AjarnRichard

I have retired here to Thailand.  If I die here, I would like to be buried in a graveyard somewhere, or just organically buried in the ground somewhere, where I can decompose slowly and peacefully.  Anyone have any experience, history, thoughts, on how this can be done?  I will not allow my body to be flown back to North America.

The yankees should air drop port-a-potties all over Kim Jongs stomping grounds..............  then see how he responds...........  LOL  
 

I recently received a retirement visa and now I want to transport my household  items to Thailand. (Books, Stereo, clothes, bed, etc.) 

Is there any standard procedure for this, or can I just send my things to Thailand based on my retirement visa?

If you have any experience with this, or potential problems I might experience, please let me know. 

Many Thanks

Richard

PS ......If you want to recommend an honest, Thai-based customs clearing agent for clearing my things when they arrive, that would be good too. 

So i was busy preparing to upload some pics, and I find the reply is locked.

What goes? You said deadline is 24 Dec and today is 23 Dec??

Richard

Can anyone give me some advice on the AVERAGE cost of a bookkeeping service for a very small business here in Thailand. I.e. the cost of keeping the books for about 50 transactions per month, and then providing an annual financial report at the end of the year.

Just an average or range please............

Richard

Okay... i got my answers and Kwasaki I deeply deeply appreciate your opinions and drawings on this... They have guided me and will now give me the ammunition I need to go forward.....

I appreciate everyones thoughts on this......... As I am new here in Thailand, I got a quick learning curve from this experience. While I will lose quite a bit of money on this matter, you all saved me from losing so much more.. so I feel i owe you alot.... I am thankful for this forum...........

End of thread......... (at least on my part)

Dear Kwasaki and others on this thread.

I finally got to the bottom of this.. thanks also to your support. What they say they are doing, is first making concrete beams between each pillar, so 28 beams all together (in the ground). After the beams are in place, they were going to pour a concrete slab over the entire surface (7mx11m). I have made a rough sketch as attached. The sketch shows the pillars and beams before the pouring of the slab (Of course the slab will obscure the beams afterwards).

Do these beams make sense? .......... I think there are two main questions. The first is whether the costings are close or near close, and the second is whether this is technically sound or just overkill.

I hope you can offer your further opinions .... Thanks you....

Floor.doc

The house is in Surat Thani Province............... but I learned that this amount is not just for concrete slab, but is also for cement beams between the pillars.....

there are 24 pillars.......\

So you can build a house for Baht 90,000?? That is impressive...

After your input, i tried to find out why this is costing so much... apparently they are talking about putting up concrete beams to strengthen the tie between the pillars...........

They want to link each pillar. : |

Thanks so much Kwasaki.. this helps alot!

I should inform that I am unfortunately working from remote right now. I am helping to improve the house of my fiance, but leaving a lot of the decisions to the "family". As you saw in my other post, we raised the house. That was essentially to start the process to build a bottom floor and then we will enclose it later on. Nothing heavy will go on the floor more than people and furniture, but your point about the thickness is well taken. It might be that the cost of 90,000 will include the foundations as well, cause i realize now that the foundations, as far as I know did not exist. This was a wood house on stilts before, so we are kind of working backwards. So if the quote includes the foundations, then maybe that would account for the extra expenses.

Any other comments would be appreciated. It is so helpful to have people on this forum helping each other. Thank You.

We are going to construct an 11mt x 7 mt x 70mm concrete floor slab. [6 cubic meters]

Any suggestions about the approximate cost of materials? Cost of labour? We will use CPAC cement to deliver premix.

I was quoted Baht 90,000 for the whole job..

Richard

To all of you who responded... many thanks, this has been great help.........

Ajarn Richard

I just paid for this wooden house to be raise. The work involved was to raise the house on hydraulic jacks, construct 24 pillers, and then lower the house and fix the house to the pillers. Some photos attached.

I was charged $3000 for the whole job. (does not include all the soil we added underneath to raise the ground level.)

Do you think this was a reasonable price to pay for this job or did we get ripped off?

Ajarn Richard