Hi All,

I wonder what is a going rate for a house project in Thailand, specifically Samui?

By a house project I mean all designs, drawings and plans, engineering etc - that is all building documentation ready for Oboto and then to be used to build

.

Of course, it can be anything depending on a complexity of the house, appetites of an architect, client's possibilities and greed.. however common practice as far as I understand is to price project as a percentage of construction budget. Am I right?

If we exclude very unusual designs and suchlike, is it normally around 5%? 10%? More? Or is it less than 5% ?

Any contribution especially based on your own experience will be highly appreciated.

i dont personally know any builders in the samui area but some good advise given to me was to use a construction firm from the north of thailand. They stay on the site and are cheap and reliable.

you can use free plans :

http://www.plancivil.com/

you can use free plans without building permit, cause they have allready permit

http://www.crossy.co.uk/Thai_House_Plans/

http://subweb.dpt.go.th/pip/house_model/framehome.html

or plans for a small fee

http://www.thai-land-house.com/

http://www.freesplans.com/

or take a consulter for a big fee

จัดหาผู้รับเหมาก่อสร้างอาคาร และวิศวกรรมผู้ออกแบบ ใบอนุญาตก่อสร้าง ตลอดโครงการ

Build Construction and Architcet and license of building all your project

30,000.00

http://www.visasiam.com/index.php?lay=show...&Id=5368589

or rosegate, who is advertising on this board

in this subject, you have to know about, what you want, what are the problems, pp,

every working contract above 300.000 bt is fixed with a lawyer

but you have to learn about the problems,

therefor you have to read other buildingstories at

http://www.coolthaihouse.com/forum/viewtop...9bbac9d1ec46431

t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com/construction-in-thailand/17650-building-and-house-plans-help.html

http://www.coolthaihouse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=460

http://freebeerforyorky.com/houseentry.html

t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com/blog/?cat=2&paged=2

(for t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com, you have to remove the dots, don`t know, why its blocked)

hope,

this helps for the first steps

i dont personally know any builders in the samui area but some good advise given to me was to use a construction firm from the north of thailand. They stay on the site and are cheap and reliable.

you can use free plans :

http://www.plancivil.com/

you can use free plans without building permit, cause they have allready permit

http://www.crossy.co.uk/Thai_House_Plans/

http://subweb.dpt.go.th/pip/house_model/framehome.html

or plans for a small fee

http://www.thai-land-house.com/

http://www.freesplans.com/

or take a consulter for a big fee

จัดหาผู้รับเหมาก่อสร้างอาคาร และวิศวกรรมผู้ออกแบบ ใบอนุญาตก่อสร้าง ตลอดโครงการ

Build Construction and Architcet and license of building all your project

30,000.00

http://www.visasiam.com/index.php?lay=show...&Id=5368589

or rosegate, who is advertising on this board

in this subject, you have to know about, what you want, what are the problems, pp,

every working contract above 300.000 bt is fixed with a lawyer

but you have to learn about the problems,

therefor you have to read other buildingstories at

http://www.coolthaihouse.com/forum/viewtop...9bbac9d1ec46431

t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com/construction-in-thailand/17650-building-and-house-plans-help.html

http://www.coolthaihouse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=460

http://freebeerforyorky.com/houseentry.html

t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com/blog/?cat=2&paged=2

(for t.e.a.k.d.o.o.r.com, you have to remove the dots, don`t know, why its blocked)

hope,

this helps for the first steps

if you follow this advise you will get a house that resembles the photos in the links provided. Alternatively were you inclined to want something half decent pay an architect / interior designer + engineer . All up cost around 8% of construction or say around 500,000-700,000 baht. As they say u get for what u pay for. If the consultants are any good the resulting difference would be like comparing a rolls royce with a beaten up ford fiesta.

I paid 200,000B for design and blueprints for 2 houses. First house just being completed.

This would be about 4% of the construction costs - excluding landscaping, pool, water, electric, etc

I would get an Architect just to do a conceptual design and then use a building firm to build and to arrange a full set of drawings for permts etc

such as http://www.samuiproperties.com/ .