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YES!!!!!!! Wrongs being righted. Good news indeed.

Yes of course and thank you the wise advice. There is good news just in today, the landlord/owner has come off the sidelines finally, after my continued comments and venting frustrations to him, as he has become actively involved in dialogue with the management over the practical details. He has also written letters to management and the board. I've decided to give him the floor then, as he is both Thai and is positioned to speak directly to the board and dialogue with the management. Not out of the woods yet. If there's a solution to be found, this is the way. Meanwhile I continue to dialogue and review other locations with Property Scout for other properties in the area. Appointment tomorrow.

Yep, the same and more than some others. I wasn't aware or made aware of the pump noise at contract. And for first 2.5 months of rental there was not a pump noise experienced in the room next to the pool pump room. Go figure. I think that a pump went off due to broken bearings. That was replaced, finally. And then one or another pump was in use in 24 hours - with noise issues but not at the piercing level of the pump with broken bearings. The whole thing could be sorted I believe with a purchase and use of one of the 'silent' pumps available, prices can be 8000+. The landlord and I have offered to share the cost with the building. So far it's been like talking to your hand. The mentality of the Thais involved is stupefying!

Would not waste a lead pipe on equipment. Something more direct and personal in mind when pump is turned on at 12:30 or 4:30 a.m. by the morons known as 'technicians'...if you get my drift.

Rent is standard for the building which is high and decidedly not low cost. Pack up your doughnuts and exit stage right.

A lead pipe enforcement plan is under consideration. It's hardly 'normal', it is resolvable with silent pump installation. The company that services the building on this is even worse than the 'technicians', bringing another pump, supposedly quiet running, to install that's even louder than the original pump. Morons getting paid for breathing, imho.

Thank you, all well said as you've covered all aspects well. My room is the only one adjoining the pump room and noise. Golden rule as much as possible, although now breached with my flipping the finger to the technicians who seems surprised I'm in their faces angry at 4:30 in the a.m., when the pump goes on. Next thinking of a loud ghetto blaster and I will visit their office for a 'sit in'. A presposterous situation, entirely solvable with installing a 'silent' pump. You have to laugh, at the outset someone, a Thai, from outside had to point out to them that the bearings in the pump were bad, causing a noise akin' to a dentist drill and a vacuum cleaner running. That was the guy who the apartment owner hired to install 2 layers of insulation to the wall on the pump room side, that tipped the not bright building 'technicians' off to the noise source. Thick as bricks they are.

Yes, I've gotten the landlord involved and he's sympathetic up to the point of demanding they fix it. He installed at his expense 2 layers of wall installation. We've googled silent pumps sold in Bangkok which would solve the problem and offered to share the costs. So far to no avail. Might as well be talking to the wall.

They do seem to be going with 'my way or the highway'. It's not as if solutions are not available. Simple purchase of a 'silent' pump and installation would resolve it. Leaves the tenant with enforcing it with a lead pipe and/or cranking up a large ghetto blaster in their offices and waiting to see what happens next. Thank you the advice.

Well said all. Thanks. The landlord is 'involved' but a bit of a wet mop about forcing a resolution, for someone who has an apartment that the building management and staff are making an investment which can't be lived in, can't be rented, who would buy? He is willing to surrender the deposits and close the contract. For now at your Option #3

The usual suspects with the usual worthless quips and pointless asides. Move to Thailand and discover empty suit foreigners, they are legion. Noise problems and lackluster business performance pales in comparison to useless falangs.

What are the solutions or avenues to solutions of condo building noise? Moved into a Bangkok condo apartment, as it turns out with one wall adjacent to the electric pumps that filter the swimming pool. No noise at all for two months, then the noise began, 24 hours a day, off and on. A hyper penetrating noise impossible to block from my side. Management, mechanics and technicians excuses and could care less. Landlord concerned, supportive but weak and easily defers to management excuses. Trying to source an attorney, so far without success.

This subject Loud Noise is a serious problem and appears to be getting worse! On top of the night time entertainment joints, there are restaurants, the MRT loudspeakers while waiting a train, the advertisement that run on some MRT trains. Add to the unwanted noise, the types of noise and 'music' that plays is jarring, never smooth or synchronous with surroundings. In restaurants I am not spending 1000 to 3000 thb for a meal while suffering the crap, loud, banging, whinging noises over their sound system. And now in parallel, in public spaces including mass transit, advertising is now huge panels, everywhere you go, gaudy, horrible, brightly lit, pushing products and services. The absolute antithesis of what Thailand is supposed to be. And add to that the main streets/roads of Bangkok are jammed with cars - more a parking lot than a throughway. And the public transit systems are jammed with riders - MRT and BTS. All together it's effing awful getting around Bangkok. Oh, not to forget the pedestrians on the streets, blocking sidewalks, no sense of direction or respect for other people. To say nothing of the shameful appearance of 90% of the falangs If there was a contest for ugly awful looking people, poorly dressed and oeverwegiht there would be many winners to claim the title. And, if you don't have a gold earring and a parrot on your shoulder - do not show up in public with tattoos!

Said the Toad

I was recently ejected from a taxi because I asked to turn the bleeding loud Thai radio station down. Not off, just volume down. He preferred to listen to the radio. grrrrrrrrr!!!

Maybe this will compel the new government to abolish the hideous taxes and duties on imported wines! Since they seem to be looking for ways to garner more tourism and tourist spending. Here's the said truth anyone living here day to day must suffer to have a decent glass of wine. We get whacked heavily: In Thailand for wine there is a tariff of 60 percent on imports. All other taxes compound off from the imports cost, insurance, and freight (CIF) plus the tariff cost.

And they have a very helpful staff dedicated to the wine section there. There is so much wine on their shelves, can be a challenge to locate the wines by country but they will guide you quickly and make suggestions.

Villa Market in Bangkok has excellent selections generally, especially the store on Sukhumvit or at their Ari store. A fine French Rhone red can be found there or also on the shelf in some 7-11s. 399 thb The brand names starts with B, as in the word Beauville.

Isn't that the Truth! And some posters on this subject here included.

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Hurray!! There is a God after all.

Encouraging news given the outbreaks of violence and volatile protests worldwide on the occasion of Israel's response to Hamas attacks. Thailand getting in the vanguard of warding off possible violence and tragedies. Bangkok has a sizable middle eastern population in and around that ghetto, Soi 3 and surrounds.

The better question - where do you hide yourself? Your front yard? I have never seen anyone anywhere repairing or installing sidewalks! I.e., no work is being done. With the exception of a stretch along Sukhumvit Soi 14 to 10, it's an obstacle course of the many and varied.

Complaining the endlessly broken and unprepared sidewalks of Bangkok and hoping for a change? Like a Monty Python sketch: " Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh." Add to that no trash cans to be found on the streets.. Although just of late someone has been, accidentally I'm sure, leaving a few here and there.