Preparing for tiling, painting and flooring and dog house arrived

Because of the good weather condition for working (Thai dry winter period) we want to start with outside tiling. For that the outside walls need to be prepared. And for that again the veranda needed to be finished first. We succeeded with that. Only the last floor plank need to be installed after the outside wall tiling is finished. 

Inside the house we installed already all the electric outlets and switches.

We face too many and too long unexpected power-breaks through the year. So, to the consumer unit we made a connection for a second generator. This time a Rowel 6500E (5500 Watt) generator. We ordered this morning in Bangkok. 

This generator, in case of a power break, can take over most basic needed energy consumption of the main house mainly in relation to our hot climate. 

This new and stronger generator will support the fridge and freezer in the inside kitchen and the kitchen storage room. Also the bedroom air-conditioning and bedroom lights, internet and some emergency power outlets through the house. 

We already have a Rowel 3800E (3100 Watt) generator for the TED's and the control room/ pumphouse and are very satisfied with this one. 

Friday January 3 we got a firm to make a quotation for the flooring. Before they can start, the tiling of the entrance and coating of the inside walls with a first primer coating need to be done. Like it seems now, after we get the quotation and agree with it, they can start before the end of the month. 

Last Sunday, January 5th, at 9.50 AM the dog house/bedroom was delivered. Really a great service from the company in Bangkok during the whole process from order to delivery. Two cars came to deliver on time. As far as we can see now a great product made with craftsmanship. 

Baijka and Taffy have to get used with the new situation but are doing great. Space to breath (the cage they had for the nice really was getting too small for them. 

Now they have a kind of lasting 'dog hotel room' with inside light, outside light and even a special protected Hatari fan. 

To honor and say thanks for the land we got from the parents of Phasamon we ordered a 'remembrance stone'. A green marble plate (of 15 x 30 cm) with inscription in Thai and English. We will fit it in the tiling work between the sliding door and the entrance.

We finished tiling the first of two main pillars of the entrance/first floor yoga & meditation-sala. The second we only can do the lower part because I need to weld the stairs to the first floor first. This lower part with mosaic tiles now is finished to be ready for flooring.

Tomorrow we will start with tiling the outside walls. A process that will take a long time. First the walls with a kind of grater needs to be as flat as possibel. After that Phatsamon brings the basic TOA hydro quick primer on the walls before we can glue the tiles.   

Frans & Phatsamon

email:   pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com

Plastering finished

25th December, Christmas day, at 5.30 PM all the wanted plastering on the inside of our house was finished. Thailand does not really celebrate Christmas and there are no holidays for this, just a normal Wednesday for working. 

Exactly 7 days it took for three workers from our village to do the plastering. They needed 33 bags of ready mixed Tiger brand plaster (1650 kg in total) to get the job done and delivered high quality work. It's all drying now. 

Next step, after drying, will be painting a special TOA Hydro Quick coating as a primer layer before our next steps we want to do with the walls. 

Except for our friend with his excavator and the people from the electricity lines to our land, these three men were the first we hired in five years. 

We, for them temporarily, tried to be a good employer offering them daily a warm lunch from our 'famous' restaurant in the next-door village, drinks and snacks and beer/a shot Sisip (40 % alcohol drink) at the end of their working day. 

Yesterday they all received a big bottle of Hongtong Thai Whiskey and a tip as an extra 'thank you' and to celebrate the New Year.  

Very thankful they did do this hard job for us (and better for my back after the problems I got two times during our building process already). 

Just a picture impression of the work they finished for us. 

In the mean time we worked on making the floor of the veranda with SCG decorative floor planks. We give them already a two layer special coating as a first protection. 

Our dogs now can walk and run around the house already. A new happy experience for them again. 

Prepared expansion joint

Detail of the wall of the storage room

Detail of the wall between
bathroom and cloth storage

Thank you all for following us during our building process again this year showing your interest. Also next year we hope to go on to show you on a regular base our progress. Have a nice change of the year and a happy and healthy 2025/2568.

Frans & Phatsamon

email:   pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com

Plastering and much more in progress at the end of this year

Thursday December 19, three workers started with the inside plastering. Two for the plastering and one to do mixing the plaster and do the preparations on the walls. A hell of a job but they deliver, as far as we can see till now, excellent work. 

Next to the Buddha head statue of the labyrinth we installed two concrete rings and replanted the ferns. Daily visitor dog 'Black Bear' likes to water the ferns but the ferns don't like the amount. On the other hand the Bodhi tree behind the statue takes away all the 'food' for these ferns. We hope we solved both problems now and all will do well. 

We installed the electricity consumer unit for the main house and lots of lines for the floor outlets, the induction cooking, hot water boiler, etc., are connected already. On top of the in door walls around the house we installed an electricity 'gutters' to put cables in for the two air-condition units to install, kitchen outlets, bathroom fans, and much more. Easy to always have excess in the future if some malfunctioning takes place.

All inner doorframes are installed and waiting for the doors. We install the doors after the topping of the floor is finished. 

We are working on the outside veranda now. Painting the steel (with a third layer of special anti-rust painting) and floor planks (primer coating) and are installing the painted planks now. Between the steel and the cement floor planks we put a tar 'Duraone' flashing tape for two reasons. First to protect against corrosion. Second to have a better and soft connection with the steel frame, causing less noise walking on the veranda. 

Preparations for tiling the bathroom are made. Leveling the walls and painting a Hydro Quick primer. Tiles and glue already arrived but will have to wait for a while. 

There is a lot of progress in the dog bedroom too. We hope maybe, it will be finished and placed before the end of the year but sure beginning next year. We had to reorganize a water outlet to make place for the dog bedroom to be placed and are ready with that. 

Beginning of January we will order and find a company to manage installing the top layer of the floor. We hope they can start in February/March.

In the mean time we will start with the outside tiling of the house. This has everything to do with the present climate situation. Beginning of March temperatures will be very high again and will make it more difficult to glue the tiles on the block walls. 

The surrounding sunscreens have to wait for installing possibly end of next year as well as the outside stairs to the yoga/meditation sala on the first floor. 

Just this morning we received a phone call that the kitchen furniture we ordered is ready at the factory in Bangkok and waiting to be delivered and installed. Not ready for that yet. They will store it till around March as they promised, waiting for our phone call. 

Phatsamon is working a lot in the gardens too. Trying to make us more and more self supporting with organic vegetables and already raising some first trees for the forest with lake to develop in our adjacent ricefield. 

Frans & Phatsamon

email:   pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com