You want to build something, just build it and again some do the correct procedure and go through the government department but many don’t.
One of my neighbours, when our little street turns into a river during heavy rain their rental house floods, so they decided to fix this problem. Being Thailand this was pretty easy.
A crew of guys turn up and for the first few days dug a trench around the house exposing the footing of the house. They attach some block and tackle on all corners and also along the stretch of the walls and chains are wrapped around the footings and they slow process of raising the house begins.
The house was being raised 1.5 metres in all, it took 6 days to get it to its height, not a bad effort at all. Now the house has been filled with fill and the floor has been concreted already.
Was it done to a quality assurance, of course not! But this is Thailand and good enough is all that is needed.
Nong Ja enjoyed this as she got to play with the sand and stone between workers filling buckets.
It cost 25,000 Thai baht for just the labour, not the materials to have this done. A lot cheaper and easier than back home for sure.
Brunty
1 comments:
This obviously worked okay, but is much different from raising a home in the USA.
Here, you'd normally have to excavate the foundation, insert beams that span the outside/exterior walls, and (usually) raise from beneath using screw jacks.
The Thai way works much more quickly, and is much less costly!
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