eyecatcher

That's confidence!

So will your brand compete against CK, diesel,compare,PSmith and the like??

Did you register your brand name so we can say one day "I knew him when he was a backpacker in chiangmai"

I will start by saying, what an excellent presentation of your query......

But my first question which you are not clear about.

The intermittent pumping to the single swelling, does it actually deliver the water.? Or not.

We have a pump that makes an awful noise sometimes as it pumps to an upper floor, and also when water is evaporating from any of the tanks.

I don't know the answer but if the pump is designed to work in relation to the "draw" of water then a quick pump every 5 seconds is all it needs, where as three dwellings drawing tells the pump to pump every second.

Sure others will know the mechanics,just my educated suggestion.

Puwa:

Coming from Airport Plaza on the main road from Hang Dong, Wualai Road forks to the right, do not take it, go straight. The plastics shop is on the right, guessing about 100 meters from the fork and about across the street from a Bank or savings institution, not one of the big 4. It is set back from the road enough to park a couple of cars in front and elevated, you go up stairs to get in, recall but not sure about black or dark grey granite front and facing it there is a driveway on the right side.

That 100 meters could be off by more than a little.

That sounds like the shop I advised on here to get the opaque window films.

Its a big player for signmakers, this is where they get their acrylic back boards.

If you have your foreign licence, its no hardship to get the thai licence

You need your certificate of residency, and your doctors certificate, passport details......but you don't need to do the driving test or the written exam.

The hardest part is having to sit in the queues for two hours....so my tip would be to spend it wandering around bigC

Never had a problem with uk licence.....actually if you are as old as me it is pink and comes in a clear plastic wallet.

When the roadside occifer asks to take a look, and starts unfolding and unfolding, and in no time he is holding a licence as big as a map.

Usually asks where my plastic licence is, to which I say I am too old but this one says I can drive a submarine and a tank.

Can't wait to wave me on.

I do have a thai plastic licence as well to confuse matters.

Thaddeus and ThaidDown

Yes both correct.I remember surveying around the roads and fields of Leicester,uk,

The chain was subsequently 25m and at each length the arrow would be rammed in the ground.

A site was surveyed with offsets, so a few chains and nothing else.

Now they use EDM and lasers

I said it was easy!

There is a shop on the moat just past chang pueak gate before the temple and lights....selling water barrels of various sizes.

Bamboo, is a bit further afield but one place,along the canal road past the mae hia junction and past the royal flora lights and a further few hundred metres on left is the big wood and fencing yard with bamboo of different girths.

Also hang dong. So up HD road as far as the dual carriageway ends, just before the shops, the timber yard is on the right....you have to u turn at the last u turn point.

Bamboo will be in 6m lengths so be aware and the two inch sections will cost you about 20/25bt.

I think you mean expedite and not "exacerbate" the refund...

Pretty funny stuff....

Yes guilty, your honour.

I often just like to write without thinking then I am equally as surprised as the reader at what I write.

The defiantly word is a typo, I used to write that and realised the brain is racing ahead so quick it wants to press "a" first.

I guess that happens a lot.

In the meantime, whilst we are awaiting a clue can I offer a simple one to guess.

Both components are used together.

I actually used to use this back in the early 80s

Straw bales certainly in Europe were made simply to stack in barns for food for cows, pigs,horses etc because it is simply too cold and wet to grow it all year round.

It could be that the factor here is cows, its not worth it to bring in a baling harvester for a few cows here and there.

Great idea though, the true eco house.

Would that be the type that you mesh up everywhere then apply mud as the wall finish.

Hope you don't smoke!

For the tiling, well if its a budget estimate then ok.
You say the tile cost is 600, actually 300bt tiles will get you large polished tiles, but for plain patio tiles 200bt give or take.

How big is your patio? If you ordered 1m3 concrete, delivered it may cost 4/5000 bt.
At 100mm thick that spreads to 10m2......therefore as a guide concrete cost becomes 500bt/m2

Conclusion, pay for the materials yourself at around 750bt=m2 and suggest to the labourers you will pay them 500bt a day each.

well that's what I would do if I didn't have time to do it myself.

Edit...of course I assume you have concrete lorry access and you need at least one cube.

Its a jailers keyring combined with knuckle duster.

One year Into the thread, Mr Fall guy, can you remember what what you needed the duct tape for?

You never said....

And it would be annoying if a better solution was available from the brains out here.

I sympathise bud.....

Its one of the things I dread when out on the bike after 6pm.

If I was drunk I would be stupid and try to drive home, even if it was 10km,....if if was sober....I would try to drive home but a bit slower.....

Well that's the truth isn't it.....

A desperate call to the f/f (girlfriend when not drunk) really would be worth the hasslr, wud it?

Chill ouy bud, worse things happen .

Compus mente....nitnoi!

I suppose a muzzle loader is too obvious?

Right bag of laughs you are eye catcher eh !!!!

Hope I don't end up like you when I'm that old

Crack on

What's even sadder is that I am not that old......

......but unlike you, I have a sense of humour and always will.

Some people say you have a sense of humour others tell the truth

Ah, you mean the American sect.

Is it for taking a core out of newly made cheese to test it for taste and maturity.

The grooves and shape lend itself to a sample take of some nature.

Howabout basketware?, ...in goes the wet reeds while they are soft and twisted and later dry out into a basket handle......

I knew I would get it!.....yes?....no?

Solely based on your clue, is it for making ropes?

The cord goes in the central part and the handle and teeth and pushed/ pulled in a sawing action which spins the central cog.

Miles away but logical I suppose

Right bag of laughs you are eye catcher eh !!!!

Hope I don't end up like you when I'm that old

Crack on

What's even sadder is that I am not that old......

......but unlike you, I have a sense of humour and always will.

Thaidown has to be Krisb alter ego.

He uncannily seems to know what most of these are.

So......he is either our oldest board member or its krisb in disguise trying to drag out this quiz into the next century.

Just to get the full picture; ok so you are high up; so blockage unlikely.

you said the toilet backs up.....do you mean it doesnt flush properly and the bowl just fills up when the cistern is flushed?..............in effect there is a vacuum being created.

pretty much like trying to fill a bottle of water with a funnel blocking the neck,

if the stack is not vented, then yes a vacuum can occur and of course you can end up with the full stench of the drains coming up through any open shower drains.

did you ask neighbours above and below using the same stack if they experience the same probelm?

The house longhorn beetle, I agree,

these are the ones that come from the giant white witchity grubs (i think) as i had dozens in my compost pile a few month ago.

notorious wood eaters, they are on my hit list, living in a tree house myself.

The venting scenario you discuss is more likely to occur with high level wcs not ground floor wcs.

Certainly do not need to vent it, but the drain is likely to be vented elsewhere,around mh lid, open gullies.

I would say your problem is the lack of fall in the drain, your 100 diam drain should be falling at 1:40 but here its 1:1000000...or uphill!

Over time its just collecting, sitting on pipe joints, lumps of concrete that were never cleaned out ...snakes?

In the first instance I would get lots of buckets of water and discharhe them all into the bowl, the pressure and constant rush of water may clear the blockage.

You can also include the drain cleaner crystals in some buckets, they eat $h1t like nothing else very quickly, and dissolve hair balls and the like.

I would err on the side of caution about removing bolt plugs as you could solve one problem but create and completely new one.....a very smelly house.!