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The floors are laid a little rough, as the whole house will be tiled and they use 1" of cement to lay the tiles dead flat and square.

I can't beleive just how much steel goes into this house. We live in an earthquake zone and there is an active volcano ten miles way, Pinatubo.

Once the garage walls were done they started on the house

We have several arches in the design, this is how they get the basic shape.

They did down to solid bed soil, dig out 1 metre squares, lay steel and 0.5 metres of concrete. there are 12 of these for the main house support columns

Progress is made.

Note the safety equipment

The steel goes into the footings, ready for concrete.

Footings are being dug for my 6 x 8 garage

A 2.5 metre security wall was built around three sides

We bought 300square metres of land.

We build a house and garage in the Philippines.

We're building a house, and the roof is to be tile-effect steel sheeting on an angle iron truss steel frame. I'd like to line it out with 3/8" plywood sheet, varnished and made to look pretty, as it will be used for living space/tv room/bedrooms maybe. So, any suggestions how to do it...

How about pulling the boards up either side and putting a batten in through them? Or are they trapped too? Just curious, but just how did this floorboard become too short?

If you dig a hole as deep as you reckon you'll want your soakaway, then toss a couple of buckets of water in it. If the water sits there for an hour then you need to go deeper, until you get through any clay you're digging into. Or so I read on some other building forum a while back. It...

So, if it is HIS office and he expects nobody else to come into it, why would he need disabled facilities, apart from to appease the lentil weaving, tree hugging, nanny state beaurocrats in Brussels? If it were a public building office with various members of the great unwashed passing...