On 5/5/2018 at 2:19 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

If you want the best the buy a DC MrKen they are whisper quiet, good looking, have 6 speeds, and use around 1/10 the electricity of an AC unit. You can have metal, ABS or wood blades

 

Does the light on these fans light up the whole room like a standard ceiling light?

Getting tired of dragging around a standard floor model fan  and am thinking of getting ceiling fans but I want to know if anyone can recommend any.  

Can ceiling fans compete with the airflow of floor model fans like this Hatari 16" HB-S16M4 floor model fan

 www.lazada.co.th/products/hatari-16-hb-s16m4-i100504300-s100983980.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlistcategory.list.66.663d511arNm8Ib&search=1 

On 11/12/2015 at 9:04 PM, kaptainrob said:

CTH?

I supervised our house construction but fortunately had been in the trade before. Was a good learning curve (with masonry) and also sacked many trades incl. the principal builder's supervisor. Saved a lot of headaches in long run but not for the faint hearted.

Examples: Took 4 goes to get internal staircase formed correctly otherwise we'd have been missing one step. Electrician hadn't been paid by builder for rough-in and would complete final fit-off and mains connect despite guaranteed payment (for final) from me. We got another crew and deducted original total from builder. Many trades arrived onsite without copy of plans, tape measure, square, level and other essential tools... I supplied them.

As mentioned earlier, our next builder will be one of 2 we now know to be highly professional and with rates between 12 and 16k all up.

One can build for less, ~ 9k if supervising and hiring labour only.

Can you give me the contact info of the 2 highly professional builders you know and their websites or facebook pages. Thanks

On 8/3/2017 at 0:02 AM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

I got my first package delivered to BKK today via Planet Express' own Economy Airmail service. It took about 10 days from shipment from Calif. to my door here.

 

It was a low value, office supplies type item, mainly meant as a first test to see how PE handled my package and how their delivery went. The package arrived timely and in perfectly good condition. Delivered here by Thai Post, and no customs duty or tax assessed.

 

As I said, it was a low value, office supplies item, so no reason for any of the Customs folks to be snoopy.

 

However, the examples of other posters above are good examples reinforcing my long-held position that you never want to send any non-documents package into Thailand using FedEx or DHL, and especially things like clothing and shoes that the Customs folks love to kill with duties and taxes.  It's usually well worth it to find a shipping arrangement that will allow the inside Thailand part and delivery to be handled by ThaiPost.

 

For your PE Economy Airmail who was the shipper that PE used? 

And were you able to track the package all the way to your door in Thailand?

On 7/6/2017 at 3:36 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I've priced different packages in the past, comparing Shipito's Economy Airmail with Amazon's own international shipping rates to Thailand. In the past, Amazon used to use DHL a lot. I haven't priced them lately.

 

In every case I sampled, the Amazon shipping for regular packages (I didn't ck books or CDs) was considerably higher than Shipito Economy Airmail just based on shipping fees alone. And then, of course, the difference got even larger when adding in Amazon's charges for Thai duty, tax, etc.

 

Over the years, I've shipped a lot of packages from the U.S. to Thailand. And I've never yet found Amazon's own shipping pricing to be better than what I could arrange on my own.

 

I am looking on shipito website shipping calculator and for shipping 10-20 pounds to Thailand their airmail service is more expensive then their other options Fedex is their cheapest then DHL then USPS then their airmail

They got it last week at mae sai, no problems.

15 hours ago, chickenrunCM said:

if you have a extension from IMO they don´t will let you out at the Maisai border, only if you have the 30 days from income flight, but after extension at IMO, you have to leave by plane, an before all the samrt TV start trolling, I was at the border in person and I got the information from the staff at the border.

The person I talked to had an extension of their setv from cm imo and last week went to mai sai with only 2 days left on their extension from imo and they were let out of Thailand, went into Burma and then back into Thailand the same day with no problem and received a 30 day visa exemption arrival stamp.

Last week meet a person in CM that just did a visa run to Mae Sai for a visa exempt entry. Burma would not take their USD only 500 Baht. Thai imm gave them 30 days on their visa exempt entry with no questions asked.

Has anyone recently gotten a third setv from Vientiane?

my friend has gotten 2 setv from Vientiane with no problems. Each time they got the setv from Vientiane, then they extended it for another 30 days at the local IO, then went back to Vientiane for the 2nd one, then extended at the local IO, now they need to get their 3rd setv, then after that they will go back to their country. 

So has anyone in the last year gotten 3 setv from Vientiane and when was the last time you were there?  

Thanks

Any Land Border crossing for Filipinos in the North, where they will cross the border and come back the same day with getting the 30 day visa exempt stamp?

Thanks

We are looking for a drinking water filter to use at home to hopefully have safe drinking water.  We currently go to the local water vending machine to get drinking water and it says it is reverse osmosis and says it has uv but I am not sure about the uv part unless its inside the machine.

We use the village's water coming into our house to take a bath and brush our teach and it does not smell or taste bad when brushing our teeth so I am hoping it tastes ok. 

So what drinking water filter can you recommend?

Thanks

paperwork for even me seemed very complex ubon so i just opted for a setv in melbourne,,now obtaining a metv for a phillipine gfriend could be next to impossible

Two entry tourist visa are not available now anywhere. Only single entry visa are available. Changed when the METV became available in November of last year and it can only be obtained in your home country in most cases.

is the METV = Multi Entry Tourist Visa?

Is like the old double entry tv's that people were getting from cambodia and loas before? Where they stayed 60 days then could go to local immigration and extend for 30 days then cross the broader for another 60 days then extend for 30 more days?

Or are they for one year???

How many days is the single entry visa good for?

Thanks for your help

A METV allows unlimited 60 day entries for 6 months from the date of issue. Not the same as a 2 or 3 entry visa other than that you can still get another entry just before it expires and get a new 60 day entry and you can extend each entry for 30 days at immigration.

Any idea of what paperwork is needed for a Filipino to apply for a METV at the Thai Embassy in the Philippines?

And sorry but does METV spell out to be Multi Entry Tourist Visa?

The general visa application from the Thai Embassy in the Philippines is here http://www.thaiembassymnl.ph/images/stories/file/visa-application-form.pdf

What should they put to request the METV as to not get just a 30 or 60 day tourist visa?

Also ubonjoe if you have a METV does that mean that you can stay 60 days and extend for 30 days then cross the boarder & come back in for another 60 days & extend for another 30 days?

Thanks

No!

Single entry TV's only are now issued.

A Multi entry TV is available if applied for at the Philippine Thai Embassy.

Two entry tourist visa are not available now anywhere. Only single entry visa are available. Changed when the METV became available in November of last year and it can only be obtained in your home country in most cases.

by the way my filipina gfriend could not even get a single entry in cambodia,,so dont try cambodia even for a single,,best place ive found is savannaket

how much in Thai Baht are these single entry visas?

Also how much to extend one for 30 days at the local immigration office within Thailand?

No!

Single entry TV's only are now issued.

A Multi entry TV is available if applied for at the Philippine Thai Embassy.

Two entry tourist visa are not available now anywhere. Only single entry visa are available. Changed when the METV became available in November of last year and it can only be obtained in your home country in most cases.

Also how many single entries in a year can a person get?

Two entry tourist visa are not available now anywhere. Only single entry visa are available. Changed when the METV became available in November of last year and it can only be obtained in your home country in most cases.

is the METV = Multi Entry Tourist Visa?

Is like the old double entry tv's that people were getting from cambodia and loas before? Where they stayed 60 days then could go to local immigration and extend for 30 days then cross the broader for another 60 days then extend for 30 more days?

Or are they for one year???

How many days is the single entry visa good for?

Thanks for your help

Got a friend trying to find out if a filipino can still get a double entry tourist visa Laos or Cambodia possible?

Thanks

This is my reply to this topic http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/780582-house-in-name-of-foreigner-does-mortgage-matter/

1. You need to find out usually for the amount of money that you want to spend on a house, how many years the loan repayment will be, then you need to find out how likely it is that you will live longer than the repayment of the loan.

If you are likely to live longer than the loan repayment then forget your current plan.

If you are not likely to outlive the loan repayment then you need to adjust your plan by telling your wife that you will split the cost 50/50 meaning that you will pay 50% of the deposit, then each month you will pay 50% of the monthly loan payment, so do not pay anything up front other than only 50% of the deposit, if you want some form of security in this!

But even then you must keep in mind that you are only renting! And you must not spend more than you can walk away from like if you were renting!

But also remember that this is still no guarantee that she will not cheat on you behind your back in the future.

2. IF you want your OWN house then do not involve your wife in the deal and do not find any land around her family.

You need to find someone else that is not related to your wife or even any type of a friend of your wife, that can either buy the land you want in cash or can get a loan and buy some empty vacant land.

Then once all the paperwork is done and the deed/title is in their name.

Then you need to find out if it is possible to get a usufruct "see the ask the lawyer section for the thai wording for usufruct" for this land and in the usufruct agreement you will pay the monthly loan payments until the loan is paid off then you will not pay any more for the life of the usufruct.

Then after you have the usufruct, then get a builder to build a house on the land

Then you have to make an announcement in the newspaper as above for 30 days to see if anyone objects or makes claims to the land. Then you go back to land office and get a title for the house which will prove that you own the house but not the land. But you have the usufruct giving you the right to use the land.

If you involve your wife or any of her relatives or close friends in the land deal and everything goes wrong in the future then you may have papers saying that you own the house but her relatives/friends/etc could persuade you to leave town or you could die unexpectedly.

So either go 50/50 ONLY if you can walk away from what you are paying or find someone else that is not her relatives, friends, etc and do not get land near her relatives and you should be ok, IF you have a valid long term visa plan in place.

Report how everything goes!

I just wrote a detailed response to your question but this website system lost it when I hit add reply. I do nto have the time to type it all again, for others out there I suggest before you hit the add reply button to copy your reply then hit the add reply button for if the website loses your reply, you can paste it again and try again without losing your reply.

Zeekgarcia. thank you for the measurements. That is 7 inches lower than my 4x4.

Two question: what kind of cab is it, Spacecab, singlecab or 4 door? manual or auto? tell me about accidents with the car?

Thank you.

sent PM already

For the record a 2012 top G model Toyota vigo champ that is not a prerunner but is the standard height model, that has the 3.0 turbo diesel engine and is 4 door is about 71 cm or 28 in from the ground to the tailgate when the tailgate is down.

Why not buy the truck you want, need, & have the suspension modified... lowered ?

I think you'll find the suspension mods will be less expensive than power up mods.

Just a thought.

Cheers..... Mal.

I was going to do this as you can find prerunners & dmaxs all day long but the places I asked about lowering a prerunner or a dmax said that I would notice a difference in handling ability and I would be better off buying a standard height truck. Which is rare and even more rare finding one that is an automatic but I finally found one in good condition and bought it.

Thanks heaps IMHO. I found only a couple Champ models with the 3.0 motor, most had the 2.5. Sadly the two with the 3.0 liters were tall 4x4 and a Prerunner model. I greatly appreciate the model name. Tracking down which model fits my specs is the awkward thing. What website are you using that lists all the relevant specs for truck models here in Thailand? I laughed when I went to the Toyota site and clicked on specs and the only engine detail I got was the liter size. Like you noted most of the lower stance trucks have the smaller motors.

Maoro12 - Yes tuning my truck is not out of the question and I hear the Isuzu motors respond the best to modifications.

Any other models to add to this list:

Toyota 3.0 Champ

Isuzu Dmax 3.0 SLX

I'm not looking at a website, I'm accessing the co. database

The bottom line is, look for >= 3.0L versions to get the power you want. Yes, these will be rare, as most people spend the extra money to step up models, rather than step up the capacity.

I remember when we were looking for this same kind of truck that it is a rare find but we have a 2012 Toyota vigo champ top G model, 4 door, 3.0 turbo diesel standard height model that is what he is looking for or if anyone else is interested please let me know as we need to buy a van.

Thanks heaps IMHO. I found only a couple Champ models with the 3.0 motor, most had the 2.5. Sadly the two with the 3.0 liters were tall 4x4 and a Prerunner model. I greatly appreciate the model name. Tracking down which model fits my specs is the awkward thing. What website are you using that lists all the relevant specs for truck models here in Thailand? I laughed when I went to the Toyota site and clicked on specs and the only engine detail I got was the liter size. Like you noted most of the lower stance trucks have the smaller motors.

Maoro12 - Yes tuning my truck is not out of the question and I hear the Isuzu motors respond the best to modifications.

Any other models to add to this list:

Toyota 3.0 Champ

Isuzu Dmax 3.0 SLX

I sent you a PM about my 2012 top G model Toyota vigo champ which is not a prerunner but is the lowest height truck that toyota makes. It has the 3.0 turbo diesel engine and is 4 door. The only reason we want to sell it is because we need a van.

Let me know if you need more information about it and I can PM you or just post it here. Thanks

I am needing to buy an official Windows 7 cd/dvd with an official license, is there anywhere in CM still selling them?

Thanks

What year is yours and how long have you had it?

How many kms does yours have or did have before you sold it?

I am looking for any input about a Toyota Ventury.

What problems have you had with it?

Have you had problems getting parts to repair it?

Have you been able to have it serviced anywhere?

Have you driven it on muddy roads during rainy season? How did it do?

Does it have enough horse power for the size of the van?

Can you park it in parking decks and underground parking?

Any other information or anything that I should watch out for?

Would you recommend this van to someone else?

Thanks