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Our Philippine House Project: Gallery of Blunders

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 03.09.10 under Our House Project

Our biggest Philippine house building blunders. We don’t want to present our project as a paragon of perfection so here we show what went wrong during our Philippine house construction project and why.

Our Philippine House Project: Windows

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 02.28.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

Windows – a key part of our Philippine house building project. We decide to build our own steel casement windows. Here’s how.

Our Philippine House Project: Rebar Splicing

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 02.28.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

What we learned about reinforcing bar splicing while building our Philippine house.

Our Philippine House Project – Spending Report

[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 02.21.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

Our Philippine house building project expense summary for first thirty days of work.

Our Philippine House Project – Septic and Drainage

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 02.17.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

Our Philippine House project – septic system and drainage.

Our house Philippine project: concrete roof and lintel beams

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 02.15.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

Our Philippine house building project: concrete roof beams. The roof beams support the large steel roof structure. Our site is especially exposed to typhoons so we want to be be sure things are done properly. Rebar splicing suggestions.

Our House Project – Welding

[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 02.10.10 under Our House Project

Building our house in the Philippines. We decided to set up our own “welding shop” on-site.Welders and welding equipment are essential for just about any Philippine construction project. Our welding equipment will be paid for in savings on the roof trusses alone.

Building our Philippine House – Index

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 02.08.10 under Our House Project

An index to posts about our house building project in Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines

Our Philippine house project: walls

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 02.04.10 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement

Our Philippine house building project. Shopping for steel. Maintaining concrete quality. Doing our own welding.

Our Philippine house project – design devolution

[ 6 Comments ] Posted on 01.31.10 under Our House Project

How the design for our Philippine retirement home evolved.

Our Philippine house project – equipment shopping

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 01.25.10 under Our House Project, Services, Shopping

Buying construction equipment in Iloilo for our house building project in Tigbauan, Iloilo – cement mixer, concrete vibrator.

Our Philippine House Project: Construction Quality – Philippines

[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.24.10 under Our House Project

Building our house in the Philippines. Some thoughts on ensuring concrete quality.

Haiti Earthquake – lessons for the Philippines?

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 01.18.10 under Our House Project

Tectonics And Poor Construction Conspired To Create Devastation In Haiti – Latimes.Com The catastrophic quake that struck Haiti on Tuesday involved a collision of lethal circumstances: a massive, shallow eruption below a densely populated city with few, if any, building codes. The magnitude 7.0 quake occurred near the boundary between two major tectonic plates, the Caribbean and [...]

Our Philippine house project: layout, footers and columns

[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 01.15.10 under Our House Project, Tigbauan, Iloilo

After months of planning and many changes we finally have our house plans completed, we have a foreman and crew and are ready to start construction next week. First step buying a cement mixer and concrete vibrator.

Landscaping: we just can’t stop planting!

[ 5 Comments ] Posted on 12.30.09 under Nature, Environment, Our House Project, Tigbauan, Iloilo

How can one see beautiful flowering plants and fruit trees for sale and not want to take some home? We could not. Here’s a tally of what we’ve planted so far on our Tigbauan, Iloilo Philippines property.

Our Philippine house project: filling our lot

[ 7 Comments ] Posted on 11.28.09 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement, Tigbauan, Iloilo

Our Philippine house building project in Tigbauan, Iloilo. Today we had 150 cubic meters of fill delivered to our lot.  This particular fill is in the area where we’ll have our garden so we were looking for top soil-like material as opposed to gravelly or stony fill.  We managed to find a fine sandy soil [...]

Our House Project: Architects and Builders

[ 5 Comments ] Posted on 11.09.09 under Our House Project

All about choosing an architect and builder for you Philippine house — our experiences and recommendations.

We build a “bahay kubo” bamboo guest house

[ 8 Comments ] Posted on 11.06.09 under Our House Project

We build a “bahay kubo” bamboo guest house in Tigbauan, Iloilo Philippines

Goggle Earth and Philippine Real Estate

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 11.05.09 under Iloilo Real Estate, Our House Project

Goggle Earth can be valuable free tool in evaluating possible real estate purchases.  After we bought our lot in Tigbauan, Iloilo and, we got a new computer, we had to see how the property looked on the fascinating, invaluable and addictive Google Earth program.  Google Earth is a free program which provides stunning aerial vistas [...]

Philippine Real Estate (Property) Taxes

[ 6 Comments ] Posted on 07.21.09 under Our House Project

Property Taxes — a welcome contrast.  When we lived on a farm in Upstate New York, our local real estate taxes were about $4,000 per year.  The annual property taxes of our Tigbauan, Iloilo property are P129.04, however since we paid them early we received a discount.  We paid P98.24 for 2009.  This is for [...]

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