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No, nothing in particular since I have no experience. Any advice brand wise or so?

I just plan to buy some components like https://www.solarshop-th.com/product-page/seraphim-monocrystaline-660w, and the inverter should be one to be able to just plug it into the wallsocket.

So if I get this right I should have different inverters, one for the leveled panels and one for the ones pointed in another direction, right?

4 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

 

How are you going to fix the panels to your support?

 

I thought to mount the ordinary standard holding system to my metal construction in order to hold the panels to the construction I plan...

For Chiang Mai: become a member of Virgin Active, they have excellent classes included in the membership also for pilates.

I only have this space as shown. Unfortunately shadow starts hitting the space after about 2:30 pm, so I want to have a metal construction being done. The metal construction will hold the solar panels completely leveled/horizontally.

That way the shadow will not affect them so much/a lot later only. The metal construction will be hold in place by being mounted to the walls beside the roof.

The roof on the left hand side in the 2nd pic is not ours...

I also would like to put a panel or 2 on the other side of the roof (last picture). In this case not leveled, just lay it down on the tiles of the roof.

Any ideas? Will the wind blow it away? Or how to hold it down? Maybe not enough airflow below the panels if they are put just on the roof tiles? Of course I would put a bar in place to avoid the panel from sliding down...

11 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Key cards are available with many security levels.

Obviously high security is more expensive.

But does it really work? We have such a system in my condominium, and it happens often that people who "forgot" their card just walk through with somebody else. And mostly the security does nothing.

I guess that is also the case in many other buildings.

High security cards won't change that.

You are absolutely right. I just wanted to know about some alternatives. They exist but lazy security or general carelessness would render alternatives useless.

Knowing this I wonder what the real benefits of a security guard are? Anyone can get into the building anytime. Not stopped by anyone. So? Or what is the benefit of an access card system with access cards easily to copy? With no one controlling ever if copies are around?

Does anyone know if there is a place or business in Bangkok that is selling a building access card system where the access/key cards cannot be copied?

From practically all buildings I tried so far the access cards can be easily copied just anywhere in any mall in Bangkok. So there is absolutely no control about how many people have access cards.

How to explain to some (most likely) Thai staff that they are wrong? I find this the most difficult thing to do. They hate nothing more than to be proven wrong (not only government officials), even if I try in most sensitive way...

Another update: just 2 hours ago the visa was approved. So, calculate 10 business days/two full weeks, just submit photographs and documents in good quality and wait if they request more documents. After submitted additional documents it just took another day and I got what I needed...

Update: two weeks after I applied for the non-Immigrant based on family visa they called to request more documents. My wife complained to me after talking to them that I did not submit all needed documents which were Kor Ror 22 and a certified translation of our marriage document.

But nowhere in the process did they ask for these documents.

We do not know how much longer it might need from now to get the visa (requested documents were submitted minutes after they asked for to the given email address)...

5 minutes ago, Bagwain said:

Epoxy grout is over kill.

If the water balance is kept in place there will be no issue.

No one cares about water balance in this country!

90% Tric-Chlor is the culprit. Best have a salt chlorinator installed!

I have dealt with hundreds of commercial pools here & I get a blank stare when I question about this issue. (17 yrs)

I would also think some drum testing of the existing tiles needs to be done to see if any will need to be re-glued!

Some domestic pools we have redone needed nearly 1/3 of the tiles needed re-setting!

 

Agree with you but despite a civil engineer confirmed to the management that their low pH (caused by the 90% TCCA) is the problem they still refuse any responsibilitie. Useless to present scientific facts. They do not understand this. So it is not about if they care, they do not understand any science...

How to perform a drum testing? Knock on the tiles and see if it sounds hollow?

I did not read the latest about Aranyaprathet/Poipet. Do they refuse entry despite having a valid tourist evisa?

Thanks for your thougts.

I think whilst the process itself is thought through well they should give more examples or details about what they expect/accept. At least the first time there are questions that are leaving applicants in the dark.

They only recommend during the process to submitt the right document in the right quality else the application will be rejected. What is the right quality? How is it defined? There was NO indication about this...

After our incapable management destroyed the swimming pool grout and some concrete (water is leaking through to the floor below the pool now and it is confirmed by a civil engineer that all damage is caused by low pH of around 4 for many years) the also not so smart committee decided to renovate the pool. They just plan to empty it, remove the algae that has grown between the tiles and regrout it with some cheap new grout. Problem solved?

Just from visual examination it can be seen that even behind the tiles there is some air or dissolved grout/concrete.

I would opt for some expoxy based grout but who wants to listen to some stupid farang?

Last week I applied for a new Non-O single entry.

I am convinced to have submitted all the right documents but who knows if they are satisfied?

e.g. the bank statement they requested: I have an internet based bank. So there are no account statements on paper. I just took a screenshot with my name and the amount in it.

My wife confirmed in one single letter that she approves my visit and that she is iformed that I am coming. But they requested separate documents. I uploaded the same document twice then.

Anyone with some experience? Waiting now for an rection from their side...

@BritTimThanks so much. Yes, of course for Thailand there is no guarantee. We thought since she could proof to have an appointment at the embassy that this would help.

But if she stays in Thailand illegally can it be, besides the risk of being detained, that the Polish embassy would refuse to handle her visa case?

A Myanmar citizen is on overstay from tomorrow. But she has a confirmed appointment at the Polish Embassy May 30. The idea is to let her fly to Cambodia for a few days and then back to Thailand. The Myanmar citizen has two vaccinations.

Could she apply for a single tourist visa there?

11 minutes ago, Ohyesuare said:

Living here on and off for 10 years, the majority of the Thai I picked up was just naturally. Unless you isolate yourself and never go out or only socialize with other foreigners, after that long a time, it's usually natural to just start picking up the language. It also helps if you have a girlfriend/wife whose English is as good as your Thai and you teach/learn from each other just due to the necessity of communication. 

I even worked here a few years (with WP) but everyone I had to deal with spoke english, my wife speaks english perfectly fine, no need to speak Thai for me, at all...

This sounds so very odd and as this is Thailand I guarantee a lot of trouble ahead. Never ever such a construction for me, that's for sure...

I forgot: you need another paper from ur bank stating that ur money came from overseas... the bank knows...

Obviously you do not necessarily need to get a lawyer.

For what exactly? Get the papers from the juristic stating that there are no outstanding maintenance fees and farang ownership is below 50%, have the money ready and go the land department on the appointed day set by seller/sellers bank...

Once we called immigration if the Juristic can ask for PP and other guest details. Answer was: Only if they are part of the rental contract. If they have NOTHING to do with the tenant juristic does not need this information...

Things might have changed though...

Cant the co-owners respectively the committee organize a manager, some maintenance guys and the accounting by themselves?

Does anyone have an example of a building here in Bangkok where they organize themselves without an expensive management company?