Quality Insurance

After following others that have built houses in Thailand and reading about all their issues in the building process like:

Pre-paying contractors that leaves with the money
Bad quality in the building depending on cutting corners or using cheap non-educated labors or sub-contractors. (Picture 1)
Contractors stops the work because they cant pay the labors.
Not following the building plan.

We decided to find a way to minimize the risk of having the same kind of issues.

Ang found a consultant company in Bangkok that could help us with exactly that, it was not so easy for a non-thai person to find this company because their website is only in Thai.

After hiring them the following happened:

They spend time to go through our blueprints and helped to find errors.
They made an Excel sheet with all included material and labor work needed to finish the house (down to number of tiles and kg of concrete). This Excel should then be sent to interested contractors to get offers that we could compare. Four contractors was selected.
They took us on a trip around to check out the current projects these contractors was working on - checking quality and speak with the builder/foreman. (Picture 2)
Meetings to go through the offers together with each contractor to negotiate and make it possible for us to select the one. (Picture 3).

The building process will be divided into 20 stages.

There will be pictures showing all steps for the current stage available at the site. (Picture 4).

After each stage have been finished, the consultant will check all this steps against pictures made by the builder to see that everything has been done "by the book" (Picture 5) and the builder will then get paid for the work and material used in the stage. New pictures will be set up on site.

Hopefully, this will minimize our risk!

The Pictures: