dave111223

That's a pretty small window, I just found this company, http://www.pvcwindows-thailand.com/double_glazing.html will have a look at win master

Well obviously they don't sell them only in 1 size

That is to give you an idea of price.

We are having double glazed installed on our house shortly (still under construction). The frames are aluminum and seemed very good quality based on the show models, company is "Win Master" and the office we went to is in ChokChai4 Lat Pla Khoa, but I think they have a few offices.

Our windows are actually laminated (2 bits of glass with plastic sandwiched in the middle). But they also do double glazed with an air gap in the middle. As I understand it air gap is better for sound/heat insulation, but laminated stops robbers better.

Price of an opening window size: 75cm X 145cm with 4mm+4mm laminated glass = 7,500THB

Plus the roll up bug screens: 2,000 THB per window

As for reselling they are building these type of house all over the place up that way, I can buy new for 1.5 million, why should I buy a 10 year old one for the same price?

I doubt you'll be able to buy that same new townhouse for 1.5M in 10 years. 10years ago you could buy similar places for 800-900K, not anymore.

I have seen Thai style houses up that way that cost about 6/700,000 baht to build, buy a piece of land for about 3 or 400,000 baht and it can be done.

How much land are you planning to get around Bangkok for 300-400K? You'd need at least 50TW to built a single detached house (considering a 2meter border is required around the building). That's 6K per TW...not likely, even in Pathum Thani with decent road access and water/electric available I doubt you find below 10-15K (especially on a small plot like that)

Like I said...a shack in the jungle (aka a nice "Thai style" house).

And to the OP, Wordpress also has a built in theme editor, so that if you want to edit the code on your theme you can do it without needing any other programs (Dreamweaver etc..)

Wordpress also allows you to search for and install plugins directly via your site admin. You never need to leave your site, for example, want a different WYSIWYG, just search the plugins admin for ckeditor, and click "Install"...done... can you do that with Joomla? With Joomla you'd have to go to Joomla.org or Google search for ckeditor...go to the ckeditor patch site, try and find the correct package that goes with your Joomla version, download the package, upload the package, configure your Joomla setting to use ckeditor.

With 14 Joomla! sites out there (11 on 2.5 and 3 on 1.5...being upgraded) I can say that 2.5 has never had an issue with the upgrades (not something that I could say I was convinced about with 1.5) though I would still recommend running a 'localhost' like XAMPP to check your sites before an upgrade. Once you have the workflow it takes about 5 minutes to check each site locally before an upgrade, then I head online let Akeeba backup the site as part of the upgrade path. Brilliant and simple. The component they are using for their upgrade engine is based off Akeeba backup and is VERY well written indeed. As always with Joomla! though it takes a little longer and you need more commitment to get your results. The results are certainly more flexible though.

I think you just reiterated my point...all that compared to clicking one button in Wordpress "Update". And a properly built Wordpress site will never be broken upon upgrade because you never have to edit any core files or database tables ever to do anything, and Wordpress always depreciate functions very gently over time. Plus all official plugins are stored in a centralized depository so all plugin are also automatically updateable with the same one-click procedure.

In reality the "easy" website will look like an "easy" website.

This seems like an overly broad statement. Building a site more easily/efficiently does not necessarily mean it will be any worse.

My customers could install Joomla! themselves, buy a template and go from there, but they have businesses to run so they pay me to do that for them. Because of that I am better than they can be as I give 10+ hours per day to understanding and working with it. How much money does the OP want to make from this site and what kind of sites does he buy from/develop trust in?

Sure I can understand that as I do the same thing, but the OP is asking to build his own site, not asking "Where can I find someone to build/maintain my site for me"

Another complaint with Joomla is their template system uses a tag replacement (ie <jdoc:include type="component" />) instead of straight PHP, meaning you cannot modify any of the content from directly in the template, instead have pre-load format it with a plugin, which adds unnecessary work.

Also the Joomla menu system is clunky at best. You have to assign pages to a menu item in order to access the page via an SEO path...even to the point of having to create hidden menus for pages that you want to access, but don't want them in your actual menu (for example if you want to link to a page via a banner image)...

I agree with driedmango. Get Wordpress, install a free theme, or a $50 paid theme and you have a professional looking site within a few hours.

If you have never done any webdesign, getting Dreamweaver will result in a few weeks worth of work and end up with a crap website that looks like it comes from 1995.

bangkockney I'd be interested if you can name one thing that you can do with Joomla that you can't with Wordpress.

I'll name something you can't do with Joomla...keep it up to date easily. Even with 2.5 their update system is still junk, it never automatically find updates, and you still have to manually find and upload the correct upgrade package. They constantly bringing out new incompatible major release versions and maintaining them all concurrently, so you have to try and figure out which branch you want to be using (you want 1.6, 1.7, 2.5, 3.0?)

My father in law recently purchased a new townhouse in Samut Prakan in a moobaan for 1.5M. 2 Floor, 3 (small) bedrooms. So i'm sure you can find similar in Pathum Thani.

It's worth noting that in these kind of budget moobaans you get "budget residents"....it would not surprise me if I went to visit my FIL one day and there were chickens running around the moobaan streets and industrial size oven chimneys coming around of his neighbors house. But there is also a strong sense of community as there are always lots of people out and about (or at least laying about drunk).... I guess it depends which way you look at it.

At that price you will probably end up on a plot less than 30tw, same as all the others, making it almost impossible to shift if you need to sell.

My advice is buy a piece of land and build your own house.
As for the suggestion above, well i suppose it depends on how you define "nice", most of them are overpriced crap, poorly fitted and finished, cheap housing for the masses.

30TW is big for a townhouse, most are built on around 20TW of land (unless you get an end unit with garden at the side)...I don't see why this would make it a problem to re-sell?

There is no way you'll be able to buy land and build your own house for 1.5Million around Bangkok unless it's literally a shack in the jungle.

I just opened 2Checkout Website and I see their fee is 5.5 %, not 4 % as you claim?

Hmm..looks like they changed their signup rates up. I'm sure if you contact them before you sign up and telling them your "friend that referred you to them" was able to get a rate of 3.99% when they signed up, they'll be able to offer you the same rate.

You can't negotiate rates with Paypal, they already have a tiered fee schedule where the rates decreases if you have a certain sales volume:

https://www.paypal.com/th/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborder-fees-outside&countries

With 2Checkout you can negotiate the rates after you have been using them for at least 6 months. I would not think that they go much below the 3.5% range even for LARGE volumes (millions of $ per year)

As previously discussed in this topic i was not impressed with either Paysbuy or ThaiEPay.

2Checkout already has a module for Ubercart: https://www.2checkout.com/shopping-cart/ubercart/

On our wired alarm system has 2 sensors per spot (vibration + open/closed) and they ran 1 phone cable (with 4 wires inside) to each spot.

If you wanted to spend more you could run CAT5 lan cable instead, that has 8 wires inside so would allow up to 4 sensors per cable. LAN cable would also allow you much options in the future for more advanced stuff (such as video intercoms etc...)

Make sure they wire the zones properly, our alarm box has 8 or 9 zones, but when I asked the installers about it they had planned on wiring it only for 2 zones. Obviously you want to utilize as many zones as your alarm box will handle.

dyndns.org sucks now.

They offer a "free basic service" if you sign up for their Pro service for a month first.

I signed up for their Pro Service, then emailed them and canceled after the first month and wanted to continue with the free basic service as promised. They canceled my account stating some bull**** in their TOS. Gold digging liars, and such a shame as it used to be an awesome site/service.

What really sucks is many routers are hardcoded so that the DDNS only work with dyndns.org

We are still using 2checkout; almost a year now since the original problems with PayPal.

I was able to negotiate the 2checkout rates down to 3.69%. Based on our volume we would be able to get a rate of 3.2% from Paypal:

https://www.paypal.com/th/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborder-fees-outside&countries

However Paypal gives an exchange rates which is a couple of % off the real exchange rate, so when you factor that in the real Paypal cost is closer to 5%

I have had some troubles with 2Checkout during the time with them such as:

• Had a few stolen credit card chargebacks, and 2checkout we really useless at contesting them. We had full UPS tracking for deliveries and they still lost the chargebacks with the issuing banks, stating reason as "Card wasn't present"...(well no sh*t you offer a service for online merchants...card is never present). Even Paypal handles these better. On the plus side 2Checkout leaves the contested money in your account until the entire matter is finalized.
• 2Checkout removed their Mastercard processing for several months (back online now) and customers had to go through to Paypal if they had a mastercard, which was an inconvenience to customers.
• Their support is pretty rubbish and slow in general, if you need to contact them,...took about 2 months back and forth just over a tax form that they wanted (had to fill it in about 20 different times)

However even given these issues i'm sticking with 2checkout and will not go back to Paypal any time soon. Most of the time 2Checkout just works, you can almost forget out them completely and money just ends up in your bank, which is what i want.

TOA premium paints (such as Supershield and Duraclean) can be mixed to a wide range of colors which are chosen from color swatches.

They also come in 4 "Base" whites, labled A, B, C, D. Each 4 digital color swatch code will also have a corresponding "base".

Light colors are mixed using "Base A" paint, and dark colors are mixed using "Base D", and all the colors inbetween will use B or C depending on their darkness.

I went in Homepro to order about 4 different colors of paints the other day, to test various colors to see what I liked for my upcoming house painting. One of the colors came out of the mixer and looked nothing like the color swatch (way darker). We (wife and I) repeatedly asked the paint assistant why the color was so different from the chart, they shrugged and said we had to pay for it anyways (once you are order the paint you must pay no matter how it looks).

I noticed that they had put it on a "Base D" and also for some reason highlight only the letter "D" in the order book. I asked if I could order that color on a base C or B instead...turns out C was out of stock.

Went into a different Homepro told them the color code and asked what base it was supposed to be on; you guessed it, supposed to be on a "base C"

Moral of the story: make sure you get the correct base

When they pull up your color code on the computer before mixing it, make sure you actually look at what base it should be using, as they will try to substitute out the base and give you the wrong color.

So I got ripped off and paid for paint of the wrong color because of the employee using the wrong color base, but I think it was a valuable lesson that when I actually paint the house I make sure all the bases are correct before paying for the paint, or using any of the paint.

I find these kind of situations come up a lot here. In my mind whoever has the shortest/easiest distant to reverse, should be the one to reverse; I've found many Thais do not seem to think this way.

The least important person is expected to reverse.

That often translates to cheapest, oldest car reverses.

What if I have a really crap car but a paid way too much for it?

I think richard_smith237 has it correct. The guy refuses to reverse a couple of meters to let them out, and beats them to make them reverse 50+ meters instead.

Apparently he's not actually police and is some kind of mafia related sort, in which case I can't imagine he'd care much who saw him beating these women...in fact probably good for his rep. in that kind of world.

Can't imagine the police will do anything about this clearly documented assault either though.

I find these kind of situations come up a lot here. In my mind whoever has the shortest/easiest distant to reverse, should be the one to reverse; I've found many Thais do not seem to think this way.

Agree with TommoPhysicist, the best course of action when confronted with a non-reversing douche is to wait them out, unless of course a weapon (gun, stick, knife etc..) appears then you best be popping it into reverse.

Have a look on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_kw=Thailand+1949+Bank+Note+1+Baht+Paper+Money+King+Rama+IX+Siam+Asia+Nice

LOL that guy is selling current 100THB bills for 630THB...now that's one way to make a living

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THAILAND-100-Baht-Banknote-World-Money-Currency-BILL-Asia-Note-p114-2005-King-/230847448951?pt=Paper_Money&hash=item35bf948777

(Free shipping mind!)

I noticed that most shops that accept bitcoins have their products actually priced in their own currency and use an exchange rate to show the bitcoin price.

They also use an exchange/payment facility that as soon as bitcoins arrive in their account it is changed to dollars or euros or whatever.

What they do is ride a hype but still price everything in 'normal' currencies.

Agreed, but of course it has to start this way. But i think as more merchants start to get on board there will be more reason for merchants to hold on to some of the bitcoins they receive and re-use them without conversion.

For example if you can pay you're web hosting bill, or telephone bills or pizza for bitcoins then you pay only exchange 90% of your bitcoin sales to cash, then keep 10% bitcoins to pay these items. And as more and more items become available for bitcoins cashout percentage will continue to decrease....maybe someday you won't need to exchange at all.

Example of practical use real world today:

• My parents, in US, ordered Singapore GP tickets using their credit card.
• I sent them money for my ticket in Bitcoins (about $200 worth).
• They had bitcoin money in their wallet within a minute
• I paid a fee of 89 satang
• They can now use that to buy their next 20 pizzahut medium pizzas But, given the current appreciation in value, it will probably buy them their next 30 or 40 pizzas.

Or of course they could just cash them in locally for USD if they wanted.

Can anyone give an easier/cheaper/quicker way that I could have got the money to them? Imagine when it's not just pizza they can buy, but groceries, gas, restaurants...it's coming

NOW:

1 Bitcoin > 1oz Silver

When are Thais going to stand up and say “No More“? or is the subservient attitude going to continue to be taken advantage of by major retailers such as the likes of Big C.

When they are ready to pay the extra XX% to cover the extra cost of better warranty and after sales service. You get what you pay for.

The way I see it you can either accept the real price (495) or reject/return the items as you don't want them for that price.

Doesn't really make sense to me that they HAVE to sell it to you for 425...forcing someone to sell something for a price they don't want sell it for is not really the kind of society for me.

One thing that I don't really understand about incorrect prices here, is that you can go back next week and the price will still be wrong, even though there are 10 employees standing idly next to it, just poor management I guess.

So you are staying that instead of building a house you should stick all your money in a single stock and hope it doubles? Then move to the Canary Islands but continue posting in a Thailand forum?

For our Thai property experts, please tell me what is wrong with this house and how much it will cost to rectify the problem?

The picture is taken from inside the living room looking outside onto the street.

Door frame not straight? No cost, just yell at builder to fix it.

Agreed with robblok; van drivers are worse. I find it that much more repugnant too, because they are holding the lives of more passengers in their hands but still drive that way. Can't count the number of times I've been following traffic on the highway at 120 with a van about 2" away from my rear bumper.

In 3-4 years time it will probably be all the same houses listed and unsold, but the price will have doubled....welcome to Thai real estate.