Latest Update Of Our 2nd Stage Of House Building | Expat Building House In The Philippines

so I've just come up for my first look in our new uh section of the house build and uh that's our temporary wall behind us with the office and our temporary bedroom uh this is our will be verer out here on that way that's out there and we're going to leave this open here these trees are actually fairly big they provide good shade um but you won't have a view from here so I'm sort of rethinking what I was have what we were planning is uh this wall here will come out to the as you can see we've done the window so in hindsight maybe I could have just done the wall there but the window went in there before we did the wall so it was always planned to have that the full width 5.8 m I think for that room that could have been a bit smaller it wouldn't have mattered probably but anyway that's that needs to come out so this will needs to be rebuilt on the edge there once we get the new flooring in and uh pain is this will be one bedroom that was be a second bedroom there i'm actually thinking that what we could maybe do is uh this is 3.5 m have that for the depth of the bedroom and this area here is about 4.8 or 5 about 5 m that could probably do two bedrooms now there won't be big bedrooms but we don't have people currently staying um we have had his mom and brother come up and uh might have other guests coming mates from Australia might come over um so we don't have people permanently living in those bedrooms so I don't think we need to make them big so we were always planning to do like a larger one and a smaller one um and be able to house a few people in there so like a double bunk queen side you know double bed size with double bunk maybe in the big room maybe just a single bunk in the other room maybe king single something like that that's And of course it's very hot here so we want more space uh for the outdoor area and we get really nice breezes as you can see we're on we're in the hills and we get breeze coming down across here coming from that direction up this valley down here we got bridge coming through this way i'm actually thinking that we might be able to do a wall here at 3 and 1/2 m to the center oh sorry just past and actually do the rooms this way which means that we could have a possible five windows if we went this this way if we go the other way you'd only have one two three well maximum four you can do four windows one the side there that had two walls there another two walls there this should work it means only 2 m rounded there but then this one becomes our gathering area i guess is it too late to put a point in this corner yeah we might do it just in case just in case we go one day oh we want to change we'll put the lounge there well then we'd miss having one here so anywhere here okay yeah that's good if we did that then otherwise you'd have leaves going all the way here so yeah let's just put one there probably never get used but you never know it might one day yeah all right that's good bye huh bye madam it's still alive without the head you killed the snake [Music] hit my head so looks like the uh builders have pretty much finished the welding here we've bought uh 12 80 mm plywood so far the Santa Clara and and once I think seeing as most of the welding is completed now that will mean that we can also do the floors downstairs the boys on the outside here was out here continuing with this um retaining wall for the back pathway now this we're going to actually have like a breakfast bar out the on this so we'll be extended out with a bit of storage under um but the first thing is to build up this wall first and then there'll be stairs going down from somewhere here and those are the stairs going up to the second floor so good day lunchtime Friday we had uh last night I think it was about 7:00 maybe something like that power went out for like 2 hours or something um we left the air conditioner off last night and it was actually pretty good nice and cool last night just with the windows open and the fan on um today the uh the builders have started putting our floor down here in our second floor so we've actually bought uh 12 pieces of ply of the 20 or so that we need to put in so we get some more next week we'll get another six at least next week maybe we could get the eight um so as you might be able to see over there uh we're just shy of the edge see there uh so probably two more sheets will do it there but it does need something for the I'm not quite sure how the how all the plans to do the stairs stairs are going to come up uh here along the side and there'll be a an entrance here somewhere to get downstairs to the kitchen area and that that's outside so uh with these 12 pieces we have we can do the nine here and get this available to us this open area it's very nice out here nice view of course hills all around us which makes it hot in here but we do get breezes pretty well it' be great to be right on top of the hill one of these but anyway um but we do get reasonable breezes here often not all the time that's uh so the the national highway is on the other side of that mountain range down there runs north south and the sea is probably about 10 10 to 15 km that way so obviously we get seab breeze this comes up over and the river's down the bottom here so it blows up probably off the river and through all the trees here in the shade and you know we get that we get that as well yeah we just had to move my um I got power coming in i've taken it through the window there power from my small solar system that keeps the Starlink going and gives me a fan and a light when we have power blackouts which is almost every day at least every second day pretty much where you're sure to get at least one so in the final scheme of things this wall here is going to come back in line with the pole and I'm just trying to work out uh whether we do the rooms we were going to do this way or whether we do the rooms this way and uh just trying to not sure which is going to be the best it'll give us gives us pretty much the same room either way it's just that it will probably harness the breezes coming this way better if we go this other way which might be a good thing i see too the other thing they've been doing is um rendering the walls of the This is for the pantry down here so they're rendering those walls at the moment today as well looking good plenty happening [Music]