Hot Resale At The Golden Tulip - Foreign Quota

[brutox]

53 minutes ago, Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen said:

Top with glass is now in place, but small details still neeed to bed fixed

Ahhh, yes, the 'grande porte-cochere' .. the portico .. this one is more form before function, dreamed-up by an architect, or developer who never used or maintained one .. glass? .. really?

The glass canopy will over little time gather dust and debris, which is probably not simply rinsed off with a hose, but needs to be scrubbed off .. cleaning the glass canopy will be a maintenance headache .. cleaning the backside of the glass canopy, up against the adjoining building where a ladder/scaffold cannot get to it, will take either a bit of magic, or trained monkeys.

My guess is that cleaning this gets deleted from routine maintenance by the property manager.

Sadly, the portico is the front door of the project, creating the all-important 'sense of arrival' a properly planned property should create to make a good impression to arriving and departing guests and residents .. done poorly, however, that front door makes the very bad first and last impression to the project to walk-ins.

I see this idea as decidedly poor .. arriving by car, visitors will drive past the portico into the project .. arriving on foot, visitors might already be wet (from rain, or with sweat), so cover from the weather for the last 40 metres they walk into the property really makes little difference .. except that it will probably be dirty, as diligent as Thai property management typically is.

 

[typhoon42]

Also, wouldn’t it get very hot under the glass canopy.  Like the greenhouse effect.

[brutox]

2 hours ago, typhoon42 said:

Also, wouldn’t it get very hot under the glass canopy.  Like the greenhouse effect.

Hah! .. yeah, I thought of that too, typhoon42, I really did .. I did not mention it, assuming that no one .. I mean noooooo one .. could be so stupid as to enclose the entire length of the portico in glass, top-to-bottom, to create a solar oven hot enough to char a whole porker in 40 metres!

My experience in property development and investment here tells me that the Thai mentality might be to leave the bottom open .. maybe not for design reasons, but for cost saving reasons .. sort of doing the right thing, but for the wrong reason.

If they went low-cost/low-quality on the canopy material, the inexpensive polymer material this can be will not wear well under the intense radiation at this low latitude .. it will wear for a few years before it starts breaking down, discoloring, and becoming brittle .. the developer will be long gone by then, and the residents will have to put up the capital investment to replace it.

Think of the amenities on which the developer could have spent that same money, that tenants would have actually used .. pool cabanas .. properly landscaped rooftop garden .. quality fitness center equipment.

This is but one among hundreds of judgement calls, large and small, made by the developer when programming elements to be included in the project .. not just about the elements usefulness, but durability and ongoing maintenance and operating expenses.

 

Edited April 28, 2019 by brutox

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

Still working on entrance, and more kitchen elemets arrive

[southsidebruce]

amazing - pass by this not often now (used to do it daily) looks like this monstrosity of a condo build on Bukhao Soi 15 - appears like it just might get completed... my total and uneducated guess - completely finished the build inside and out - 6 months from today... 

[wido]

On 29/04/2019 at 05:45, southsidebruce said:

amazing - pass by this not often now (used to do it daily) looks like this monstrosity of a condo build on Bukhao Soi 15 - appears like it just might get completed... my total and uneducated guess - completely finished the build inside and out - 6 months from today... 

If they find workers for finishing. On the floor banner at the entrance they are looking for workers. For electricity, ceilings, water, painting ... 

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

Bom has been established and more material for entrance arrive.

From inspection until we can get the key will be about 1 month. That is the time they will need to fix problems you find. When you get the key you will also get the chanote. That is what as I was told yesterday.

They still need a lot of details, so I dont think everything will be finish before the end of this yeay. But it´s only my guess.

 

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

They have startet to place cover for aircon. Remark some of them are vertical and some are horizontal.  I don´t know if it´s randomly but I have asked for horizontal and that was acceptet.

They have startet to repaint the wall at entrance.

[wido]

17 hours ago, Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen said:

Bom has been established and more material for entrance arrive.

From inspection until we can get the key will be about 1 month. That is the time they will need to fix problems you find. When you get the key you will also get the chanote. That is what as I was told yesterday.

They still need a lot of details, so I dont think everything will be finish before the end of this yeay. But it´s only my guess.

 

Only building A maybe. Not the other buildings. A real estate agence told me for buildig C maybe end of october. 

[talung66]

what the chance of any rentals available in mid july

[ZRHuser]

27 minutes ago, talung66 said:

what the chance of any rentals available in mid july

I would stay away till they are finished, otherwise your short time may be disturbed by workers doing some fixing or guarantie work. 

[striderman]

5 hours ago, talung66 said:

what the chance of any rentals available in mid july

somewhere south of zero

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

20 hours ago, striderman said:

somewhere south of zero

I will be almost zero. Even in Building A there still need a lot to be done

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

Preparing for more/new green.

I think builing A as the first will be ready in about two month. But it´s only my guess. The last Building will proberly not be finished before the end of the year.

They are still looking for workers.

[Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen]

New green at sliders.

System for Water protection for garage.  They can baricade entance.so no/or only Little Water can come to garage.

Preparing for new green

Truck with elements for furniture. They  arrive almost every day

Still working at the entrance.

This will be my last update, as I am leaving Thailand for this time

[wido]

2 hours ago, Henrik Bejstrup Nielsen said:

System for Water protection for garage.  They can baricade entance.so no/or only Little Water can come to garage.

Preparing for new green

Truck with elements for furniture. They  arrive almost every day

Still working at the entrance.

This will be my last update, as I am leaving Thailand for this time

Thanks for the pics, i asked the management what they will do with the small balcony outside the bed room of some condo. I did a proposition for artificial green but haven't got an answer. They only said: good question.

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by wido

[The Danimal]

Can't wait to see how the May inspections go....anyone here have one set?...I am June 17.

[Swinga]

Maybe they can put plastic trees[emoji120][emoji1787]

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[wido]

8 hours ago, Swinga said:

Maybe they can put plastic trees

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They answered now, the project management has noting provided. After hand over the unit you can do it by youself.

If i do nothing it will be a dirty seight out of the window of the bed room. Some one a serious sugestion?

[ocka]

I would suggest get a curved planter box that will sit just below the line of the window,  then grow some plants there.  You could water them with a spray wand via the open window.  Should look pretty good, like a tiny garden when they get established.

[striderman]

they seem to have made much more of an effort to make the more visible units facing inwards look better than those on the outside.................

yesterday, a block facing the direction of buakaow

the only thing that has appeared to have changed is the rail has been added to the balcony glass

 

with regard to storm water surge.......................there has been a prison work detail trying to clear debris etc from the main drain in Soi 15 all week.

Edited May 9, 2019 by striderman

[likeaking]

6 hours ago, ocka said:

I would suggest get a curved planter box that will sit just below the line of the window,  then grow some plants there.  You could water them with a spray wand via the open window.  Should look pretty good, like a tiny garden when they get established.

The weight of the wet soil and what the constant moisture will do to the building should be considered. You may have to get permission from the juristic person/condo rules to put something on a ledge without a rail or outside a rail. 

Edited May 9, 2019 by likeaking

[The Danimal]

10 hours ago, wido said:

They answered now, the project management has noting provided. After hand over the unit you can do it by youself.

If i do nothing it will be a dirty seight out of the window of the bed room. Some one a serious sugestion?

Honestly...just put some fake greenery...low cost..no maintenance...looks good and no damage to building

[usexpat46]

5 hours ago, striderman said:

there has been a prison work detail trying to clear debris etc from the main drain in Soi 15 all week.

I thought I saw Luke when I passed by the other day.

[ocka]

40 minutes ago, The Danimal said:

Honestly...just put some fake greenery...low cost..no maintenance...looks good and no damage to building

True,  you can get some very realistic-looking fake plants.  All you would need to do is rinse the dust off them now and then. 

That's probably a better solution for someone who is not a full time resident.   Real plants would die every time they went back to their home country.

You'd have to find some way to anchor them to the ledge so they didn't blow away in high winds.