☔️

[seajae]

rarely seen a building yet that doesnt leak water through the roof, what can you expect from people that are not tradesmen and have no technical knowledge about what they are doing. When they use farm hands along with their wives/girlfriends & kids to do their building work the reason for the shoddy building works is very obvious, no tradesmen  to train up apprentices, no electricians, plumbers, painters etc with any technical knowledge, simply doing it the easiest and cheapest way possible, the one person does everything.

[Cake Monster]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

which had leaked through the defective roof, adding that sandbags were seen stacked up at the entrance.

Thai logic prevails.

[Harveyboy]

Must have used my builders...

[IvorBiggun2]

I've never known a Thai person yet where they don't take short cuts.

Edited September 8, 2022 by IvorBiggun2

[ifmu]

13 hours ago, Celsius said:

But but but my 4.5 million Bangkok bedsit is built to Western stadards

with thai construction materials  and thai electricians with foreign workers 

what can go wrong ?

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Even though the rain was not heavy, he claimed that the ground floor of the new 12-billion baht building was drenched with water, which had leaked through the defective roof, adding that sandbags were seen stacked up at the entrance

Cost 12 billion but how much was spent on the building?

[Sydebolle]

Suvarnaphumi Airport and this building was apparently built by the same company; one of the big wigs of this company is presently so busy with the Ministry of Public Health which might explain the leak. In addition to all this, the extension of Suvarnaphumi Airport will be undertaken by the very same company ..... I hear. 

But then some other ministers of this gifted government ordered some submarines in their wisdom so everything is OK and a leak cannot derail this government for sure, unless of course, the not yet commissioned engines for the subs would not make it in time ???? 

[Don Chance]

I assume it is flat roof.  Which needs to have a thick tar layer and proper drainage to withstand water penetration.  Every flat roof will leak otherwise.

Either tar or a rubber compound. Rarely do you see a Thailand building finished properly. You really need a complete vapour barrier over the entire building envelop to protect it.

 

[khunPer]

15 hours ago, Celsius said:

But but but my 4.5 million Bangkok bedsit is built to Western stadards

Better to build the roof to Thai monsoon standards than common Western standard... My fully Thai constructed roof, build by Thai workers, has so far been standing watertight 12 years and withstanding heavy monsoon rain - even a 100-year record - without any leaks...????

[fusion58]

Sub-par materials and shoddy construction?

 

Who cares, as long as it looks pretty. TIT.

[djayz]

This is what happens when you always look for "cheap, cheap, cheap". 

QUALITY is not important.

[puck2]

Here in our village in the North you can rely on Thai Yai (borne in Myanmar) handycrafts. We don't regret having given them the different jobs to build our house.

It seems the Thai government doesn't know this.

Edited September 8, 2022 by puck2

[bendejo]

The roof is fine.  It only leaks when it rains.

 

 

[bristolgeoff]

Thai builders they are  fantastic when they do building work

[Don Chance]

10 hours ago, bendejo said:

The roof is fine.  It only leaks when it rains.

 

 

I had a landlord like this. Really. He though a bit of leaking and mold growth was normal for a roof.  The back window could not close properly because the little leak ran down onto the header and after a while it warped!

[Hawaiian]

On 9/6/2022 at 11:55 PM, Wuvu2 said:

The government took delivery of the building during the dry season. That's the oldest contractor trick in the book ???? 

Where I live a new home has a 1 year warranty against defects.  Public and private contracts also have warranty clauses for various lengths of time.

[Hawaiian]

23 hours ago, Don Chance said:

I assume it is flat roof.  Which needs to have a thick tar layer and proper drainage to withstand water penetration.  Every flat roof will leak otherwise.

Either tar or a rubber compound. Rarely do you see a Thailand building finished properly. You really need a complete vapour barrier over the entire building envelop to protect it.

 

Proper drainage on a flat roof means slight sloping to adequate drains.  Water needs to drain so there is no standing water to cause hydrostatic pressure.

[bendejo]

7 hours ago, Don Chance said:

I had a landlord like this. Really. He though a bit of leaking and mold growth was normal for a roof.  The back window could not close properly because the little leak ran down onto the header and after a while it warped!

I grew up in slums of NYC, I was hearing these insultingly illogical arguments when I was a kid.  These buildings have central heat (well, did) and I've heard every excuse for not having heat when the temperature was below freezing, short of blaming the universe for expanding.

The country south of LOS and a country adjacent to it (where the language is quite similar) are notoriously bad at plumbing, especially sewage.  I've been to new shopping center buildings in both countries that already had the lingering smell.  There was a gov't building, a few weeks after opening a sewage pipe in the ceiling above the main lobby burst, and darn if they couldn't fix it, and the press kept on the story.  Weeks later (how hard is it to detect a cracked pipe leaking and stinking?) it was announced that it was the fault of inferior-quality plastic pipes from the US . 

Then there are the incidents of poor construction that cause death and injury, nothing to laugh at there.