Building our house and garage in the Philippines
Discussion
Hi KH,
I have been following your build for ever.
I like almost every thing that has gone into making your house a great place to live.
If I could have had one thing different, I would have mellowed the arches in the inside rooms.
The arches from one room to the other doesn't quite do it for me.
I know it wasn't your choice, and "her indoors" slapped them up when you were out earning.
Apart from that, I like very much.
And when is the house warming and BBQ and beer time out the back?
vette
I have been following your build for ever.
I like almost every thing that has gone into making your house a great place to live.
If I could have had one thing different, I would have mellowed the arches in the inside rooms.
The arches from one room to the other doesn't quite do it for me.
I know it wasn't your choice, and "her indoors" slapped them up when you were out earning.
Apart from that, I like very much.
And when is the house warming and BBQ and beer time out the back?
vette
uk_vette said:
Hi KH,
I have been following your build for ever.
I like almost every thing that has gone into making your house a great place to live.
If I could have had one thing different, I would have mellowed the arches in the inside rooms.
The arches from one room to the other doesn't quite do it for me.
I know it wasn't your choice, and "her indoors" slapped them up when you were out earning.
Apart from that, I like very much.
And when is the house warming and BBQ and beer time out the back?
vette
I'm quite fond of the arches, but I can see they are a little radical compared to the average maison. I have been following your build for ever.
I like almost every thing that has gone into making your house a great place to live.
If I could have had one thing different, I would have mellowed the arches in the inside rooms.
The arches from one room to the other doesn't quite do it for me.
I know it wasn't your choice, and "her indoors" slapped them up when you were out earning.
Apart from that, I like very much.
And when is the house warming and BBQ and beer time out the back?
vette
We've been in the house two months now, but there is still so much work going on we've not had any real sort of a house warming or moving in party yet. I'll be sure to let you all know when it does happen though.
Streetrod said:
King Herald, a bit off topic here but what is the Hotrod community like in the Philippines and are there restrictions on you building another Rod?
I'm 3/4 through building this, but haven't touched it since December. Very frustrating, as I have a bunch of shiny bits that need fitting, when I get all my house building chores done. I've yet to test the waters with registering a home-built car, but I'm sure there are ways and means to get almost anything registered, if you can hook up with the right people.
There is a guy here building a small batch of '32 Ford roadsters, for export to Australia, each one has a blown 350 motor. I keep meaning to get some pics of them.
Here is me welding up the front railings. Most of the electrical hardware junk in the background will go when we get proper power hooked up:
Finished job:
Swimming pool is coming along, only 2.5m x 4, a 1.2 deep, but big enough to have fun in, on those hot sunny days:
My pantry is now fully loaded, but still awaiting doors:
And I celebrated my 52 birthday there last Monday. Wife and daughter made me a suitable hot rod cake:
Finished job:
Swimming pool is coming along, only 2.5m x 4, a 1.2 deep, but big enough to have fun in, on those hot sunny days:
My pantry is now fully loaded, but still awaiting doors:
And I celebrated my 52 birthday there last Monday.
Wife and daughter made me a suitable hot rod cake:
I did a bit of 'guy stuff' in the garage a couple of weeks ago, to try and pretend it was my personal workshop rather than a materials storage station for the house...
Some tool boards and a Harley picture went up. Where the 30 sacks of cement currently reside will eventually be a man size solidly built workbench, with top made from 6 x 2s and a big heavy man size vice on.
Under the sheet is the workbench I built in the PI over 15 years ago. It was been shipped half way across the world to England, where it resided in my various garages, and has now been shipped all the way back to the Philippines again, where it will resume its career as a dedicated drill bench. (If benches could talk, it would have some stories)
It is actually in the process of drilling some steel for the front railings, in the pic. 22 16mm holes in 10mm steel strip.
Some tool boards and a Harley picture went up. Where the 30 sacks of cement currently reside will eventually be a man size solidly built workbench, with top made from 6 x 2s and a big heavy man size vice on.
Under the sheet is the workbench I built in the PI over 15 years ago. It was been shipped half way across the world to England, where it resided in my various garages, and has now been shipped all the way back to the Philippines again, where it will resume its career as a dedicated drill bench.
(If benches could talk, it would have some stories)It is actually in the process of drilling some steel for the front railings, in the pic. 22 16mm holes in 10mm steel strip.
johnnywgk said:
Eh Hem bump, sorry got a frog in my throat
I arrived home a couple of days ago, but the pool is still not finished. The Mrs has been building some sort of weird barbeque 'station' with a brick built pizza oven integrated......Not really a lot been going on with the house, just had the guys finishing off the wife's oddball stair design and a few other details.
Not to everybody taste, but it looks quite cute in the flesh.
I built a workbench in the garage today, out of 3/4" marine ply. Doors will be made tomorrow. it has 3 layers for the top, and needs a couple of inches taking off the back board so it fits under the tool boards. And it might gain some blue paint too, daughters favourite colour.
There is my old faithful workbench, that has crossed the oceans 'twixt UK and Philippines twice with me. I built it about 15 years ago.
And there's a new toy lurking there, that arrived a few days ago.
Edited by King Herald on Wednesday 25th April 14:18
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