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  1. Don't need a dpc for a garden wall. But I couldn't find any what you would call bricks in any builders merchant, they were just those red

    strange rex looking things, certainly not what id call a brick.

     

    You will see gaps at the side of the blockwork, where lots use the concrete post system. 

     

    They will probably want that, as that's how you build walls in Thailand, apparently. Good luck with the project.

     

    As for paying 100,000 baht for a 100 metre wall. I did it with local labour for approx 35,000 Buy your own materials, use the locals for the

    hand digging and manual labour, that doesn't take any brainwork and get 1 skilled man to oversee it.

  2. 3 hours ago, happy Joe said:

     

    Really ?

     

    I thought it was the Americans.

     

    And not saved of German but to the Russian Red Army who were winning on East front. 

     

    This shows that the story is different depending on where you were born.

     

    And for this indelicate English man, do not count on me to throw a stone. Of course, this gesture was not very smart but there was no violence neither premeditation nor misleading and therefore the offense remains minor.

    No definitely not the Americans , they came in late again after pearl harbour. If Britain had not have acted Europe would have fallen then Germany and Japan, would have won wherever they wanted.

     

    of course America helped win the war with the Russians and allied. Forces

  3. 4 hours ago, Deepinthailand said:

    Top tradesman in your own mind  I expect. If you only pay 250 I'm not suprised no one wants to do the job properly. 

    Yes dear. 

     

    Carry on on being the family atm.

     

    i will carry on earning £1200 a week in London, being a bad tradesman. ?

  4. Not hi so in the slightest. Just a top tradesman in my own country.

     

    I say as it is, poor quality workers, not saying lazy, just stupid in the extreme and unskilled.

     

    I pay 250 baht as thats all the labourers are worth. You get what your worth in life. I paid one that showed a bit of nouse 400 as i taught

    him how to lay a few properly.

  5. How many have actually got a degree?

     

    I taught English for a number of years, without any qualifications at a local school. When i left the income was 40,000 per year. (baht).

     

    Its not qualifications that count, you cant teach how to be a teacher, its there or it is not.

     

    My tip is keep yourself to yourself and dont let on to other regarding qualifications ect.

     

    Enjoy the country and all the best.

  6. Why do people use the posts when building garden walls? Ive just built a large boundry wall about 2 rai perimiter, using block pillars and expansion joints, the thais never seen such like and kept asking if it would fall down.

     

    The materials compared to the west approx two thirds cheaper, but the blocks with the holes in are to be honest crap, couldnt find a solid block, but that was in buriram.

     

    Local labour 250 baht a day, but not a brain between them, cant be left unsupervised as will make a mess of the simplest task again

    thai knows best. 

     

    The only building trowels they sell in the whole of buriram are what i call pointing trowels about as much use as a small spoon.

     

    I personally given what i saw when using thai workers, wouldnt let them build a man hole never mind proper construction. 

  7. Correct the wearing of the amulets, came from the West.

    The amulet was originally designed to be placed at the point of worship.

    The Thai culture is all about face, even as to who has the best and most expensive amulet, its all a bit sad really.

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