Today we went to the Or Bor Tor to deliver four sets of design and construction drawings to get permission to start to build our main house in November this year.
Although the drawings themselves were OK and better than the local government building division most of the time received they cannot be approved so far the government official told us.
Although the drawings themselves were OK and better than the local government building division most of the time received they cannot be approved so far the government official told us.
We want to build in a Dutch / European way and Thailand is not used to that. Thai building designs (and even law) work with a structure of 20 x 20 cm concrete poles and beams to be filled up in between with most of the time a thin plastered wall. The maximum distance between the concrete poles (grid) is 4 meters. Our walls are 4, 6 and 12 meters (For the 6 and 12 meters walls with reinforcement but not well known in Thai building).
We do not like this concrete poles in the private house and want to work with so called 'load-bearing walls' and a strip foundation (as we also did with the two pyramids). Reason why we do not use 'normal' quality wall blocks but an extra strong quality.
The other thing is that our building will be 7 meters high were max 4 meters is allowed for private (without a Thai architect/constructional engineer) design.
So, we are some steps backwards in the process and have to make construction and weight calculations now first. I also have to copy my Dutch degree of being an architect and constructional engineer. We hope after this hick-up we will get permission. Not sure... step by step. In the mean time we go on finishing Guest Pyramid room two.
Frans Captijn
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