Looking at houses from readers (21)
Here are the photos and the info about the house built for me in Moo.9 of Ban Thon, near Sawang Daen Din. Sawang Daen Din is located about half way between Udon Thani and Sakon Nakhon.
The house was designed by a Thai architectural draftsman (Nuy Sungwan), based on the map I drew. The original plan was based on only half of the current ground surface of approximately 1.000 m2. Even before construction, I also bought the piece next to my wife's land.
Because Nuy Sungwan also had a construction team and the team also built the house under his leadership. Its construction price in 2015/2016, including material, was 10.000 Baht per m2. With an area of 192 m2, that amounted to 1.920.000 THB. This was excluding all electrical appliances, such as water pump, air conditioner (now 3) and water water facilities.
We ordered the two elephants and the "temple image with elephants" (on the side of the house) in Udon Thani. Later we had a local construction team do the fencing, the carport behind the house and the driveway. I may have (many) more photos of the construction phase, but some of these can also be seen on my website thailand.kerssens.in/house/
Submitted by Tim (carpenter)
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Tim a sturdy and practical house, everything on one floor. My preference for the kitchen would be located adjacent to the living room, but who am I? I cannot see from here what the position of the sun is and perhaps the large rear bedroom is less desirable because of the afternoon sun. The steps to the entrance are unique and fun, which you rarely see here in Thailand, and gives a special identity to your home. As a whole, the house and everything around it feels Spanish, at least that's the impression it has on me. Like most Thai people, you leave the outside wall unpainted. The color scheme of the whole is fairly monotonous, brown/yellow.
By also painting your outer walls in a light color scheme, you break through the monotonous color scheme. And of course enjoy your home for many years to come.
What strikes me is the smart roof construction. This allows the rising warm air to escape.
Good idea. Furthermore, everyone has his opinion about color, etc. As long as you like it!
beautiful house, also nice that you can determine the space at your own discretion
the construction is thai style, i think as a layman,
What you see after it is finished looks different.
The house is built with small masonry stones, quite a bit more work, than with the building blocks of stone
After stucco works, don't see any difference anymore, maybe there is an advantage to smaller masonry stones?
Did you use insulation between the roof and ceiling to keep the house cooler?
I don't think the crossing of the roof brings much shade to the house.
Quite a large and beautiful house to live in, and that for the comparable price of a new car
gr Pete
The walls are built with stones instead of concrete blocks because that would be stronger. It doesn't matter much for insulation. The overhang of the roof is front. done for the rain and not for the shade. When it rains I can usually walk from front to back (and vice versa) on one of the 2 sides of the house without getting wet. A kind of radiator foil has been used as roof insulation, which I have read less good stories about afterwards (fire hazard). I hope to have this replaced by “spray foam” in the future… but that is certainly not cheap !!!
Beautiful house and very spacious, enough bedrooms for when the family comes to visit
There is one comment about those small stones, they do not insulate anything, when the sun shines on them you have a heater inside, if only you had used those concrete blocks of 1 cm thick!
I speak from experience, my house in Bangkok was built with just the same stone, my house in Hua Hin with those thick concrete blocks and when the sun rises you feel nothing inside.
Anyway, good luck with your beautiful home
Built with bricks, also with a cavity wall and insulation?
The roof can also be insulated, which makes a huge difference. Possibly have insulation boards sent from the Netherlands, such as Isobouw
ps
another question you had a well drilled?
Can you say what the drilling and pump costs approximately?
The drilling was done by a local "company", 40 meters deep and cost more than 2015 THD in 4.000. The Hitachi pump cost 7.500 THB and then we had to purchase 2x 20 meter deep water pipe.
The house is built lengthwise north/south with the front facing south. So the master bedroom was immediately provided with an air conditioner. Two of the smaller bedrooms now also have air conditioning. As far as the living room and kitchen are concerned, after 3 houses in NL with an open kitchen, I have opted for clearly separated spaces. In fact, cooking is done outside, at the rear. The dining table is also in the indoor kitchen and the living room has become a TV and sitting area.
Dear Tim,
Very nice!
We ourselves also have everything on the ground floor and that is very easy.
The bedrooms are arranged in such a way that everyone heads to one
certain side sleeps (superstition)?
We have painted the color on the outside with a light yellow
dark red bottom for the splashing water.
Later I understood that this was the color of the Buddha, but it gives peace.
My compliments especially regarding the price.
Wishing you a lot of living pleasure.
Yours faithfully,
Erwin
It should be; we have.
Regards Erwin
Dear Tim,
Who has such a beautiful series of “looking at houses” on the Thailand blog. We would like to have a house built within the next 3 years in Phu Pha Man district, about 80 km west of Khon Kaen. My girlfriend has a nice piece of land there, approx. 1,5 rai on the edge of the village and with beautiful views of the mountains.
In this series I get a good idea of what the costs are and what to take into account. Many questions have already been answered and even questions that I didn't have yet have been answered :))
I think the house is very beautiful and we also like the color schemes. We also want to achieve such a look, although we are still thinking about the distribution of the rooms. A good idea of the sloping roof and the raised central roof.
We want to be the first to fence the land the way you did next year.
Can you tell me how much something like this costs? incl. fencing?
Yours faithfully,
Henk
Dear Henk, we bought all the construction material for the fence ourselves. The construction / job team that is active in our village charged a price per 2 meters and that was of course very different for the concrete blocks compared to the stone front garden wall. The fence in front of the concrete block wall also had a completely different price than the chrome-plated fence at the front. I'll see if I can dig up some prices.
Tim certainly a nice house.
I have a question about the raised roof construction.
Its purpose, I assume, is to have a ventilating effect.
But is there no ceiling under the roof section there or how does ventilation work differently?
Does it only ventilate on natural flow or are mechanical fans installed to create extra flow on windless days?
And does it ventilate well?
I also had a raised roof construction. There was 20 cm of space between the roof and the walls on all sides. There were large ventilation openings at the front and back so that the wind had free play. Because the heated air rose, there was always ventilation. We never needed air conditioning, just a fan once in a while.
Because the openings in the high roof let some water through with strong side winds, they were later sealed. This of course had consequences for the ventilation. At a later time when I have enough money for roof insulation I think about replacing a few roof tiles for solar ventilation roof tiles, these are for sale in Thailand…
Beautiful home Tim. Enough space around to make a nice, cozy garden. Color scheme perfect, at least my taste. I would also have the side wall of the garden worked, perhaps the same as the fence at the front. And the price is of course fantastic, despite some additional costs.
Good luck and have fun in your home. Sawang Daeng Din seems like a nice place to live.
My compliments, what a beautiful and above all practical house.
It's also nice to see the construction photos, sometimes I thought the connection of the support posts would still be ok, with the roof construction, but see the beautiful result.
Can you indicate how long it took to build the house?
After demolishing the old house, raising the ground and letting the ground rest during the rainy season, construction took just under 6 months. Which certainly wasn't built every day, because the team also had another project and no one or only 2 people were working on it for a few days...