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Ah, OK missed that. So probably about 50% brightness on a bit of rusty re-bar. Clean up properly, see if you can find some other points not too close to the one you have. It's not ideal but a hose (Jubilee) clip will give you a good clamped connection. Link them together with 4mm2 cable and test again. Once you are happy paint all your connections with acrylic paint to prevent corrosion. Whatever happens you are far better than having no earth at all. Get those RCBOs installed!

@GammaGlobulin would you like this moving to Health for serious responses?? Scabies is pretty nasty, but I'm pretty sure it's treatable at least symptomatically. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/scabies/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20377383 Common dust-mites are everywhere, are you actually allergic to the beasts or do you really have bed-bugs or similar?

Directly on rusty metal, with RCD/RCBO protection I reckon that will be ok. If here are other points you can connect to, then go with them as well. How bright is it directly L-N?

Proof of Bigfoot.

You wouldn't have a main RCD and also individual ones too. A UK main switch would be an isolator, that would not suit here (there is no DNO fuse here) you need a double-pole MCB. The requirement here is a minimum of a front-end RCBO, but individual ones are of course better.

UFO's too of course.

Great, that hardest part may well be the incandescent lamp. Look for the small ones for ovens or fridges.

You really need a simple multimeter (even Lotus's have them) and a neon screwdriver.

It's called "Nessie" and of course it's real! Documentary here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055615/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Shame, there may well have been nothing wrong with it. Was it connected to an earthed outlet using the correct plug?

That looks pretty promising. Clean it up to bare metal and connect a wire to it (for now just wrap around a few times). I assume you don't have an earth test meter so: - Get a conventional (incandescent) lamp of about 15W. Connect one side of the lamp to your wire. DAB the other side of the lamp onto a live terminal. If the lamp lights "brightly" then you have a "reasonable" earth If no light, no earth.

For the same reason a dog licks his balls! Because they can!

I have effectively the same situation. Due to a 40% reduction in hours Jan-March (at which point my contract ends) I've actually had too much tax already deducted. The net result is that for a 3-day week my take home has gone UP. Not that I'm complaining of course. I've already netted a remote-working contact on another project, with a bigger salary paid offshore. I will of course be declaring any $$$ brought into the country and paying the required tax.

I can't handle the Thai-style maps that places use to show their location, all right-angle turns and no sort of scaling that I can understand. At least many places are now including Google maps on their websites.

At least our lot don't want me to draw a new map each year. I submit the same scanned work of art every time. It didn't stop the visiting chaps calling Madam for directions the first year.

Running in news

Yeah, so it seems. Rather silly. So, my only choice now is to open an account with Krungthai Bank to get my few k Baht refund Such is life in sunny Thailand.

I have PromptPay (I used it 20 minutes ago to pay the vet) are they saying that foreigners can't get their refunds even if they have PromptPay? I really don't want to open an account with yet another bank

If you can find a place where the building steel is exposed that would likely make a good earth. Have a look above your suspended ceiling, they often hide a multitude of evils. Getting some RCD/RCBO protection is a wise move, even if you have an earth. That should mitigate any actual safety issues. If you are getting tingles off appliances with mains filters then your balcony railing is likely going to be sufficiently earthy to stop them but I wouldn't rely on that as a safety earth. Using the neutral as earth (connect together before any RCD protection) making the supply TNC-S** would work, but there's always a risk that work upstream (such as a meter change) would result in an accidental L-N swap with predictable results. Unless the system is actually intended to be this way I'd explore all other avenues first. ** Many supplies in the UK are like this, but the N-E connection is in the service-head and so before the meter, getting L-N swapped is very unlikely.

Which Revenue Office do you use? They are likely like immigration with their own local interpretation of the roolz. We shall see, I've certainly over-paid this last tax year, Bangkok area.

I certainly have no problem sending money to myself for many years. But as noted by @Mike Lister I do have a WP and use "repatriation of income" as the reason for transfer.

AFAIK not for a state pension If you have a private pension then things are different, but you would need to check the rules of your actual plan.

If the remote makes it do anything it's probably correct. With it powered up try holding the + button for a few seconds.

Do you ever get it to beep (as in the instructions)??

Could you scan and post what instructions you have? There could be a step you're missing or just mis-interpreting (been there, got the t-shirt).