the crew which cut some more floor tile for two of the other walls. They also chiseled the hole in the concrete floor for the toilet drain line. I was amazed as the concrete floor is about six inches thick with 3/8" re-bar rod in it. If I had known that the floor was that strong I would not have worried about putting the cinder block walls up.
I did need to have a discussion with the man putting in the piping as he wanted to run the drain for the bathroom sink with a short 90 degree elbow instead of laying put the drain at a 45 degree angle. The 90 degree elbow would have made it impossible to clean out with a snake in the futur
e. It was nice to have the extra two men in the crew today but two more in the crew ment two more to check on. The saying: "You get what you inspect and not what you expect." is a true statement here with the workers in the "Land of Smiles".
I will also say that the crew that has been working here the last few days now work a little cleaner and are starting to clean up after themselves. Now the two new guys are really dirty workers!
Salad, Daeng and I went to the
tile distributor today and bought the tile for the bathroom floor, walls, kitchen cabinets and back splash. That cost was 6036 THB ($189 USD). The tile place will deliver tomorrow. We will have to give Salad 10,000 THB tomorrow for the men and more materials.
We are getting into the big money now with the new kitchen, bathroom and walls:
Original Deposit 10,000 THB
Fixtures, Sinks and Toilets 9475 THB
Tile Today 6036 THB
Payment Tomorrow 10,000 THB
Total on this project 35,511 THB That is about $1,110 United States Dollars.
I have spent a few hundred Thai Baht that still hasn't been written in the expense ledger we're keeping for the new place.
Oh well, it's only money!
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