I’m using a builder to build a house for me. Now that there is electricity and water, the workers have moved into the house and use the showers and toilets, etc while they live cook and sleep in the different rooms. Is this normal? 

Just now, Phaka2 said:

I’m using a builder to build a house for me. Now that there is electricity and water, the workers have moved into the house and use the showers and toilets, etc while they live cook and sleep in the different rooms. Is this normal? 

You'll never get them to leave now 😄

The very first thing our construction crew built was their accommodation, complete with power and toilet (on a concrete ring septic).

 

Most of them actually lived off-site and the house was off-limits once work ended.

 

They were mostly Khmer and kept a very tidy worksite clearing up rubbish at the end of each day.

 

 

 

Absolutely NOT normal.

 

As Crossy showed above, it is nearer to the norm.

 

My builders built a bamboo and straw roof "hong noi" in the grounds to shade under and eat food etc. They also dug a pit as a makeshift loo in one corner.. They travelled back and forth every day; no one was left on the premises after 5 pm.

No.  It is not normal.

 

As mentioned/shown above if they have workers that need to live on site they will set up temporary shelters to use.

Some builders send crews from site to site across the country and they stay on the site.  Other companies will have local workers that are only there while working.

 

Not normal. You, or a Thai with  authority, need to tell them to desist.

23 hours ago, Crossy said:

The very first thing out construction crew built was their accommodation, complete with power and toilet (on a concrete ring septic).

 

Most of them actually lived off-site and the house was off-limits once work ended.

 

They were mostly Khmer and kept a very tidy worksite clearing up rubbish at the end of each day.

 

 

 

 

 

you see many camps where the new construction is done and they never leave again, squatting

On 1/21/2025 at 8:35 AM, Thingamabob said:

Not normal. You, or a Thai with  authority, need to tell them to desist.

 

i would say, that is maybe toooo late already ... 

Thanks, all. I made a bit of noise and the builder made sure they moved back to the original huts as in Crossy's photos. Weird deal.