With the slab cured we have moved on to creating the first ring beam for our interlocking soil block walls. I confess that I have become completely enamored with these Habitech Interlocking Blocks. They are capable of creating load bearing walls, are modestly priced ( at around 8 baht each, 40 bricks per SqM so [...]

Combining lightweight with high strength provides Superblock with several advantages over alternative wall building materials including improved thermal insulation, noise dampening and even resistance to fire and flame. Superblock is created from a locally sourced mixture of cement, lime and sand mixed together a slurry before aluminum powder is added. The aluminum powder reacts with [...]

In a previous post I mentioned that I manged to find steel form work for hire that was suitable for the slab of my low cost house. I highly recommend steel forms ( or shutters ) if your pouring large areas or structural concrete. The traditional method of building formwork around the World is with [...]

We completed the formwork for our modified Waffle Pod House Slab today, the lay out took 3 full days for two men. There are many different ways in which to construct a house slab, in Australia due to the highly reactive clay based soils ( this means the soil expands and contacts a lot when [...]

Septic Tank Emptying Service As a side note to our building project we had the septic tank emptying service call at our rental house this morning. Rotamould style plastic septic tank My Thai is improving modestly but I confess that at first I didn’t quite understand what the man at the front gate was saying, [...]