He’ll Maarten, it has been a long slow ride with you from your humble beginnings. A nice surprise to see you are back. Great video, must be one of the best builds I’ve seen and yes, many aspects of building is foreign to Thai thinking. I’m sure your workers are gaining valuable experience from your training. I’m hoping your next video is not too far off, would like to see the completion before I depart this world. All the best wishes to you and yours.
What a beautiful house,and excellent project management from Maarten.also a lovely setting,workers seem receptive to learning and work with you to achieve this wonderful building, well done everyone Looking forward to next video. By the way,trolls are everywhere and faceless ,pathetic nobody's, don't even bother replying to them and delete/block Thanks again Cheers Chris, Gold Coast, Australia
Your house looks different than from the other houses I have been watching so far You must know how to build a house in the first place and the house looks absolutely amazing and beautiful I cannot wait to see the completed finish project.
LOVE to see you building your dream! You have met many challenges along the way, but I am certain that it will be beautiful when completed. You are a genius, Maarten!!
Hi, amazing work! I deeply Respect the knowledge and experience you have. What a smooth work. Didn’t waste anythings and didn’t damage the environment. Excited to see the next part.
As I watched this video and heared of the mishaps, I couldn't help but laugh and smile with great pride at your tenacity and wonderful solutions. It is a true statement that you, Maarten, are a GENIUS!!
@@Living-off-grid If you love your wife, Tip, you would. You are not just a genius, you are a good husband and a good man, and I am proud to be your friend.
Hi Maarten Where did you buy AAC blocks as i am starting building project later in the year and unwilling to go along with the Thai shutter post style as only single storey house also putting DPM and DPC as soil very salty and it affects render etc Did you have any negative this is not how its done in Thailand with your builders or were they happy to try new ways as in your video ,also where are you based please , we are near Korat You are very profesional in all aspect from videos to your house build and hands on , keeping eye on your build and builders cheers Gary and Mon
Hi, We bought the AAC blocks directly from the factory (Qcon). They were able to deliver all we needed in just 4 days (after we refused to use blocks from an other supplier due to manufacturing faults). If you contact them via their website, they assign a sales-rep to you. That works great and is also the most cost-effective way. We are located in the Nakhon Phanom province (come see us). We had not too much problems with arrogant know-it-all "engineers". Just a welder who would not listen, so we told him, "Do it my way, or go away"... and he went. Problem solved. The rest of the crew was fine and eager to learn. (We were quite lucky).
Hello Marteen. I just discover your chanel. It seems that you are very professionnal and your team seems to learn quickly. May I ask you why do you make notches on ridge tiles, please? It's the first time I'm seeing that. Great job, it's a real pleasure to watch, thank you!
Hi. Thanks for the compliment. Those notches are ventilation openings. All of them together form a ridge-vent. The walls are hollow (cavity walls) and at the bottom are vents to let air in. These cavities are connected to a cavity under the rooftiles, which in turn is connected to all those little openings in the ridge. So, when the sun heats up the outer wall, the air inside starts to get warm. Since warm air rises up, it will go out the ridge vent and new, cooler air comes in at the bottom. This prevents the inner wall from warming up over time (one of the flaws in standard insulation). When I designed this, it was all theoretical, but after living inside for a year I am happy to say, it works very well.
Lol...will we have to wait a year for part 3!!? Just wondering. great story and interesting build. bring it on!! We finished our build around 2 years ago and have been living in it ever since - it's a great feeling. Yeah... we will do the video at some point!
I think both brick and AAC will last longer than you, so nothing to worry about. Building a red-brick cavity wall is good. It just takes a lot longer to build than a AAC wall as the blocks are so much bigger..
Thank you Sir for a great video. Very nice camera shots and plenty of good tips, do you have a list of suppliers you trust for material and work as you have experienced some good and some less good ones so far :D .
Hi Kimmo, That is a difficult question. The one supplier I do not recommend is the carpenter. He messed up in so many ways, it is just unbelievable. For the rest most suppliers were actually quit helpful. Global House, Megahome, Home Pro, SCG, Qcon, Insee, they were all great. LG was not so great. They installed ACs and did a poor job. I complained and nothing happened except them saying "ohhh, so sorry". No more LG for us.
Ridge vents. Have you seen houses in thailand with ridge vents or roof turbine vents. I had not. However, in hot states in US both are common. So I'm puzzled why I had not seen them.
Heerlijk om te zien. Ben aan het opstarten in Nakhon Ratchasima met de bouw van een huis. En net mijn Thaise vrouw laten zien hoe het in Nederland gebouwd wordt. Daar kunnen ze hier nog heel veel van leren
Hi Maarten, just found your channel now, but so far me and my wife are enjoying the house build series. Was just wondering , which is more expensive brick or aac block? I like the versatility of the aac block, its not something I've seen used much in Thailand. Happy New Year to you and your family for 2023!
Hi Cathal, Bricks are cheaper, but... AAC blocks work much faster and use a lot less cement. So I think that overall the AAC blocks are cheaper. The best wishes for the new year.
Our roof valley gutters went into a wide box section steel. On the canpies, after 25 years the odd one blocks with birds nest debri.In the end rotting our the steel!
They are AAC blocks (Airated Autoclaved Concrete). Very light (they actually float on water), high compression strength (G4 or 50 kg/cm²) and good thermal insulation.
Nice, doesn't that block still need corner posts? we are building on wife's farm and I'm thinking about subbing it all out except the finish as the labor is so cheap there. I think its 1600tb per post with slab and roof frame. Brick and rendering extra.
@@Living-off-grid I agree so long as they are overlap and a reinforced concrete cap. My house is semular to yours except hip roof open inside and made of wood with 2 king wood trusses taking most of the load. I've had problems with dropped ceilings rats snakes bugs ants everything get up there and with the humidity then the place starts to stink really bad after a few years. How are you getting around that?
I love a vaulted ceiling. But... because we will use the space under the roof, we'll have a regular ceiling, hanging from the joist-beams. We'll have to close all possible "bug" entries properly. Not just for bugs and snakes, but also for squirrels as we are inside a forest.
What is the orientation of the house- Do you know. Ours faces south and has traditional Thai canopies to shade the walls. I am interested how you have used those blocks. They are good for cutting into.
The house faces north. On the south side (where the sun hits the walls due to its angle in winter) we have a roofed terrace. The walls themselves have a ventilated (bottom to roof-rim) cavity with a radiation barrier on the inner wall. This prevents heat from the outer walls and the rooftiles from entering the house. Well, that is the theory at least. Only time will tell if the laws of physics are also valid in Thailand.
@@Living-off-grid Don’t count on anything to be the same. We try to blind them with science and its like putting a sheet over a bird’s cage. You watch them fall asleep. 555
Good job, but why did you choose not to build it higher off the ground, in case of flooding? Even though the area may not have a history of flooding, it is Thailand.
Hi Suk, If you watch the first video about the construction of the foundation, you will see it is build one meter above original ground-level. Since we filled it in with a gentile slope, this is easy to miss in part two.
Difficult to say. Around R 6.6, but the official numbers are contradictory. Our "outside walls" consist of (inside to outside) 1.5 cm rendering-cement, 15 cm G4 AAC block, 0.5 cm foam coated with an aluminium-foil radiation reflector, 7 cm air, 0.8 cm cement-board. The cavity is ventilated (botom to top, so the warm air rises and exits, being replaced with cool air). That should give us a pretty cool wall... but what the total insulation-value is.... No Idea.
@@Living-off-grid Thanks Maarten. That's is a very comprehensive answer. R value isn't truly important. The important thing is "comfort value." Please let me know how comfortable the house is a few months after you have settled in.
It's the style of the design. It's called "cape cod" or "dutch colonial". As for practical reasons, it creates a large space, high enough to stand/walk straight (it is a storage area) and it creates a thermo-buffer. (The lower the roof, the hotter the house)
Sie bauen wie in Europa ohne Beton Pfeiler?Nur Qcon Mauern?.Am ende oben einen Beton Stahl Ringanker.Und das kann das Metal Dach halten?Ohne Druck auf das Mauerwerk?Keine Risse?.
Hi Johan. As far as I know there is no law that dictates how to design your house. Our building plans (made by me) were approved without so much as a peep. Two "engineers" from the local government came to look at the site, and were very impressed by our standards. That probably helped.
How many houses have you designed, built, and lived in that have both great environmental and monetary values? How many local people have you employed to build your houses? I know Maarten personally, and know that he has designed and built more than one house that anyone would be proud to own and be comfortable living in. I wonder if you could even build a house of Lego's?
Thanks for your vote of confidence William. Don't let a pathetic, jealous troll get under your skin. We probably should feel sorry for a social reject like that.
@@Living-off-grid yes you are in a tropical area, huge storms and winds , were are your cyclone rods to hold the place down, you are building to european standards, you have no idea !
Hi Maarten How can I contact you other than through TH-cam as I need some advice We go back to UK Saturday and we will be back October do you have email or WhatsApp as I want to build in similar manner try to explain DPM and DPC to local Thai architect😜 cheers Gary
He’ll Maarten, it has been a long slow ride with you from your humble beginnings. A nice surprise to see you are back. Great video, must be one of the best builds I’ve seen and yes, many aspects of building is foreign to Thai thinking. I’m sure your workers are gaining valuable experience from your training. I’m hoping your next video is not too far off, would like to see the completion before I depart this world. All the best wishes to you and yours.
Hi Martin.
Thank you for the compliment.
I will try to have the next video a bit sooner. 🙂
That's the best built house in Thailand for sure 👌
Thank you. We did the best we could do.
Now it is for sale.
Great job!
I’ve been looking on TH-cam for ideas for my home build in Thailand and you sir know what your doing!
What a beautiful house,and excellent project management from Maarten.also a lovely setting,workers seem receptive to learning and work with you to achieve this wonderful building, well done everyone
Looking forward to next video.
By the way,trolls are everywhere and faceless ,pathetic nobody's, don't even bother replying to them and delete/block
Thanks again
Cheers Chris, Gold Coast, Australia
Thank you Chris.
Your house looks different than from the other houses I have been watching so far
You must know how to build a house in the first place and the house looks absolutely amazing and beautiful
I cannot wait to see the completed finish project.
LOVE to see you building your dream! You have met many challenges along the way, but I am certain that it will be beautiful when completed. You are a genius, Maarten!!
Hi, amazing work! I deeply Respect the knowledge and experience you have. What a smooth work.
Didn’t waste anythings and didn’t damage the environment. Excited to see the next part.
Thank you.
Wow I was stunning when I saw your video. Y’all would be working hard to build this house. It’d be such a great one.
So far the foundation looks great I would love to see the complete project.
Most of it is finished and videos are on this channel.
Now we are busy landscaping.
Nice works we want also to build nearby udon thani, can we come see your house
Yes, no problem. Contact me at maartensworld@gmail.com
As I watched this video and heared of the mishaps, I couldn't help but laugh and smile with great pride at your tenacity and wonderful solutions. It is a true statement that you, Maarten, are a GENIUS!!
I can only say: "Thank you"... but... if I were a genius, would I build a house in Thailand?????
@@Living-off-grid If you love your wife, Tip, you would. You are not just a genius, you are a good husband and a good man, and I am proud to be your friend.
@@WilliamHearnTOEFL_Tutor Love and money do NOT mix!.
@@mrdm1967ify It is the lust for money that is wrong. God, and Jesus, never said that they want for us to be poor.
Goed bezig....! Ik ben heel benieuwd naar de volgende video.
Hi Maarten
Where did you buy AAC blocks as i am starting building project later in the year and unwilling to go along with the Thai shutter post style as only single storey house also putting DPM and DPC as soil very salty and it affects render etc
Did you have any negative this is not how its done in Thailand with your builders or were they happy to try new ways as in your video ,also where are you based please , we are near Korat
You are very profesional in all aspect from videos to your house build and hands on , keeping eye on your build and builders
cheers Gary and Mon
Hi,
We bought the AAC blocks directly from the factory (Qcon).
They were able to deliver all we needed in just 4 days (after we refused to use blocks from an other supplier due to manufacturing faults).
If you contact them via their website, they assign a sales-rep to you. That works great and is also the most cost-effective way.
We are located in the Nakhon Phanom province (come see us).
We had not too much problems with arrogant know-it-all "engineers". Just a welder who would not listen, so we told him, "Do it my way, or go away"... and he went. Problem solved.
The rest of the crew was fine and eager to learn. (We were quite lucky).
Thanks you for sharing this video. Good to know how house are built in different country
Really enjoyed watching this, nice to see blocks being laid well
Well documented and a beautiful house to look at. Wish you all the best. Full support given. I too am building but in Philippines.
Wow! They never done this before??? Looking good
amazing work
Well made video. Thanks! Subscribed!
Hello Marteen. I just discover your chanel. It seems that you are very professionnal and your team seems to learn quickly. May I ask you why do you make notches on ridge tiles, please? It's the first time I'm seeing that. Great job, it's a real pleasure to watch, thank you!
Hi. Thanks for the compliment.
Those notches are ventilation openings. All of them together form a ridge-vent.
The walls are hollow (cavity walls) and at the bottom are vents to let air in.
These cavities are connected to a cavity under the rooftiles, which in turn is connected to all those little openings in the ridge.
So, when the sun heats up the outer wall, the air inside starts to get warm. Since warm air rises up, it will go out the ridge vent and new, cooler air comes in at the bottom.
This prevents the inner wall from warming up over time (one of the flaws in standard insulation).
When I designed this, it was all theoretical, but after living inside for a year I am happy to say, it works very well.
Hi maarten look good your house
Lol...will we have to wait a year for part 3!!?
Just wondering. great story and interesting build. bring it on!!
We finished our build around 2 years ago and have been living in it ever since - it's a great feeling. Yeah... we will do the video at some point!
Hi.
If all goes well... a few months. We are filming as we build, so sometimes it is slow.
@@Living-off-grid Ahh ok! i thought the place was already finished with that 'finished-looking'
photo you have as your header!
Hahaha... That is not our house. That is the example we used to design our house.
😀
Perfect !
which last longer? brick or aac block? what about doing a double red brick wall?
I think both brick and AAC will last longer than you, so nothing to worry about.
Building a red-brick cavity wall is good. It just takes a lot longer to build than a AAC wall as the blocks are so much bigger..
Thank you Sir for a great video. Very nice camera shots and plenty of good tips, do you have a list of suppliers you trust for material and work as you have experienced some good and some less good ones so far :D .
Hi Kimmo,
That is a difficult question. The one supplier I do not recommend is the carpenter. He messed up in so many ways, it is just unbelievable.
For the rest most suppliers were actually quit helpful. Global House, Megahome, Home Pro, SCG, Qcon, Insee, they were all great.
LG was not so great. They installed ACs and did a poor job. I complained and nothing happened except them saying "ohhh, so sorry".
No more LG for us.
Ridge vents. Have you seen houses in thailand with ridge vents or roof turbine vents. I had not. However, in hot states in US both are common. So I'm puzzled why I had not seen them.
Yes, So am I. It seems the logical thing to do.
Heerlijk om te zien. Ben aan het opstarten in Nakhon Ratchasima met de bouw van een huis. En net mijn Thaise vrouw laten zien hoe het in Nederland gebouwd wordt. Daar kunnen ze hier nog heel veel van leren
Ohh ja! En helaas zijn het niet de beste leerlingen 😂
Succes met de bouw. Maak er wat moois van.
Hi Maarten, just found your channel now, but so far me and my wife are enjoying the house build series. Was just wondering , which is more expensive brick or aac block? I like the versatility of the aac block, its not something I've seen used much in Thailand. Happy New Year to you and your family for 2023!
Hi Cathal,
Bricks are cheaper, but...
AAC blocks work much faster and use a lot less cement.
So I think that overall the AAC blocks are cheaper.
The best wishes for the new year.
Our roof valley gutters went into a wide box section steel.
On the canpies, after 25 years the odd one blocks with birds nest debri.In the end rotting our the steel!
They look like thermalite blocks we use in the UK
They are AAC blocks (Airated Autoclaved Concrete).
Very light (they actually float on water), high compression strength (G4 or 50 kg/cm²) and good thermal insulation.
Nice, doesn't that block still need corner posts? we are building on wife's farm and I'm thinking about subbing it all out except the finish as the labor is so cheap there. I think its 1600tb per post with slab and roof frame. Brick and rendering extra.
Hi Dave.
Nope, no corner posts needed.
Posts are highly overrated. They are good for vertical force, but offer no sideways stability what so ever.
@@Living-off-grid I agree so long as they are overlap and a reinforced concrete cap. My house is semular to yours except hip roof open inside and made of wood with 2 king wood trusses taking most of the load. I've had problems with dropped ceilings rats snakes bugs ants everything get up there and with the humidity then the place starts to stink really bad after a few years. How are you getting around that?
I love a vaulted ceiling.
But... because we will use the space under the roof, we'll have a regular ceiling, hanging from the joist-beams.
We'll have to close all possible "bug" entries properly. Not just for bugs and snakes, but also for squirrels as we are inside a forest.
Why not use cement or ICF blocks?
I know it is already too late; I wonder the reasons that you decide not to put radient barriers under the roof battens
Ha ha... You are right to wonder this, and we did.
You'll see this in the next video.
What is the orientation of the house- Do you know. Ours faces south and has traditional Thai canopies to shade the walls. I am interested how you have used those blocks. They are good for cutting into.
The house faces north.
On the south side (where the sun hits the walls due to its angle in winter) we have a roofed terrace.
The walls themselves have a ventilated (bottom to roof-rim) cavity with a radiation barrier on the inner wall.
This prevents heat from the outer walls and the rooftiles from entering the house.
Well, that is the theory at least. Only time will tell if the laws of physics are also valid in Thailand.
@@Living-off-grid Don’t count on anything to be the same. We try to blind them with science and its like putting a sheet over a bird’s cage. You watch them fall asleep. 555
Was this re-uploaded? I feel like I watched this yesterday.
Sadly I had to re-upload the video as TH-cam placed (incorrectly) a copyright claim on the original one. Very sorry.
Hello Martin, can I ask what area you are in? Your video is quite informative can't wait for the rest.
Hi Gilbert,
We are close to Renu Nakhon in the Nakhon Phanom province. (In Isaan)
Good job, but why did you choose not to build it higher off the ground, in case of flooding? Even though the area may not have a history of flooding, it is Thailand.
Hi Suk,
If you watch the first video about the construction of the foundation, you will see it is build one meter above original ground-level.
Since we filled it in with a gentile slope, this is easy to miss in part two.
@@Living-off-grid I was thinking that you may have done that, great job mate
Hello can I ask what cost for the foundation work including the finishing slab.thanks
Hi Paul.
The foundation, including the slab, has cost 424.000 baht.
Very nice!
What is the insulation value of that block?
Difficult to say. Around R 6.6, but the official numbers are contradictory.
Our "outside walls" consist of (inside to outside) 1.5 cm rendering-cement, 15 cm G4 AAC block, 0.5 cm foam coated with an aluminium-foil radiation reflector, 7 cm air, 0.8 cm cement-board.
The cavity is ventilated (botom to top, so the warm air rises and exits, being replaced with cool air).
That should give us a pretty cool wall... but what the total insulation-value is.... No Idea.
@@Living-off-grid Thanks Maarten. That's is a very comprehensive answer. R value isn't truly important. The important thing is "comfort value." Please let me know how comfortable the house is a few months after you have settled in.
Isn't this the same video as part 1?
Sadly I had to re-upload the video as TH-cam placed (incorrectly) a copyright claim on the original one. Very sorry.
there is no snow in thailand , why the steep pitch
It's the style of the design. It's called "cape cod" or "dutch colonial".
As for practical reasons, it creates a large space, high enough to stand/walk straight (it is a storage area) and it creates a thermo-buffer. (The lower the roof, the hotter the house)
Sie bauen wie in Europa ohne Beton Pfeiler?Nur Qcon Mauern?.Am ende oben einen Beton Stahl Ringanker.Und das kann das Metal Dach halten?Ohne Druck auf das Mauerwerk?Keine Risse?.
Das ist correct.
Wer hat die Statik gemacht? Berechnet?
Das hat ich seller gemacht. Es ist nicht complicirt.
hi maarten
nice video you make about building your house
i can be wrong but say the thai building law not that you must build with pole's
Hi Johan.
As far as I know there is no law that dictates how to design your house.
Our building plans (made by me) were approved without so much as a peep.
Two "engineers" from the local government came to look at the site, and were very impressed by our standards. That probably helped.
Waiting for part 3?
It is coming. We are building (and filming) right now. I would think 2 months. Always hard to say.
@@Living-off-grid ok great Maarten, I will look forward to it!!
Nice work! So no red bricks at all I see! Check out my build- I am about 6 weeks away from move in. All comments are welcomed! Good Luck!
I'll have a look.
Looking nice. I subscribed to your channel.
@@Living-off-grid Thanks!
you have no idea what you are doing
Would you care to elaborate on that... or are you just a troll...
How many houses have you designed, built, and lived in that have both great environmental and monetary values? How many local people have you employed to build your houses? I know Maarten personally, and know that he has designed and built more than one house that anyone would be proud to own and be comfortable living in. I wonder if you could even build a house of Lego's?
Thanks for your vote of confidence William.
Don't let a pathetic, jealous troll get under your skin. We probably should feel sorry for a social reject like that.
@@Living-off-grid So true!
@@Living-off-grid yes you are in a tropical area, huge storms and winds , were are your cyclone rods to hold the place down, you are building to european standards, you have no idea !
Hi Maarten
How can I contact you other than through TH-cam as I need some advice
We go back to UK Saturday and we will be back October do you have email or WhatsApp as I want to build in similar manner
try to explain DPM and DPC to local Thai architect😜
cheers
Gary