MsDozer’sCorner

About How did is all get started? Let me reflect. Ms Dozer has always been good with construction. Her father is a building foreman and she had been around construction before. During the coolthaihouse project itself, she was good at pointing out and noticing things which were amiss in other building projects, for example corner cutting, sloppy workmanship, wrong materials, inexperienced workman. She would say ‘look at that’, at point something out. And normally she was right. Then an acquaintance was doing some small house builds and the Ms. said, ‘I’d like to do that’. And so after that we (Dozer and Ms Dozer) started collaborating on various projects when the opportunity arose. It has been small and specific builds for friends up until about the building of a couple of small spec homes. Continue reading..

New Construction New Construction Ms. Dozer was building some smaller entry level houses not far from Tesco South in South Pattaya. What they are not: poorly constructed boxy looking dwellings with every single material in the house guaranteed to be the cheapest possible. The concept started out as, gee, after all, a lot of effort goes into building a house anyway (even an entry level one), what if the building budget was actually upped a bit to a higher standard. Even though you can get a luxury expensive pre-built house that has been corner cut to the point of no return, the odds are in your favor that the 11m baht house has a higher standard than Continue reading..

Renovations This featured renovation started with ugly green and blue carpets in the bedrooms, dark dingy tile and a failing textured paint job. The paint was stripped off to the bare wall, the floor re tiled, and synthetic wood flooring was laid in the bedrooms. The result was a highly livable space for not much investment. See more pictures of the project here Krisida Condo Remodel

This just goes to show it isn’t how much money you throw at a project that makes the ultimate difference in the results, it is being able to visualize the changes you want to make and then putting in place the resources and materials to accomplish the job right the first time.

Chak Nork Land Update Land near the Chak Nork reservoir. The lower land plots as mentioned in a previous article on Chak Nork land have been sold. There are a number of high end properties going in on the plots. The common saying is, ‘if you can’t buy a sea view, buy a lake view’, what is even better is a ‘lake, city and ocean view’. There are some remaining plots above the initial sections which are very desirable. Although they are not in the budget category, they are very reasonably priced from 5,500 per TW. There are a collection of pictures in the album here: Chak Nork Land Album. It shows the land itself, views and the area…….

Build to Order The idea of building your own house may seem a bit intimidating at first, but it may be well worth the trouble. First off, you can design it as you want and tweak the layout until you end up with something really desirable. But what about the cost? How to budget? When talking about the ultimate price of a house there are umpteen variations which off course will all impact the ultimate price that you pay. Sometimes we just want to get kind of a ball park idea prior to launching into the investigation phase. Continue reading..