Will be back in Udon for christmass, and start the front verandah


Gone Home to Aussie now, down town Brisbane, Chow for a few weeks

Next post Day 26 on the job building late December

December comming up fast

aussie
i am looking forwards in seeing the end product.
thanxs for your up to date reports,fully enjoyed them.

It will be 10 Feb before I return, busy with some 20 home here to do in OZ, the back to My Udon Thani.

The Master Builder

I'am Back, a bit late but ready to start internal fixing, next week

been shooping for prices this week, internal lining and general fixings ETC,

Home Mart V Global house, 2 days getting material list and price, I gone with basic materials, like kitchen, its the Looney Tunes hot plate burner for in side and the Webber bowl type cooker BBQ for the oven, gave the local Quickfire BBQ a look at 16,000 but herself liked the B2,000 Looney Tunes hot plate suites me fine as an old bushie, brought 2 modular SS sink and top for 6,000, photo will come later,

Prices for a western style kitchen cupboard ranged from 150,00 up, not suitable for my style of home and life style, so with some colourfull tiles and the looney Tunes cooker it will be a fun colourfull house, it will match the yellow roof and 2 tone coloubond blue fence.

Now the price for the internal fittings sheeting tiles kitchen electricial wire and board, and some sealer paint, still more to buy.

Global House 112,000 Home Mart 118,000 simular or same products,

I showed the global house price to home mart to beat or match sales assistance said global cheaper, manager on floor said no can do Global is bigger and more buying power, store manager said here girl you go with her and price, so i did and only on a few items were Home mart cheaper.

Will start on tuesday with the wiring installation, plumbing pipes and then the sheeting

3 x carpenters and 2 x laboures B1500 a day have allowed 3 weeks for the internal and yard works fence, hoping to get the patio up as well

Total spent this week B141,000,
Tiles ceramic B250 mt2 Total 75mt2 includes floor and wall to all rooms,
Glue a grout and sealer waterproof B1000
Fibre Cement sheet put down on floor before tiles are laid, this is a ply wood floor, FC sheet stops movement reduces tiles from cracking B3000 including glue and nails

Roof sheeting colourbond 4.2 mt x 8mt for patio cover including screws B 6500
Timber for decking 6 x 1 dressed/sized and floor joist 4 x 2 x 2.5mt B17,000
Steel bearer 6 x 2 x 6 mt with screws for decking B 1,100
Steel for patio roof 4 x 2 x 1.2mm x 6mt RHS 4 mt x 8mt & welding rods B5,5000
Steel post 6" round x 6mt x 2 B 1,900
Red oxide paint B 500
3 x 3 x 1.2mm x 1mt x 3 post front patio B1,500 with base and top plates
FC sheet to underside of patio ceiling B1,200
Cement for holes paint Fixings B800

Kitchen cupboard x 2 floor B6,500
Wall unit B2,500
Stove B 2,000
Exhaust rangehood ? still looking for one to install

Toilet B2,400
Fittings stop cocks pipework B600
Hand basin B2,200
Fittings tap pipe work B500

Glass bricks for shower wall 2 mt B2,500
Hot water unit B2000
Fittings and taps pipe work B2,800

Laundry tub SS B5,000
Fittings taps pipe work B900

Towel rail washing machine taps coat hooks wall cupboard B2,800

Mirror to wall 1.5 mt2 B2,100

Under house pipe work B 3,800

nice to see you're back.

I Just love Udon, first night here got to have Tacos with Tic from The taco Place, private invite to her home for Tacos, just happens she s going out with an Aussie and the 2 of them are having their first due in July, Another happy family, wish Rob & Tic well and good cooking for the tacos,

may even get to finish off the interior of my Home to return the dinner invite. 4 weeks to some more work and get the home into a home

From one Aussie to another, liked Udonthani as well. Since returning to Aus after a 4 week stint travelling the Northern areas, have had thoughts of returning and doing the same as you. (one day) Nice job, small but practical, similar to my place here..... just one question..... how about the shed?? (Just pulling your leg mate.)
One thing I am curious about is the electrical setup over there. I am an electrician and one thing I noticed while I was over there, was the lack of earthing or any sign of men system. By the way, live just up the road from you in Brissie ( Bundy)

I'll be doing my own electrical work, have it half finished, with earthing, have seen a few poles with earth wires, but nothing like Oz, lifes cheap here, so no real electrical standard,

The shed will be at the side of the home probable december trip, Catch up with you one day here or in OZ, Iam at Ipswich 21 century Group constructions

chow

Good to see ya back AB, looking forward to the updates...

Last trip it was the end of the wet seasons, rained every second day October, now those clouds are back again, it will be a push to get the gutters on, first day today big delivery from Global.

The ground is like sandstone, last year the soil sillty clay, is made up of fine particles less than 0.002 , with some larger particles up to 0.05, so it is about 70% clay, when wet is a slop hole to walk on, grass helps to stop the soggyness, when dry it sets hard and needs to be dug with a crow bar,

As the fence is going up , we got the first 10 of 25 holed dug, but just to hard to dig, a little rain tonight will soften up the ground.

3 water jars delivered today B900 2000lts each and 3 more next week, eventually will have about 40 of them enought to last 5 months during the dry seasons to water the garden, with 100mt2 roof every 1mm of rain is 100lt, average rain fall April to September is 1500mm, or 150,000 litres comming off the roof.

So 500mt2 of yard 16 weeks with out rain 40 jars =80,000lt thats 5,000lt a week to water the yard garden or 10lts per square mt per week, just enough to keep it green, so 50 jars would be better.

Waterjar delivery, at B900 each got 3 this trip, uses crusher dust 100mm thick with some cement added fot the base of the jars to sit on

Back soffit scaffolding ready for the 4 mm FC fibre cement sheet screwed to 25mm steel battens

Steel frame roof for the patio 8 mts wide/1 mt over hand on the sides and 2 mt over hand on the front of the patio, as this faces West, supported off the front wall and 2 x 125mm round post at the front with canterlever

Frame is 100x 50 x 1.8mm at 1mt centers the roof sheeting will be fixed to the roof frame direct no battens