chiman

Really appreciate the responses.  

Don't know if my house was built in the dry season, its a big builder, 1000s of homes near Bangkok.  They are building all year round.  Expect that they are cutting corners, the subs are a mixed bag.  Concerning (and expected) is all the construction debris left about 20CM under the dirt, I have found bottles, pipes, chunks of concrete, cans, etc.  

My gut feeling was that we needed to fill in that space under the house with rocks and give it time to settle.. now I see, that could take a few years of filling and settling.  This makes the most sense... maybe after a few years, then we could look at landscaping around the small bit of land around our house.  

Hi everyone,

New build home in a moobahn.  Typical soil washing away around the home, being told its mostly going under the house to fill in the gaps around the construction debris and Micropiles.  

Was offered a plan to install a 40CM deep smart board skirt around the house, preventing some of the soil and dirt from going under the house, slowing down the erosion process?  Gut telling me thats not a good idea for now .. maybe let it fill up under the house for a few years?

Aside from dumping dirt each year, layering gravel, sand, soil, etc.  Is there anything anyone else has experienced that can help me understand what’s going on and how to address it?  

Thank you 

Epic that someone would want to make that claim, just to say… the first stoner to die from a bong hit lol 

I believe masks helps, but have you ever picked up your child from school and checked their mask out?  My sons masks is filthy, no way that is healthy for him.  These kids grab the front of their masks all day, they fall on the floor, etc.  

Use them for business and plan to get away from them ASAP, locked me out of my account and made it a massive hassle to get back in.  Would be interesting to meet the management, then fire them 

No successful Democracies allowed so close to China, everything Thailand fought so hard to create over so many decades, the Chinese are taking away in a blink of an eye 

13 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

She has ruined her career and reputation for 4,500 baht.

But she got 4500!!! woohoooo lets party and see what tomorrow brings 

And some would call for defunding the police in western countries... 

Joke… this guy will walk .. well, he will speed away 

Doesn't matter, nobody is coming ATM and nobody will notice when they do... its all baked into the airfare - hippy isn't going to skip TH because his flight went from 800 to 810 USD 

Even bad publicity is good publicity, we even know which sub  soi it’s on lol 

I guess the buying spree of distressed properties will continue 

There is so much garbage everywhere I have gone in this country over the last 15 years.  Side of the road, in a field, on the beach.. the way it gets dumped into the environment here is heart breaking.  There is an island of trash floating in the Gulf of Thailand thats many KM long.  Happy to see the reduction of plastic bags at 7 and such, but it would take education and decades of clean up to really turn things around here... 

its all about treatments now... vaccines cannot keep up with variants.  The pill, the IV drip... all need to be the focus of this government now that vaccines are readily available and not as effective as against Delta & Wuhan strains ... the next variant will be even more transmissible, its endemic 

It's news already that cloth coverings don't slow the spread of Omicron as with previous variants (agree or not) .. and before you jump on my back, we wear masks everywhere and are very careful.  The news is Omicron is that contagious .. luckily its "mild" compared to Delta and the original strain, still waiting to hear how mild, triple vaccinated  friend was just hospitalized with Omicron, he and 49 of his colleagues all caught it on a business trip to NYC.  They tested negative PCR before their flight home, and negative on return, then a few days later they were all sick... he was given Monoclonal Antibody treatment.  

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/23/1066871176/mask-n95-omicron-contagious

And no monoclonal anti-body treatments avail 

Every country can handle Omicron, its mild and nothing to get excited about.  Open the doors, let it come in and replace Delta - 

Been driving here in Sukhumvit for well over a decade now

1. Me first mentality on the roads
2. Ill do whatever is convenient for me, no matter how it effects everyone around me 
3. Cannot allow merging of cars, see rule 1
4. Drivers in their black vans, laws do not apply, also see rule 1
5. Bus drivers and taxi drivers, not sure what they are on still.. but its not good 
6. Lastly, sense of entitlement stylized driving 

Stats for Thai Road Deaths are nearly on par with homicide rates in the US.  

Wasting your time and energy thinking it will improve... it is what it is, be defensive and drive a safe car.  We do not do Tuk Tuks, Motorbikes, and avoid walking on the streets... 

Please stop counting

Just got out of quarantine- about 10 hours in total.  Super easy, glad they PCR upon arrival, too many people can fake their results to fly 

Just now, IamNoone88 said:

They should stop all Africa arrivals before the new variant get out of control.

It’s probably in the wild, globally speaking, agree that targeted restrictions from Africa could slow the eventually spread (if its got a competitive advantage)