Buriram Expats
Buriram Province - General Category => Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership => Topic started by: waynesurin on February 09, 2017, 08:35:27 AM
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Hi all. In the process of looking into costs to build a 3 bedroom, two bathroom home with standard finishings near Satuek. I am wondering if anyone could give me an idea or approximation of the cost of labour per sq. meter as we will be supplying materials :) Thanks :)
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Gday Waynesurin, Not sure of price per square meter for work but I recently finished a 3 bedroom with large balcony and concrete verandah all the way around. I was paying the builders 400bht per day. They would start at 8am and finish 5pm with an hour for lunch. I used to also buy a bottle of Low Kow whisky 100bht which kept the moral high. The builders are on the job 7 days a week unless its a National Holiday. I have a post New Bahn Non Suwan with photo's. Sorry don't know how to provide a direct link to the site but if you do a search it should come up!
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I had a labor quote about the first of October for a similar sized build; it was quoted at just over 920,000.
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@Fishy
Here is your Thread New Bahn Non Suwan ;)
http://www.buriramexpats.com/forum/index.php?topic=8809.0
Edit: But it seems that most of the pictures in that Thread are gone because of a Malfunction with the BE servers a couple of weeks ago.
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sadly all pics are gone..
if you have time it would be greatly appreciated if they were uploaded again :)
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Yes, there is a problem on some threads about photos. We are checking the problem.
Good morning.
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Thanks iammike for thread to my post and pics gone missing. Thanks Mod for being on the ball also... Can upload pics again... Proud of my dog house!!
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Start of new Bahn
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In the beginning..
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Starting to look like a house
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At the end of the day...
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fishy
Am I correct that you started in November 2015 with the build and finished around May 2016 ? So around 5-6 months ?
I look at the filenames you named your Pictures ;)
Thx
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Great pics :) Thanks. How much was the cost for the electric meter and do you know what capacity it is? 15/45?
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Great pics :) Thanks. How much was the cost for the electric meter and do you know what capacity it is? 15/45?
We got 30/100 (single phase) and we paid 13000 THB deposit at the local PEA.
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Thanks Mike, would you suggest that 15/45 is sufficient? My wife's father thinks the 5/15 is the way to do, but I am not so sure.
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5/15???What appliance will you have in the house?
If you are having a/c then I would go 15/45
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5/15???What appliance will you have in the house?
If you are having a/c then I would go 15/45
If you have showers, which consume 3/3.5KW, or even a hot water heater for a bath/jacuzzi which consumes 6kw+, then you may have problems with 15/45
When I have the Jacuzzi filling and 1 air con is on, + lights tv etc, all the power has a habit of tripping -not just the jacuzzi circuit.
15/45 is OK for Starman, as he and his family do not use hot water. ;D
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5/15???What appliance will you have in the house?
If you are having a/c then I would go 15/45
If you have showers, which consume 3/3.5KW, or even a hot water heater for a bath/jacuzzi which consumes 6kw+, then you may have problems with 15/45
When I have the Jacuzzi filling and 1 air con is on, + lights tv etc, all the power has a habit of tripping -not just the jacuzzi circuit.
15/45 is OK for Starman, as he and his family do not use hot water. ;D
And a jacuzzi for us would need the helping hand of some Brussel sprouts.
We do have quite a few appliances on at the same time. We have 5 chest freezers on constantly. Additional items would be to, fridge, fans and a collection of telephones charging.
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So far have about 78 m of fence built. Total cost was 107k and change. So, about 1370 Baht per linear meter. Not sure if that was the best deal available but it is what it is :) Electrical coming today. Three poles and a 15/45 meter. Apparently all told, it will cost 16050 Baht when completed.
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Looking good.
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Electric installed as of today 15/45 meter and three poles, wiring etc. Total cost (including deposit for the meter) of 16k Baht
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They are starting to do the foundation. Had an Backhoe in and digging started for 20 pillars. Steel seems to be the most expensive part of this process. We purchased from Ruangsangthai in Buriram and my wife was very pleased with their service. All said, the cost of the foundation materials will be in the area of 60000 baht (including the backhoe rental). We purchased steels, cement, gravel and sand. I will dicuss labour costs in a later posting :)
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Looks like it's coming along well.
We also got our steel from Ruangsangthai. Certainly seems to be the best price on the area. The company that built my pool now also use Ruangsangthai for all their steel regardless of where they are building.
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I asked them for a foundation to build a house. They either think I am building a) Skyscraper or b) film set for a World War One documentary replete with trenches :)
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Freddy. Could you please post a picture of your pool, the dimensions and approximate cost. I am considering building a pool and any advice would be welcome.
Regards
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Tassie.
I've sent you a PM.
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It can be a challenge for expats to build a home on time, within budget and to an acceptable level of workmanship. I sent two of the bi lingual College graduates today with two of the Diamond Building Products technical advisors to a Buriram Village Home being constructed by a Thai home building team. The expat customer of Ruangsangthai phoned me to say that the technical advise given in Thai with written instructions and video instructions to his local home builders is much appreciated. If you buy building materials from my family owned builders merchants I can arrange for complementary professional instruction to your choice of Buriram labor. These same technical advisors help to train the home building labor now building higher end housing estates in Buriram. Miss Jaew and Miss Kun did the translations so that the spouse of the expat did not have stress. I am thankful this Buriram expat added gravel to his temporary driveway so the Ruangsangthai building materials delivery trucks can drive close to his home building site. Mud is no friend of delivery trucks. Thank you for your support. Mr. Pichai.