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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:31 pm
I've done it twice. Need sangkat approval. Neighbours can't shut you down unless you do something weird. You just need to promise workers won't work from 11-1 because of siesta time and stuff like that. Otherwise need their permission for obvious stuff like using their drainage and so on.
I got shut down a few times for various reasons, very inconvenient, especially when the Sangkat chief didn't show up for our meetings so the delays got blown out even longer. Had to pay my downstairs neighbours for some damage/cracks caused by vibrations/demo work and their "hurt feelings". But since I moved in we have made up and have great relations now. I would never have believed it then.
My tip to a barang doing renovations is never ever go to Sangkat, have it all done by a Khmer (i.e. your partner/wife/nominee).
You must walk in traffic to cross the road - Cambodian proverb
