some photos

Here are some photos of the cleared block. Not too exciting but at least it's something to share. The top part of the block has been cleared - that's where the house will go.  They've pushed all the excess dirt to the sloped area as Gary wants to terrace that - hopefully with a escalator for the steep climb to the top :-)  No more progress on the house at this stage. Gary is meeting with the project manager to go over all the proposals and finally give the go ahead to the preferred builder so they can finally get started.  Cross fingers that it starts soon. 

 

another small update

Just a small update today.  The block was cleared last week so all the trees and vegetation has been cleared away and the block is now bare.   The builder, Somjai, has all the plans and has told Gary the cost to build the house (which he was pleasently suprised with) and has indicated he can start immediately - I told him to go for it :-)  Unfortuntely, the cost didn't include the pool :-(   but hopefully that will still go in, cross fingers.  Might just have to wait until closer to completion to find out if we will get that as well.  If not, I'll be putting up a wading pool so I don't have to leave the house to go swimming.... not sure exactly how much swimming I will do in a wading pool but at least I can keep cool.  I don't have photos at the moment because Gary hasn't sent them to me yet - I'll get on his case tonight.

have a good day
Louise
xx

House picture

Finally, I am able to share an impression of what our house will look like - this is the front view only.   The windows are actually full size though they don't look it - we will have high ceilings so it makes the picture look a bit funny.  When I'm able to share a plan I will.

Louise



latest update

Happy New Year to everyone.  Hope you had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

I thought as I hadn't posted anything for a while that I would put the latest update up here.  But there's not really much to tell.  Our preferred builder, Somjai, has been on holidays and starts back at work on Monday so nothing has been happening while he's been on a break.  Most Thai's are Christians so they celebrate Christmas as well.  All our plans are completed - all 37 pages of them.  Somjai has them and is working out a price to build for us.  Gary wants to get 3 quotes but Somjai is the preferred builder.  He has built a lot of houses in Krabi for westerners and Gary has been and checked out a lot of them and they are good quality. 

Gary is heading back to Krabi tomorrow (Saturday 5 Jan).  He's flying out of the Gold Coast tomorrow morning and has 24 hour stopover in Singapore and then arrives in Krabi around 3 pm on Sunday afternoon.  Things should start happening on site within the next 2 weeks (Gary hopes).

I was going to share a picture of the design of our house but I seem to be having trouble loading the picture so I'll try again later to share. 

Have a great day.