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HP, been there done that with a lappie and printer, never again. 

A Brother wifi laser printer works for me as I only ever need documents/copies.  

Sarin Coffee shop in Ubon Ratchathani has been consistently excellent over the 12 years I have visited.  Located on a main road west of the Police HQ and Hospital, Sarin is located at the rear of the Shell servo.  Nice cakes and sandwiches + fast wifi in aircon comfort.

CM is full of whingers an whiners.  About time you all grew some more brain cells and thought about the season, wind patterns and why a hot dry climate produces dust and bush fires. 

You want smoke, go live in Australia during bush fire season.  Only difference here is that much of the smoke is blown across from India or Burma and settles among our valleys all across the North and into Laos and Vietnam.

Dust is stirred up by human activity and any city traffic pollution exacerbates poor local conditions.  It's normal in a dry climate.  Get used to it or move.

The bottom set of wheels can be adjusted to raise the door.  Best idea is to remove the door from the frame and check both wheels are undamaged and fully serviceable.   If damaged you can purchase replacements from most aluminium door/window fabricators or major hardware retailers.

Central Festival's Food Hall stock a large variety of UK foodstuffs, eg: Waitrose brand, and I've seen frozen Chicken Kiev and meat pies in the freezers.

A superb portrayal of the entire incident that we followed almost hourly on TV and other media.  I watched the Thai language version without subtitles!  Didn't really need dialogue, so IMHO that makes it an excellent moving picture story.

Highly recommended.

58 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Agree, but for selfish reasons:

 

- Quite close to my family home

- Very good RIMPING supermarket.

Agreed, but will the company stay on IF a reopening happens very very soon?  This closure and removal of perishables could sound the death knell for Rimping at the Prom.

Corruption in Asia?   Compared to what, Russia, China or USA ... lol, most of Asia hasn't yet embraced western methods.

Next election may see Thailand move closer to corruption obscurity.

51 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The police are lazy... it doesn’t really matter much..  

 

They’re not stopping anyone in a car without a mask.....  or at least over the past year or so they’ve not shown the blindest bit of notice when we (family) are out in our car without a mask. 

 

 

 

Same in the North but I had heard different of deepest darkest Isaan, especially Ubon.

I recall some time last year a rule was talked about, mainly for Bangkok AFAIK, that everyone must wear a mask when out in public (fair enough) but seemed to extend to private car driver and pax.  Now I can fully appreciate taxi's and buses requiring masks, but did this rule apply to personal vehicles, say husband & wife driving with all windows up?

If so, was it gazetted?  And does it apply in Ubon Ratchathani and Yasothon provinces?

Sinopharm walk in at Klaimor only 2k bt, 2 shots. Fast and a safer product IMO.

Offline for maintenance.    Didn't work initially but may do so in future.

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4 minutes ago, bbko said:

Why would you not believe them?  Installing a celling fan isn't brain surgery.  Someone with electrical knowledge gets up in the crawl space, installs a support beam/bracket, feeds electrical wiring to the fan, and installs a on/off switch down below.  It can get dusty depending on if you want the wires to the on/off switch hidden in the wall or running outside the wall.

There is no crawl space.  Upstairs bedroom and downstairs lounge must have all installation done from below the ceiling.

UFO http://www.mrken-fan.com/product-detail/172

To fit a ceiling fan as described by the OP is not difficult as the ceiling will almost certainly be suspended below a concrete slab floor with approx 25cm cavity.

Easy way to check is to remove one ceiling light and establish the depth, plus, if one has a suitible fish, you could check to see there are no beams obstructing the  centre of the ceiling.

A good installer should insert (above the drywall) a load spreader to affix the fan to.  There are several ways to do this and I'm not able to describe adequately in print form.

As for electric supply, buy a remote control which allows power to be tapped off the lighting circuit.  Easy.

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Fit a ceiling fan in the lounge 4 years ago , rarely use it , fit a wall fan in the kitchen, use it everyday.

The problem with ceiling fans is you don’t feel the benefit unless you are right underneath them, floor and wall fans are much more flexible.

I could see the benefit of a ceiling fan in the bedroom over the bed .

Andrew, you no doubt purchased the wrong fan, easily done as even in showroom conditions you will seldom experience a good demonstration of air flow.

Modern fancy designs which look great, are among the worst performers, especially those usually stocked in the B & B homeware s store.

We discovered the Mr Ken 4 bladed UFO design to be the best in our last house and installed 11 of them in the new house.  The air flow even on 50% power is suffient to cover a 4m x 4m area.  Remote control is a good option.

Pak kanar aka Chinese broccoli.  Excellent steamed and served with oyster sauce or stir fried with Moo grob.

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15 hours ago, bankruatsteve said:

Just to say... as ubiquitous as LPG is in Thailand and never hearing of any blowing up or starting fires, I don't consider them dangerous no matter where placed.  I'm sure there are anecdotes otherwise but I don't know why anyone would go to any extreme to put outside for so-called "safety".

You are correct, one seldom hears about gas explosions, house fires or other such mundane daily disasters.  Doesn't mean they don't happed, because they certainly do and the owner/occupiers are seldom around afterward to complain.  The photo below is of a gas explosion in NZ due to a faulty appliance installation and shows the destructive force of a gas leak.  Actual cylinder explosions are even worse.

Last house I had exactly that set-up.   Local Chiang Mai gas fitter installed copper from open garage area to kitchen above and teed it off to the balcony for a bbq.  Hidden pipes installed during construction.

We used a different company for this new house with the same arrangement for pool-side cabana and bbq but the company insisted on gal pipe for under-house ~ 8m supply to my internal kitchen.  This was from a separate twin tank supply in an alcove on rear of house.  The gal pipe was recommended for safety running a long distance under the 1.2m high enclosed under-floor space.

A Chiang Mai gas fittings supply shop recommended several gas fitters who use copper, so perhaps you could start with inquiries at a similar outlet in your area,