[ No Comments ] Posted on 02.08.10 under Our House Project, Uncategorized
An index to posts about our house building project in Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines
[ No Comments ] Posted on 02.04.10 under Our House Project
Our Philippine house building project. Shopping for steel. Maintaining concrete quality. Doing our own welding.
[ 3 Comments ] Posted on 01.31.10 under Our House Project
How the design for our Philippine retirement home evolved.
[ 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.
[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.24.10 under Our House Project
Building our house in the Philippines. Some thoughts on ensuring concrete quality.
[ 1 Comment ] 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 [...]
[ 6 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.
[ 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.
[ 6 Comments ] Posted on 11.28.09 under Our House Project, Philippine Retirement, Tigbauan, Iloilo
Our 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 which [...]
[ 4 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.
[ 5 Comments ] Posted on 11.06.09 under Our House Project
We build a “bahay kubo” bamboo guest house in Tigbauan, Iloilo Philippines
[ 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 [...]
[ 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 [...]
[ 5 Comments ] Posted on 07.16.09 under Our House Project
How to dig a water well in the Philippines – problems, digging techniques, digging tools, depth, well tiles, cost of digging a water well.
[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 07.11.09 under Our House Project
The Malunggay tree is a fixture found in just about every Philippine yard. The nutritious leaves are used in soups and other dishes. I especially like them in monggo soup, so of course we wanted our own supply of Malunggay. One kindly lady at a plant nursery gave me a tiny little Malunggay plant. My [...]
[ 20 Comments ] Posted on 01.18.09 under Our House Project
Detailed description of building a hollow block (concrete block) perimeter wall in the Philippines – supervision, hiring workers, buying materials, problems and successes.
[ 18 Comments ] Posted on 01.10.09 under Our House Project
Shopping for cement blocks (called hollow block) in the Philippines is certainly not a top pick adventure story but anyway, perhaps someone will benefit from our experiences. Really, this is one chapter in the building of our Philippine house in Tigbauan, Iloilo. We’re fencing the lot we bought in Tigbauan with a cement block wall. Why? [...]
[ 4 Comments ] Posted on 01.09.09 under Our House Project, Tigbauan, Iloilo
All about Internet service options in Tigbauan, Iloio and on the “SmartBro” wireless Internet available from Smart Telecom.
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 09.15.08 under Our House Project
These are snapshots of other tropical houses, tropical house details and so forth to help us define the design of the retirement house we plan to build on our Tigbauan, Iloilo land. They are an unorganized hodgepodge of things we’ve seen, things which caught our eye. Maybe something here will be an inspiration to your [...]
[ No Comments ] Posted on 09.09.08 under Iloilo Real Estate, Our House Project, Philippine Retirement
Most Philippine cities have drainage systems of some kind. You will not see separate storm water and waste water (sewerage) systems. Wastewater freely mixes with the stormwater. In practice this is not as bad as it sounds as the volume of storm water is large and may well flush out the drainage system and its [...]