luckylarry

7 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

 

You have to be joking, little more than a schoolboy prank and 1 year I think would be excessive  Would be enough to make them see the error of their ways !

agree

Sounds about right. A 100 cu.m pool is a big installation. A lot of concrete a lot of tiling and 0.15 million baht of equipment (which is more expensive than falangland, due to import duties).

Go cheap in haste, repent at leisure. There will be plenty come on here (particularly if a moderator MOVES IT TO THE SWIMMING POOL FORUM)* who will nay-

say me. Find a few who have said a few years ago that they built their sizeable pool for 400k, PM them and see if they are still happy. Loads of grotty pools in Thailand inherited by house renters / s/h home buyers. Who built those?

Essential you use a builder whose work you can verify by talking to their owner.

* well done CharlieH you beat me to it. It switched when I pressed 'post'

Just to say I built my pool using our house builders, best 4 inch thick tiles, salt, weber grouting, only 1.20 meters deep, 6 years old now still looks very good, used in our small resort 700 k including 2 meter walk around, with small pump house, he charged 200 k labour.

Yes you can, I used proof of UK pension, SCBank, only 2,000000 baht but our property was worth 10,000000 at the time, since payed back happy about that, SCB can be farang friendly.

Try Bangsaphan Yai you wont do much better

If you have a wife and she works SCB will loan her 80%

wife buys house, you pay mortgage they will loan 50%

We my wife got a loan to buy a house from SCB used my UK pension as proof of income to cover the loan, ( belive it or not true ) not our first property loan here SCB are great.

Hello i live in Prachuap area wanting a pool tried the pool places in Hua Hin well for a pool 12x6 meters they gave me a price 1,300000 crazy so we built our own that was five years ago still fine, we used better tiles, better steel, total cost 575,000, just was not that hard to do,

Cheers for the info, i think maybe some of you have missed the point. The budget was based on worst case scenario. In the UK now i'm making £75 a day and have been told that the work will remain available for the next few years. Even if it doesn't there are other clients out there. What i was essentially asking was, is the budget set out realistic? Obviously a lot of you think i might struggle on that which is fine, thats good to know and i will adjust the budget accordingly. Like mentioned, I have ample savings but i wouldnt want to dip into them if necessary as every 60 days i'll be flying to Phils for a week or two of very hard partying.

When i'm in Chiang Mai I will be concentrating on work and having a good blow out at the weekend, Thats enough for me as i'll be looking forward to a fortnight in Phils every couple of months.

Again, thanks for the input, i'm happy that 44,000 baht seems to be realistic if a bit tight, it assures me that what i will probably earn will be ample.

Cheers

stay at home in the uk you are a dreamer no chance

I have lived in Thailand more than 25 years never been coned, so this is my tip today if you use an ATM card only keep enough cash in your ATM account that you can afford to lose lets say 20,000 baht it won,t be nice to lose but it proberly won,t hurt to much, my friend just lost 1.2000 baht, just have 2 bank accs only 1 ATM Card it is that easy enjoy Thailand

I think that you can, because we used my UK pension to help get our loan from SCB to build a small house, it was easy that was the second time since repaid both.

Good luck with your new pool, I have had a few pools built in Thailand all ok but one, the pool that Navinda pools built lost huge amount of water every Day it cost us 250000 baht to sort out the problem it had not been water proofed with seeka a must still angry L A

I used navinda pools in phuket to build a 10 x 5 meter pool in bad choice, it leeked bad the water was leeking through the walls, who ever you use make sure the the use a good sealer it will cost an extra 10,000 baht but well worth it we had to take all the tiles of seal the pool and re tile it at my cost. this time I built my own pool 12 x6 meter only 1.3 meters deep just paid for the labour I used much beter tiles 12mill re bar all finished with 1.5 hp (usa ) salt water chl 2 meter sadd wash all round the pool total cost 620,000 baht working 2 years already no leeks no problems he was just the builder who built my house I all so put in 9 one deep meter footings all tied to the cage, but I was there every day as site agent

Poor Tony you where one of a kind, I was lucky to see him smile a few times, RIP at the coffee pot in the sky

How about this place?

Great island to unwind......plenty of cheaper options as well.

One more to have a look at two hours south of hua Hin the perfect place to relax just heavan, http://www.bangsaphanguide.com/palm-gardens.php

Get a new maid.

You try to find one not easy

My friends get their maids from Burma ... 1,500bht a month, food and a place to sleep.

I second the previous poster, 2 months up front and she will have another job the next day.

Well your friend what sort of person is he, not so nice that he keeps slaves

It is a no brainer make Visa stamps tiny tiny tiny, and all our Passports will last longer some take up a hole page stupid

That is the going rate.

If you dont want to pay for a nice Limo, go on the Bus from Phuket Town save your 500 baht

Sponsor an orphan, have her send to school etc. and let her visit you one day...

Very Good Answer

I took a chance, after talking to Rob at Sausage King in Chang Mai, he made all the right noises so I gave him an order of, bacon, pies,burgers, indian food, indian filled pies and WOW! I have orderd some more already. I live in Prachuab Khirkhan, it took just over two Days to arrive still frozen. I don't know Rob personaly and i have no avid interest in the company but I wish him all the best of luck supplying quality foods. He told me his food is Marks & Spencer's quality and now i believe him. DELICIOUS.

Here is his website, take a look http://www.sausageking1.com/

I spent almost a year looking for a decent bike and couldnt find anything in this area.....eventually I bought on the Cambodian border near Kap Chong/Surin....there is a market with thousands of bikes to choose from and at cheap prices also....

Out of intrest on the Hua Hin Bypass, there is a place that sells bikes that are imported from japan seconhand worth a look I brought four about 2500 baht each

Good Old Fish and Chips

Hey thats good news guys, thanks so much for your help.

Hey its very quiet in here eh? No trolls, racists or barbarian verbal abuse so far??!!? Just good friendly advise...whats going on?

Thanks

Thaifelix

That is ok but your Debit Card must Visa or Master card logo on it

This is not even debatable. DO NOT get a salt water pool. They SUCK!

You Just Do Not Know What you Are Talking About !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!