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Over 2000 responses to posts and you don't know how to read through a thread before sticking foot in mouth!Agreed! Elaborate on your source and quit scaremongering.
It will be released in the media very shortly I am sure.
So why mention it now, when it can help no one but alarm many?
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To the OP george and Thaivisa, thank you so much for this warning. I was about to sign over 28K AUD to this company happy park and if it hadn't been for you people I would have been in a great deal of stress. It would have been flushing good money down the toilet. Thank you again for the warning and Thai Visa keep up the good work.
P.S her mug shot does not do her justice.
Happy Park is not the same company the OP is referring to.
Yes it is, this development is Jasmine Happy Park, not to be confused with Jasmine Homes. This development was post divorce to an expat engineer who was the designer of the Jasmine Homes developments. Happy Park was started after the divorce, pre-murder of the common law husband.
To many of us who purchased our land/homes from Jasmine Homes we are now in a position that she probably was laundered drug money when she purchased the land and we now face an unknown future. Even though we used "Clean" money in our purchase we have no idea what or how much more we are facing to make this issue go away and clear our properties.
How many officials will have their hand out for their piece of the pie?
Personaly, I am going to an attorney this week to represent my wife and try to get to the bottom of the issue and push for a quick resolution. I will be tasking the attorney with dealing with the bank since I can see no reason to continue making mortgage payments on a property that "Might" be tied up in litigation for a long time!
Worse case, I go back to being a renter or moving back to Buriram where we have a house free & clear.
I love Chiangmai and don't want to move back to Issan unless all other options fail but if need be I will walk from Jasmine Homes.
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Partcially correct, the depth of the under lying concrete would not matter as long as the total depth is around 100mm for a slab with no traffic and around 125-150mm for a driveway.I think I will have to get them out to quote me since my driveway is already there so they just have to add a layer on top and then stamp it Im guessing that since the driveway is already there it will be cheaper ?
Please let us know, as I have a cement driveway and also interested.
I'm sorry but unless your existing driveway is scabbled http://www.surfprep.co.nz/construction/scabbling/ and prepped for a minimum of 80mm of concrete with very good reo then I would not consider it at all.
Why is that. A driveway is not going to slide off of the first one. I knew of one city that only required 75 mm of concrete for their sidewalk.
The one thing to watch out for when pouring on an existing slab is that if the old one has a crack the new one will develop one on top of it.
Concrete does not "Reflect" cracks like asphalt, what happens is that during the initial cure of a concrete slab, the concrete starts in an expansion mode due to the amount of free water in the concrete. As the concrete loses this free water slowly (28 day cycle) it moves from Expansion to contraction (Shrinkage). When you place one slab on top of an older slab (already cycled from expansion to shrinkage), any inperfections become stress points and cracking "Might" occur. Preparation before placing your concrete becomes critical, fill in significant cracks with a mortar mixture, place a bond break (Plastic sheeting) between the existing and new slabs.
An alternative is to use a tile/sand wash in lieu of another concrete slam, an option I chose. You con't need a bond break or repair on exiting cracks. The sand wash has so small of a mass that any shrinkage will be at the contact with the tile so the cracking becomes controlled (by design).
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There could be a few different reasons for the cracking. Theoretically, the columns should be in compression due to the weight of the roof, so the cracks increasing in size would most likely be a different cause. I would think the differential settlement to be more likely, inasmuch as the local builders don't compact anything, they believe in doing things naturally, which doesn't work. If there are any interior walls constructed with masonry block see if there is any masonry units cracked, forget cracking in the mortar bedding, ohh wait forget that, the Thai building method with masonry is to use mortar on the horizontal they normally don't mortar the vertical joints. If they have mortared the vertical joint and you see significant cracking then this could be a sign of settlement.
Have you checked to see if the columns are plumb? If not plumb, then cracks will appear on the side of the column that would then be in tension, the direction that the column is leaning will be in tension (cracking).
There are a lot of potential fixes depending on the problem, settlement being your worst possible case. If it is truely an overload situation then additional columns could be added to reduce the unit load on a column or over sizing the columns in-situ or transfering loads structurally by adding steel bracing to the under lying sub structure. If it's settlement their are options, all of which would be expensive and time consuming. Would probably be cheaper to salvage the materials and start over and do the job right the second time.
If you want, I will be returing home this week for vacation and depending on location be glad to look at the structure for you. Just PM me.
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Commonly called Trail Blazing, you know "Going where no man has gone before". My favorite was always cutting switchbacks.....why walk the long way when the shortcut is faster! Then I reached the ultimate eye opening realization, only see the sights that can be reached in a motorhome...... I won't mention that in Nevada we measure distance by the amount of beer you consume on a journey, Reno= 1 Twelve Pack from Vegas.Sorry you feel that way, Mr. Humbugged.
Like I said, just my opinion, nothing more and nothing less.
A hiker cutting off a few branches impeding a trail is hardly the Holocaust you seem to making this out to be.....
Tell that to the national parks people that spend their lives protecting such flora...granted not here so much....but your attitude seems global.
And try not to underscore your words by 'cutting off a few leaves and such'....the OP mentioned blazing her own trails. Cutting a NEW trail through a previously un marked area is just ludicrous.
As for those dedicated professional Park Rangers you talk about, most are high school science teachers with a summer job to earn some cash, nothing to do about saving the planet, that's Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.
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I've worked a lot in the aviation industry over the last 20 odd years and I can tell you that a lot of "incidents" go unreported to the public.Having worked in England (Heathrow) and in Holland (Schiphol and Rotterdam) I've seen things that would shock people and put them off flying forever.The incidents have to be reported to the airline but most are never made public.The reports are then forwarded to the relevant safety board.That's how they come up with these lists.It's not just about the ones you know about
Well Vinny I have to assume when you worked at Heathrow it was not as an engineer or pilot as you do not
seem to be aware of the UK CAA MOR ( Mandatory Occurence Reporting ) confidential incident reporting
system. It has been in place for about the 20 years you claim to have worked in "the aviation industry".
I think he said the same thing as you...... without the acronym. At least that's how I read it.
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Is Korean Air so far down on the list because the Russians shot down their airliner in 1983? If so, I'd say extenuating circumstances should apply!
From the book Outliers:
Up until a few years ago, Korean Air Lines was plagued by a much higher crash rate than other airlines. Analysis of cockpit voice recorder data from a number of Korean plane crashes revealed that the god-like status of captains and the relative subordination of their second officers frequently led to situations where the captain was fuc_king up, the second officer was clearly aware of the ####p, but the second officer was either unwilling or unable to communicate to the captain the fact that he was fuc_king up.
In one horrifying case, the transcript reveals that just before their plane plowed into the side of a hill, the second officer was saying something to the captain like, “sometimes it is not so easy in bad weather at this airport to see the runway”, when it was clear that he knew they were headed for the hill and should have been shouting, “Dude! Pull up!!! We’re about to crash into the motherfuc_king hill!! PULL UP!!!”
I am not sure if this same attitude exists in Thai aircraft, I sure hope not...
I believe the accident in question was on Guam, and you are correct about the relationship on the flight deck between the PIC and Co-pilot.
The NTSB pointed to this along with two other serious issues, Pilot fatigue, the PIC had just completed two trans pacific hops the was switched to this night flight to Guam, he was exhausted.
The other issue was an offset marker beacon, the charts clearly showed the beacon being offset 5 miles from the end of the runway, on top of the hill they hit and was missed by the PIC. (Beacon is now at the end of the runway).
I forget the year, but I believe that it pre-dated the GPS era for navigation, they were still using VOR's, OBI's and NDB's and paper charts for navigation.
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Came back from Brisbane 2 days ago. Thai 777. Service excellent, TV screen in the seat back. Food excellent. Didnt crash, not even once.Lufthansa must be gutted: They had the same score as British Airways 0.11, but missed a top 10 slot to BA on alphabetical order!!
I would rather walk than catch a Thai Airways International flight: crap service, no seat back TV and poor food. Now it seems they have a poor safety record, it just confirms my opinion of them! Give me Emirates every time. Fantastic airline.
You must be thinking of another Thai Airline. If you are walking, would you like me to set a beer up for you at the other end?
I'm with you Foz. Thai Airways is a TOP airline. Silly Americans! They believe everything they read without checking the facts.
Perhaps it's more to do with us Aussies being happy to pay to fly in 777s while tight-ass Americans get cheaper seats on 747s.
I agree with you in your statements throughout the thread, personally when I can, I will choose Thai Air and know that I will be quite happy on my flight. Never had bad service, food has always been excellent and since I know how to read don't really need a TV....
Have been called hard assed and have done things half assed and am definitly tight assed since I am NOT from San Francisco!
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Gonzo check out the Myanmar visa section here in Thai Visa. I found the following from last June.
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I wonder how much something like this would cost?
From what I understand, it was designed by a Boeing engineer.......
Are you the engineer?
Yes, but not that discipline.
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I wonder how much something like this would cost?
From what I understand, it was designed by a Boeing engineer.......
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As a PS people eat mushrooms that are poisonous, they have built up an immunity to them
, will make you or me very sick or dead. We had a family of 3 [ Thai ] die here from eating poisonous mushrooms last year , be careful in what you eat.I take it that their immune systems weren't quite ready yet.........
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Another way to look at the issue......
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I think that Cloudhopper has you on this one NamI'm sober now but I'm still calling BS doc. High humidity might increase the ability of the outside air to conduct heat away from the condenser fins but evaporative cooling requires a phase change from liquid water to vapor leaving cooler liquid behind on the surface. Swamp coolers work by evaporative cooling but only when the outside air has low humidity not high.
i yield to your technical supreme knowledge CH. how could i forget that you spend quite some months working in Matsushita's Research & Development 'Airconditioning' in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan.
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Being married to a Thai or not matters nil... Ive been here for 15 years in Phuket and I know my way around real estate...
I have had 7 properties for me to views sent to me from the Chiang Dao areas that fit that budget and although I could go to a couple mil a rai, that would be silly now wouldnt it? It aint worth that in those areas Im asking about.
Thats about as real as I will get.. next
Are we talking about corruption or bending the laws here?
just let him go on his way; with his own arrogance. He obviously knows more than anyone here....I dont understand why he is asking anyones opinion.
I read Phuket is booming in land and property this year; try down there. values up 20% in last 2 years.
Adding cantankerous replies is just a waste of yours and mine...
Yes, but you are forgetting the entertainment value of your thread to other TV members, some of us follow these posts wondering what will be said next!
That being said, It has been mentioned further on about the adobe, correct me if I am wrong, but you need clay for adobe. The river will give you sands and some sand-silt mixtures. To find clay you need to find an old lake bed, insamuch as the size of clay particles is so much smaller than sands or silts they will remain in suspension in moving water and only fall out when the water stops moving.
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Probably a couple of times a week of eating out--similar to other posters this will be Thai stall-type food, with the exception of Muang Pon Laos in Kad Farang which we use occasionally.
Just a question though, based on Mrs. Clodhopper's assumptions about ingredients--does anyone know what pesticides we are ingesting in the Thai grown potatoes available locally??? My daughter has 'gone off' rice as a staple carb and seems to suddenly prefer spuds, having avoided them for years--so, I am keen to find out if I am poisoning her??
They would worry me, but I have no proof. In the US, potatoes are grown only in cold country. Idaho, around the Boise area is famous for "Idaho potatoes" and it's at about 4,000 feet elevation. They are usually grown at about that elevation. The cold, deep freezes in the winter kill the bad guys in the soil that attack potatoes. There are several places like that. Potatoes grown as seed potatoes are grown only from about 4,000 feet up and always potatoes are grown in loose sandy or loam soil. At lower elevations for home gardens, you rotate the place you grow them, repeating maybe every 4 years.
I don't even know what varieties of potatoes are grown in LOS, so take this with a grain of salt.
Not so sure about that......
Was working in Bermuda renovating a hotel and wandered into the hotels kitchen. In the Cool storage they had large sacks of potatoes, with the company name, type of potatoe (Idaho) and location from Palmdale California...... Upper desert, 2000' elevation.
Having grown up 20 miles away, I could remember the fields where this farm was located, except back then they grew watermellons!
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Just rode the bus yesterday from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai. Spotted several fires that looked like the farmer was simply burning off the rice stubble/residue.
Question for those that know more about rice farming here; Why don't they just plow the crop residue back into the soil? I'm not a farmer but I always understood that when you plow the crop residue back into the soil it improves the soil. Is it the cost or effort of plowing again?
It is cost. Ploughing costs money either by contracting the job out to somebody else or using your own equipment will incur a fuel cost. Just leaving it means a bigger job when the field is to be resown.
Thanks, Briggsy!
They plough with the same tractor whether they burn or not. I doubt it makes the slightest difference. There are a few balers around, baling the straw for cattle, but most farmers just burn.
I worked in Iowa for a year and found out that they can plow corn stocks back into the soil because the corn stalks have value as a fertilizer. They couldn't do the same with wheat stalks because there was no nutritional value in them at all. In fact retilled wheat fields would yield less wheat per acre. The wheat stalks were ground and used as a filler or dilluter for expensive stock feeds like wheat mids/ground corn. Another interesting tidbit of info I gleamed during my year in hell
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I dont usually drink coffee in the evening but looking for a local venue where I can enjoy a couple of beers and maybe meet some new faces. I was not aware of the Bamboo Bar, can you advise directions soo that I can check it out.
Coming from the 118 in the direction from Doi Soiket turn left at the junction to go on to the ring road. On the ring road, take the second small exit (very soon) and then take the first right. Go straight over the crossroads. You will see the bar when you reach the temple at the end of the street, on the right hand side.
Yes it is a bit rustic, but it has a really great atmosphere.
Which ring road please, first ring or second ring (121)? The map posted by DiabloBo seems to say 1001 insead of 118 (CM-Doisaket Road). As I live on 121 and it would be handy for me to head there or Andrews to get a few drinks when my wife gets into an argument with me the next time which is very soon.
LOL
They are referring to Thannon Somphot Chiang Mai 700 Pi which is what they are calling the Ring Road - I think.
The 1001 is the road out to Mae Jo. the ring road is labeled on Google Earth as Thanon Somphot Chiang Mai 700 Pi . From the 1001, go right on to the ring road. Just before you merge onto the ring road there are two roads going to the LEFT. The 1st goes into a housing tract take the second road. Around 300m up this road there is a "Y" intersection, go right. When you hit the next stop sign, go straight ahead for 150m and the Bamboo Bar will be on your right side.
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Surely a request for the name of the company via a PM is within the rules ?
Problem sorted ?
Please PM me as well OP
If possible, me also!
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May I ask which property developer?
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I dont usually drink coffee in the evening but looking for a local venue where I can enjoy a couple of beers and maybe meet some new faces. I was not aware of the Bamboo Bar, can you advise directions soo that I can check it out.
Coming from the 118 in the direction from Doi Soiket turn left at the junction to go on to the ring road. On the ring road, take the second small exit (very soon) and then take the first right. Go straight over the crossroads. You will see the bar when you reach the temple at the end of the street, on the right hand side.
Yes it is a bit rustic, but it has a really great atmosphere.
This is a Google Earth shot showing the location of the Bamboo Bar in relation to Rimping.
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Bamboo Bar - San Sai Noi. No pool table, but otherwise I think it would suit would you are asking. It's cheap too.
Is this the Bamboo Bar so famous with the NIS Administrators?
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Are you going to drill into rock or any concrete joining rocks. If concrete the ability of the anchor to hold depends on the quality of the concrete (which is not always that flash in Thailand). Likewise, not appreciating the size of the rock, some rocks do split when drilled into.
If you are swinging in an hammock (even slightly when you get in and out) you will need an anchor that will take a dynamic or better still impact load and anchor should be rated to eight times plus the load it will carry.
The picture ain't that impressive for me and unless I knew what was securing it I would be loathe to put a child in one (who will inevitably bounce around). It would not take much for the hook to jump the eyelet (with my kids anyway).
Also as a tip I would "shackle" hammock to anchor rather than the nylon rope in the picture which easily slips off the hook. With a shackle (and a bit of galvanized chain you can also adjust length easily an no fear or fraying or wearing on the nylon over time.
I would not depend on any anchor (certainly not the eye bolt in the picture for a rock wall) provided by someone else unless I saw it before they rocked up to drill.
Given the concrete here (or for rock) I would buy a one piece expanding sleeve anchor, make sure its big enough, rated, and hot dip galvanized rather than get a cheap one supplied where the thread goes, or snaps, or rusts.
I too would steer clear of the setup in the picture from the blog spot. As configured if any load is appied to the anchor, it would be a straight pull out load, which with the concrete quality here in LOS might have some less than desireable results. As 'mamborobert' says use an expansion anchor, NOT a compression anchor. In addition consider using a Bolt Hanger for rock climbing..... they will load a bolt so that most of the force becomes a shear force on the bolt, a fraction of the pull out force so even in crap concrete most of the force is on the shaft of the bolt and not applying a pull out force. Just attach a carabiner and you are good to go....
DBob,
Do you know where to get a "Bolt Hanger for rock climbing" in CM? Thanks.
Why not try Chiangmai Rock Climbing Adventures...... http://www.thailandclimbing.com/
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Are you going to drill into rock or any concrete joining rocks. If concrete the ability of the anchor to hold depends on the quality of the concrete (which is not always that flash in Thailand). Likewise, not appreciating the size of the rock, some rocks do split when drilled into.
If you are swinging in an hammock (even slightly when you get in and out) you will need an anchor that will take a dynamic or better still impact load and anchor should be rated to eight times plus the load it will carry.
The picture ain't that impressive for me and unless I knew what was securing it I would be loathe to put a child in one (who will inevitably bounce around). It would not take much for the hook to jump the eyelet (with my kids anyway).
Also as a tip I would "shackle" hammock to anchor rather than the nylon rope in the picture which easily slips off the hook. With a shackle (and a bit of galvanized chain you can also adjust length easily an no fear or fraying or wearing on the nylon over time.
I would not depend on any anchor (certainly not the eye bolt in the picture for a rock wall) provided by someone else unless I saw it before they rocked up to drill.
Given the concrete here (or for rock) I would buy a one piece expanding sleeve anchor, make sure its big enough, rated, and hot dip galvanized rather than get a cheap one supplied where the thread goes, or snaps, or rusts.
I too would steer clear of the setup in the picture from the blog spot. As configured if any load is appied to the anchor, it would be a straight pull out load, which with the concrete quality here in LOS might have some less than desireable results. As 'mamborobert' says use an expansion anchor, NOT a compression anchor. In addition consider using a Bolt Hanger for rock climbing..... they will load a bolt so that most of the force becomes a shear force on the bolt, a fraction of the pull out force so even in crap concrete most of the force is on the shaft of the bolt and not applying a pull out force. Just attach a carabiner and you are good to go....
, be careful in what you eat.
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Puwa pointed out where Jasmine Developments might be in question. If in fact drug money was used by Jasmine Homes to initially purchase the land then what happens then is up to the legal system. I hope you are correct on the sway the banks might have in the process.