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6 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The reason they are offering it?... because they are profiting from it !

Exactly, how many times do you notice a 5 year old car with "faded" paint or paint that a decent polish and T cut wouldn't restore? - waste of money IMO.

We have two cars, one 6 years old and the other is 7 years, they get washed every couple of months - maybe - nothing wrong with the paint job on either.

5 minutes ago, salsajapan said:

10000thb to change oil in the benz, so every 10000kms is enough !

I pay 4,000 so someone is making a handsome profit 

24 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Maybe you should really research your weather history. They've been coming since before I was born and they always bring lots of rain to Thailand (and floods sometimes).

Indeed! the worst I remember was Typhoon Gay in 1989, over 800 dead, had the dis-pleasure being offshore in GOT ???? 

Thailand has always relied on storms, "unfortunate" that they cut most of the forests that used to mop up the water and prevent flooding and land slides!

25 minutes ago, Seeall said:

Ah INVERTER.. a great topic....  most of us read the propaganda and repeat that thinking we know ....

A/C Techs on several occasions have laughed at the situation stating no real savings and parts and repair more expensive....  of course you will find the sales types happy to take your cash

as always.....

No more propaganda! here you go - educate yourself  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_inverter

A lot of "Air con techs" don't like Inverter air cons as most don't have the knowledge or training to work on them as they are far more complex than "non" Inverters!

1 hour ago, Oldie said:

Double glazed windows will not bring much noise reduction.

I have double glazed windows and they work to reduce noise effectively, they are not sliding windows, no point double glazing sliding windows.

Any decent double glazed panels have different thickness of glass and a space in between that is filled with Argon gas.

First in line gets the most food by the looks of it! 

16 hours ago, khunPer said:

But always look at the bright side of life: Thanks for your post, now I'm happy that I didn't come to Samui in the 80s, to later regret that din't buy 5 rai of beachfront land in Maenam for 1 million

20/20 Hindsight has never deserted me! truth be remembered i probably didn't have a spare million floating around back then!

Least I learnt a lesson and loaded up on Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook shares when they first came to the market ???? 

53 minutes ago, dsfbrit said:

 

I am hoping that someone in a similar age group to me could possibly point me in the direction of an insurance company in Thailand that is fairly reputable and offers a full service of health care for people of my age group.

65, my insurance is 70k a year, i use a broker, PM if you want details.

1 hour ago, kickstart said:

next suggestion.

There will always be someone who comes up with a suggestion - nothing wrong with that, most believe that rice is grown in good arable land, just like "home"!

Think again, rice is grown where nothing else will grow, only with the use of a lot of chemicals.

The root of the problem lies with many decades of poor land management, deforestation took place on a massive scale in Thailand, the land was never fit for agriculture, but greed won the day, now with a changing climate the land will eventually end up barren - they should have left the forests in place, short term gain has turned into long time suffering for many "farmers"!

10 minutes ago, Swimfan said:

Todays specials are 5 br in Taling Nam 160m, 4 br Choeng Mon for 70m and 8br in Thong Krut for 300m.

Thanks, found some here https://www.horizonhomes-samui.com/property-for-sale/ had a serious reality check and moved on!

Not a lot of hope of any of these selling for years to come - if ever!

1 hour ago, Swimfan said:

The number of properties coming up for sale on Samui groups is astonishing. There are literally dozens of new listings coming up every day almost a tsunami of them in the last two week. Particularly in the higher end of the market. I have seen at least a dozen in the 100 to 300 million baht range in the past week alone.    

Do you have a link to where they are listed? - I need to dream ???? 

17 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Drought....it's rained almost every day for 3 months and not even rainy season yet...

Had very little rain West of Udon, reservoirs are already at dry season low levels, rainfall down at least 50% this year! Need a good storm - still time ????

3 hours ago, bankruatsteve said:

My question was if some primers (like maybe Rust-Oleum and the epoxy based) don't need a cover coat?  Which is not to say a cover coat is not needed for a certain color, etc.  Aagh.

I get what you mean, products like Rust-Oleum are more of a good quality "Hobbyist" paint? be expensive to cover large areas with, if you had a small gate to paint sure it would be fine - never used it, but for large areas a two part epoxy and a decent top coat would be the more practical, efficient and economic way to go! IMO

4 hours ago, Susco said:

There is no sun under a roof, and I was saying lacquer on top of the oxide primer

Why not just use a two part primer then a topcoat? ???? 

Lacquer does like sun or heat and starts to delaminate and crack quickly at the temps it would have to endure in Thailand, be difficult for the OP to match the colour to his house also - as he requested, unless it's "red Oxide".

39 minutes ago, Susco said:

Just use the normal red or grey oxide, but put a course of lacquer over it. Without the lacquer every primer will rust.....if exposed to moist or water

How long would the lacquer last in the sun? not unusual for "paint systems" to last 10+ years now if properly applied and they come with a guarantee if your spending enough money!

31 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Red oxide is pretty hard wearing and burns off well when welding which makes it nice when pre-priming structural steel. 

Indeed, when I was an apprentice 50+ years ago we used it, it was <deleted> then! now there are much better primers. ???? 

1 hour ago, bankruatsteve said:

What does that mean?  A primer that does not need an overcoat?  Or...?

It ages well!

The most difficult thing to achieve with a paint job is too achieve good adhesion, which is why sand blasting is the "best" surface preparation prior to coating, two part epoxy adheres well & is non porous, which obviously provides good corrosion resistance, top coat provides further protection from UV etc and you get the "finish" you want!

I see you don't like "Red Oxide" in its day, when there was nothing else it was ok, biggest drawback is it is extremely porous.

If you want a lasting primer you need to use a two part epoxy primer, this is all we use for offshore coatings, "Jotafix Epoxy Primer" is available locally.

3 hours ago, kbb said:

Anyone have friends in the know who could say when this mess might actually be done?

never understood why they are allowed to destroy infrastructure and attempt to do it all in one shot, they invariably fail, guess it guarantees some payment!

If they are using the same contractors as Pattaya? 5 years would be optimistic before completion!

50 minutes ago, sungod said:

Never understood why people would heat cool the kitchen down and heat it up at the same time. Lot to be said for outside Thai kitchens.

Let me explain ???? 

We have AC in the kitchen as we do a lot of cooking and preparation, its far more comfortable keeping it at ~28° than the `38°= it would be without running an AC.

A lot can indeed be said for outside kitchens! they are great for cooking stinky food and perspiring freely, I much prefer a cool & comfortable inside kitchen.