Andrew Dwyer

I’ll just leave this here !!

I had a little project ongoing in my garden that required welding, as luck would have it my BIL bought a welder off the net and lent me it.
Bought some electrodes and set about having a trial run with some offcuts.
I hadn’t welded since college in ‘77 but you never forget ...? .... right ?...........WRONG !!
Practised for a couple of days and managed a half decent weld on a scrap piece on my workbench.
But, as my welding is going to be for a sala roof I decided to admit defeat and called my builder guy, who came and did a great job.
With my welding it would have probably come crashing down overnight !!

Hope you’re not attempting anything overhead OP ??

I though nong nooch was that famous Thai porno actress who married the old white millionaire.

 
And for those who don't know:-
 
 

Regarding youtube app problems: what about just bookmarking youtube and forget the app .
What a circus act ^ I wonder what this clown is on besides too much.

I disagree that the foil/paper product is best. The best stuff I found IS in fact the foil bonded to the 4 mm foam, used on the bottom of metal corrugated roofing metal.  Installed shiny side outwards and foam inwards, you do in fact want as much insulation as you can around the outside of the tank to reduce heat transfer from sun and the warm ambient air to the cooler tank.  I see your air conditioner heat pump is installed directly above it, and if it is running all day, will also heat your tank.  Cover the top of the tank as well. As for the foil/paper stuff, it is not as rigid, and the paper on the other side will rot and degrade, where the foam will not maintaining it's form. In fact, I also bond this stuff to the inside tops of my motorcycle top cases to keep it a lot cooler inside for water, groceries, and things. Good luck!

Have you checked out app support group?  I don't use either app as I'm usually on a PC.  I read where one guy uninstalled then reinstalled the app and his problem was solved.

Everything works okay if i enter TVF via browser ( Thaivisa.com ) so has to be an app issue.

Anyhooo, sent a message to Tapatalk from the Connect app ( not sure of the relationship between these two [emoji848]) anyway, see if they come back to me .

Back on topic:

Here’s The Pink Fairies version of Ventures: Walk Don’t Run ( 1960 ) taken from their 1972 album What A Bunch Of Sweeties .

Enjoy

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Ironically, i tried to play the video from this post and got “ video unavailable “ [emoji20]

The water is pretty warm when it comes out of the ground. No insulation will get it below the ambient temperature.

Here in Ayutthaya it clouded over, wind built up, thunder in the distance and then ...........................zip !!

Exactly!  But I guess there are some that have to live exactly the way they did at home?
Get yourself a bucket like in your photo, also need to clean that shower curtain shower area. Get a spray bottle some bleach and water of course there is nothing like a bit of elbow grease?
 
Also, not sure of the system all you got to do is turn the dial down.

you could use just household alu folie and glue it ot the tank, it reflects sun, heat
 
you could put up a transportable screen in front (metal, white or shiny) roof plate in a frame.
Metal frame on wheels, which hold the sheet. Or put a solar panel in front of it in a frame, maybe you can use some power? Well that cost more. 
 
Or connect the sheet to the wall and the wooden tank frame, then you can fill space between tank and sheet with glass(stone) wool again. They are the best for insulation, but can also put an old mattress in between. 
 
Or, it is somehow/where (BK) in Thailand , order a sandwich panel or panels to make a closed area around your tank, of course UV resistant or aluminum on outside, on the inside is polyurethaan, which insulates.
 
you could wrap the tank with glass or stone wool, though space is limited there.
 
you could have from a an old car the radiator and fan and lead water through it to cool. That will cost some more effort and time to realise and cost you more power, aswell pressure loss.
 
you could also stop the inlet of water and keep level low before that time (3 pm) and afterwards (3:30 )
fill it with fresh water. Fill it before taking shower. This doesnt cost much. Of course some reflecting material on the tank would be nice, so making a combination.
 
Also shielding the inlet pipe is effective.
I see a big blue pipe in the sun at the back, water inlet? It heats up asswell and comes in your tank.
 
Many ways to go. 

what the hell is that?
 
you could have a leading role in Walking Dead and Game of Thrones man.
 
Congratulation on recovery

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Inexpensive roll up blinds often sold off the back of trucks or can be ordered to measure. Up in cool season down in hot.
 

The hot air exhaust from the extractor will have no effect as the exhaust heat will be absorbed by the ambient air well before it has time to heat the tank.  There have been several suggestions made on how to reduce the effect of direct sunlight heating the water tank. Wrapping it with insulation would block out the radiant heat, but then the water inside may be too cool. Myself, I would choose to use a sunblocking screen shade that could be lowered to reduce radiant heat or raised during the cooler weather to warm the water. 

I like that “Future Board” for cheap shade...

THis is tge reflective foil scrim.
I have half a roll left if you are in CM and you want a few metres.

Been wondering about you, too, Andrew.  Seems both threads have gone a bit quite of late.  What's your issue with YT?  Maybe we can help find a solution?  Two (or more) heads are better than one (granted, some of us are former heads now).

 

And don't forget about tutsi, who continues to enthrall us with his spellbinding yarns of flirtations.  I've experienced at least a half dozen shockingly risque and unspeakable encounters of debauchery (with my wife, of course) directly attributable to tutsi's tales of great Ulysses.

 

 

 

my YT problem is videos posted are randomly unavailable to view on Tapatalk and Connect apps .

Youtube for me plays normally, no problem whatsoever !! but via the above apps around 70% are unavailable !!

Its a weird one !!

A YT video I watched ( via YT app ) and then posted on this thread was unavailable to me !!

Whats that all about ??

For example: trying to view your Cream video ( via Connect app ) gave me this .

 
Dont agree on "unsightly" but each to there own. [emoji16]

I like hot showers, but if you really want to cool it way down, as someone else alluded to, you could install an evaporative cooler and recirculate the water in the tank. It would work just like a chiller and (if you keep the house cool) save a little on electric for the AC.

Just use a blind or curtain dropped from the eave of the roof to inside the wall.
 
The blind woukd be about 1500 baht, (like shops drop)
 
The home made way is use the black type material farmers use to shade crops etc, that would be around 500 baht. Both would shade and remove direct heat.

In our bathroom we keep a large plastic bucket with a ladle and a lid.

Very cheap and most Thais have the same thing. You get a nice cool cascade of water regardless of outside temperature.

Cheap and efficient low tech solution.

Yup, have one of those in the 3rd toilet, it’s only used for emergencies, used it a couple of times recently as water ran out and when we tiled under the pump outside.

Have to admit though it’s a good idea and could move it into my bathroom for this hot spell !!

In your use case I strongly recommend either the cheapest, it has brown paper on one side silver on the other, if you a not going to let it get wet and it should be silver side out. It is about 1,200 for 72M it may well be the best for the job
 
Or if it will get wet then the double sided silver version as I think that may be better if rained on.
 
Whatever you buy do not get anything with foam in it as that will stop or reduce any heat transfer from tank to air.