A pictorial of Dave's Surigao City, Mindanao building experience.
Browse through the pictures and get a sense of what the entire process of building a house in the Philippine entails.

Over on the Yahoo group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/achouseproject/ ) Dave
was kind enough to share his building experience with the others. He documented
all expenses with an EXCEL spreadsheet, and the building process through photos.

He has been kind of enough to give me permission to post his work here.

The house is located in Surigao City, Mindanao and final cost was 2.6 million pesos
(land, permits, fees, labor, and material). Which I think is very reasonable.

I have converted his EXCEL spreadsheet in to a PDF ( 70 K ),
which you can download/open it here: Building expenses

You can download the original at the Yahoo group FILE section.

Enjoy the following pictures

Artist's Rendition of proposed house

Old house demolished.

Scaffolding in place

Pouring the "posts".

Getting ready for the "beams"

Concrete hollow blocks (CHB) in place for walls.

Second floor prepared for a concrete pour.

Pouring the second floor.

The walls go up for second floor.

Notice the concrete "posts & beams".

Starting the installation of the roof.

Exterior walls nearing completion.

Exterior walls have been "rendered".

Painting has been started. Fence also started.

Progress on painting and the fence.

Painting complete.

Fence almost complete.

Painting the fence.

Finished. All exterior construction done.

View to the ocean.

Elevations

Ground floor plan.

Second story floor plan.

Once again the Artist's rendition

All photos used with permission of owner.