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I saw this companies website today while browsing for pool builders. I read a lot of great reviews and testimonials so I might give them a shot.
Some great pools and houses on the facebook page and they have live updates of current projects too.

https://www.togetherconstructionthailand.com/

https://www.facebook.com/tconstruct/

It seems you can get a good build even in Thailand :)

And if and when you get it it is not a spouse visa, there is no such thing, it is
an extension of permission to stay on the grounds of marriage to a Thai national
it is not a VISA.

As I wrote your first 90 day report is due 90 day from the date you applied for the extension. The application is considered as a 90 day report.

The stamp they gave you is not an extension. You have a under consideration stamp with a report back date of April 18th. The stamp allows you to stay until your extension is approved. When you go back and get the extension stamp it will be for one year from the date your 90 days ended.

Sometimes I just need to clarify even when it's spelt out to me [emoji23][emoji23]

Better safe than deported [emoji6]

Thanks a million

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So the fact that I have the 90 day visa but then applied for the spouse visa means that I don't report until 90 days or before from the date I applied for year spouse visa , is that correct?

The original 90 is now null and void so to speak ?

Even though the new stamp is only for an extra 30 days?

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Hi all

Just wondering about something.

I got a 90 day non O back in December then in February applied for spouse visa.

When I applied for spouse visa they stamped my passport for an extra month on top of the 3 month as I was told that my application wouldn't be sorted until 18 April.

Now it's just occurred to me that as I was there in immigration and told not to come back until the 18th I never went in to do the 90 day reporting.

Was I supposed to and am I now in trouble?

Thanks

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Luckily (most of) Thailand is 3-phase, 4-wire (4 wires on the pole outside). No issue to treat it as three separate single-phase installations.
 
If he can get away with a 15/45 single-phase supply the PEA will happily give him just that, from one phase and neutral. This is exactly what everyone on single-phase supplies has.
 
EDIT Even if he's in one of the few areas that are 3-phase, 3-wire he can still have a single-phase supply no issue whatever. Is your friend perchance from the US where single and 3-phase supplies are very different?
 
EDIT-2 Or is he looking at the big 25kV poles with no 220V, if this is the case he may need a transformer, no issue (other than cost).
 
Suggest he talks to the supply authority in his area, he needs to anyway to get supply.
 

Ok if I may bother u guys again.

I have googled this and can't really find a proper answer.

A mate of mine is looking to build a home in Thailand and has just bought his plot and after everything was done he realised that the supply to the area is 3 phase. He says they don't have single phase and is freaking out as he is wondering how that effects his house build?

Can he just convert or what's the deal?

Thanks again guys

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Having Electrical Poles with both Street Lamps and Dead Vines on them doesn't make it very easy to self-verify if MEN is being implemented  :-(
 
I'd suggest you have someone contact the local PEA/MEA directly and inquire.
 
While it may not seem important, it does change the way the CU / Breaker Box needs to be wired for maximum safety features to function properly.
 
 
Oh, so have you decided to ADD an additional RCD (Residual Current Device) ahead of the CU / Breaker Box,  or are you planning to replace the internal MAIN BREAKER with a combo MAIN BREAKER/RCD,  or put individual RCBO (Residual Current Breaker w/Overcurrent protection) on select circuits?

Dog house I'm afraid.  It's "MEN" not "MAN".  And don't forget to connect/clamp the biggest wire you have from the CU ground bar to the rod.

So, to sum up. No MAN so leave out the wire from my original comment.
Install rcbo or breaker

Change from 63 to 50 amp.

Rod is already buried so at least that's right.

Do I get a prize or am I still in the dog house?


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What you're looking for is something like the bare wire snaking down the pole in RichCor's post, it should go to a rod buried in the ground at the bottom.
 
If you see that, then try to see what's going on at the other end of it, it should be linking to the (usually bare) neutral.
 
[mention=207577]carlyai[/mention] the ones I find useless are on nuns.
 

Yes I can.....you're not listening to some very helpful and credible people who have given you advice. You've just taken chappy photos.
Advice: as one who started out like you, and who gained the displeasure of the electrical forum moderator......lift your game.
If you accept their advice, you need to do some internet research as well.

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Our PEA inspector insisted on a 50A (we had 63A) when we had our permanent meter installed.

How will that be policed in villages where they pay drivers to take over loaded vans of kids to school?


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Various images of 4 poles out on main road near his house.
Can u decipher anything from this spaghetti junction?


Is dad from a MAN area ? [emoji848][emoji13]


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Pretty much spot on.

 

Electrical safety is nothing to be sneezed at, you can't see it but it is quite capable of killing you even after being just fine for many years.

Tethers or MEN?

The ground bar was fitted yesterday I just saw it now.

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Ok getting info over load now pardon the pun.

So let me get this straight.

If we don't have MEN then that black wire stays out of the board?

If we do then it goes in ?

As it stands u guys don't see and RCB so we need to add one whether there is MEN or not?

It also needs a ground bar driven into the ground irrespective of what is installed ?

Am I right or way off ?

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Amazing Thailand.
 
...and the second part of my question?

Amazing Thailand.
 
...and the second part of my question?

Are those METAL poles?  Are these poles the property owner put up to carry the incomer mains power lines to the house?
 
Are there any other metered homes nearby?  Do any of their poles (usually cement) have a wire (bare or encased) running from the top of every third pole down into the ground or to a metal strap that goes into the ground?

OK, go and have a look at the power poles outside, if you see a ground running from the neutral (usually the top wire) on every 3rd pole then the area is wired for MEN and you should re-insert that link and connect the incoming neutral to the ground bar (like in the groundwire document).
 
If a new box it should have instructions, what do they say?
 
The box as supplied does not have earth-leakage protection (RCBO), it's your risk if you don't add it.
 
Is there a ground rod?
 

This is all one pole


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OK, go and have a look at the power poles outside, if you see a ground running from the neutral (usually the top wire) on every 3rd pole then the area is wired for MEN and you should re-insert that link and connect the incoming neutral to the ground bar (like in the groundwire document).
 
If a new box it should have instructions, what do they say?
 
The box as supplied does not have earth-leakage protection (RCBO), it's your risk if you don't add it.
 
Is there a ground rod?
 

4 poles I don't see anything different on any of them.

Except the one that has the original breaker has a guide line running down. I don't know if that's to hold the pole into the soil or if it's a ground wire

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Wayned has a good point about MEN, my initial assumption was that the link had been removed from an existing installation, this appears to be incorrect.
 
If you stick with a TT system (as it is now wired), it is essential for safety that an RCD/RCBO is installed. You can either replace the main breaker with an RCBO type (Schneider / SquareD ones should fit) or add a Safe-T-Cut unit in front of the consumer unit (the Safe-T-Cut may be more readily obtained).
 
NOTE If you go the Safe-T-Cut route you should leave the consumer unit wiring as it is, the N-E link goes in the Safe-T-Cut (it's quite clear in the instructions).
 
The problem with grounds and RCDs is that the system works just fine without them, until you get a fault which could then prove lethal. We see it way too often here, some poor soul gets fried in the shower or in the garden when proper grounding and/or an RCD would likely have saved them.