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

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