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 [...]
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, [...]
Slab for the Sala Gazebo We reached an important milestone today, we poured the concrete slab for the Sala Gazebo. The concrete slab size is 4 M x 4 M – I used a modified waffle pod construction based on a 250mm deep slab and 9 pods approx 950 x 800 you can see the [...]
