Building House in Kram

We will have 25 pillars under the house, everyone of them will then be extended up to the roof. Right now everyone is occupied with the holes, forms and rebars - it will soon be time for the concrete truck from CPAC to visit the site with fresh concrete. It's important to keep the bottom in the form clean to avoid rust in the finished platform.

In Sweden we are using small plastic spacers to fix the rebars (reinforcement bars) on the right distance from the form, it Thailand you make them using PVC tubes and concrete. In Sweden we use plastic as the one above. Thai craftsmanship We need a lot of this. Result when using in the form.

Then are a good day to start building a house? We did the same as many others in Thailand, asked a monk, or to be honest, Angs father asked a monk. We got some dates and selected one of them - 2017-11-01 - first day in November. There is a ceremony this day, where the first pillar of the house was  decorated with banana tree leafs, sugarcane, golden shower leaves, morinda citrifolia leaves, jackfruit leaves, a fish trap, loincloth, 9 gold coins (gold colored), 9 silver coins and one more that I don't know the name of! OK, first pillar done, just need some forms and concrete.

Time to start. The house ceremony is planned for first of November, but that doesn't stop the newly arrived workers to start digging. The soild was to hard to dig by hand, so the builder ordered in a digger. Here is a collection of pictures from the first digging day. Checking heights - very important Digging, the holes will be 1.5 meter deep. Inspecting There will be high piles of soil on the land Digger, Japanese quality. Packing sand at the bottom of hole. Frames for the first layer of concrete.  In Sweden we use polystyrene sheets instead. Concrete work. More inspections Checking height. There will be many holes. 25 platforms will be used to hold up the house. Some holes will have more than one platform. OK, first layer done in this hole. Quite a lot was done after just one days work.

The first labors arrived. The first mission is to mark out where the house should stand, fencing the building area and to start setting up temporary houses and toilets on the site. The arrival Marking out the building area Digging the hole for one of the temporary toilets (they also have needs). Toilet hole in the front, the first labor houses in the back. Walls are not set up yet. The first toilet is ready. Hope our house will look nicer than this.

The labor that will build our house is coming soon, we have to fix electricity for them! Monday: Entering the electric company (very near our land). we > Can you help us with temporary electricity while building our house? they > Yes, sure! Where is it and how does the pole look like? we > Like this.... they > That great, but you have to have the box and the wires (like the photo) in place before we can do anything... we > OK, do you know any electrician that can help us with that? they > No sorry, we don't! Later that Monday, we found an electrician that could fix it. Tuesday morning: The box and wires are there and we went to the electric company again and tell them... we > The equipment you asked for is in place! they > OK, we will go and inspect it. Thursday: Phone call from the electric company. they > Everything is OK, please come in and pay deposit for the meter and fee for setting it up. On hour later we payed t...

I found some nice pictures of the beach - 3 km from the land/house.