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(Ex) Prince Harry's real father.

5 hours ago, Hummin said:

Bang Saen beach 80km from Suvarnabhumi. 

 

Perfect place for a relaxed life.

.... except at weekends and festival time.

I don't think most Thai people consider noise to be a problem.  Many keep dogs as a sort of cheap alarm, and they bark at everything all the time, others have ginormous speakers in their ratty old pickups, blaring 'luk tung' pop music all night, or even worse, Thai rap, which sounds an angry toddler tantrum.

India is much, much worse for litter .... I saw rivers where you couldn't see any water because it was a flow of pure litter. 

I also think some regions in Thailand are worse than others.  In Chonburi, people seem to throw rubbish everywhere, but the local governments seem to attempt to collect it, and there's waste bins everywhere,  normally surrounded by rubbish - as people are too lazy to make that last 1 meter of effort to actually put their rubbish in the bin.  But I visited Chaiyaphum recently, and couldn't find a litter bin anywhere (and ended up carrying my plastic coffee cup all day) .... but didn't see much littering.

While in Bangkok people seem to throw all their rubbish in the rivers and down the storm drains .... so it finds its way to the beaches.

On 5/3/2024 at 6:37 PM, johng said:

Yes I suspect  they hate trees...in particular the leaf litter..I notice they tend to sweep up leafs but leave the dust,dirt,sand etc for extra motorcycle mayhem excitement.

Agree .... many Thai people seem to view trees as large weeds.

My wife is the same, and great that Sheryl's post gives the technical explanation and a mitigation.

What makes my case worse is that she cooks me a wonderful 'English' breakfast every morning, but does not eat herself until we go out to her chosen restaurant of the day.  She actually wakes up having dreamt of a particular restaurant for the day 😀

So I'm happy having eaten a huge breakfast, but she's now desperate to go out and eat, and getting moodier by the second. 

There should be a simple solution here, but she feels it's her duty to feed me three meals a day - and some of the restaurants we visit sell food that only a Thai person could eat.  One is even called "Som Tam Sadist"!

On 5/6/2024 at 9:08 AM, Yellowtail said:

But the wheels do get all the crap from the track building up on them, and the house can settle and skew the doorframe a bit. 

 

A 2.5m long piece of aluminum extrusion will expand only about 1.15mm when the temperature increases from 20 degrees C to 40 degrees C.

 

 

Interesting information .... and that 1.15mm must have been just enough.

When I removed the end strip to get at the wheel adjuster, the door moved perfectly with equal gaps all round.  

I decided to take a file to the cover strip top groove rather than adjust the door, as the striker and latch all looked to line up perfectly.

17 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

Is there no adjustment for the height of the wheels at the bottom of the door?

 

I'm no expert, but checking out that option shouldn't take much effort.

Ah ..... good suggestion!

I had a look and these look like the adjustment ....

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Our house has 8ft tall, glazed sliding doors, and several are now jammed because of lack of clearance to the top runner.

I think it may be due to heat expansion?

I'm planning to use a mini rotary saw or grinder to increase the clearance by enlarging the cut out by 1 or 2 mm.

Thoughts?  Bad idea?  Better solution?   Thanks for any suggestions.

You have to climb over a heap of snoozing dogs to enter my local 7-11.  They like the AC blast each time the doors open.

"Hello, welcome and don't trip over the dogs"

Yes .... always wash fruit and veg using a 'vegga wash'.

Pesticide use is not well controlled in Thailand.

Yes, the 'listings' appear to be a way to promote the agent, and the property was either let years ago, or it's just a copy of another agent's listing.

There's also some that just show a photo of the outside of the building, because they don't even have units to let.

As mentioned above, just choose a suitable building by walking the area you want to live, then ask the management office about availability.  Works for rent or buy.

1. BAE Systems 1,338 GBX

With the current political environment, arms manufacture should be good business, and while BAE has been performing well, I believe there's more to come.

2. Boeing BA NYSA 167.84

Surely they can't continue to mess up forever, so should be good opportunities for growth, and they are another military supplier.

Honda MSX 125 'Grom', Honda CT125 and Honda Monkey are full manual with a clutch.

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