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On 1/17/2019 at 2:59 PM, KnowItAllSMD said:

If anyone wants to buy 2 BlueAir purifiers, the best air purifiers money can buy, message me at [email protected]. I bought them when I was living in Bangkok for 20,000 baht each. Why do they cost that much? Because they’re imports that actually work. BlueAir is the king of air purifiers. I no longer need them living in Phuket and will sell them for 10,000 baht each. They’re basically new, only used for about 3 months. They come with a slick mobile app too.

Are the filters cleanable with water (possibly electrostatic) or do they have to be purchased and replaced when they get dirty?

I'm filtering my Bangkok room air right now 24 X 7 and the filters I use are dirty in a matter of a few days or less of continuous use. I bought a HEPA, multi-layer, non-electrostatic filter for a Mitsubishi air cleaner and it cost me 600 baht. I did not use it because I realized it would have gotten dirty just as quickly as the 3M Filtrete filter material that I now use and is much cheaper (and gets dirty rapidly, telling me it's working - although I don't know what the smallest particle is that 3M Filtrete will trap, it's trapping a lot). 

Shelter in place and seldom go out (and only while wearing a PM2.5-capable, N99.9 mask) and have a high-quality electronic air cleaner running 24/7. It's only your lungs and body (unless you've got spares to swap in somehow).

On 1/17/2019 at 6:52 AM, YetAnother said:

MAY obstruct breathing ?! the human breathing design never included masks

The "human breathing design" (as you put it) never included PM2.5 particles nor motorbike crashes at 60 kph. I can think of a few more things it wasn't "designed for" that are often fatal, can you?

Hmmmm. I thought any excuse would do!

On 1/15/2019 at 11:22 AM, cedel said:

Hello I was in Home Pro as well as in BigC extra in Pattayaklang (Central Pattaya), but I cannot find the 3M P2. 5 N95 respirator. Where did you buy it exactly ? Only the green seal one-way valve mask is in Home Pro

Envoyé de mon SM-G965F en utilisant Tapatalk
 

Big C at Ratchaprasong Bangkok across from Central World in the hardware section on the second or third floor. Maybe they were out of stock or (OMG!) don't stock it at all in Pattaya. Take a picture of the image I provided and show it to the store staff.

5 hours ago, Tchooptip said:

I intend to buy a home air filter too, I'm not sure if I understood you did it?

Many many are sold on Lazada. Have you a bit of advice on the subject?

When I see the state of the blades of the fan after a short time I'm afraid I told my wife do you realise we are breathing that? But she does not seem to care at all. So I will buy an air filter maybe like this one?

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/mitsuta-8-40-70-map650-i100092188-s100109301.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlistcategory.list.25.5add42dfiIu35R&search=1

Lazada doesn't work well with my Firefox and Chrome browers. Can you describe what product you were interested in buying (trying to show me with your link)? In the past, HomePro at Chitlom had a selection electronic air cleaners. I've used Lazada only once and would buy from them if I could get a decent review of electronic air cleaner I would be considering on the internet.

I didn't buy a proper "electronic air cleaner" - I felt they were too expensive after I bought just the HEPA filter for one and then realized that It would rapidly clog up and have to be replaced often at 600 baht each time it clogged. I bought the HEPA filter to be used with a Perfect Brandz PBC 333 evaporative cooler that I had bought second-hand. Since the PBC 333 put out very humid air, I decided to convert it into an air cleaning fan. It was an easy conversion and have been using it for years with the 3M Filtrete^TM filtering material - one layer. I've experimented with using a synthetic foam filter that has been soaked in palm oil (similarly to oil/foam lawn mower carburetor filters). The foam/palm oil approach was very successful in that the oil would turn very black after a very sort time and palm oil is not expensive - I washed the dirty filters with dish detergent and re-soaked them with fresh oil to replace them.

I went back to using the 3M Filtrete^TM filter material which is less expensive than using the 600 baht HEPA filter and seems to be very effective as the foam/oil filter (very messy) - both approaches get dirty very quickly so I have to change the filter often.

I also use a single layer of  3M Filtrete^TM filter material in one of my bathroom windows so that I'm not wide open to Bangkok air from the window, which had only slats of glass and an insect screen. It gets dirty within two months with just open/closing bathroom door air flow. The 3M Filtrete^TM filter material is the cheapest alternative, but it's not cheap. I also use it in my bedroom's A/C evaporator/fan - the product's actual intended use. I've been keeping a simple log of my A/C usage to determine how long it takes for it's filters to get dirty enough to change. Using 3M Filtrete^TM filter material seems to be effective in that the material gets visibly very dirty after less than 100 hours of continuous fan-pulled, fairly high velocity air flow, but I can't confirm what the smallest particle size it will catch - just that it turns a very dark gray very quickly. I experimented with using two layers of the material once to determine how effective only one layer was - the single (first) layer was stopping most of the particles, since the second layer did not get very dirty.

Hope this helps.

1 hour ago, Tchooptip said:

I bought those ones on Lazada

I believe the upgraded dust/fume mask, which I documented in the thread HERE is better (while costing a little more) because it has a one-way exhale valve which, I believe, prevents as much air from potentially bypassing the filter. Also the dust/mask has a very firm cloth facial seal which is also supported by its having the valve. It's also very re-usable because it comes with a spare filter and additional filters can be fabricated from the cheaper, looser-fitting filters such as the one(s) you bought from Lazada.

2 hours ago, mackayae said:

What type of face mask is effective?

Good question. We have to get proactive - the government is not going to help us. I started wearing this type of one-way exhale valve dust fume mask (image 1) when outside many years ago. Now, I wear one all the time when out except when eating. I've recently began replacing the standard filter which comes with the dust/fume mask with filter material cut from the 3M (alleged) PM2.5 N95 disposable respirator mask available at Big C central (image 2). I like the dust/fume mask (image 1) because I believe it seals better and has a one-way check valve for exhaled air and is highly-reusable. I recently started using the 3M N95 (marked PM2.5) in this mask because the green-seal mask does not advertise its filtering level (listed only as a dust/fume mask and its filter is three layers of material with one layer is what looks like a carbon filter). I have experimented with using both filters in the dust/fume mask, but that was slightly restrictive to my breathing.

The green-seal, one-way valve dust/fume mask is available at Home Pro and Central Dept. Store at Chitlom and maybe Big C. Total cost for the two 160 baht. I can't vouch for their effectiveness as to particulate size except to say that the filter material does get dirty.

I also filter the air in my apartment with a filter material (3M Filtrete^TM) in both my A/C and a non-cooling fan that gets very dirty very fast because air is push or pulled through it. Forty hours of powered-pushing air though it with and it is very dirty and needs replacing.

Maybe I should get my passport on my phone because I'm certainly never going to get a Thai driver's license. Oops, I don't even carry a smart (aka zombie) phone and sometimes forget to carry my dumb phone.

When "no have" is good enough!

On 1/7/2019 at 2:55 AM, jabis said:

Maybe you didn't see the sarcasm there in my post ???? Tho regarding anti brake-locking systems in cars either, I'd say not many of the lower end, even newer cars, sold in Thailand seem to have them as default, which boggles the mind ????

How about airbags and emission control features such as catalytic converters et al. I'd bet that even if their vehicles had ABS they would not use it correctly.

Cannabis regulation is under the "Intellectual Property Department"?

Hmmm. Simultaneous steering and brake failure.

We have to get proactive - neither the BMA nor anyone else is going to help us. I started wearing this type of mask (image 1) when out many years ago. Now I wear one all the time when out except when eating. I've recently replaced the standard filter which comes with the basic mask with filter material cut from a 3M (alleged) PM2.5 N95 disposable respirator mask available at Big C central (image 2). The green-seal, one-way valve mask is available at Home Pro and Power Buy. It's your body and your choice. Total cost for the two 160 baht.

17 hours ago, Eligius said:

On the face of it, this looks EXTREMELY worrying for British retirees here. The irresponsible action of the British embassy in not confirming a retiree's income flow could be the death knell for many Brits here. Also, as far as I understand it, the British Government will not send pensions into a Thai bank account (only into a British one), and not every British bank will automatically forward a pension to a bank account in Thailand every month. Maybe I am wrong. 

 

Perhaps it is not as bad as I fear. What do other members think?

 

 

 

 

From the beginning I thought this was instigated by Thai Immigration and not the various embassies and I believe this is a logical and verifiable conclusion. I wouldn't consider the embassy's action irresponsible, if Thai immigration demanded that the embassies verify the incomes that were stated on the Income Affidavits and they simply didn't have (or want to provide) the staff to do that. It seems a bit heavy-handed to stop the Affidavits altogether (and a source of revenue for them), but this at least made it absolutely sure we farangs could not try to use them in 2019 and beyond by providing them to Thai Immigration with their various visa requests.

My conclusion is that Thailand wants to keep out the riffraff (aka Cheap Charlies/pikers) and to simplify the income verification process for their staff at the same time by having the funds deposited into Thai banks. A secondary (perhaps primary?) benefit for Thailand is that Thai banks would be the deposit/holding of the (840k) lump-sum funds or the passing thru of the monthly (65k) funds - a great financial benefit for Thailand. On the other hand, I believe what they failed to consider is the amount of continuous spending that is being provided by farangs that cannot meet their 840k/65k minimum funding requirements and will choose another retirement country - one with less stringent bank deposit/income requirements.

I don't think I'll be going along with this grand scheme. I don't want to even posses a Thai bank account, much less deposit-funds-into or pass funds though one (even if I could). I disagree with their "Big Brother" approach to this and have been using for years a much more streamlined/efficient way to move funds into Thailand at my discretion by way of my home-country's bank account debit card.

Yeah, right! Blame it on the lack of ABS. That's the ticket!

Nothing to do with Thailand's severe "motorbike disease", alcoholism and infantilism.

8 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Hardly surprising. My trip back to Chiang Mai from Chiang Rai yesterday had at least a dozen occasions of drivers overtaking on blind curves. It's almost like they have a death wish.

Could it be they had a "sex wish" to get back home to make more Thais to make up for the losses on the road?

If I lived in Issan I'd probably be drinking a lot too, although for sure I wouldn't be operating or riding a motorbike.

AFAIC, the time for anything but extreme measures as come and gone. Thailand, the "eco-slug" (but they are not the only slug).

46 minutes ago, mikebell said:

'Thailand's Police Force serves no purpose.'  Discuss.

'To Serve and Protect'  is the ironic motto of RTP!

Well, it's not called the "People's Thai Police" is it? End of discussion.

I don't go out without wearing a custom-made dust/fume N95 / PM2.5 filter mask which has a one-way exhale valve (not the loose, valveless, biological type most people use). I'm practicing how to eat while still wearing it, but it's difficult. My rooms' A/C and non-A/C fan both have particle filters that rapidly get dirty and need to be replaced often.