Yellowtail

For DIY stick is cheaper, for production MIG is much cheaper.

Yes, making videos for YouTube that generate revenue is a good job...

Or unless you use a small wind-break.

It is not a high return investment, but it does have intrinsic value so it will should always be worth something. The wife loves it. I bought in 2014 and I'm up ~41% as of yesterday, so that's something less 5% a year. I'm up ~33% over the same period with silver so less than 4%. Not great, but not nothing. If you don't already have one, now may be a good time to get a safe deposit box. Depending on where you are, they can be hard to get.

I know five and ten Baht bars are available, I'm sure bigger ones are as well.

Even if your business is able to generate money it will not last forever. I don't know. Is it operating illegally? You are correct. In any event, companies that effectively bought NPLs went bust, and should not have been bailed out. People that buy homes they can't afford should lose them, and the market will readjust. The same thing is happening again and no one cares. Are you railing against people buying inflated real estate like you're railing against crypto? I say "As long as the people buying and selling crypto are abiding the law, I say let them." and your takeaway is that I support criminal activity. I do not. And I assume more and more will. Generally, is not illegal is legal. Companies not breaking that law should be allowed to operate. If they are breaking the law, they should be prosecuted. I assumed ThLT was lying. What business were you in? I was in the HVAC business for the last 25 years and did okay.

20cm is not much, I think you need about 25cm for a 24K unit up to about 35cm for a 60K unit. That said, assuming you have the height, were I doing a complete refurbishment, I would go with a relief ceiling anyway, regardless of how I were configuring my AC. This facilitates an open floorplan, yet with clearly defined areas.

OP, if this is for the renovation you are planning, unless you really want the evaporator(s) on outside walls, you should go with a cassette unit, particularly for an open floorplan.

Pumps are typically used in installations that cannot rely on gravity to drain. It does not matter how good the pipes are, if they have to go up from the evaporator, the condensate will have to be pumped out.

You can absolutely MIG weld galvanized here or anywhere. MIG welding galvanized HVAC production in thicknesses from 0.5-3.0mm is quite common. Contrary to popular belief it is also safe. CO2 is popular for welding GA and burns the GA off better than Ar or ArCO2 mixes

If the the ratio allows for more foreign ownership, because it's registered to the company, could he/the company not just sell it to himself, or his foreign children?

The condensate pumps are visible, but they are effective and not (in my experience) noisy. Most installation rely on gravity rather than pumps. Cassette/ceiling units have integrated pumps. Cassette units are (IMO) much better than wall mount units.

Oh, I thought you were, my bad.

Some of the arguments supported in this thread by ThLT:

That there of examples of cheating everywhere, not just penny stocks. There was a recent example of fraud perpetrated by a k-bank employee, does that mean all Thai banks are no good? Of course because your buddy will not be able to respond, he'll call this "whataboutism" and throw in a silly eye-roll emoji. I know what the DotCom bubble was. A lot of high risk IPOs, some panned out, some didn't. Some people made a lot of money, some did not. Are you against companies that have not shown profits going public? Is your idea that every company is going to be profitable, no one is going to cheat, and that investors never lose money? The "Great Recession" was in 1929. Yes, companies that effectively bought NPLs went bust, and should not have been bailed out. People that buy homes they can't afford should lose them, and the market will readjust. The same thing is happening again and no one cares. Are you railing against people buying inflated real estate like you're railing against crypto? How many is many? I think most people understand it is high risk, if they don't they should. I think they were probable for a while, but yes, they were cheaters. So what? Do you envision a world without cheaters? Shut the market down because it's not fair when people lose money? Has anyone tried to make the argument that schemes have not existed over the years? And again, value is subjective. People have an idea that at some point all the currencies of the world will fail and that they will be only people holding anything with any real value. This may or may not be true, but who am I to say they should not be allowed to invest in it? I am a free-market capitalist. As long as the people buying and selling crypto are abiding the law, I say let them. Why is any of what we're talking about important? I think you two are the same guy with two usernames, otherwise why does he seem to know so much about your finances and in fact is allowed to speak for you? If you bought Apple at $2.50, held it and saw the last two splits, I assume you made millions. What's wrong with that? And when discussing finances, what's wrong with asking people who they trade with?

Indeed

If you don't know, just say you don't know, no shame it not knowing.

Because you do not understand something does not mean it is BS.

Even when people do spend the money, they generally fail to make sure that that the contractor understands what they want. The same people might ask the staff if the tum-yum is cooked with organic, gluten-free, low-fat coconut milk. And then, because the staff nods, smiles and say "yes, tum-yum have coconut" (in Thai) they think that's what they're getting. Then when they find out that's not what they're getting, they claim they've been cheated. If it is not clear in the order documents, it is not clear.

You seem to know less about the construction industry than you do the petroleum industry. I have visited hundreds of commercial, industrial & residential jobsites in Thailand and my experience simply does not match yours.

How are penny stocks a scam? Plenty of DotComs still making money, some making a lot of money. Enron was a publicly traded company, run by cheaters that went broke. How does this compare to crypto? Subprime mortgages are still creating a lot of money for a lot of people. I bet 90% of the people in the mortgage business when the bubble burst that are not dead or retired are still writing loans. Yes, Bernie Madoff was a cheater and he was jailed, how does this compare to crypto? What happened to BitConnect and OneCoin? Yes, Elizabeth Holmes was a cheater and she will likely be jailed, how does this compare to crypto? Yeah well you have to make hay while the sun-shines. A lot of people sold early, and kept all the money they made with most everything you listed, yes? Why does your buddy insist you made so little with Apple? And how would he know anyways? You really should set the record straight...

Software is great, but (IMO) nothing really beats paper-dolling a layout. Do your layout to scale, and print out it out on large paper, a couple times with all the furniture and fixtures, and once with just a bare floor-plan. Lay the bare drawing on a table, cut out all the furniture and fixtures from the other drawings, then move everything around in different ways. Every time you get a layout you think you like, make a copy with the software and save it. This works great, and it works even better with a few people sitting around it. It is also easy to have your contractors make suggestions moving the stuff around. I know it's hard to believe, but many of them are smart, know what works, know what's available, and want you to be happy. Remember, if it's not in the order documents, it's not in the order. You may get it, but if you do not, it's your own fault. I knew an electrical contractor that had a Hatteras in Huntington Harbor names "Change Order"

The first thing you need to do is figure out exactly what you want, and know what the materials you want will cost. This takes time. Were it me, I would live or at least stay in the unit a good bit to be sure what I wanted was going to work. It took me a year to figure out how I want my place, but it's a shophouse, not a condo. Condo should be easier. Write down everything you want, and how you want it. So she will be working as your general, correct? She needs to know exactly what you want, and how you want it, and she needs to transcribe it to Thai. Once it done, you need to determine what stages you want it done in, What you're going to do, and which contractors are going to do what. People have homes built base on a one page quote they can't read, and because the contractor nods his head every time they talk they think the contractor knows what they are saying, and agreeing to whatever it is. You have to have everything you want in writing, and it has to be understood by everyone BEFORE you ask them to quote. How much $$ should be almost the last question you ask. When you review the quotes, they should match what you want. If they don't, they need to be revised such that they do match what you want. The price means nothing unless whomever is quoting the work understands what you want, and is agreeing to do what you want. If you want things done is stages, you just need to have progress payments outlined in the order documents that reflect that.

1. Make sure all of your expectations are outlined clearly in the order documents. Have you worked as a general contractor before? Do you speak fluent Thai?

It does not look nor appear to work anything like the buss-duct & plugs used in the US.