Dear readers,
On March 4 I will leave for Thailand for 6 weeks with my Thai wife. It is the intention that in these 6 weeks we want to build the foundation of our future house in the Isaan about 130 km above Ubon Ratchathani.
Now I have seen and read a lot about the experiences of other Dutch people and I would like to thank them for all the tips and possible pitfalls.
My parents-in-law are currently looking for some good contractors, whom I hope to speak to in the first days of our trip in order to make a choice.
However, I am looking for information to be able to compare prices as well.
Who can help me with the prices of:
- Labor cost of construction worker per day
- 1 bag of cement of 40 kg (with a purchase of 500 bags)
- 1m3 sand (when purchasing 100 m3)
- 1m3 pebbles (with a purchase of 50 m3)
- Concrete iron 4 meters long,
- 10mm diameter
- 12mm diameter
- 16mm diameter
- The rental of a concrete mixer per day
- Sewage pipe
- Water pipe pipe
- Electricity pipe
In addition, I am looking for coconut fibers for the garden. I think I need 30 m3 of that too.
Thanks in advance for all your comments and happy holidays!!
Fred from Groningen
concrete mixer: just buy it so expensive that you can't just sell it again after the house is built
is just cheaper
That really becomes a personal visit to hardware stores and compare price/quality, the price varies per day and city, in a city with many hardware stores you quickly get a better price.
You have cement in various qualities (strengths) depending on what you are going to use it for.
Please do not let your family make price agreements with contractors, it is best if you are there yourself from the 1st stone, do not let them choose a contractor, the social pressure to choose someone from family or acquaintances is quite large.
I wish you lots of strength and success and little paramol
Yours faithfully,
Lex K.
About ten years ago we had our house built in my wife's village (near Mahasarakham). The contractor who was recommended to us via viavia only worked with personnel that he recruited locally and temporarily, ie in the village itself and the surrounding villages. These were workmen whom he called on on a regular basis and who had a different occupation in normal life: there were ordinary farmers among them, there were people who left their work in the factory for a few weeks, there was even a teacher bee … . The big advantage of this method is that you do not work with strangers who may come from the other side of the Isaan, but with people you will almost certainly meet afterwards. They therefore have every interest in delivering good work, if not to uphold their “honour”, but to (remain) on the contractor's personnel list. In our case there was no problem whatsoever and there is nothing to criticize about the quality of the work delivered.
With this I just want to nuance Lex K.'s recommendations a little bit … .
Hello Guys,
This is indeed the best solution, since you can also encounter these people on a daily basis.
I think it will also create a bit more “animo” among the workers.
I hadn't heard of this before, but it seems like the best solution to me.
LOUISE
1 bag of cement costs about 100 baht, not much profit is made here so don't expect to get much discount for 500 bags.
A much simpler solution is to have a cement truck come. First excavate the foundation, install the reinforcement and then pour the cement in one day.
A PVC sewage pipe costs 500 bath, water pipe 25 bath per pipe, electricity 25 bath per pipe.
Daily wage of a construction worker is between 200 and 500 baht per day, depending on his skill.
The above prices are guide prices.
Hello Fred, a tip for you, a few weeks ago there was a submission here about a report of building a house with photos, there was a response to this report from a man from Ubon who has been building a house since September, maybe you can contact him through this blog and he can help you further since you are not too far from Ubon, his house will be delivered at the end of December and maybe you can use his contractor ??? That was a submission from December 6, maybe you can read it again, good luck
Hello dear people,
Thank you so much for all your responses. I am very happy with all the tips and recommendations. I am indeed going to make the price agreements with the contractor myself, because I have also looked at houses that have been built by him before. I'll be sure to check out the previous comment.
I'll keep you informed!!
I built my house 4 years ago and hired people by the day for what I needed I am not a construction worker but with the help of google I found out a lot of things. I made the bricks of my house myself with my wife not because we enjoy making bricks so-called interlocking blocks the idea has been further developed from an original American idea the university of Sarakam has worked on it the advantage of these bricks is it builds super fast and for the finishing and construction you need less cement compared to building with red stones we needed more than 60% less cement and sand the proposal to have the foundation poured is the best advice. Similarly, the septic tank is usually made of concrete rings in Thailand. I was advised by a company from the Netherlands to brick it with the small red stones and to make an overflow in it. It works perfectly. You can leave all the electricity in the stones without any effort. to walk.
and even if you buy 1000 packs of cement no discount I paid this week for TPI green 94 Baht at Global house
Good luck Cees Roi-et
Well Fred you have received a mountain of good tips, especially about the foundation because that is very important. As a contractor and owner of a house in Korat, I have another very good tip for you. Use aerated concrete blocks for your walls that insulate insanely well and that will save you quite a bit of electricity on air conditioning in the future and provide your roof with roof tiles with insulation foil underneath, good luck.
Best regards. Ben korat