Pyramid House Thailand: Building permit for our house has been granted

Monday, September 5, 2022

Building permit for our house has been granted

A happy day for us today.

First of all my daughter Carlien celebrates her birthday. My son Rik started a new job today. Our dog Kadhow has his birthday (10 years young already) and...

This afternoon we got a telephone call that our request for building permission for the main house is approved. It took around two weeks and we finally had to pay 95 THB (around 2,50 Euro) for the written permission that also covers especially me in relations to the (immigration) laws to build our own house.

Happy, the Or Bor Tor (local government building department) accepted in addition my Dutch degree of constructional engineering and architecture and approved the requested weight and strength calculations they asked me to make.

We will start with the preparations for this next step in our building process like measuring the building site for the excavator to organize, order wire mash and ordering the special strong foundation blocks that have to be produced. The last can take 30 - 45 days if not (enough) in stock.

Now we are early enough because we want to start in November with building. On the other hand we are still about two more month in the rainy season and because the terrible road conditions to our site trucks cannot deliver the heavy load yet. So, we have the time.

To finish the second guest pyramid room we need a bit more than a month to finish. Before we start with our main house I want to build a shed/workplace to store my tools and machinery and to store some materials during the next step building process. Also I want to install the new electricity lines inlet there.

After the house is finished it will still be the tool storage / workplace and also, in the future, the storage of our bicycles.

After the house is finished (what will take between two and a half and three years we guess) the process still is going on. A small carpark for two or three cars with sunroof is, as far as we know now, the last step.

Find the North, East, South and West front sides of the house to build in the pictures below.