Building a house in Thailand - Part 33 - Car port and drive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ม.ค. 2025
- We have finally decided on where our car parking is going to be located, it serves 2 purposes, firstly, a car port and secondly as a shade for the side of the house.
Hello fellow Scotsman 😜 Glad to read your putting up guttering as I've seen new builds without, and in a short time the paintwork on the facias are dirty.
Great looking house and really happy for you👍
Hi, thanks for watching and commenting, we are also putting guttering up in certain areas around the house that have that problem, the problem here is, gutters need to be about 12 inch box section and even then cannot contain the water during rainy season, in winter it doesn't rain for about 6 months either. The side of the house that got dirty because of the rain running off the roof and splashing up was the side the car port is going so we won't get that anymore.
PS. The outside facial are filthy already with geko shit, the joys of living with nature.
Great color on the cement, much better than grey
Hi, we will see how it looks when driven over, it looks good now but I'm thinking it will show dirt up more. Thanks for comment and watching.
Consider putting big and small drainage lines at all edges of the concrete to avoid trapped water
Hi, The roof slopes back and is having gutters fitted to run the water to the wall which is having a drainage pipe running along the edge of the concrete down to the road.
Looks great
Hi, thanks, and thanks for watching.
Love the videos Paul. I live in Thailand and I would love to build my own house. Not sure if you have given me confidence or put me off. But very informative either way.
Thanks for watching don't let it put you off, it's just done different here, it's all good and no way could tou build this in the UK for this price.
Those Thais do love wet concrete.
That concrete seems too wet but Thais do that because it is easier to work with.
What is the budget for this car port?
Car port is 150,000 THB, yea concrete needs to be that wet due to the heat and speed it starts to set. Thanks for watching and comment.
Hi Paul,
Jack here. I’m moving to Thailand in August 2024.
How much was your carport?
Hi, car port was 150,000THB, thanks for watching.
Hello friend.... How much did your house cost? And what's the name of the contractor? Thank you
Hi, The house build was a fixed price 1.8M baht. Thanks for watching.
It's nice to build a house. Anyone can come to USA and own half the country if they can afford it. Which is fine.
At least, we should be able to own a few acres of land/homes/business without having to be financially vulnerable and susceptible to being scammed in holding assets in other people's names.
I consider owning land/business via marriage/partnership a shady means. Too risky.
USA's prerogative would be that our citizens in their country be treated as we treat theirs in ours.
Their laws are such that they're looking out for themselves. That's fine.
We aren't being looked after. We are just preys.
The responsibility falls on the shoulder of our evil scu-mmm-bag lawmakers here in the USA for not making sure that Americans have reciprocity rights (minus political ambition) in other countries. They only look out for their club members/themselves. "We The People" is left exposed to society elements.
If the citizens of all those countries where we can't own land/business outright (Philippines, Thailand, etc,) were to be treated the same way here (our prerogative), their laws would be different because it'd affect their economy.
Everyone is susceptible to being "scammed" if we have to depend on someone else's good nature/intention.
There's no recourse. I don't want to have to be married or have business partners via corporation. I don't wish to be a pet. My prerogative. I'd just want to own outright. No nonsense. Equal rights.
I'm specifically talking about business/home/land ownership and the ability to build on such land as I see fit. Not condos.
It's simply bull-shit! It's beyond unfair and ridi-cu-lous!!!
Coming from the UK I totally agree with you, which is the reason I'm not in the UK anymore, every other frigging Eastern European and his dog are more welcome than UK citizens, they get treated better, they get housed, money, food and protection from racism, a disgrace, you go to middle east, you oxide by there laws and get treated as an outcast, our soft snowflake western ways need to change. The British government has more non British MPs, try that in Asia or the Middle East.
Yes it's a chew every year getting visa but it's worth it,
Become a refugee and walk into UK, become the spouse of a UK citizen and you have no chance,
Thanks for watching and commenting.