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Hi, I wounder if anyone knows of some store in bangkok selling Led lightings for cars trucks etc,

would like a strobe warninglight,(amber,orange) and lightbars ,

I have notised these turist buses with 30-40 extra old fashion extralights mounted in front,, so there should be a market for led light bars?

anyone knows? let me know,, Thanks.

Hello, Where did you UKJASE end up buying your furniture?

I´m in the same spot now in november,,,

Re: Minivan from Hua-hin to Pattaya, anyone travelled this way recently? I'll be in Thailand during Sep, I want to take the minivan from Hua-hin to Pattaya, I don't know Panklear Plaza on South Pattaya Rd and can't seem to find any info on it online, does the minivan still drop off there? Will it be easy for me (and my suitcase) to get into the cantre of Pattaya from here? Songthaew or taxi, how much is the cost?

Have you taken this trip yet? I am about to do the same in nov ,I think,,

It seems like the ferryline hua hin-pattaya has shut down? anyone knows if they are about to open again?

Thanks/

There are talks in process about the viability of the government running a car ferry between the two cities but they are only at the talking/planning stage at the moment. The smaller ferry that was running last year has shut the run down and has no plans at the moment of resuming the route. They are doing trips up and down the coast on the Pattaya side only now.

Ok,, how about direct flights to pattaya, I found some treads on internet but dont know if there actually is a working flight route huahin -pattaya?

feels like a bit tiering to spend 6 hrs on a bus, But I think i prefer the big yellow bus instead of the crazy minibus rides,,

scared the shit out of me last year ,, from cha am to bkk in record time.

that leavs only to negotiate with a cab driver for a resnoable fee?

Re: Minivan from Hua-hin to Pattaya, anyone travelled this way recently? I'll be in Thailand during Sep, I want to take the minivan from Hua-hin to Pattaya, I don't know Panklear Plaza on South Pattaya Rd and can't seem to find any info on it online, does the minivan still drop off there? Will it be easy for me (and my suitcase) to get into the cantre of Pattaya from here? Songthaew or taxi, how much is the cost?

Have you taken this trip yet? I am about to do the same in nov ,I think,,

It seems like the ferryline hua hin-pattaya has shut down? anyone knows if they are about to open again?

Thanks/

Hi, I have a town house in cha am that needs som restauration, I am fairly new to cha am and dont have any conections there..

I wounder if any of you guy´s can recomend a skilled builder to me, I will need to move some inner walls and have some concrete work done. change dors and frames , etc,, ofcourse resonabled priced builder, that can be thrusted and dont ad 300 % when it comes to a falang.

I would be greatful for any ides or hints! Thanks.

The usefruct is now for 20 year, it can be for up to 30 years OR for till you die.

Donating land with a usefruct already established on it to the child should be no problem.

(Are we talking about land, a house or both?)

Ownership is now in the hand of the mother, not in the hands of your child. For the duration of the usefruct you have a say over the house, basically you cannot sell it but can do all other things such as renting it out.

Mario2008,, It´s a town house, and exactly what goes with the land it stand on,, ? I am unsertain of?

Glad that you and the ex are still on talking terms, it is normally the child that has the most difficult time in a separation. So child stays with father (in the country where the child was born and has lived all her life) while mother goes back to Thailand, father will give child opportunity to see mother when money and school allows, that sounds good for the child and fair I think. If mother wants to see her child more, then she can stay in Sweden but I bet she doesn't want to do that, too cold

I think you should check and confirm at the amphur next time you come to Thailand to make sure that you are registered as having shared custody in the amphurs computer, you probably do but better check.

Someone must own the house. Who is owner according to the chanote tii dinn? That is the owner of the house. It would not surprise me if it is the mother. Then she already has full control over the house and you should be glad that she is prepared to make arrangements, she doesn't have to and you cannot force her.

2 options I think;

1) Child owns house, no lease or usufruct. Assume child has 2 legal guardians in Thailand and mother has same right to house as you do. She could in the future go in and change locks etc and the only thing you can do is to sue her to get access to your childs property. House cannot be sold without court decision so should be very safe from that perspective. You are not in a very good position if mother takes physical control of the property and refuses to leave though -> court to get shared access

2) Mother owns house and register usufruct to you until child reach 20 years old on chanote tii dinn, you get unconditional access to house until then. Mother transfer ownership to child. We don't know if chanote tii din with usufruct registered can be transferred to child or not but perhaps that is the best option available anyway. The mother loves her child and won't cheat her - open question about if mother dies and heritage if she has other children though - I don't know that part

I like option 2 IF land with usufruct can be transferred to child, otherwise option 1. Option mother owns house no usufruct is a very bad idea, mother can sell or take out loans on the house and no one can stop her if she wants to

mario2008 and gregb, any better ideas, clarifications?

Many thanks,, Actually we are right now at option 2 ,, mother owns the house, and she have signed the usufrukt, for me 20 years on the house. I´ll have the papers sent to me for signing and returning to thailand soon,

so,,That makes this situation quite good for me and daughter,, doesn´t it?

As far as I know my ex,, she would under no sircumstances harm or misstreat our daughter,

I will check with ampur about shared custody upon next trip,

And when this usufrukt paperworks is al done ,, I dont have any reason "pait the devil on wall" (a swed saying! if you expekt trouble to arise)

To be able to transfer land, the new owner must sign the land papers. My daughter was just a bit over 2 years old so her fingerprint is on the land papers instead of signature. This is standard procedure. To my knowledge, you cannot transfer land without the new owner being present, good is that.

You cannot get an usufruct or more than 3 year lease registered at the land office on land owned by a minor. It is easy to give to minors and difficult to take away, you will need court decision and you won't get that (good for the child? hardly). Your lawyer is wrong. Usufruct if the wife owns the land yes, child no. Best for the childs future should be that the child owns the land I would think (if you have shared custody)

The house book is simply a register of people living at the address and means nothing more than that

What is more important is if YOU are a legal relative of your own child or not... If you registered the marriage in Thailand, then you are, if you did not, then the mother has sole custody of your child (in Thailand). Your name or the birth certificate means nothing until it has been confirmed (either at juvenile court if child is under approx 7 years old, varies from place to place - or at the local amphur where the child has her tabien baan (house register) if the child is approx 7 years old and all 3! agree - age varies, I legitimized my daughter at the amphur when she was less than 3 years old and her mother signed on behalf of the child, this is unusual, total cost less than 200 bath). Thai law is deliberately written this way to protect the child, I don't find this entirely bad

Good Luck

Hi MikeyIdea, we, my wife and I were not regiserd as married in thailand ,nor in sweden ! just williage marriage, I saw her as wife and therefor write like that!

But we made this legitimation of our daughter at the local ampur , with birth certificate from embassy, and papers showing us with shared custody in sweden, that translated int thai and gone through /stamped by legalization byro in bkk before going to ampur,

and I have my name as father in the house book aswell, does´nt that give me shared custody of our daughter in thailand? I thought so anyway??

/thanks

House book (tabien baan) means nothing, forget it, it is just a register of who lives at the address and nothing else. Most Thais don't know how insignificant that book is

Where was your child born?

Swedish rules follow Thai rules in this case and child born in Thailand where father is Swedish and the mother Thai can not get a Swedish citizenship unless child is legitimized (as father is not legal father until that is done). Child born to Swedish mother and Thai father is legitimized according to Thai law and no legitimization process is needed for that case. Legitimization is done at the amphur if all 3! parties agree and child is around 7 years old or at juvenile court or by registering marriage in Thailand. It sounds like you went the other way around which would only have been possible if the child was born in Sweden. Yes, that is also possible.

I am assuming your child was born in Sweden and "you went the other way"; I don't know if the registration you did both legitimized you and gave you shared custody or if it only legitimized you. It is very easy to check if you have shared custody actually. Just go to the amphur with the childs Thai birth certificate, your own passport and ask if you can get form por kor 11, that's a form that states shared custody

Sorry for making you worried but you didn't tell me that the child was born in Sweden either

good morning, No, not really worried !

Yes she is born in sweden, and we "went the other way around"

We actually agree how to care for our daughter so far , and she is at the pressent here with me, will visit and be with mother when able and when future shool alows that,,

what I now want is to have al papers surrounding the house done when we still agree.

But if I cant get usufruckt from our daughter more than 3 years ? maybe it need to be usufruckt from ex until daughter adult?

I would like to " secure" the house for me and daughter , so it wount be sold if future problem occur for ex wife,, ex wount sign it over to me,,, she want to " secure" it for daughter´s use in future,,

so,,, it seems to be a jungle of rules regarding this,,,

Thanks,

To be able to transfer land, the new owner must sign the land papers. My daughter was just a bit over 2 years old so her fingerprint is on the land papers instead of signature. This is standard procedure. To my knowledge, you cannot transfer land without the new owner being present, good is that.

You cannot get an usufruct or more than 3 year lease registered at the land office on land owned by a minor. It is easy to give to minors and difficult to take away, you will need court decision and you won't get that (good for the child? hardly). Your lawyer is wrong. Usufruct if the wife owns the land yes, child no. Best for the childs future should be that the child owns the land I would think (if you have shared custody)

The house book is simply a register of people living at the address and means nothing more than that

What is more important is if YOU are a legal relative of your own child or not... If you registered the marriage in Thailand, then you are, if you did not, then the mother has sole custody of your child (in Thailand). Your name or the birth certificate means nothing until it has been confirmed (either at juvenile court if child is under approx 7 years old, varies from place to place - or at the local amphur where the child has her tabien baan (house register) if the child is approx 7 years old and all 3! agree - age varies, I legitimized my daughter at the amphur when she was less than 3 years old and her mother signed on behalf of the child, this is unusual, total cost less than 200 bath). Thai law is deliberately written this way to protect the child, I don't find this entirely bad

Good Luck

Hi MikeyIdea, we, my wife and I were not regiserd as married in thailand ,nor in sweden ! just williage marriage, I saw her as wife and therefor write like that!

But we made this legitimation of our daughter at the local ampur , with birth certificate from embassy, and papers showing us with shared custody in sweden, that translated int thai and gone through /stamped by legalization byro in bkk before going to ampur,

and I have my name as father in the house book aswell, does´nt that give me shared custody of our daughter in thailand? I thought so anyway??

/thanks

to make the story shorter,,,, now I got told , when my ex wife were to sign ower the house to our daughter, in the local ampur,, that our daughter COULD NOT ? be lonely owner of the house? this due to the fact that she still lives with me in sweden. and that she is mixed nationality ?

Mixed nationality means nothing. You are either Thai or you aren't, and your daughter is, so you can safely ignore that. Your daughter can own the house, but there are procedures you must follow.

Generally, your daughter will have to appear at the local ampur to perform the transfer, and that is likely the source of the problem you are being told about. You could simply fly to Thailand with your daughter to appear in person and the problem would be resolved. Alternatively, you can contact a Thai lawyer and find out if there is some way to do the transfer without your daughter being physically present. If there is such an option, nobody is going to volunteer that information. I personally do not know if that is possible, as every time I've heard of someone doing this the child has been able to attend.

Do keep in mind, when you do this you are giving the house as a gift to your daughter. You will not be able to sell the house until your daughter turns 20, except in the case where you can convince a judge that the sale is in your daughter's best interest. You will no longer have any control or interest in the property.

Sorry to hear about your divorce. Hope it all works out for you.

Thanks! that is what guessed! what can I say, ,, when here back home I am a bit ofside, I made contact with thai lawyer,he told me this could be done, maybe some missunderstanding were my daughter is staying have ocured? I even payed him to do the needed paperwork for this,, and wanted him to atend my ex when she went to the ampur for signing over house to daughter. Ofcourse ex think that she dont need any help,,, and swallows whatever they say at ampur,,! if the atourothy of a lawyer with knowlighe,,were present,,, ? it might have tured out diffrent?

it´s never the smoth way,, if one wants anything done you have to get it done yourself! to expect someone to follow your guide lines,,,,

well,, I recon that I can have house signed over next time we are in thailand if it wount be possible with daughter here , atleast I´ll soon have the usufrukt on the house.

It may be sorted out this following week ,, just have to wait and see,

Hello !

Me and my Thai wife have gone seperate ways , she has returned to thailand,

I´ll start with some facts. we have a daughter, 5 yo, she is mix nationality, and are legaly thai, with her name in famely housebook! (sence one year)

a house were bought near the beach last april 2010. and my ex is the only owner. (to make it easy ,,,!) I thought that if we split up later ,, then she would have something in thailand to fall back on! but now our break up came sooner than any expected,,

we have separated as quite good maners,, we still respect eachother and have our daughter wellbeing in mind first hand. I want the paper works to be clear and to have everything seattled!

I have borrowed money for the house here in my home country!

we agreed that we split our belongings in here back home,,= I payed her of from our common life here home, and I would take control of our new house in thailand( nobody has their name in house book of new house)

so far so good,

I made contact with a thai lawyer and they said that my daughter would be able to be the soul owner of the house! and then we would make a contract like this " usufrukt" for me renting the house untill my daughter was grown up and as adult could care for the house. (20 years)

the process were started and al were good( as well as could be,,?, )

to make the story shorter,,,, now I got told , when my ex wife were to sign ower the house to our daughter, in the local ampur,, that our daughter COULD NOT ? be lonely owner of the house? this due to the fact that she still lives with me in sweden. and that she is mixed nationality ?

It would have possible if she was staying with ex wife in thailand ?? is this a local decition at the ampur,, or common? anybody know?

I did think that my daughter as a thai national would be able to own house/land ! ok,, if she cant as minor,, but as adult then?? can she own then?

anyway,, the situation is not desperate or wery bad, as I have got the "usufrukt" from my ex wife insted,, but I would feel more atease if my daughters name were on the chanote insead of ex wife! you know how I meen?

who can tell what will be later in life,, and how it´ll turn out for ex wife and daughter?

The plan at this day is that our daughter will have the house, with me as caretaker and manager of the house untill she can, with the "usufrukt" in hand I am calm for the next 20 years,,

but to be 100% sure, i would like daughter to own house.

would be nice to hear some thoughts ,,,

Hi, You are on the right track! asking for advice like this!

I am 44 now and I know for a fact that I was´nt ready to do something about my drinking problem 10 years ago!

this when one hits the bottom is very individual, but our common problem is so very recogizeble among us.

You dont want any religous help, you write, !

ok, AA can for the newcomer seem religous,, my advice is that try to get your self to a meeting . (several each day in bkk,) and try to set the religous talk about god aside, focus on the fact that many thousands alcoholics like us are sober this day today due to AA.

When I hit my lowest level, and life was about to fall totaly apart,,, I were in rehab and then I surrended and thought " if they can be sober and have such a good life they say they have? why shouldnt I?" so,, I let my gard down and ,,"ok! I do what they say," be honest, atend meetings! one step at the time.. I knew were my self control, and my will to ster my life in my direction, had taken me so far!!down,,, down down,

Now I have been sober 2 years 3 months. and will go to bed sober tonight aswell! wake up sober tomorrow!!

Dont rush it, sober up, go to a meeting, you will recognize yourself in the story´s you´ll hear! it´s easyer to walk this path together with people in our situation.

I can only speak for myself, but I would not be sober this day today ! if it was not for AA,

Take care.

Bye the way,, you will be supprised to find what support you´ll get when you decide to share your problems with famely, usually they know so mush more than we think they do!

for me it was a relice to tell, and a humbeling experiance to get the suppurt I got, I did not have to lye anymore,

Your bored because you have nothing to do, because you have nothing to do your bored. You have to break that cycle, whether its by chopping wood, learning basket weaving, using that computer to do something useful...whatever. Your not saving money by spending time in Issan if your also becoming a full blown alcoholic so the strategy is somewhat flawed. Pick yourself up or get out of there.

thanks for the advice but easier said than done, i could tell my wife to pack up we are leaving , only to go where ? pattaya ,hau hinn,bangkok, everywhere is the same, when i stay in pattaya all i see is people drinking, the temptation is too great, i have blown a fortune on my house here inisaan also only after buying a mitsu triton last week, all my money has gone into house and a better life for my wife and baby daughter up here in isaan, i want my daughter to have family as she doesnt back in uk, but i have come to realise with a massive jolt than this life up here is definately not for me !! im going to cancel my ticket in febuary and stay home as my wife doesnt spend too much money over here. in meantime im going to sit tight, seems the locals and her family know im moody and grumpy and are keeping a distance, cant even look at any of them in the eye, cant talk to my wife, i will see if i can sit it out another few days then if not i will tell her im going to bkk or patts or somewhere better than this place. if in pattaya i can at least find somethings more to do like walk down beach or go to tonys gym if even for a while. i feel than living in los is driving me more to drink than anywhere else .

one question before i go, i feel like the world is on my shoulders and im having this wierd out of body expirience like im floating, also i dont know who i am and struggling with my mind daily, does anyone get this kind of feelings when they styop ? and does the head and the thoughts get any better when you stop ?

thanks

Hi Dmax! You are now in a situation that many of us are familuar with!

I have been there, and to anser your final question ,, Yes !!it does get better when you stop!

but for me? I needed help!

I tryed but was not able to break my drinking habitt on my own.and my periods in thailand were more or less in a constant alcohol fog.

if you now are back home in uk? then I strongly advise you to atend a lokal AA meeting. you are not alone in your struggle, there you may find other people in simular situation.

if you have decided to stay home this next "´thai trip" then take this time and try to contact AA or get help thrue some program, I got in contact with a program ,run and managed by ex drinkers , there I spent 5 weeks. ofcourse expencive, but I was fortune enough to have my employer to pay.

2 years now in august. got my mind back togeter. my daughter got her father back,

My advise to you is to get help! the help is out there,, but you need to take the step yourself!

Take care , if you want to talk more? dont hasitate to pm me!

Now 2 weeks 2 days, and feel better than I have done in years. I have noticed that it wasn't just when I was drinking that I was a different person, but in-between p1ss ups too. Now i feel so much more relaxed and carefree. Before I used to let the most innocuous situation wind me up, sober or drunk. Now I just go with the flow.

Yesterday, after an afternoon out, I went with a group of friends to a bar. Just had a couple of bottles of water, bought a round for them, then headed home. I Actually didn't even want a beer and was looking forward to going home to have a cup of tea and watch the football. Not so long ago, I would have been the last one in the bar, eventually making an arse of myself ! I'm Still not sleeping great , but definitely improving.

From reading through other peoples problems, I really don't know if I was an alcoholic, or was becoming an alcoholic. But I was most certainly a problem drinker. An angry drinker. And a pain in the arse.

Still early days, but feeling more positive every minute.

I want to gratulate you for your decition to stop drinking. and thruly hope that you´ll keep it up!

I my self have been down this road several times, I dont want to set you off ,, just tell my story, ok?

when I was becoming a father the first time, I also thought tis is the time for me to ,if not stop? then ,, really cut down on my drinking. witch it this time period had become rather extence. my wife and friends aroud me were worried and told me so, I just shock it of and did not want to be around these people any more,

so,, at home I started to drink on my own, in the shade, behind the back of famely and in the dark.

also trying to find every possible reason to drink when it was socially accepteble.

when baby came and I was a proud father,, i would never do anything that would harm or make famely suffer on my behalf. needless to say this promisse did not last!

I more and more frekvently slipped back in to sneek drinking periods, divorse came 2 years later.

now I was alone with caring for my son (half time, 2 weeks at the time) now was the time to stop drinking! again!! ?

but when my son were with ex wife,, I was alone ,, and able to drink ,, who would it hurt?

to make a long story short,, I on and off during 10-12 years tryed to stop and decrease my alcohole consumption,, mainly cause other people wanted me to. and here we have a the crusual point!! other people wanted me to!!

the turning point for me came when I was about to loose my second famely (including a daughter asvell) I needed to wakeup.

I got myself in to treatment, with great support from friends and famely, did not need to cut drinking friends of because I had been drinking alone for so long.

In my case and I know many more,, even with the wery best intention and the most stubburn mind it is wery difficoult to stay of the drink if you are as I am a alcoholist.I needed to have wery servere concecveces from my drinking before I was able to get my mind back in order.

Alcoholist or not is up to you to find out, but when you post here you have taken a important step in the right dirction.

I hope you´ll have a nice life ahead.

I am by the way 44 yars old now, and sober for over 2 years ! and greatful of not waking up with a terrible hangover every morning!

Take care.

You´r right there ahinkel,the bar scene I manage to stay away from , When I visited thiland before my wife, I just loved the these bars! still I have an urge ,a longing for the bar scene! but a short reflextion , were that would get me! if I started hanging there again,,,alone without famely , shivering and agony from the hangovers that come after my weekly rallyes, No,, no more! I want to live and be able to look my daughter in her eye´s without shame when she´s grown up!

I notise that we seem to have been in the same situation during the same time in thailand,,!

SC Hi! thank you! I´ll keep that in mind! I had an idea of atending the mid day meeting in sukhumvit,, I hope to be able next tripp though?

You have just reminded me of my Son saying to me "Daddy Please Dont Drink anymore" one night in 1980 I was on my way to a meeting.

He was eight Y.O. then and I still havnt taken that Drink "One Day At A Time"

I now have Eight Grand Kids that have never seen me as a Drunken Fool.

If your ever in Phnom Penh contact me as we have a meeting at 12 noon every day.

Hi,, yes, I´ll keep that in mind! Dont know when ,, never been there.I am home in farang country working now, feeling good . My famely(wife and daughter) just have another 2 weeks remaining in thailand.

For me It was a relece to join my home group again,, But real good experiance to meet other AA groups /members.

About beeing an alcoholic with kids!

I went trough my old pictures, and found the one I for a long time did not want to see,

It´s one of my son when he was 4 yo, and he stod in the corner crying,,, me drunk and not able to care for he´s needs. dont know why I took the pictureat the time,,? maybe my inner me knew I would need and want it in the years to come? it fill´s me with shame now, looking at the picture!! and also boosts me , knowing I now do the right thing! staying sober another day! worth mentioning that me and son have a great relationship today, he is now 9 yo and lives with me.

Ahinkel,,

You´r right there ahinkel,the bar scene I manage to stay away from , When I visited thiland before my wife, I just loved the these bars! still I have an urge ,a longing for the bar scene! but a short reflextion , were that would get me! if I started hanging there again,,,alone without famely , shivering and agony from the hangovers that come after my weekly rallyes, No,, no more! I want to live and be able to look my daughter in her eye´s without shame when she´s grown up!

I notise that we seem to have been in the same situation during the same time in thailand,,!

SC Hi! thank you! I´ll keep that in mind! I had an idea of atending the mid day meeting in sukhumvit,, I hope to be able next tripp though?

Ok ! Well I have been to thailand and come home from thailand ,, and manage to stay sober during the 2 month I was there!

but there were some close calls, I do not think I would have"made" it ,, if not atending htese meetings in khon kaen. i meet nice people and got new friends!

I had an idea that it would be a challange to stay away from my old "waterholes" but what took me by suprice were howe the wast amount of people drinking around me would effect me,, I thought before that they can do as they please ,, and I keep to mine! I found it harder and harder to keep away from alcohol,, But I did and are now back home and feeling great!

I am greatful and alive!

Hi, woke up to day with a cold,,, so easy is way of to day! the lokal blacksmith sa been here to take messaurments , and have also begun to cut and weld the parts together ,,, some pictures from he´s so called " workshop",,,

Ok,, now I have arrived here in issan, and had some time to se and wounder how we should procede with the gate's and fences. we have contacted a lokal guy who came by with books of different style gates and prices, looks like the gate will end up as one of you said arround 15 k, and iron fences between pillars about 1,7kb. seems resonable I think?

Anyway though we are multiple houses with in the walls , we split the ironfence part,, and cost our own gate!

That's one problem or,, solution out of the way! the main issue for me,, (another post) is raisin the floor level in the house,,, I'll be back on that one ! I will update this thread with pictures from the "gateening" se you!

Hello everyone !

some year ago I finaced a wall/fence around our house, ( and rest of thai famely´s houses, 2 more) Al the concrete work and bricking has been done. and the iron work´s is on the way,,, should have been done already,, but ,, not!

what I am woundering about is the gate construktion in the front... What do you al have for experiance , sliding gate? or what? any hint´s on were to buy ready "standard" gates ,it there any standard sizes or just custom made to each house?

I guess they wary alot in price,, what did you pay for your gate?

I´m 100 km from khon kaen,

pls post a picture of "your "gate if possible.

Hi, I´m following the progress with great intress ! specially what you pay and what you get, I expect to find myself in your shoes in a near future,, Building /remodeling wife´s house. Thanks!

By the way,, have you had any fillings done? truckloads of dirt? general pricing for dirt.?

Most Thai builders I have met will do what they want to do in the way that they think is correct, it doesn't matter what the plans say - there are always exceptions to this rule as no doubt somebody will point out soon. But your starting point must be to forget the idea of making a design and plan and entrusting a Thai builder/relative to follow it, it simply will not work out as planned, unless, you are someone like you is on site every minute of every day.

This is my exeriance aswell! therefore I belive that any steps taken to fix the problem as I see it ,, needs to be done while I´m arround!

to have them do the work with me on disance,, hmm,,

Well,, It´ll be intresting and i´ll keep you updated what hapends.

Yes, I have thought about having some sort of wall/ pumping system installed , but,, I feel that I need to messure the sourronding ground level contra floorlevel up propor first.

Hello al!

I am faced with a problem, We,, or my thai wife has a house in issan, she had it built in steps before we meet, and it is to thai standards quite good, during some years we have had it "westernized" with a accepteble bathroom and kitchen. not to mush but enough for us to stay the times we come back to thailand. and for grand mother to live in .

The problem that have rised during last years is that almost every summer during rain period the house get floded, well,,, due to heavy rain and poor drainege the water comes in and stands up to 2-3 inch on floor.

Of course this is not acepteble, How this have become a rising problem is the fact that the outside road has been rised, and neighbour house(brother in law) has been rebuilt , and rised up, this without a thought about propour drainige ? why?? I dont know !, maybe the thai mentality or lack of housebuilding knowlige?

anyway it´s now a fact!

The wife want´s to flaten the house to the ground and rebuild it al,,she want this mainly after many of our friends have built new homes ! well, if I was made out of money , that would be a fine solution! but I am not!!

I am a regular man from a western country who suport a 2 child famely on 1 salory, with 2 homes , thai/sweden. My plan to solve this is.

1. to messare the ground level in the house acording to existing drain ditches outside in the field, calculate if it´s possible to dig and construct extra drain from around the house.

(if I have the "fall" needed for the water to drain away)

2. If drain is ´nt possible due to ground level /ditch level,, then I need to raise the floor level. the house is built in stages, and in thai way with concrete poles /bricks. so

it´s not possible to lift the entire house. then one solution would be to keep the exiting walls and fill the floor up half a meter , and brick up the walls aswell.

that would meen to disamble the roof first, and ofcourse some extra remodeling of the house plans , We have used local builders before with oue remodeling, but they dont realy know how to follow building plans and want to "build as they always done"

3.The third and most cosly opption is just to flatten the house down and rebuild a new one, if this shold be the case,, well as I am the moneybank here,, Iwant to have a say about building plans and construktion, If I was able to be there during the construction I feel that it might be possible to control and manage ,,, but I have to work here at home.I also have needed experianse to build this myself, but knowing thai rules that is not an option eighter, ? am I right?

well maybe it´s not so mush a question to you al as it is a need to discuss this with people who have knowlige or experiance in simular matters.

I find it hard (even brother in law , to follow directions, he has been here at my home, building for me, he listens , but when letf alone to work,, he easy fall´s back to what he learned or earlyer building experiaces he had from thailand) with knowing this , ) to trust thai builders to do wat you want! with out them to make thier own thai building decitions.

Our relation is solid , so some solution is needed! we cant have our thai home flooded every heavy rain period!

If it comes to new contruktion,, maybe it´s easyer and more "mind at ease" to set up a contract to pro home builders?

any coment sor hint´s or wiews are most welcome! thanks/Erik.

Hi Philo!

My wery best to you! one step at the time. hold on!

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Ok, thanks for info, I will call when arived in Thaland, (dec) Thanks again!