MY house build to begin.

Post by **Barney** » May 26, 2015, 6:09 pm

Pool and underground room taking shape quickly.
Pool will eventually go from 900mm to 1800mm.

Post by **Drunk Monkey** » May 26, 2015, 6:21 pm

They arent hanging about Barney ....... must be on a bonus ??

Post by **Barney** » May 27, 2015, 11:24 am

Drunk Monkey wrote:They arent hanging about Barney ....... must be on a bonus ??

Yeah Jon they certainly are going well, especially since the piles were only delivered 4th April prior to the break for
water fights.
Military precision work force.
Here's a photo of them arriving at for work.

Post by **wazza** » May 27, 2015, 11:28 am

No Piles there !!

Post by **Drunk Monkey** » May 27, 2015, 12:48 pm

Barney wrote:
Drunk Monkey wrote:They arent hanging about Barney ....... must be on a bonus ??

Yeah Jon they certainly are going well, especially since the piles were only delivered 4th April prior to the break for
water fights.
Military precision work force.
Here's a photo of them arriving at for work.

Very smart looking bunch Barney ...not a steel toe cap flip flop in sight ...

Post by **Barney** » May 27, 2015, 4:57 pm

wazza wrote:No Piles there !!

I'll trust you on that, your the medic.

Post by **wazza** » May 27, 2015, 5:01 pm

Barney wrote:
wazza wrote:No Piles there !!
I'll trust you on that, your the medic.

lol and ur the one asking for quotations on the long black sausage of smiles..5555

Post by **Barney** » May 28, 2015, 1:37 pm

Formwork for the beams under the raised concrete slab well underway.
Concrete slab seen is just a thin slab, as I didn't want to have dirt under the house

Post by **monkeyman** » May 28, 2015, 3:08 pm

Very impressed with this so far, are you sure these are Thai builders

you have found a good team!

Post by **Barney** » June 6, 2015, 11:07 am

monkeyman wrote:Very impressed with this so far, are you sure these are Thai builders you have found a good team!

monkeyman,
Yes they are a good lot and always on the job.
Still 2 teams and the pool team which has the older guys go real hard especially in these hot conditions.
Got tomorrow off after pouring the base of the pool today, go home and have a day with the families and have a drink I hope.

5 trucks today

Post by **wazza** » June 6, 2015, 11:15 am

Barney

Hows it shaping up budget wise to date ?

Anything nasty or needed significant change ?

Post by **Barney** » June 6, 2015, 12:34 pm

wazza wrote:Barney

Hows it shaping up budget wise to date ?

Anything nasty or needed significant change ?

So far so good, each phase of the project has been quoted and still within quotes. $\:D/$
After the slab is placed the steel wall frames , roof trusses will arrive. Colorbond roofing to follow. Fairly new product called thermotech roofing sheets. Colour chosen is "surfmist" ......Thermotech reflects heat more efficiently compared to normal sheeting.
Not sure anything could improve things with todays temperature. Feels like 42 and wish it felt like 35.

Post by **Barney** » June 12, 2015, 10:25 am

Stardate 12062015

Well the beams are 100% complete and the walls of the pool are being poured today.
Have ordered the prefabed concrete floor sections and will be delivered soon enough. Placed on the beams and then a layer of leveled concrete for the finished floor.
Steel wall frames, roof trusses and roofing sheets ordered and delivered in a couple of weeks. The builder subcontractor dropped in and payed a visit last week on his way back from laos where he has a couple of projects and indicated that it will take him 15 to 20 days to have it all erected and roof on.
So far so good for the schedule and good to be out of the ground with the rain coming more frequently.
Photos of raised house beam completion.

Post by **Barney** » June 24, 2015, 9:34 am

Stardate 24062015

Has been a quick 11 weeks so far.
Have just waited for the concrete to cure and now the floor plates are arriving and being paced on the raised beams.
The plates are different lengths to suit the room floor plan.. Once the plates are tied down then a 50 mm concrete floor is poured to provide the flat surface for the pre made bluscope steel wall frames and roof trusses to be erected, then the roof placed.
Penetrations for all services, electric, waste water/sewer and incoming water will be cut in and ready to be installed from under and in the void under the house.

Post by **maaka** » June 25, 2015, 7:50 am

going well Digger..
Ive got me togs at the ready..

Post by **grievous** » June 25, 2015, 9:11 am

Going along nicely Barney you obviously have a reliable builder when we built our first place the crew would disappear for days without notice. Pool and dungeon will come in handy

Post by **Barney** » June 25, 2015, 10:33 pm

Able to get up on the deck for photos today safely with my shagger's back problems.
Some photos of the floor panel layout
Boys are going well, have to wait for a crane to lift the 5 mtr x 500 wide panels into most of the vacant spaces.

Post by **Drunk Monkey** » June 26, 2015, 1:01 am

Things seem to be progressing amazingly smoothly Barney .. its looking great cant wait to see the latter stages.

Post by **Barney** » June 26, 2015, 4:15 pm

Drunk Monkey wrote:Things seem to be progressing amazingly smoothly Barney .. its looking great cant wait to see the latter stages.

DM

Yes it is going well and only one hiccup to date, look at the photo of the stairs going down into what Grievous calls the dungeon and guess what, it is wide enough and high enough for a short fat bast.rd like me, but tall handsome men will have a headache if they don't duck. Have to cut out the beam and replace it with a smaller steel beam. Stairs were one step to far in. No problems.
Next is the floor slab to poured next week, then the delivery of frames so hope the frames and roof are complete end July.
Things go so well with me here or not, so just took another Job up China and leave again soon. Will have to update from abroad.

Post by **old timer** » June 26, 2015, 4:58 pm

What's your intention for the dungeon?

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