A lot of time has passed but we are still stuck in Thai burocracy. A local guy in the village refuses to stick to the law for years now. We went there for an explanation but did not get one. He also keeps making new rules we should stick too At the same time, we […]
Drone shots
01/01/2015
We just received some drone shots from our property and it makes it easier to understand and see our location:
This one covers our land more or less. On the bottom right you can see the little red and white flags we put along the border. THe road will be extended a bit more for us. Esier acces to the house and workshop. Unfortunately our most beautiful tree (and thos of the neighbours, were all eaten empty. No green leaves for a while...Well we got some butterflies in return. 🙂
Here is the bigger picture:
It clearly shows how we are surrounded by the jungle. Behind the mountain (right top) is another little river. All the way on the left side is the other river with bridge. The houses there are all located next to the water.
Measuring
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In December we thought the building permit would be there soon....We started measuring the foundation of the house. Interesting because the whole design was based on a map we got earlier and turned out to be larger than it was for real. So the house did not fit and we will need to shrink the […]
Update May 2019
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Finally a little good news: Golf and team have been making our electricity and sanitary designs and delivered the first version. It took 1.5 year but we are glad we get some motion forward. At the same time we got a quote for the 'raw' build, meaning foundation, roof and walls, which will already eat […]
Building permit
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We finally got news that our building permit is available in the first week of April. We are getting closer to our start of building, now planned for November.
Land survey done
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The Land Office did a land survey and placed 'official' land markers on our property. Hopefully this will lead to an offical 'Chanotte' paper.One more important step done.
Update Jan 2018
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Sinds there is a 'witch' hunt going on for people building in nature areas, encroaching forest areas, we went to the land office to check if we are OK. Everything seemed just ok but just. So we are now aiming for the highest level of ownership papers "Chanotte" and hope they will not destroy our […]
Drone shots
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We just received some drone shots from our property and it makes it easier to understand and see our location: This one covers our land more or less. On the bottom right you can see the little red and white flags we put along the border. THe road will be extended a bit more […]
Looking for trees
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We want a lot more trees on our land to give shade in the hot season so we went to Mae On for some research:
Google satellites
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Google made an update to their satellite images in Google maps. Now clearly showing our fresh earth fill:(under the blue marker UPDATE: Google has renewed the sattelite image, it now includes our green land and the neighbourse buildings. It must be less than a year old . Bit higher resolution too. Our co-ordinates: 18.777922, 98.860043 […]