Zkribbler's House -- Watch it being built!

[Zkribbler]

An update for those of you who haven't been reading Lancer's Philippines thread: I've leased some oceanfront property in the Philippines from Lancer & Dolores and have a construction crew building a house for me on it. The seawall is just beginning.

Because there's a lot of trees on the property, designing a single structure proved to be difficult. So I'm planning a few out buildings. The first to go up in the "laundry room." It's on the streetside of the property and gives us a place into which to bring water and electricity early. Lancer & the guys will be putting a temporary wooden front on it, so they can use it for storing the cement mixer and other items.

I'm in Los Angeles, so Lancer is posting pictures as the work progresses. This gives me a chance to wail, "Noooooooooo!"

Lancer
You don't need to know this yet -- but this is IMPORTANT so I'm telling you now! I hate electrical wires hanging in the air. Loath them! Despise them! So, when the time comes to run power from the laundryroom to the main house, please run it by way of an underground conduit -- PVC pipe, or some such. Thanks.

Here's the first day of construction. That's my architect Tito on the left. The other guys are digging to bedrock to lay the foundation for the seawall.

[Lancer]

This thread would be better with pics.

[Zkribbler]

Dang. I swear I attached that pic to my post.

[Lancer]

np, in fact on any pic you want posted from the other thread all I have to do is edit the other post, copy the stuff about the pic and paste it in your thread, just give the commentary you like and the pic # and I'll post it for you below your commentary. ...if you like.

[Zkribbler]

Not right now. I have to fire off a hostile letter to the L.A. Times. They printing my letter to the editor today, but edited one of my facts, changing it from a correct fact to an incorrect fact.

[Asher]

Are the construction workers unionized? Are you scabbing?

[Lancer]

Yup, he gave them a raise then collected it back in union dues.

The bit about the raise is true.

[Zkribbler]

Yup, he gave them a raise ...

Never put a union guy in charge of finances. Next, I'll probably organize a strike and drive myself out of business.

[Lancer]

Not right now. I have to fire off a hostile letter to the L.A. Times. They printing my letter to the editor today, but edited one of my facts, changing it from a correct fact to an incorrect fact.

In your letter invite them to post on Poly, Asher needs a friend.

[DaShi]

This ol' scam. That could be anyone's house.

[Lancer]

Dashi in 3-2-1...

Edit: ooops, too late.

[DaShi]

[Lancer]

"Lancer
You don't need to know this yet -- but this is IMPORTANT so I'm telling you now! I hate electrical wires hanging in the air. Loath them! Despise them! So, when the time comes to run power from the laundryroom to the main house, please run it by way of an underground conduit -- PVC pipe, or some such. Thanks. "

I'm going to show this to Sho this morning so it sticks. However I'm sure its what would happen anyway since at my place the power runs over the road to my very own pole then to my house. After that its all buried in walls or underground in pipes of which there are 3. One to the big double lights, one to the wave break chair over the stairs, and the third to the new salacot.

Also the other day when things got wierd I went over with Sho what you want for the landing and steps. This stuff he mostly knew but I wanted to review just in case as I will do now. I told him to put the one meter landing over steps (outside the house) that are long and shallow. I suggested 8" risers and 12" steps that decend into the gravel all the way to the base rock the wall sits on.

Also the height of the wall should be three inches higher than the level yard on the road side. That's kind of a best guess at this point but inside the circumference wall we can grade the gravel. Btw, the gravel is why water never really pools.

Which reminds me I have to remind him to run a few 4" pipes through the wall to carry off drainage.

Its going to be an interesting bit of masonry and I'm looking forward to seeing and taking pics of the process Sho uses.

[Zkribbler]

Nope. What I said was...
Leave a meter at the bottom of the steps. I know waves will wash pebbles over the last few steps, and that's fine.
The steps should be no steeper than 45 degrees--but they don't need to be long and shallow.
Having more than a meter at the top of the steps is fine and is, in fact, desireable.

[Krill]

You only have 3 walls? WTF?