Attaching the vertical column steel rebar
Once the pile caps were finished, next job was to attach all the vertical rebar steel to the pile cap. This was to prepare the ground floor columns for shuttering…
Buddhist Blessing number 1
With the piles placed and the pile cap cages ready to be concreted in, we had the first Buddhist blessing on the site. A monk came from the local temple,…
Pile boring and capping
Piling Now, at last…the real work could start! The camp was in use and the team was on site. The ground cleared and the footprint marked out. So now…piling! Some…
Pile Cage construction
We knew we needed piles, so the build team set about constructing the pile cages to put into the bored holes. With those bored holes being round, the obvious cage…
Boring the p….. Accommodation
After the ground clearance and marking out, described in the previous post, the next task was…. no not pile boring. The workers would be living on site throughout the build…
Marking out
The start of any build needs the agreed plans, in particular the building ‘footprint’ to be accurately marked on the plot as this will show where to dig the piles,…
Clearing the ground
Once the plans had been approved and the builder engaged, it was time for land preparation on site. The builder brought his team over to begin cutting back the new…
Choosing our builder
Once we had got the house idea firmed up, with my concept and sketches and floorplans being turned into CAD plans an elevations, it was time to start finding the…
Our Land
Previously I told about our initial ideas and locations, but they came to nothing. That meant another think about where we were going to actually build the house! We had…
Our Contract
Previously, I went into some detail on the sort of clauses one should include in the contract to build the house. (See The Contract part 1 and part 2) Here…