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thank you very much for everyone's input.

We already issued letters to both, the management as well as the committee.

We set a deadline to respond back to us. if they don't respond on time we will walk into the main management branch.

We also already found out an engineers company who can look into this issue, price will be around 6000 baht.

maybe one more pic from all the building.

the biggest window on the top is the one which can be seen from inside in the very first pic in the first post of mine...

Thank you both Riley and Khun Jean for your input.

Actually the beam that is shown in the window is just some architectural decoration.

And yes, the crack is wider at the top.

The situation from outside is like that:

From outside there can be clearly seen another crack going from the left to the right hand side, a few meters below the big window.

Here in higher resolution:

http://www.allsiam.net/imagehostallsiam/images/325bangkok_6374.jpg

Does this give reason to be conerned?

If you have an apartment in Bangkok and have spent 5 Months there you are hardly a tourist. Try that in any western country with tourist visa rules and you would be denied also.

at least in the European Union it is possible to buy property (including land of course) and therefore get a permit of stay. It is starting from Euro 70,000 ( less than 3 million baht) and enables you to stay in any Schengen country.

So what you want to say, that buying property does not make it possible to stay in the Western country you want to stay, is simply wrong. Probably it's not possible for all Western countries but for many.

I also don't see where the difference is between someone who is 51 with enough money and want to stay permanently in Thailand and the one who is 41 with enough money and want to stay permanently in Thailand.

I guess the "wind blow direction adjusters" of course affect the wind blow a little bit. Therefore the outside unit of the air conditioner sucks in air that is a lot cooler compensating the little lower windspeed by far. We can really feel a huge difference in temperature on the balcony now whilst the air-conditioner is operated.

For our problem we found a semi-professional solution:

These wind blow direction adjusters cost 1000 Baht incl. work to mount it and they are really effective...

Of course on our other unit I ordered the aircon company against all advice's from khon thai to position the outside unit in the right way:

Thailand is always worried to loose face - but actually they do everything to loose it - they make sure to loose it every day again...

If I bought a yacht in Phuket. Fixed it and sold it 

there is no report that in this case yachts were bought, fixed and sold... so what are you talking about. 

few saying now this case does not even has anything to do with these yachts but with overstay...

who knows? as TiT you can not even trust the local news to be correct...

Thats really ridiculous. 

If something you do for yourself on your own ground is declared illegal then really everything can be interpreted as working illegal, even going shopping. 

so, tomross, you wanna say he fought for freedom first just only to try to install another system of oppression later?

For me as a foreigner it's a good decision to borrow money. The more money they borrow the better.

Why?

Easy, it will weaken the Thai Baht.

Why would Thailand give this commie bastard sanctuary?

Thailand not only gave sanctuary to this quite unknown bastard but also to Pol Pot.

Therefore Thailand not even grant UN-refugee status to these poor north koreans who make it through China and Laos to Thailand.

What a shame...

If he loved communism so much then why didnt he go to North Korea? Or at least Laos or Vietnam? Why do all these communist fighters - if possible - prefer to settle down in non-communist countries?

...to protect innocent people...

What are hypocritical behavior…

I know a rich Syrian family staying right now in Thailand and of course they don't want to go back to Syria at the moment.

But no matter how much money they can show Thailand doesn't care at all about the well-being and denies any new visa to them. Only chance to get a new tourist visa for them would be to go back to the home country and ask for new visa in Damascus.

At least if someone can show enough money they should let refugees stay.

Thank you for everybody's input.

Chaichara, I know all this and we provided information in Thai language to the staff and the management.

But how to educate the ignorant who don't want to be educated?

images of students doing the dirty

doing the dirty? oh my god... this country is beyond words. my granny is 85 but more modern/open minded, call it as you want...

You might just 'shock' the pool sometime after sunset after the staff and management have gone home instead of scrubbing the algae on the tiles:

http://www.zodiacpoolsystems.com/Media/Pool-Articles/How-to-fix-a-Green-Swimming-Pool.aspx

I know what you mean. But does that help if there's a grown clearly visible layer of algae on the tiles already?

It also says "Also, keep the pool filter and pump running for at least 10 hours during and after you shock." I do not really have control over the pumps...

maybe I try to order my girlfriend's nephew from time to time to come here after the "management" went home. They can't deny access to him and he need some pocket money… But, as he is a Thai, he does not really see where and what to work and at least I would have to order him every single step for what to do/to clean.

We asked the management if we can order a pool cleaning company, we would even pay for it.

They told us they would not allow such a company to clean the pool. They say the maintenance staff is doing the job very well.

They simply don't get it, you can print even out a description in Thai language how to maintain a swimming pool. They say okay okay okay, we do we do we do. But they do not change anything, the algae grow as always before and the maintenance staff never use the tools to clean the tiles. It's a nightmare. I think their IQ is below 50…

I want to buy the equipment to be able to clean the tiles of our public swimming pool in our condo by myself. I do not have the order or the approval of the management. So I do it completely by myself for my own benefit. Would that be considered as work, would I need a work permit? We had three algae blossoms this year and the next one is just ahead as allgaes start to grow on the tiles again. The maintenance staff don't want to clean the tiles and the management gives a dam_n shit... And as I love to enjoy my daily swim I need to take action by myself...

11 derailments in less than one year? No fatalities?

It seems its very safe to go by train. I always prefered it and will continue to do so. Seriously. Actually it would be even an adventure to derail at thai train speeds...

isn't there a tax of 12.5% to be paid to some authority within Bangkok if you rent out your condo?

these are not laws of the government. the government gives free hand to these committees but the rules they set are no laws made by the government nor are they in any way controlled by the government

So nothing and no one can put any serious pressure on me if I break rules not made by the government. Especially if no one is disturbed, no one and nothing is damaged.

It seems here some love to make a big fuss out of nothing. Actually this is why I moved away from Europe to escape these kind of people blindly and by switching off their brain wanting to follow any rule, independent if it makes sense or not...