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we used tsp in Australia as well as sugar soap, both work well and are used by all tradesmen. Using a primer over it will not work as it will not bind to the surface and either just craze or pull off the surface when painted over or knocked, you need to remove the oil etc from the walls/ceilings first , hot water alone will not do it, you need something in it that will break down the oil/fat then it has to be rinsed off using clean hot water

I buy from a couple of facebook business's and they supply great product, think it is really a matter of doing your research as there are some I would never buy from. Websites do not mean they are any good, I am well aware of websites that are extremely dishonest and are just there for turnover, its like any other business, you have to do your research on them

thats it, my wife has had her first sinopharm shot and will get the second one this week, didnt want the chinese stuff but ended up with no choice, she has been booked in for the moderna shots in 2 hospital since it was first called for but couldnt wait any longer, will sell the other 2 now unless she can keep one for a booster shot later on

they need to give him the same treatment, make him eat dog poo and beat the <deleted> out of him, shows how pathetic these people are to do this to 12 y/o girls, should be removed from the service as well as being locked up, arrogant piece of excrement he is

hopefully we dont see the next big covid breakout after this with so many people intermingling and many ignoring any safety measures, think we will be sitting this one out this year

as long as everyone entering Thailand has to do quarantine and be tested as well as having been vaccinated and passed a test before coming here it will hopefully be ok. The insurance shouldnt have to apply to thai citizens as they are covered in country anyway and that should be the only difference between all arrivals

just received this messge from the bank "Regarding for your inquiry, we would like to inform you that due to the current situation as shown in the news meet some credit and debit card holder customers facing the problem of making a payment transaction without manually transacting for the security of account information, therefore the bank suspends the payment of goods and services transactions with most online merchants registered abroad which has a lot of fraudulent shops". it appears that overseas institutions(amazon, paypal to name a couple) are now considered fraudulent by bangkok bank but that all thai ones are ok, looks like they are taking their queues from the health minister, does this mean that we can no longer do verseas buys from Thailand to keep the bank happy and only spend OUR money in Thailand

what an idiotic reply, there is a big difference between allowing someone 14 or younger to drive a car/motorbike on the streets of towns/cities and letting 17 y/o kids have a beer, then again thai kids are extremely child like till well into their 20's. I have 7 grandkids, I lost a 14 year old daughter when she was drugged, raped and thrown form a train in Australia so I am well aware of what can happen with kids, do you have kids or are you another one that knows buggerall about kids and just has a big mouth. I did a lot of crazy things growing up that could have cause major damage to myself but we did not drive/ride cars/motorbikes on city streets at 14 or younger(in the bush we did), then again we had parents that were educated and had good parenting skills unlike many thais, I can say that without any animosity/racism because it is true and can be seen every day. We rode bicycles miles to school as well as on weekends to do things, nothing stopping thai kids doing it except they dont like to do anything physical, they are allowed to ride to and from school on motorbikes & thats fine but look at how many ride outside these times and do so without any thought to it being illegal as well as doing so like idiots because their parents dont give a damn, shows just how pathetric some thai parenting can be, no respect or regard for anyone else although there are some that do the right thing by their kids but a lot dont, obviously you are one of them if you even have any kids

going on the 30% rule that means someone will pocket a goodly amount for doing it, anything to boost their personal accounts, why do something for the general population when you can pocket millions for doing this sort of thing

these kids are supposed to be able to ride to and from school only but no one enforces it, parents dont give a sh*t as it means they dont have to do anything, police dont care as they cant make extra money from them, the kids themselves are in most cases lacking any real intelligence/responsibility to care. The amount of times I have seen kids that look to be a lot younger than 14 riding scooters around with smaller kids on them as well or older kids hooning on scooters is very common, until parents start to take responsibility for their kids which will never happen here or the police start to do their jobs which also will never happen kids will continue to die on scooters. Then you have the idiot parents that let their 14 y/o drive cars, the mental abilities of many thai parents is very low as is any parental responsibility, thai education plus the govt are fully to blame as they do not want thais to have the intelligence to think for themselves as it would mean the end of all their graft & corruption. Condolences to the girl but her parents need to face up to their lack of responsibilty too

after reading the full version it would appear that they didnt have brake failure but rolled backwards down the hill after stopping to let 2 people get out, more than likely the driver stalled the car while it was in neutral without the hand brake on or foot on the brake, only way it can roll backwards

Been trying to do an online transaction with my mastercard but it keeps getting denied using it direct and through paypal, it worked fine earlier this afternoon, then after being denied a few times I tried it on a thai online purchase(lazada) that went straight through so it appears they are not allowing any transactions that are outside Thailand for some reason, anyone else having this problem., hopefully it is only a glitch and will not continue as I got the mastercard to enable me to make out of Thailand transactions with it.

so they have dismissed all of the ones involved from the police force and have them locked up to be charged with murder, definitely a good start but have to wonder what will happen with joe and all his money once they go to trial

you can see marks in the paint when using a magnifying glass, problem is with the stucco finish under the new paint, was never washed/cleaned down or sealed before new paint. Years of grime, smoke etc will stop paint from adhering to it as well as cause the new paint to react to it as well, if they used a cheap paint or watered down the paint this will also speed it up. Another cause could be the new paint causing the old paint to react, as the new paint dries it causes the old paint to lose adherence to the surface, had this happen to me several times over 30 years in the trade, this again is caused by the original surface not being clean/dust, grease, smoke free or even the stucco finish not being done properly by lack of preparation, something I see in Thailand a lot, its why I painted our new house and all the new gyprock/dry wall in our other house when it was replaced, thais do not sweep down the gyprock( all the sanded joints/screw heads) before painting which is a main cause for paint letting go. You need to get onto the owner and make sure he acknowkedges the problem now so you cannot be blamed in the future, only way to stop it is to sweep it down with stiff bristled brush/broom to removes as much lose paint as possible then use a penetrating/bonding sealer that will penetrate the paint to seal/bond & hold it all togther but I have never seen this type product over here

can you post a pic of the ceilings, there are a few reasons for this happening, could be the new paint isnt bonding to the old paint(painted over grime, water damage, smoke etc)or has been watered down too much and is breaking down or it is garbage paint, a pic will help so I can see exactly what it is doing on the ceiling. Make sure you notify the owner as well as they may well try to blame you

they need to put their money where their mouth is, they want to totally waste 200 million baht of some tarted up teen that appeals to 10/12 year olds let them pay her with their money then get re embursed with the money they say she will generate, this is total BS figures like everything else they do with fake figures. The govt needs to fire all these idiots before they trash the country, with covid they will not get anywhere near the numbers they are claiming, its all in their head and they are probably hoping to pocket a lot of that money as well

easier to blame farangs than the pathetic police that really dont care unless there is money to be made from it, so much for their "smart" cars that are supposed to be able to sort this sort of thing out extremely quickly. Takes them many years to find thais that have murdered people but 5 days is too long for a farang to be found, really shows how racist these idiots really are, blaming foreigners instead of accepting that their police force is a joke at best, they are the real criminals as has been shown time and again

the amount of times you come around a bend and find some idiot has stopped in the driving lane to take pics etc has been a problem for years here, too many lack any common road sense what so ever and do not consider any other road users at all

my wife went guarantor for her cousin to get 20,000 baht of tyres/wheels for his car, he actually worked for her at the business she manages. He traded the car in a couple of weeks later on a newer model and no one has seen him since plus he never made any repayments on the new car or the tyres/wheels, you cant even trust your own family let lone an ex husband, only a total fool would sign for an ex husband

I am hand watering in Surat Thani, havent had a decent rain for that long it isnt funny, even the dam only has a metre of water in it.

first thing you do when you disarm someone is get rid of the weapon so it cant be used again, I was attacked by a thai with a meat cleaver, once I dropped him on his ar*e I took meat cleaver off him and got rid of it just in case he was able to get it back plus I did not want to be charged for threatening him with it. It was all caught on video as well yet he was not charged and the police made us shake hands when the interviews were done at the station, until I produced the video(from a neighbour) his family was saying I attacked him, he was in his 20's, I am in my 60's but had a lot of training when I served. In this death you also really have to wonder if the police are doing a blood test on the intruder to see what his alcohol/drug count was at the time, would explain why he was the one with the injuries and not the husband(unless he also had some sort of training), with all the added BS coming into it now it will be interesting to see what actually happens.

You dont want to use paint as that will be temporary at best, you need to buy a waterproofing material or something tht will set up a membrane, I dont really know what is available here for those jobs so cannot give you any advise, in Australia I used both types of products but those materials are not available in Thailand.

when you are attacked in your own home with a gun weilding robber you are entitled to defend yourself, in any other country it would be recognised as self defence, if a thai had done it, it would also be looked at as self defence but because a farang that was 10 years older than the robber did it he is being charged, really shows the anti farang views/laws they have here.

once again we see why Thailand is becoming a laughing stock of the world, between all the open corruption that has been on show we now have a so called top virologist making out tetanus is contagious, really shows why thai doctors are not regarded very highly by the rest of the world and this one is classed as a top virologist here, no wonder thay have to resit a doctors exam to be able to see if they are intelligent enough to work as a doctor in Australia then have to redo much of the studies required, says a lot about thai teaching methods

we live in Surat Thani and I had to hand water all our trees yesterday as we havent had decent rain in weeks, the ground was bone dry and set like concrete. Been a very dry wet season for the last couple of months