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Jazzman's green house


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Stages of construction of Mr & Mrs Jazzman's house in Nong Bua Lamphu province on a $20,000 budget- no construction permission needed.

84 files, last one added on Oct 28, 2010
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Green House Motel


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This album documents the build of our motel which is destined to create work for my wife & her family, and earn money for me to import tea, wine, and cheese.
It's a low-budget construction the way the Thais build their modern houses.

44 files, last one added on Mar 20, 2009
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Jazzman's electrical fittings


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Just about EVERYTHING you need to electrify your house and not yourself. Quality fixtures & fittings.

34 files, last one added on Mar 20, 2009
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The Brickworks


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Dropped a brick on your budget by going for Q-Con or Superblock? 99% of houses are built with these.

8 files, last one added on Mar 20, 2009
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DISASTERS !!!


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Just a few of the things that will certainly go wrong if you don't watch your project like a hawk...

13 files, last one added on Jan 29, 2010
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Last additions - jazzman's Gallery
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KItchen view 3jazzmanOct 28, 2010
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Kitchen view 2The cooker hood was got cheap for 6,500 baht from Home Pro, Udon. Normal price was baht 13,000 but it was in a sale because it had been a demo on a display board in the shop. The two-ring glass cooker hob cost about 4,000 baht (if I remember rightly) from Global House, and the stainless steel double sink and drainer cost about 2,700 complete with tap (faucet), drains, and underneath plumbing pipes and U-bends.jazzmanOct 28, 2010
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Kitchen view 1We keep adding bits to this kitchen and it's still not complete. A breakfast bar still has to be built from the left hand side near the fridge to halfway across the archway. And the fridge will be replaced with a side-by-side. Cost: there is about 65,000 baht's worth of KITZCHO?® units. The solid granite counter tops cost about 18,000 baht including installation. jazzmanOct 28, 2010
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wall 5Then it fell over. One night of rain was enough. This wall will be rebuilt using correct engineering and correct drainage. Another 40 trucks of dirt will be needed to top up the infill that was washed away. Probable total cost: around 250,000 baht.jazzmanJan 29, 2010

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MCB: 2-pole master SwitchA modular automatic Minature Circuit Breaker of the 2-pole (Live and Neutral) type. All Consumer Unit 'fuse boxes' start with one of these which feeds the MCBs for the other circuits. Notice the amperage of this one.jazzman
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Day 11Front walls, doors and window frames.
Completely up-to-date comprehensive steel prices have been posted on the forum.
jazzman
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Day 19The tiles arrived today. The last couple of days the workers have been adding the purlins, struts and battens to the rafters, and finishing the plumbing and drainage.
The 3" C-section rafters are spaced at 1m. The battens are spaced at 1m. Left over steel off-cuts are used for V-struts. The 1" x 1" x 6m battens cost 140 baht each.
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cupboard doorsClose up of the kitchen base unit doors. Factory made and beautifully finished. Kanyong in Pattaya, and HomePro and GlobalHouse DIY outlets.jazzman
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last lookThe last photo of the naked roof truss before we went to Nakhon Pathom, Bangkok and Jomtien for a few days.
Click thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the clapperboard to start a slide show.
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aluminium 1Click thumbnail to see an enlargement then click the clapperboard to start a slide show.
Frame for a fixed window in the octagonal bay. 1.5mm extruded aluminium, white expoxy enamelled. uPVC frames for the windows and entrance and patio doors had been considered, but the cost fell outside the budgeted parameter.
jazzman
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Ceiling fanWe have two in the living room and one in each bedroom. Cost: 620 baht.
Sorry about the green hue - the color seems to get everywhere...
jazzman
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DimmerI'm a firm fan of the bTicino brand, but because of budget and needing a lot of switches and sockets for this motel project, we're using Lonon brand fittings from China, bought in GlobalHouse. I've been testing some of this stuff for about 6 months and it seems ok. The range costs about half that of bTicino, which represents a big saving. The aesthetics are as good as bTicino, and don't have any ugly screws in the escutcheons like some far more expensive brands. Like bTicino, these can take 1, 2, or 3 mjazzman

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