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teaching 30 years... and i know quite a few... head of kindergarten 50k a month, family relative all gvt sector. most private sector = no pension. my wife is teacher assistant and friends with the thai teachers in an international school. no thai gets a pension

gvt school teachers get around 30k a month, if admin closer to 60k @dinsdale you are pretty much spot on

international schools about 2.5 well deserved months thai schools 7 weeks for foreigners less for thais many thai schools dont give 2 weeks for xmas and new year.,

i read AN a lot... and i can't believe this hasn't made the news here yet. I just heard this on Real Time With Bill Maher in his opening monologue and i googled it... https://apnews.com/article/nevada-2024-presidential-primary-biden-trump-haley-d731bf8ab1e7d4a7379c07d3a37b581b what's going on in the USA? ... god save us all.... mods, if this topic was covered but i didnt see it, feel free to delete

True Detectives season 4 ep. 5... wow

That is correct. when we put in the pilons, 8 m long' most of them were a few meters still sticking above the dirt we added. there was one soft spot i knew of and one i didnt know of, and those were the only places where the pilons went in deeper than the average. At first I did not want to put pilons because I was told it would cost over 150 000bht. We were lucky and got 30 for 80k. It was money well spent and i am glad now my wife got her way

ohhh... that will be difficult. the only place i have 5 meters is in the front of the house. the rest of the house only has about 2.5 meters from house to retaining wall on 3 sides

weird how the crack goes. it goes left towards the beam and not straight out towards the outer wall. I will have to research that. I am not very knowledgeable about this, but you are giving me a line to follow. Everyone I asked said it would be fine. The foreman who built the house and a few other people. I guess the idiom 'trust no one' comes to mind

It seems to be. I filled in the crack maybe 8 months ago and the crack has not shown itself from under the TOA crack filler

I didn't put in any drainage. But when it rains hard, there is no accumulation of water. the worst was behind the house. I drilled hole just under the horizontal support beam and the bricks and put in pvc pipes for the run off. After i installed a gutter at the back of the house there literally is no accumulation of water at all.

that's not a window, but a door. I will keep an eye out for that. The column with the crack is on the left. At 1.3 m on the right there is another beam with no cracks. The beam with the crack is only cracked on the one side

I bought the machine after i had about a meter of dirt. then i started compacting/tampering. every time i added a load of dirt after that i would then quickly compact before the other load came. when i ordered the rock i compacted it very well. some of the rocks were 10-18 cm in size and the tamper pretty much crushed much of the rock and compacted it into the dirt. I did have one of the big roller compacter (sorry dont remember name of that machine) like the one in your picture but it was not with the teeth like you showed. it was the smooth one. He drove around for about 20 minutes also using the shaking mode. I was lucky because one was working nearby and I tipped him to come over on my land. I did not use clay to sill the land. It was the typical dirt that thais use to fill the land. there was a very tiny amount of clay in it but only a few clumps here and there. It has a granular texture and is more like sand than clay. Indeed there is a bit of texture... and as I mentioned previously I use one of those tile cutting wheels with a 4 inch grinder and grind about 5mm into the crack widening it a bit. It also give me an idea of the depth of the crack. I will have to double check and make sure the crack does not go to the other side of the wall... 😞 damn... poor guy. that really sucks. hope that isn't in the cards for me. hahaha good one... sounds like a new tongue twister to me!

Thanks a lot. I appreciate that.

Thanks, you're correct. First we added the typical dirt thais add, then we added a layer of rock about 20cm which I tampered with my tamper machine, and finally we added about 5 cm of fine rock. The dirt has been there for about 5 years. I tampered (tried to compress it) with my tamper whenever I could. After rain so that it would help compress...

The worst crack is next to a beam Picture 6

photos -- hard to see in picture 2, but we have footings on all of the pilons -- pic 4 is of the retaining wall made using nano bricks which were then filled in with concrete and rods of rebar were put into them -- we used 15 cm light bricks for most of the house, the traditional red bricks were used for the bathroom areas... don't know why. apparently has to do with humidity -- we used sheet metal 1.5 inches with foam insulation for the roof. we chose the model that had metal on top and on the bottom -- the interior walls were constructed with traditional red bricks -- horizontal beams were laid at about 1.8 meters For the roof structure I chose the regular steel, I am not sure if it is 1.2 or 1.5mm. I would say that most of the cracks are about .5mm, but a few are about 1mm... I didn't measure yet. It is hard to say if the cracks are deep or not. I took a tile grinding wheel and ground in some spots then put TOA crack filler in hoping it would work. I also used a drill bit and drilled at the beginning and end of the cracks in order to try to stop the cracks from expanding like it is done on plastic and car dashes. that seems to have helped. I think everything was done the right way. we used all the best materials we could afford. it is a small house 10 x12 so I don't think the weight is a very big factor. @The Old Bull I can't see any floor cracking the tiles seem intact. There is a bit of grout in one particular line of tiles that seems to have vanished... I will keep reading your posts and I appreciate your advice.

lock him up no privileges the way he would have done to others

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no, you're not and you got called out for it

great way for a newbie to start here after 29 posts. maybe you feel like giving crap advice cos you got nothing better to do, but some people here don't have much of a social circle here in thailand and asking others advice or their opinion can hep them in their choices. not a very good start for you @StandardIssue you'd probably be better off on teekboor rather than here. they share the same cynicism you seem to have 🤣🤣🤣

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i will look on my computer where i uploaded the build photos and try yo post them here... thanks so far guys, mnay good questions i will try to answer

first... i am surprised i cant find a DIY sub forum here... my house was finished building a year ago. it is built on landfill and in some areas the landfill is as high as 2 metres. we filled the land over 4-5 years ago and let the weather do its thing before building. we have about 27 pilons as support. the house is 1 story 10x12 m. i did expect some cracking because i know the house has to settle. 1st... prolly could google, but offhand does anyone know bout how long i can expect the house to settle? 2nd... i bought some TOA crack filler... filled some cracks and painted over. the cracks came back. can anyone recommend some good crack filler that will actually work? -->i am aware that maybe the cracks have come back due to the house not having finished settling. the TOA and other brands are a lot like the stuff used on gypsum any insight or helpful advice is welcomed

been feeling the same way, about many things and i am not quite 60 when the people i used to work with back home took their retirement many would go to the shopping mall and spend all day there... 1990's no internet etc... i would hear of many of them dying 2-3 years after retiring. on the other hand, the guys who kept busy have lived a lot longer. keeping busy is the key. your body is telling you take a break, but dont let your mind wither... cheers

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