Building our house and garage in the Philippines

Building our house and garage in the Philippines

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King Herald

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215 months

Saturday 4th August 2012
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I've also built and fitted a whole pile of gates/fences to keep the mongrel mob in check, all cut, shut, bent, rolled and welded myself, from steel bar bought locally. We could have had local guys do it, but I know they'd not turn out like I really wanted.

The five mobile burglar alarms:













I'll admit, I did take too much acid when I was young..... hehe

Edited by King Herald on Saturday 4th August 16:32

jeff m2

2,060 posts

150 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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King Herald said:
I've also built and fitted a whole pile of gates/fences to keep the mongrel mob in check, all cut, shut, bent, rolled and welded myself, from steel bar bought locally. We could have had local guys do it, but I know they'd not turn out like I really wanted.

The five mobile burglar alarms:













I'll admit, I did take too much acid when I was young..... hehe

Edited by King Herald on Saturday 4th August 16:32
Really nice job on those gates
Assume the dogs are bilingual smile

King Herald

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Sunday 5th August 2012
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jeff m2 said:
Assume the dogs are bilingual smile
You wouldn't think that if you could see the way they ignore everything I tell 'em to do. hehe

King Herald

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Sunday 23rd September 2012
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Been on a DIY binge again. The wife wanted an olde worlde style dining table, that she saw on the inter-web, so I built this one, looks fairly close to the one she liked and she is quite chuffed with it. Original was around £1000, but this cost about £70. biggrin It is made from a length of 2" angle iron, some flat bar, and two planks of construction timber, of unknown variety.







I also got round to buying a sheet of 1mm stainless to make the tops for the kitchen island. That was a real pain to bend neatly on all four edges.



Manual bending techniques re-visited, in the garage.



I then took some emery paper to it to give it a 'brushed' finish that matches the rest of our kitchen stuff.

DocJock

8,341 posts

239 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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Great DIY skills there KH biggrin

King Herald

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Sunday 23rd September 2012
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DocJock said:
Great DIY skills there KH biggrin
Thanks you sire. biggrin

Here's the piccie we stole the design from:



For some reason it looks all rusty, which might look 'trad' but would play hell when one brushed ones white smoking jacket against it.

RC1

4,096 posts

218 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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just read this all the way from the top... great stuff keep it coming!

grahamw48

9,944 posts

237 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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I too have just spent half the evening reading this. Fascinating ! smile

Good luck to you and your family...from an ex-Timog Park resident.

I also designed and had built an all-concrete house for my family, not too dissimilar to yours...including roof garden. That was back in 2001.

King Herald

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Monday 24th September 2012
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grahamw48 said:
I too have just spent half the evening reading this. Fascinating ! smile

Good luck to you and your family...from an ex-Timog Park resident.

I also designed and had built an all-concrete house for my family, not too dissimilar to yours...including roof garden. That was back in 2001.
Thanks mate. biggrin

We lived in Timog back then as well, Sunflower street, down opposite the Trilan people. biggrin We left in 2002 to move to the UK.

Whereabouts did you build the house?

grahamw48

9,944 posts

237 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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I built it in Plaridel 1.

Also had a house on Malabanias Road, where I/We had a couple of businesses.

Got divorced in 2006...after 15 years together. rolleyes

I'm glad I don't live near you though...with those barking dogs. hehe

grahamw48

9,944 posts

237 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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This was our place in Timog Park:

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King Herald

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Monday 24th September 2012
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grahamw48 said:
I'm glad I don't live near you though...with those barking dogs. hehe
We just had 7 puppies, so now we have 12 dogs.... hehe At least they'll drown out the neighbours dogs.

BartSimpson

2,769 posts

183 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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I'm in Makati most days if you want to hook up for a beer at some time mate?

King Herald

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Monday 24th September 2012
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I don't really drink any more mate, so pretty boring company. frown

Makati is a fair way from Angeles too, but if ever you are over this direction let me know and we can sort something out, find some coke and hookers. biggrin

Targarama

14,635 posts

282 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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grahamw48 said:
I built it in Plaridel 1.

Also had a house on Malabanias Road, where I/We had a couple of businesses.

Got divorced in 2006...after 15 years together. rolleyes

I'm glad I don't live near you though...with those barking dogs. hehe
Hey Graham - are you the same person as someone with the same login name on a certain other UK forum? I'm 'Trefor' over there.

King Herald

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23,501 posts

215 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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I actually got away from DIY this last break at home and did a little on the hot rod:

Slapped a quick coat of epoxy primer on, as I was sick of looking at white 'glass and filler.



Cut holes for instruments.



Dropped the body back on the chassis.



Made an adaptor and fitted the steering column and wheel. Also fitted and connected up the tranny shifter, with a stainless cover, that is still 'in progress'.



Stainless throttle cable cut and fitted, and bracket made to mount it to the carb.



Fitted a pair of 'Brooklands' screens I had laying around. not sure if they work though.





Made a complete throttle pedal and a brake pedal pad to fit the lever I made a year ago.




I also made a tensioner for the alternator and made 3 visits to the auto supply to get a belt to fit. Why can't they understand me when I tell them what size I need? Why do they think they know better than me, so on the 3rd visit I got the size I actually requested to start with???



Hopefully I can get it running and drivable when I get home next, but I just left for five weeks offshore again. frown


uk_vette

3,336 posts

203 months

Thursday 13th December 2012
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Hi KH,

Time for an update ?

or are you still off shore?

vette

King Herald

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Friday 14th December 2012
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uk_vette said:
Hi KH,

Time for an update ?

or are you still off shore?

vette
I'm at home, been here three weeks, back offshore next week. I have spent all this break on the hot rod rather than the house and I was hoping to be driving it by now, but major headaches with the brakes and transmission have cancelled that plan until next year.







We had a bit of a gathering again last night, early Xmas party, as I will be offshore for Xmas and New Year this year. The pizza furnace oven was fired up again....



I had to sedate the dogs to get them in the oven ready for cooking.










Actually Cupcake sleeps in the lower oven at nights, and the others are only sleeping in the pics. Dogs do snooze in some strange positions.

biggrin




Edited by King Herald on Friday 14th December 08:41

Kneetrembler

2,069 posts

201 months

Sunday 16th December 2012
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We do hope that you and your family are O.K. and well after the big Typhoon swept through ?

King Herald

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Sunday 16th December 2012
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Yes mate, that was down south, thanks. Missed us completly. thumbup