Cant wait to see the column up ,thats where it got start forming .Thanks for shoutout 😍 , youre so sweet. Yes i admit my husband like to help people and friends.
David is a great guy, He will get your home built for sure. Yeah, Rainy season on top of Covid not a great time to start a build. Keep the faith... It will be Hot Dry December before you know it...
Hi Steve and Neth, I have been watching your youtube videos regarding your experience in building a house in the Philippines and I must tell you that I really appreciate the educational aspect of your content. I know your videos are helping people like me who wants to get educated before taking the plunge of building a house in the Philippines. You're providing a great service. THANK YOU! By way of background, my wife and I were both born and raised in the Philippines but have been living here in California for approximately forty years of which 30 years in Southern California (Orange County). I understand that you're from California as well. We are also looking to build our vacation and eventually retirement home in the Philippines next year. Our site is located in Tagaytay Highlands which is pretty close to where you are. I'm sorry you're having a difficult time working with your HOA. Normally HOA's in the Philippines are not hard to deal with. At any rate, I would like to let you know that there is a gentleman who lives in your own subdivision who may be able to help navigate through the process. His channel is "My PI Dream". He mentioned in one of his videos that is in the HOA Board. Good Luck! Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job! Best regards, Joe
HOA is the problem!! the people on the board are trying to run it like they are in united states!! There is a issue there that is hidden since we have had people bought property there and now asking us if there available in our subdivision so they can build there dream house!! I HATE HOA!! Bunch of croc!!!
@@andycarney2385 Andy, in my opinion, there is a place for HOA and it does do some good....however, the problem arises when you have a few on the Board who believe they are so important and then get on power trips, thereby creating conflicts with residents. What you see on YT is not what you experience in reality! It appears that HLURB rules n regs allows foreigners who are residents within the community to be a part of the HOA Board.
I arrived last October in OLONGAPO city and watch plenty Philippines construction videos. The construction practices are substandard accordingly to my observation. The rebar placings at time I saw had no concrete coverage. As owner, you observed the numbers column rebars are different, should check with the foreman. He should indicate the rebars with the structural drawings. By looking at you video, the block walls are below grade, like retaining walls. You should make sure there are dowels rebars installed from the column to the block walls before pouring the columns. And make sure the block wall cells are completely concreted. The rebars that dowel out from column are tie into the wall. If not, your will have a weak wall. If you don't have construction experience, engaged the engineer to inspect the rebar placements prior to the concerte pour. Good luck. Danny from Hawaii retired in OLONGAPO City.
Neth and Steve, We arrived in the PI in Oct 2014 and decided to build a house in Dec of that year. It took through Dec for the drawings to be printed and we were in April to get the building permit. We hired the town backhoe to dig the 20 footer block holes because it was dry season and chipping out holes that large with a baretta wouldn't have been done before our July departure. The hole center locations were a little off so we decided to extend the holes until the columns were centered on the pads. 2 meter square holes grew by half a meter on one or two edges. Then it RAINED. we dug down to undisturbed soil and poured 4 inches of concrete to make a bailable level surface. some were thicker to get back to a common grade using a surveyors transit. We set the column rebar and poured 14" thick pads around them followed by 16 foot high columns. By July we had the 20 columns (30" X 32") and 30 tie beams (24"wide X 18" deep) poured. Part of the crew leveled the ground in and around the build so the rain could settle and compact it before our return in Oct. Once on top of the ground things got much easier. Build season 2 was the floor slabs and a 30" extension around the building for a level working area. We also did poured concrete walls for the entire first floor with cast in place 24 door jambs and 12 window openings with 9 vent fan openings. Build session 3 was the concrete roof slab and what looks like second floor walls but they are actually air handlers for the passive cooling. Build session 4 was the outer roof panels, spider beam, and center roof slab. Fifth season was wall rendering, pulling wire, skim coating, security grills, ground level rain gutters, dirty kitchen monolithic slab, building slip forms and working on the whole house fan for the atrium. This year COVID 19 limited us to pretty much skimcoating. We build with social security income with a 5 person crew so progress is slow by and standard but continuing. I put details here because our channel is like 11 subscribers and 5 loyal viewers. Too small to get videos on youtube recommended video searches. There is a lot of good content in the videos which you might check out before youtube just deletes us for occuping their storage hard drives. We named our house Villa Cecelia.....another idea stolen from" My PI dream". (Villa Feliz) george and aurora
Wow 4 seasons of building that is a long time I sure hope our build gets completed in under a year but allot depends on how much rain we continue to get, please keep us updated on your progress and good luck to the both of you.
I am looking to retire when my contract runs out in 1 and 1/2 yr. I am in process of getting my drawing completed . Can you tell me how to contact David . My wife has a lot down the road from you
Cant wait to see the column up ,thats where it got start forming .Thanks for shoutout 😍 , youre so sweet. Yes i admit my husband like to help people and friends.
Thank you sis and Andy 😊
@@NethFaulkner your husband has a name sis? 😝😂
Hahahahaha ur funny 😆
David is a great guy, He will get your home built for sure. Yeah, Rainy season on top of Covid not a great time to start a build. Keep the faith... It will be Hot Dry December before you know it...
Totally agree with you
Yes, I trust my builder he is a great guy, thanks for the kind words.
Hi Steve and Neth,
I have been watching your youtube videos regarding your experience in building a house in the Philippines and I must tell you that I really appreciate the educational aspect of your content. I know your videos are helping people like me who wants to get educated before taking the plunge of building a house in the Philippines. You're providing a great service. THANK YOU!
By way of background, my wife and I were both born and raised in the Philippines but have been living here in California for approximately forty years of which 30 years in Southern California (Orange County). I understand that you're from California as well. We are also looking to build our vacation and eventually retirement home in the Philippines next year. Our site is located in Tagaytay Highlands which is pretty close to where you are.
I'm sorry you're having a difficult time working with your HOA. Normally HOA's in the Philippines are not hard to deal with. At any rate, I would like to let you know that there is a gentleman who lives in your own subdivision who may be able to help navigate through the process. His channel is "My PI Dream". He mentioned in one of his videos that is in the HOA Board. Good Luck!
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job!
Best regards,
Joe
Thank you so much for taking time to write us. Yes his one of our neighbors 😊
HOA is the problem!! the people on the board are trying to run it like they are in united states!!
There is a issue there that is hidden since we have had people bought property there and now asking us if there available in our subdivision so they can build there dream house!!
I HATE HOA!! Bunch of croc!!!
@@andycarney2385 Andy, in my opinion, there is a place for HOA and it does do some good....however, the problem arises when you have a few on the Board who believe they are so important and then get on power trips, thereby creating conflicts with residents. What you see on YT is not what you experience in reality!
It appears that HLURB rules n regs allows foreigners who are residents within the community to be a part of the HOA Board.
I arrived last October in OLONGAPO city and watch plenty Philippines construction videos. The construction practices are substandard accordingly to my observation. The rebar placings at time I saw had no concrete coverage. As owner, you observed the numbers column rebars are different, should check with the foreman. He should indicate the rebars with the structural drawings. By looking at you video, the block walls are below grade, like retaining walls. You should make sure there are dowels rebars installed from the column to the block walls before pouring the columns. And make sure the block wall cells are completely concreted. The rebars that dowel out from column are tie into the wall. If not, your will have a weak wall. If you don't have construction experience, engaged the engineer to inspect the rebar placements prior to the concerte pour. Good luck. Danny from Hawaii retired in OLONGAPO City.
Inspirational
Hope the weather gets better again very soon! Good luck for you and your project!!
Things will get better I am sure of that, just have to take things one at time.
Neth and Steve, We arrived in the PI in Oct 2014 and decided to build a house in Dec of that year. It took through Dec for the drawings to be printed and we were
in April to get the building permit. We hired the town backhoe to dig the 20 footer block holes because it was dry season and chipping out holes that large with a
baretta wouldn't have been done before our July departure. The hole center locations were a little off so we decided to extend the holes until the columns were
centered on the pads. 2 meter square holes grew by half a meter on one or two edges. Then it RAINED. we dug down to undisturbed soil and poured 4 inches of
concrete to make a bailable level surface. some were thicker to get back to a common grade using a surveyors transit. We set the column rebar and poured 14"
thick pads around them followed by 16 foot high columns. By July we had the 20 columns (30" X 32") and 30 tie beams (24"wide X 18" deep) poured. Part of the crew
leveled the ground in and around the build so the rain could settle and compact it before our return in Oct. Once on top of the ground things got much easier. Build
season 2 was the floor slabs and a 30" extension around the building for a level working area. We also did poured concrete walls for the entire first floor with cast in place
24 door jambs and 12 window openings with 9 vent fan openings. Build session 3 was the concrete roof slab and what looks like second floor walls but they are
actually air handlers for the passive cooling. Build session 4 was the outer roof panels, spider beam, and center roof slab. Fifth season was wall rendering, pulling wire,
skim coating, security grills, ground level rain gutters, dirty kitchen monolithic slab, building slip forms and working on the whole house fan for the atrium. This
year COVID 19 limited us to pretty much skimcoating. We build with social security income with a 5 person crew so progress is slow by and standard but continuing.
I put details here because our channel is like 11 subscribers and 5 loyal viewers. Too small to get videos on youtube recommended video searches. There is a lot
of good content in the videos which you might check out before youtube just deletes us for occuping their storage hard drives.
We named our house Villa Cecelia.....another idea stolen from" My PI dream". (Villa Feliz)
george and aurora
Wow 4 seasons of building that is a long time I sure hope our build gets completed in under a year but allot depends on how much rain we continue to get, please keep us updated on your progress and good luck to the both of you.
It may be slow at this time so take time and enjoy the moment.
Cause ones the good weather gets here it’s ( go time )
Looking forward to more video
Cool sharing 💮
A bit late but I'm here, I'm here 😁... No worries buddy... We will overcome the roadblocks some people (you know who) keep throwing at us. 💪💪
nice start
why not use ready mix concrete car ?
Hi Kuya, our builder likes to make stronger concrete mix and has bettrr control over the finished mix.
Check the drawings every day otherwise you will mis the progres. And keep talking to the forman if you have things in mind.
Pangalawang building nyu na nmn to sis? Tapus naba yung isa?
Dpa sis hihi Yan ung samin ung mag start plang
I am looking to retire when my contract runs out in 1 and 1/2 yr. I am in process of getting my drawing completed . Can you tell me how to contact David . My wife has a lot down the road from you
Albert, here our email. philippineslifestyle365@gmail.com
May I have David Brooks email address pls. Tks
Send me ur email and i forward you his emails address.