Severe Isaan storms completely destroy luxury Thai property

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Severe Isaan storms completely destroy luxury Thai property


Image: Daily News

Er mum - It's about the house...it's gone

NAKHON RATCHASIMA:-- A son had to call his mum in Germany and tell her their brand new Thai style house had collapsed into a pile of timber.

The unbelievable happened in a summer storm Tuesday as the beautiful wooden Thai style property designed and built by a Bangkok company was completely destroyed, reports Daily News.

Now the son wants their 3.8 million baht dream home in the Si Khiw area of Nakhon Ratchasima to be rebuilt.

Nattapong Wanchaitheuk, 22, had to contact his mother who is working in Germany to tell her the bad news about the home she had paid for. Nattapong said it was only finished at the end of January and family members had luckily not moved in properly yet. They had yet to have the "pithee kheun baan mai" or house moving in ceremony important to many Thais.

Nattapong said yesterday: "It is a shocking thing to see. I would never have believed that a new house could just fall down like this. I wasn't completely sure about the company as I don't know anything about construction but I found it odd that the building was shaking a little before even in light winds."

His mother is on her way back from Germany. Nattapong said he wants the construction company to take responsibility and build a new house but he is waiting for the return of mum so that the contract and any agreements contained therein can be examined in detail.

Source: Daily News


-- 2016-04-28

[clockman]

Thai building standard?

[chiang mai]

It looks the part but there was clearly no quality in the build, similar thing seen all over the country, pretty but not really fit for purpose..

[torpedo1970]

"don't know anything about construction but found it odd that the building was shaking a little before even in light winds."

That is a good indicator that the construction is faulty....

Those "sticks" the home was built on top of does not look too strong........ or too many.....

but, for 3.8 million baht? that is expected....

Normally the proper price would be closer to 6 million baht for this kind of house...........

[khwaibah]

You can make a chicken home out of it.

[geriatrickid]

Building codes, anyone?

[kaptainrob]

There appears to be very little or no (wind) bracing other than the staircase which is insufficient. Pole construction is normal fitted with steel X braces between poles although a photo may not show them.

[isanbirder]

I wonder where they got the timber from.

[Pomthai]

This happens when everything is stuck together with a pneumatic nail gun and not much else.

[bheard]

The house was not the only structure to succumb.

In Korat yesterday one of those huge billboards was blown over, see pics.

Always wondered about those things, especially as the years pass and the structure degrades . . .

Edited April 28, 2016 by bheard

[ezzra]

This house was built like a Lego house, without due considerations for the elements, it's a miracle

how it was standing up at all, I'm no architect but it seems that some of the basics in designing

a safe hose were ignored here, again, no surprise here as local builders known to excel in Jerry

jobs...... and that speaking from painful experience.....

[Bob12345]

I was looking at buying a similar house as this for the in-laws for when they retire, but after seeing these pics I think its smarter to stick to the ugly concrete and prefab walls that are dirt cheap in Thailand.

[randyT]

No surprise.

There's NO sway braceing.

Whole structure's just balanced on poles.

[monkey4u]

Look everyone I am Canary Somchai

I have a hammer and glue gun

I build you quality home

Cheap Cheap

[craigt3365]

In their defense, many homes have been destroyed in that area. The village next to my wife's lost many homes. And yes, probably not built very well.

[xerostar]

Those poles look too thin and if they were wood how long before the termites would have destroyed them anyway.

The poles should have been heavy-duty reinforced concrete fixed to large deep footings,

And the footings should be connected in an underground grid formation topped by a concrete slab.

The roof appears to be tiled must have been far too heavy for the flimsy wood frame.

Lucky nobody was hurt.

[KNJ]

Drying crack?

Superglue?

[ChrisY1]

This happens when everything is stuck together with a pneumatic nail gun and not much else.

Nail guns are rarely used here.....looks like this one was built with 2" nails....and no braces!

Edited April 28, 2016 by ChrisY1

[soihok]

Sad news.

Sorry for them.

[Just1Voice]

The price of 3.8 million would have set alarm bells off in my head. About 3 years ago or so, my wife and I looked a few that were somewhat similar, but not as fancy as this, and the MINIMUM price was 5 million.

[wabothai]

Looking at the picture, the house seems to be top-heavy. Built without common sense.

[lassebasse]

I think that this is a hoax!

[KhunBENQ]

Why does this remind me of storm damage pictures from the US

Chipboard houses?

Edited April 28, 2016 by KhunBENQ

[Linesy]

This happens when everything is stuck together with a pneumatic nail gun and not much else.

Nail guns are rarely used here.....looks like this one was built with 2" nails....and no braces!

Don't know about rare but our builder had one and was trying to use it on practically every piece of wood in the house. 4 years later I am still dealing with rising nails/staples from the floor and cladding. The architraves had more than 2 nails per linear inch and they still fell off, more spikes than a Hedgehog. Slowly I am changing out the poor workmanship and fixing appropriately.

[craigt3365]

I think that this is a hoax!

As I posted before, the village next to my wife's lost many houses. Roofs ripped off, etc. They can't remember the last time that happened. No hoax. The storms were bad.

[Toknarok]

I wonder if the house was covered by the village insurance scheme? About 7 years ago a similar thunderstorm came through our village and damaged many roofs and completely flattened one house. Our house roof had minor damage.The local tessaban came round and assessed all damages and required the owners to get quotes for materials for repairs. Although we had to pay for the labour for repair te cost of materials was met by the tessaban.

I don't suppose many houses in rural Thailand have private insurance coverage for this sort of thing.

[somo]

Those poles look too thin and if they were wood how long before the termites would have destroyed them anyway.

The poles should have been heavy-duty reinforced concrete fixed to large deep footings,

And the footings should be connected in an underground grid formation topped by a concrete slab.

The roof appears to be tiled must have been far too heavy for the flimsy wood frame.

Lucky nobody was hurt.

Nothing wrong with wooden posts if taken care of and who wants ugly concrete posts anyway.

I used a local builder to build my Thai style house and he did a great job. Had some big storms over the years and never a bit of damage. It also cost nothing like as much but is bigger than this one.

It seems to me this house was designed to be transported in kit form then just nailed together on site by workers earning 250 Baht/day who knew nothing about house building.

Edited April 30, 2016 by somo

[luxoretired]

well i built a similar style house for 800,000 last year BUT had the entire structure BRACED as it needs to be ..just think BEFORE you build ..