Steel was 4 Baht cheaper per metre, the light gage of the steel and little experience from the locals to mig weld, was not worth the effort, easy to nail into timber than using screws to fix everything.
I started with the first company in brisbane back in 74 that used Bluescope / lysaght framing, so have plenty of experience, but even the local carpenters have little tools, had to but a spirit level, stringline, drill bits, not being able to find a mig welder, timber was the best option, still the most popular way to build in the west.
Did the rounds of all the hardwares, and Global was usually the cheapest for material, except the timber.
Day 1 delivery of material Saturday, tractor arrives to level block and take off top spoil grass, rains 1 hour later so the block is left in a worst state than before we started, give up on block clean up and start road
Photo of main entrance to Soi 7, comming from udon, 2 ladies cleaning the boundry line of the neighbours front fence,preping for painting. looking for a grand entrance, neighbour is happy we are cleaning up her block comes out to help.
Tractor starts on moving gravel onto soi 30mt3 ordered 20mm stone @ B500 mt, tractor finishes afternoon soi is now graveled to first block,locals say when there is a home there the will concrete the road.
Power gets connected B7000 for the meter, trim trees for power cable, Day 1 over
