Last Saturday, after again tropical rain showers, I decided to buy a submersible pump to try to pump the water out. Great idea. It took some hours but with good results. After that, in the night, unsuspected a new depression and early Sunday morning I had to pump water out a second time.
The weather forecast is no rain (is that possible?) till Thursday. So today we worked on the strip foundation, braiding together, and at 4 PM the two layers of wire mesh, the steel bars, earthing, etc. was finished. The formwork already oiled (safes us effort to get the formwork off again. Happy to have a laser level so the formwork really is horizontal to the millimeter.
We also prepared, if we get too much concrete, a formwork for an extension (extra tank) of our water installation.
At lunch time we ordered concrete for today but after over nearly three weeks of rain more clients had the same idea. So, like it seems now (and as we hope) we will get a truck of high quality (strong) concrete tomorrow.
Yesterday evening we did a small ceremony with Phatsamon's mom, one of her brothers and two nieces for Loy Krathong (celebration of the November full moon and official end of the rain season (I am not so sure ;)). We brought so called Kkom Fai from Chiang Mai and it was the first time we used the new labyrinth as a place to release them.
Frans Captijn
e-mail: pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com
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