Renovating an old house into a cafe 🥨💖

8 days ago

Hello friends, today we continue from renovating an old house to make it look new. Today I have many pictures. Do you want to see them? With my work, I arrived at this house, located on the road in front of Wat Pa Mak, which is the name of my village. When I arrived before noon, I started mixing cement to continue installing the tiles from yesterday. I worked slowly and carefully. Construction work is easy for some people, but it was difficult for me. Because it is not my forte. This is the first time I have tiled, so it is very slow for a professional. Bathroom tiles At first, I thought I would continue tiling the bathroom from yesterday, but when I arrived, I mixed cement to install the toilet. I used a tape measure and a level to be sure. So I measured the level. Then I set up the toilet to test it first. When it was in the right place, I mixed cement, sand, and used water to help. Then I mixed it together and set up the toilet and measured the level of Phu Wiang. When it was in the right place, it was done.

The toilet installation is not yet complete because I haven't installed any toilet accessories yet. I just set up the toilet using cement as a base to hold it in place. The next activity is about construction. I put water in a bucket to clean the tiles on the floor.
Then, after cleaning was finished yesterday,
I continued to install the tiles because there were many more tiles to be installed on the walls.

Installing tiles on the wall is not easy for me because I need to use details about measuring the tiles to be accurate in order to install them. I use a cutter to cut the tiles to the exact size. Then I get the tiles according to the measurement. I use tile adhesive and apply it only where the tiles are attached. When I think I have applied it as desired, I install the tiles. And test that the tiles will not fall off. Use the cement according to the size or more than the specified size.

Start by using a tile cutter. Of course, when cutting tiles, I need help, which is glasses, in case bits of tile fly in. Glasses help a lot. And there's also dust from cutting tiles, which really bothers me. Yesterday, I thought I'd bring a nose mask today, but in the end I forgot. But it's okay, I have to continue tomorrow.

When the bathroom floor tiles were finished, before lunch break, I used the leftover cement on the drainpipe behind the house. This was an economical use of cement and I didn’t want to throw it away.
The weather at noon was very hot. The sky was overcast and it looked like it was going to rain. There was thunder, but the sunlight was very strong. At noon today, I decided to go to work in the sun so that the work would go smoothly.
I blocked 2 drainpipes, but I still had to dig 2 more drainage holes and make a drainage system. This had to be put off for now. I went back to work in the house. In the afternoon, after lunch break, I went to eat at the garden house. When I arrived, I continued the construction work.

I decided to extinguish the bricks as a sofa in front of the shop. But there was a little obstacle. The bar counter for customers in front had to extinguish the bricks and pour the cement meticulously. In order to place the bricks that will be used as the base, extinguishing the spirits required another tool to help indicate the extinguishing, which was various construction equipment. I was very lucky because I had almost all the equipment related to the construction. There were still many things that I hadn't done for this house yet, which I should have stopped for now. As for today, I have to say goodbye

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