It comes to 114, 209 baht (I like the 9 baht). Some items seem perfectly reasonable -- the kitchen counter is cheap at about 5,000 baht, and the wiring is a snip at 4,000 -- but there's 10,000 baht for an undercoat of see tong poon gau, meaning some sort of primer for old plaster, except the plaster isn't very old, plus 25,000 to paint the place on top of that, which strikes me as fierce. Plus a larger wodge for the third-floor walls and floors than seems entirely reasonable. At any rate, on top of the total he'd then take 15 per cent for 'overhead', which comes to another 17,000 or so, so all in all 131,340 baht.
That's a good 50,000 more than Chang Nek wants for the entire job.
On second thoughts, Chang Nek is a very nice man, and if he looks as though he has a grievance, he no doubt has a very good reason for it. The challenge is to go and supervise him every day since he's reportedly in the habit of absconding and has no idea how to build things. But you pays your money, you makes your choice. Enough dithering.
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