Doors and door frames
ok door frames are shite here, but what do you expect for 500baht, now these can be clad with a nice hard wood surround and they can look quite good, but your still using a door frame that basically looks like shite, are you willing to pay more money to make it look good? think about it when you deal with your contractor, are you willing to spend that extra 400baht to have it nicely sanded down? will that take you over budget?
generally most farangs expect wood products to be in a good state when they buy them, sadly its not true, in thailand the wood products are basically in a very bad state.
the doors here havent been seasoned, so buy them at the beginning of your house building and store them.
Now you can buy a nice hardwood door for about 2,500baht, yes ok teak goes up to 8,000baht per door but most of the cheap bastards on the net dont go for teak.
Here is a pic of some teak doors we bought in Chang Mai, 13,000baht for the pair but they were actually seasoned, well either that or old stock, they both still needed 2 days worth of sanding down though to get them up to scratch so to speak.
So now we are thinking of fittings, well all that brass shite looks good for about a month, then it discolors and scratches, so we learn that we really should go with stainless stuff, also most thais use 4 inch hinges, now these look massive on a normal door. so tell erm to use 3 and a half inch hinges and put more on, 4 hinges on a door is ok...
Come and have a look at our great forum
generally most farangs expect wood products to be in a good state when they buy them, sadly its not true, in thailand the wood products are basically in a very bad state.
the doors here havent been seasoned, so buy them at the beginning of your house building and store them.
Now you can buy a nice hardwood door for about 2,500baht, yes ok teak goes up to 8,000baht per door but most of the cheap bastards on the net dont go for teak.
Here is a pic of some teak doors we bought in Chang Mai, 13,000baht for the pair but they were actually seasoned, well either that or old stock, they both still needed 2 days worth of sanding down though to get them up to scratch so to speak.
So now we are thinking of fittings, well all that brass shite looks good for about a month, then it discolors and scratches, so we learn that we really should go with stainless stuff, also most thais use 4 inch hinges, now these look massive on a normal door. so tell erm to use 3 and a half inch hinges and put more on, 4 hinges on a door is ok...
Come and have a look at our great forum
posted by The Pattaya Chef at 1:44 AM
3 Comments:
Awesome...Dirty Dog finally has some webspace of his own that I can abuse.
No good luck with it, looks good though the way that you're using it so far would suggest that it would be better to configure it so that the first post appears at the top rather than at the bottom as it's not so much a diary than a practical guide to building in Thailand.
Also change the template...it looks foking horrible.
This site would probably be good as a brief series of entries and finally closed off and not added to when you have a comprehensive guide.
Can we have some pictures of some BGs on the red carpet please?
MDMA, you need to take more vitamin B mate
ldma, i have come to realise that the blog aint giving me enough space, so im gonna upload it to one of my domains, well in the next few weeks :) hell dont rush me.
annonymous
thats actually a wipe ur feet floor mat, i really feel that the owner of the houses would not feel very happy with me if i go traipsing in there with some half naked bargals.
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