Building a Home in Davao

[Tommy T.]

39 minutes ago, Jake said:

Roger that Tommy.  In reference to "masterbater".....that will cost you extra.  By the way, please muzzle your security dogs while I do my "extra blessings" in the dark, OK?  

 

Hmmm...that will cost YOU extra, Jake...so call it even?

Just tell me how many truckloads of beer I will need to order?

[OnMyWay]

6 hours ago, intrepid said:

Haha Jake,  You may be the first but surely not the last.  Of course it may take a while to get fully soaked until more lots are developed and more people arrive to do mark their spot.  Just hope it is not on the side of the dirty kitchen.

Brand new wall that needs breaking in?  I would sell tickets to the trike drivers.  p20?  There will be a long line.

[Jake]

8 hours ago, Tommy T. said:

Hmmm...that will cost YOU extra, Jake...so call it even?

Just tell me how many truckloads of beer I will need to order?

You're right about that.  You wanna shake hands and call it even?  

[Tommy T.]

6 hours ago, Jake said:

You're right about that.  You wanna shake hands and call it even?  

Shake hands before or after you bless our fence? That does make a difference...

I have a feeling that I may make the San Mig suppliers very wealthy whenever this home is complete and we celebrate the house warming.

Edited September 15, 2020 by Tommy T.

[RBM]

On 9/13/2020 at 10:02 AM, Tommy T. said:

 - and within the diminishing budget!

 

Gosh Tommy, thought the budget was endless....

Beautiful house guess your almost done....

[Tommy T.]

1 hour ago, RBM said:

Gosh Tommy, thought the budget was endless....

 

There are still some final things to do - like the gates, CRs, the kitchen cabinets and the window mozzie screens plus adjustments to the windows to make them right...

Not nearly! I wish that were so. We might have a nice house and then be sleeping on the floor!!! We still need furniture!!

Edited September 16, 2020 by Tommy T.

[Tommy T.]

Even though the project is careening toward the finish, it is reminding me of the story (which I have heard about but never read) by Michael Ende called "The Never Ending Story." S***!!!

 

[Jake]

Wow Tommy, you got 66 pages on your thread.  I didn't want to go back and review about how you installed the electrical wiring.  Can you please tell us how earth ground was connected in all of your outlets?  

[Tommy T.]

7 hours ago, Jake said:

Wow Tommy, you got 66 pages on your thread.  I didn't want to go back and review about how you installed the electrical wiring.  Can you please tell us how earth ground was connected in all of your outlets?  

It's easy, Jake... They call it a ground wire... I checked and Sparky really did install that.

But... tell you what... when you come here to drink - how many gallons of San Mig beer - then bless our fence how many times??? I will plug something in and you can hang onto it while blessing and see if you feel a buzz?Hmmm... Just don't be looking at any of the lovely ladies attending or you may not be aware of the source of the shock????...Oh... and I promise the guard dogs will be tethered or advised not to mess with Navy dudes!

Don't worry... I will have ground fault interrupters installed, so it won't be at all like the interaction with an electrical cattle wire... or will it???

Edited September 16, 2020 by Tommy T.

[Tommy T.]

So yesterday the kitchen cabinets were installed. Well... not totally. They still need to install some fascia pieces and a few other things - like some doors... But they look better than before and NO PINK!!! So we were right - not all marine ply has pink veneer. Told them so...

Today yet another team was out there installing the granite counter tops. Other work is proceeding. L made another nastygram call to the window company asking when they would finish their work? It appears the window screen guys yesterday just showed up, looked around and then left again??? WTF?

Sorry for the blurry photo. It may look a bit pink in this shot, but it really is light grey on the doors. Interiors are white.

The kitchen is small but very functional and should work fine for us. The island will be the literal center of cooking and the home itself. Of course, we have the dirty kitchen outside for more adventurous (and smelly) cooking.

The new range is in place just for locating things. I forget if I mentioned before, but it is a GasTek unit with four gas burners, gas oven and gas broiler. I am eager to put it to use!

The counter tops are also just in place for final measuring (twice) and cutting (once). We were patting each other on the back as we really like the contrast of white walls and black granite with the light grey cabinets themselves. We reckon there are lots of colours outside the windows to give us greens, reds and others from the trees and flowers (now and in the future). We have started some seedlings for a (yellow) lemon tree, date palm (really!) and L has all kinds of plants to transfer over too.

Here's the back car gate currently under construction. It is not our first choice for design, but it is what was budgeted in the contract. We can live with it, but it will need some sort of steel mesh or sheet down low to minimize critter intrusions and also around the latch area to slow down two legged critters.

And my friend Tuko yelled at me from somewhere out back...life is good!