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20 minutes ago, RanongCat said:

Given the designed zone hardening I would suspect a short life.!  Aesthetically quite nice though .

Are you serious????

Toughened glass will never break, we have the same hob and the glass is almost unbreakable and still going strong after 13 years... I make my own cheese and regularly put a pot on it with 20 litres of milk at a weight of around 25 kilos.

Is this the first time you have come across this type of hob?... Man you seriously need to get out more.

3 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Just a lot of complainers again, with OP as the Top Dog. After 24 years in Thailand, I have never had a bad job done, and they have all cleaned up their mess after finished working. I guess it is up to us, as the people hire workers, to get the ones that actually do the job good.

I would say you are 100% lying and I think most people reading your BS knows you are lying... I bet plenty on here have had the same experiences as me... NOBODY on here has had your 100% perfection record.... Just read the other posts, they are all lying????.... Nope.... YOU ARE.

7 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

I agree, some guys  are good. Also never  ask anyone to do outside their area of expertise, the vast majority  of Thais have a very narrow spectrum of skills; and they will never admit they can't do properly something you asked them to do.

I agree, some ARE good, but the vast majority are bad... based on my own experience I would say 70% are chancers...

I come from the UK where there are lots of training programs for the basic trades with oversight and certification. In fact I don't think you can work on someone's property without the necessary certification.

Here in Thailand I don't think any such thing exists, I don't think there is any certification or regulation covering trades skills. Colleges and universities are everywhere here, but none for trades it seems.

Most people working in construction here are basically rice farmers working to earn some money outside the planting and harvesting season, especially here in the northeast.

Every time we need some work done, my heart sinks.

11 minutes ago, mikebike said:

If you took the time to find workers who's did quality work rather than random suggestions,  you may have had a more positive outcome. 

This is Homepro.... Wouldn't you think the biggest company in Thailand that covers this industry would have done that work already?.. Meaning they vet the workers they send to install their goods.

I have never seen such aweful quality of workmanship as I have seen here in Thailand.

We just bought a new load of bathroom fixtures as the old ones were starting to look a bit tatty such as chrome starting to look aged.

The guy who fitted the new toilet has left out the wax ring because when he fitted it the water refused to drain out of the toilet for some reason. So he left it off and said call him if it leaks.

The guy fitting the shower tried to fit it so low that it would only be capable of showering an either very short person or a child.

Then we find out that there is only a 30 day warranty on the installation work..

The irony is that my brother in law is actually the regional manager for the whole northeast of Thailand for Homepro home installation department.

Oh and once again they left a terrible mess behind them which is a feature of all Thai workers, they never clean up their mess.

I remember having some work done on my house and they mixed cement directly on my tiled driveway and just left the detritus behind after them, I had to chip off all the hardened cement the next day and use acid to dissolve all the lime staining...

We had an extra window fitted in one of the back rooms, the father in law said he knew a couplke of guys who were window 'experts'. after fitting we couldn't open it, so we got a different guy who told us they had fitted the window upside down... He took it back out and refitted it right way up, but the renedering work around the window is so bad it looks like he was standing on the deck of a ship in a hurricane while rendering the edges.

If Thais arte seriously conscious of losing face, why do they leave such face-losing work behind them????

I have a list as long as my arm of other stuff, I would say 70% of work done by Thais is of very bad quality.

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

It is quite often the mans fault .

They get married and then continue going to bars and having extramarital affairs and participating in that sort of thing regularly .

   Their Wife is usually a lot younger than them and there's very little common interest .

   The woman gets bored of her life and her husband , annoyed by his infidelity and then decides to leave the relationship .

   Its not a scam from the girls , its the guys who treat their Wife let she's a pet at home .

   Guys often are going on about  about how often they are unfaithful and how many girls they have sex with or they are wondering why their wife left them .

To be honest, I have personally known victims of this and none of them play around behind their girl's back... In fact in 13 years I never met a farang that did that... But then again I don't live in the flesh pits of Thailand. There are no bars where I live that are like Pattaya etc....

Been in Thailand for 13 years, happily married to a Thai girl for 11 years...

I am sure most of you know about the 'wham bam, thank you' scam.

Farang from the west, comes to Thailand, possibly a regular visitor playing the bars and the girls, eventually meets 'the one'. Guy falls in love, she tells him he is different, even possibly refuses money (playing the long scam). Takes him to meet the family in some rural location, everyone loves him.. She takes him around temples and places of interest, indulges him with proper Thai culture.

Guy goes home keeps in touch regular online chats, messaging etc etc...... Maybe goes to visit her a couple more times, decides to sell up in the west, move to Thailand permanently, buys that plot of land, builds a house on it, buys the shiny new pickup truck or SUV, usually in the girl's name for ease... Maybe by now they are married and even possibly a kid is in the picture.

Then BAM!... Suddenly out of the blue the girl seems to go a bit cold, tensions are in the air, she scowls more than she smiles, then an argument is engineered. You are introduced to the end of the long scam.

You lost the girl, your kid, your land, house car.... How many times have we read this???

I met my wife through an online community game, we started chatting, I hated living in the UK and always wanted to make a move abroad, so I took the chance. After having been in contact with her for over a year I finally made the move. I rented out my house in the UK and bought a 2 week return ticket with the intention of never going back. I make a living online, so I have an income no matter where I am.

I spent almost 2 years here before finally getting married, I lived without a car no problem because my girl had one, I rented during that time... Once married I sat my wife down and explained to her that if we were to spend our lives together, I will buy a house and car, BUT.... The house has to be through a mortgage and the car on monthly payments. I had the moiney to buy both but I had read too many of these long scams, as much as I love my wife I want to be secure... I pay the mortgage and the car is already paid off.

You see, if it all went south after a couple of years, I would walk away with minimal losses, the wife would be the one lumbered with the monthly payments, its all in her name, so she ends up paying for it.

Call it mercenary but my wife understands... When I read all these horror stories like the one above I shake my head at how foolish the farangs were. In fact I know a Canadian guy who is just 2 years here with his relatively new wife and is currently building that huge dream home.. I give him a 50/50 shot.... Many of these stories that end like this might not even start out a s a scam, the girl may be genuine at the start... But there is a huge temptation dangling in front of her, she is suddenly launched from coming from nothing to suddenly having a 10 million baht house and 2 million baht car in her name and thinking "I could turn that lot into cash and my family would be set for life".... THAT has got to be tempting. It is also a common element that she is externally pressured from certain family members.

Many of these disasters could have been avoided if they took my advice and did it the way I did it.

Hope this helps anyone thinking about making the big leap, don't leave your country without your brain... 

Just had a weird convo in our local Facebook group...

It is really funny how whenever you have something positive to say about Thailand you get the farang mob who will gang together and try to convince everyone that Thailand aint a great place and then start to point out all the faults with the country and especially the people.

I had one guy who seems to think there is no law and order in this country, I am not talking about police corruption, that exists in many parts of the world especially where they are paid very little... I am talking about him insisting that police do virtually nothing to fight crime...

Right on queue the mob arrives and takes his side...

So let's have a look at it from a statistical point of view... 

If a country's police are apathetic to crime, then wouldn't it be logical that there would be a massive problem with criminal activity in that country?... Seems logical to me... I come from the UK and trust me, crime is rife there, especially violent crime. In some cities you will see fights almost every Friday or Saturday night.. You literally can not walk the streets of a major city on your own at night. Yet in 13 years in Thailand I have seen 1 fight and that was between two rival villlage youths which was broken up by police very quickly and all were arrested had their hands zip tied and carted off.

I can walk almost anywhere at night here and I feel totally safe...

A cousin of my wife got caught stealing a tube of toothpaste from 7/11 and was handed a 2 year prison sentence.. In the UK you would be let off with a caution... Yes let's look at the stats... Thailand prison population is almost 370,000, in the UK with a similar population size it is around 90,000.

In the UK I have had 2 cars stolen, I have been burgled twice, my car broken into and the CD player nicked 3 times and have been assaulted half a dozen times by drunken idiots. I have parked my car out on the street for 13 years here and nothing has happened to it, I have never had my home broken into and have never been assaulted by anyone ever.

I am not saying Thailand is perfect, I know some crime happens as does everywhere but to say law and order in Thailand is non-existent is stretching it a bit..... Yet the mob tried their best to back up the Thai hater... There is a certain type of farang who want to live here and tear the place down at any opportunity and no doubt some will show themselves on this thread to tell me how wrong I am, and some will probably lie and make up fake anecdotes to reinforce their narrative... That is also very apparent about this type of person.

For all its little faults I would rather live here than in that sh***** I came from.

30 minutes ago, proton said:

waited less than 2 hours at recent visits to government hospitals in Bkk, 6-8 hours is more like A&E packed out with foreigners at a UK hospital.

I broke my arm 4 years ago and went to the government hospital and was taken straight in and treated, within 10 minutes I was was given a morphene injection, I had my xray done within 10 minutes and my arm set and put in a sling within 30 minutes... This being the main government hospital in Korat city with a population of about 130,000 and double that number when you take into account those living in the outlying villages this hospital serves...

In the UK when my daughter broke her arm we sat in A&E from about 6pm and didn't leave until 2am and that is in a small town of no more than 25,000 people.

The UK considers Thailand a 'developing country'...

The UK has over 2500 foodbanks with around 500 being added every year, while Thailand did have a few dozen during Covid, I believe these no longer exist.

So if Thailand is a 'developing country'... What the hell is the UK?

I have been out of the UK for 13 years and living all that time in Thailand.

Every time I visit the UK every few years I just see more and more decline.

I would rather live in a 'developing country' than a declining one.