mran66

can also recommend PK air, been using them for years for all my aircon cleanings and installs

cleaning 400 baht.

if need some more work is reasonably priced

Thanks for comments. Seems this is something that can not be conluded prior to detailed diagnosis based on mri and biopsy and consequent treatment alternatives. 

Benefit of Thailand esp Pattaya would be close proximity of hospital from home. In home country hospitals are far from home facilities in case such would be needed for longer treatment. 

My brother most probably will get diagnosis of prostate cancer ( high PSA, lump in prostate based on manual examination), and for all practical purposes he will not end up being treated in his current country of residence, practical options being treated being our home country, or Thailand.

He has insurance that should cover the treatment in full.

For practicalities would be more convenient in Pattaya as could stay with me and I could provide the support during the treatment, and distance to hospital small,

Question is about capabilities in Pattaya hospitals in this area - anybody have experiences either own or of friends who would have had prostate cancer treatments in Pattaya (BPH as primary candidate I guess); are their capabilities OK, or better look for either Bangkok or home country, even if the 'home support' would be more challenging in those?

In general, what are the top hospitals in Thailand in this area, I would expect some in Bangkok?

Try Pattaya2u in Tukcom, in computer floor. Had my mac touchpad replaced there ( i guess they got original parts from somewhere, not sure). Anyway good reliable place to at least go ask.

They also have  a shop in alley behind tukcom

29 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

 

As longtimers we all know here planning is not the strong point in Thailand

...planning...what is that????...already forgotten that such exists...

1 hour ago, tlandtday said:

tourist high season... can this get any dumber?

...few months ago there was supply interruption announced for 24hr, lasted 3 times longer where I live...hope better planning this time

1 hour ago, kingofthemountain said:

There are a PWA phone number, a Line and a FB in the link i have given in my OP post

you can try one of it. If you are with someone who can speak and write in Thai it should be more easy.

thanks. Sent a message to them, curious to see if any action. Have small continuous leak from underground near my house which I believe is a PWA line as no other waterlines should be under the road, been like that for years but nobody fix...cynical guess is that nothing will happen but you never know...

Anybody know of website or email of pwa where to report leakages of pwa water pipes? 

5 hours ago, Beggar said:

 

The temperature sensor is okay. I measured the temperature and it really goes below 0 C and switches off then. 

Hmmm... Are u 100% sure it is ok? Cutting at 0 is a different issue from measuring against the set temperature. Did u try swap the sensor with the working unit?

Just wondering. In my case I assume the broken sensor gave meaningless input to computer inhibiting the system to run properly. Fan rotate very slow, slower than in any normal use case. 

18 minutes ago, Beggar said:

800 Baht. 200 Baht. I have Daikins - sadly... The temperature sensor is okay. I measured the temperature and it really goes below 0 C and switches off then. I could pull the sensor away - but the ice will come and block the fins.

 

The fan runs only a fraction of the spead compared to the good 2nd aircon. I am thinking too about swapping the electrical parts one by one. But I am looking for someone doing it AND fixing it when the problem is clear. The boards are not easy to remove and I am worried that I break something. Perhaps I should be more worried that they break something ????

Okay. Sounds like pointers indeed are towards the board then. Mine was very easy to pull out luckily. 

Amazing how different spares pricing strategy Daikin have vs LG... In general all spares I have had to buy for my appliances have had friendly pricing. 

12k for a board sounds VERY high... I just had a new inverter 12k btu aircon installed for that amount! Haier though. 

I had exactly similar behavior with my LG aircon couple of years ago. I thoght board kaputt so I got new board from LG service and after replacing still same. Luckily I had two similar units in house so thought I would try change all electrical parts one by one until it start run. Swapped motor no change. Then swapped temperature sensor and voila it start work. 

LG service was kind enough to refund the 800 baht board. 

So check your temp sensor. Just might be it, recall was something like 200 baht from LG. Very easy to replace and cheap even to just give a shot. 

Other aircon had some components burned as jingchok got in and caused short. Took the board to the handicapped man shop just before soi 19 on 3rd road. He fixed it for small fee. 

15 hours ago, Hans007 said:

N26 is pretty good. Can open online if you are having EU passport.

 

Hans

... And Revolut in UK another alternative, pretty much same as German N26. Opened both in minutes a while back. All work good. No costs for visa cards. 

2 hours ago, Fruit Trader said:

Global, Hardware House or a local HDPE supply store will have a complete valve or male adaptors for your valve of choice.

Adaptors with separate metal gate or ball valve is the best solution.

 

HDP pipe supply Pattaya here - https://tinyurl.com/yx8bl4pg

 

 

 

 

Thanks - can u send a map link, this link leads to street view and I am stupid enough not to get it back to map view... 

17 hours ago, RideJocky said:

You mean the compression fittings on irrigation pipe? Not sure about Pattaya but pretty sure Global House has a bunch of that stuff.

Thanks - yes the compression fittings.

I saw some fittings for irrigation pipes on watsadu (recall had some green color in addition to black) but thought they were for low pressure application, not pressurized water line.  My need I just next to water meter in feed line to my house. Irrigation parts looked a bit different, but maybe could be good enough and fit

Maybe I should actually go and ask if they good for this purpose and see if they have valves.

I would need to add a valve into my black pvc water supply line (after meter). Was looking from hardware stores but did not see anything of this type at all. Current installation has 90deg angle extensions and a T-branch with insert-and-screw-to-tighten installation.

Anybody know if valve units of same type would be available from somewhere? Basically would expect to look a bit like the T piece, just with inlet and outlet and the valve screw in the third direction? 

Or any alternative solutions for (compact) valve installation to this pipe? Possible to glue blue pvc parts with the applicable glue to this black pipe? Or how? 

Based in pattaya. 

during past 12 mo I would say between 33 and 80 per kilo depending on season (i.e supply) and how much you buy. 

good supply you get 3kg for 100 incl the better tasting Yellow ones.

bad supply price tends to go to 70-80 kg for good quality ones. The orange 'cambodia' type still can get 3 for 100 most of the time

average over good and bad supply season for good yellow ones  I guess around 50 

In pattaya enough to visit index and fur 9, I looked couple of years ago and ended up buying from fur 9.

Nowadays have quite many available thru lazada as well, maybe shopee too. I assume same China made products that fur 9 sell,maybe better price. 

have a link please

have a link please

Bought a soft homematt mattress for myself some years ago from the mattress shop in front of HomePro cashiers in Pattaya Klang, I recall paid about 13000 (>30cm thick and soft enough), though not as soft as can get from IKEA at 10000. Prior to buying a new mattress, bought a soft topper that put on top of the hard mattress that came with my house, did not work with my back, pain every morning. So if your back sensitive for softness, topper may not work if base mattress is hard. My experience on toppers actually is that first have a very soft, thick and comfy mattress, and then put a solid memory foam topper on top to provide a bit rigidity, not the other way around. But to each of their own

If would buy now for myself, would get the soft one from IKEA and maybe put a topper on top.

About a year go I looked 5ft mattress for guest room, and I recall Baan&Beyond had a fairly thick foam mattress for around 6000 baht. Felt soft and comfortable and would have bought it however someone was selling effectively unused soft spring+foam mattress for 4000 that he said was too soft for him. Maybe they still have those for sale in B&B , not sure.

I would also tend to agree that for pretty much any furniture category, IKEA is the only place where you can get reasonably priced decent quality modern style furniture here. Index lower quality higher price. And for mattresses, local mattresses either cheap and rock hard or otherwise uncomfortable, or very expensive if soft. 10k from IKEA is a fair deal and very comfy. They have different hardness levels too so that can choose what you like...even the hardest is soft by local standards though.

But if you like hard and/or uncomfortable spring mattress, can just walk to closest furniture tent and find one for 2-3000 or something like that...

I also been wondering why most of movie channel streams in mobdro and livelounge stopped working, sounds similar to your situation though I dont know about sports as not follow.

Not a connection issue as not work on true online, nor on true or ais mobile neither

Not sure if they can do the length you mention but I had a piece of steel bent to specific size/angles and drilled as a bed frame support. They were located on Sukhumvit, I think from memory, just before or after Pattaya Tai going southbound - it was a long time ago. I stumbled on them after basically driving up and down Suk trying every place that looked like they could do it.
Another potential place is the well known stainless steel place on Suk going northbound on Suk in between the 2nd Road extension and the lights at Chaiapruek.

13 minutes ago, topt said:

Not sure if they can do the length you mention but I had a piece of steel bent to specific size/angles and drilled as a bed frame support. They were located on Sukhumvit, I think from memory, just before or after Pattaya Tai going southbound - it was a long time ago. I stumbled on them after basically driving up and down Suk trying every place that looked like they could do it.

Another potential place is the well known stainless steel place on Suk going northbound on Suk in between the 2nd Road extension and the lights at Chaiapruek.

thanks, need to drive around to have a look.

re length, if can not do so long, I think could be done in two sections

... Bump... Really nobody knows place that can bend some sheetmetal?

Was playing with the box, apps and vpn today again and learnt that the problem I had with livelounge is actually not because of box performance nor vpn server speed, rather because of latency of vpn to a particular server.

Livelounge app seems to be particularly sensitive, if latency more than around 250ms, starts stuttering. Servers nearby like bkk no problems at all. Latency up to 230ms no issues, above that start see.

I need vpn for particular geo blocking anyway, even if no need for iptv apps like livelounge or mobdro. Cheap, less than $2 a month so not a financial issue, rather technical one.