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Smart catch… cement plugs supporting your cross beams… 👍🏻 Keep watching… you’re your own foreman 👍🏻

qué plan tan interesante, sigamos atentos a los detalles.

Tie wire sticking out also reduces the concrete cover and will rust .

Are you going to surprise us later and tell us you are building a space ship? This thing looks wild! But wild in a good way. 20 years ago if you told me to move to a place that had limited electricity to get basic tasks done, my pompous ass would have said hell no! Now I find it common place and I have relaxed into the entertaining Thai lifestyle. This will for sure be a fun build to see! Thanks Gary!

or to the doubters (13;30) “ ye of little faith” ! Must say Gary and Mon, you will be well pleased I am not your site manager....those little seat thingys for the rebar to sit on, I would have let slip right through to the keeper. No knowledge can be just as dangerous as a little ?? Going to put concrete tracks in for the gate runners ? Cheers, John

Gary and Mon. Gotta keep checking, sometimes it's the workers, sometimes it's the builder taking shortcuts. With the window they missed on our job, the lady in the team told the leading hand about it but was told she's wrong. When we picked it up she was walking around with a huge grin😅

Good catch on the rebar chairs. What really frustrates me, as you pointed out, they know what they should do, but instead they do it the easy/cheap way, thinking you won't know. SURPRISE!

Hello Garry, I do know what your talking about with the reo support, in the day we made mounds for the concrete spacers, named aspro's, because they kept the reo of the shutters, and didn't cause any headaches

But one could just step over the wall o the left side of the gates 😮

You have spend half of the steel in Thailand!! 😂😂 Big home😉

you can add a remote-controlled swing gate opener for about 5k baht...definitely a blessing in the rainy season ...lol

beautiful little home...perfect for retirement living...plenty of outdoor space as well...I've always liked that smooth finish of the concrete...

Another longer-term investment is Teak trees...you can plant up to 200 per rai...trimming and culling will net about 100 of those to growth harvest...in just ten years they can fetch about 30k per tree...that's 3 million baht for 100 trees...or what is 300k per annum value...(maybe more as price rises or less trees are culled) again another low maintenance investment after the first few years...clearing underbrush and trimming low branches the first few years then let it grow...seeds are about 5 baht each...200 trees is 1000 baht but ideally you buy 4x to insure they sprout and pick the healthy ones for planting....you can register the trees for about .25 baht each to prove ownership...registering earlier is better even if some die or need to be culled...again the purchaser will harvest the trees for that price although stump removal may cost more unless you find a stump buyer...other hardwood trees can also fetch a good price but may take longer to grow....of course the added bonus is trees are beautiful and you can even plant them or cull them into a hiking trail on your land..

Speaking of profits...I think you'll find that fish are going to be the best investment...dig a hole 30m square 3 meters deep...Tilapia are about .5 baht to 1.5 baht for the babies depending on size...when grown they will fetch 60-80 baht per kilo depending on size...some big ones sell for 100 baht but most people don't like to buy those...the 60 baht a kilo fish price is usually 2 average fish per kilo sometimes one...if you put 10,000 fish in the pond selling at low for 60bht you make 300,000 in about a year...fish food early months protein added two bags about 800 a month then 400 a month a bag continuing after adult...so about 5600 baht in food per year...harvesting the fish again can be done by the people who want to buy the fish at 60bht per kilo...different fish species can fetch a higher price...in comparison to farming wide swaths of land fish will beat it nearly every time...food and babies together costs about 20k baht from profits so 280,000 per annum...things that can effect that amount include loss do mortality, birds, snakes...about 5% so about another 15k baht now you're at 265k baht...best part if this is a low maintenance operation...you can even have an autofeeder for the food...just load the bin bag once a month...

There are many variables when thinking of earning money on the farmland....as we get older it's those labor intensive ones that can kill ya...lol...although we know that we simply pay out of the profits for the management and harvest of everything...but I think there is also value in watching it grow but that's just me...

Good to know about the windmills...we were there recently...first time I think I've ever seen windmills on that scale in Thailand...we used to live in the desert in California and has loads of them...

If there’s a drainage issue build an open concrete channel next to your fence .and add a piece of metal on top for removal to clean it out. 10 inch wide channel is enough. Keep it open so you can easily get the dirt out. Flat plate with a few 3/4 inch holes will allow easy removal. 1/4 plate 3 ft long for easy access and removal. Adjust size for practical application

Buy rock and raise the road as much as they will let you . Keep the ramp at a minimum. I had to address a similar problem someone else created. Small cars and wave motor bikes don’t have a lot of clearance. We have a track with a rolling gate

Labor is to cheap in Thailand to be doing that work at your age. Do exercises to stay in physical condition. I just paid 6000 bhat to have a guy do three days of tree removal

Yes, great look...those supports look particularly nice once treated.

I am so proud of you gary, we need more people like u in this world. I have so much respect for you.

Nice home. Love those beams.

Hey Gary, your posts look good. Are you sure you did that, or Rak? lol! Just kidding, everything is looking good and looking forward to them getting back to work.

Another good video Gary.

Happy New Year, don't forget there is always wrap, any color you like

Makes me want to go on a diet just so I can eat some of that fresh lettuce!

The Isaan scaff is a wonderous thing. The first time I saw it I thought "surely not" but they did and still do

Wached all your videos last week enjoyed hope to see on the allotment in the spring

Good work with all the painting, Gary. Personally I'd go with just two colours, one for the fencing boards, one for all the concrete areas. For ease of painting, and for contrast. But I'm sure you'll get a great effect and be happy with the impact.

Absolutely love the colour and love the name to

Those green colours of the fence are not my style. But they do look really good together. 😊

Loving this shape! This should be interesting! Happy New Year!

Gary it's okay to profit off of your videos that way you can make more videos and more people can watch your contents

Gary I hope you're did a mistake on the year because you put 2025 and it's still 2024 I hope you're not one of those Time travelers

Gary I love watching the piledriver work as simple as it is what does a very important job

Nice house so far. No need for the loud music.

I think I’m liking the colours GaryandMon.....must confess had to think a bit, but might be on a roll (pun intended) here.!!!lol must say, the speed at which you paint Im surprised the paint doesn’t dry on the roller ?? just saying. Otherwise looking great. cheers John p.s. geez that’s one big load of rebar !!! hope its installed right side up ! Very best wishes to you both for 2025 and beyond.

Hey Gary, what the Hex going on? Lol. House is coming alone nicely.

G'day mate. Good to see progress on your build. Hope you have great Xmas and New Year. Our builders are on their last day before break so all quiet on our site as of COB today.

Have you got a allotment in cambridge

never understood the main premise of the video - disjointed, rambled

Nice 👍

Good stuff, I did not know they burned before harvesting. No cane in our area. Thanks Gary.

They haven't burnt cane in Australia for decades. But this is not Australia 🙂

Good catch, proving it pays to be on top of your build. Learning to read and understand the plans is the part most people don't take the time to do. Here it paid big. Good job!

Very interesting and good pick up by you Gary. We built a house here (in Aus). in 2012... Officialy, (in the contract) we were not allowed on the build site unless accompanied by the foreman but we use to pop in after the men had gone home in the evenings and do a walk around. Wouldn’t have picked any detail like you did, because wouldn’t know what I was looking for/at !! lol. Our sight was locked/padlocked every day, but we discovered a hole in the fence....Cheers, John

G'day Gary and Mon. It all looks good. We had 20mm reo arrive and I mentioned that I wasn't sure where it would go but studied the plans and found it. Not sure if they ordered too much but they installed it where it was spec'd as well as a couple of extra sections. Just need to be aware of the plans and engineering.

hen you build in phuket we do thai style not one and one using pump it in then take mould of cover whit plastic not dry out to fast yes thai style if you want get permit

Cmon Gary 💪💪💪💪 grandad would be proud

That wall is so easy to hop over!