Jayman

I had a similar problem recently as well and as a previous poster wrote, it was the ballcock & valve in the tank.

800 baht more a month is a leak of approx. 75000 liters a month.

If the leak is underground, I would also be worried about the ground being washed-out.

If the leak was the ball valve in the tank then you would see the tank overflow so that one is fairly obvious to detect. As I stated before, for me the leak is not to do with the tanks as to stop the meter moving I divert the city water to the tanks and when the tanks are full the meter stops spinning. Also, when I turn the pump on and divert the tank water to the house, I can hear the pump kicking in every minute to re pressurize the lines from the leaking pipes so that means the leak is outside the tanks on the other side of the pump. Somewhere after the pump which could be the lines to the house or a line inside the house.

I had the same problem TWICE . Under the kitchen floor . Had to cut the tiles, knock up the concrete and dig it all up. I had know idea where it was, BUT something told me where to dig . IT, was right. ...............

Actually the floor has been up THREE times, once for a drainage blockage, daft pipe routing........

Just seems like if the pipes in the house are in concrete then there is little chance for them to break. The ones outside buried in the yard and subject to the other stuff in the ground like the big trees that are growing not far from them. This seems like the more likey cause of the leak but I want to get someone in to cut the pipe under the house that feeds the house and cap it and see if the meter is still moving. This would at least tell us if the problem was inside the house piping or with the piping feeding the house. It's also very cheap to cut the line, cap it, and then re connect it once we have tested.

try Ninja Mokhata Buffet, motorbike taxi will take u..

u pay like 300-400 per person, no time limit

selfservice

u got grill on ur table, and big grill u can give them to grill for u what u want

rock lobsters awailable, fish, sea food pork beef, quite good

Can you be more specific with the location than "motorbike taxi will take you". My family lives on the darkside and has a car and could hardly get around on motorbike taxis.

This place sounds great and I'd like to give it a go sometime.

Sukishi

That is not the place I was referring to. The one I was referring to has both charcoal and the option to use the hot pot at the table and in on the 5th floor right next to the festival department store.

First thing you need to do is have the Water Company come out to re-calibrate your meter. These need re-calibrating every so often as do Electric meters. If you go to either meter company you will see thousands of them in the repair yards waiting to be calibrated/re-calibrated.

So that involves calling the water company and asking them to come out and recalibrate the meter? Seems along shot to get them to come out any time soon and do more work that will only go to bring them in less money.

The fact is, we must have a leak cause I can see the meter spinning when the water is diverted to my house and no water is being used. When I divert the water to the storage tanks and they are full, no spinning meter. So even if the meter is not calibrated, I still have leak that needs to be fixed.

OP: Have you tried approaching Nong Prue Amphur to see if you can hire one of their repair crews?

I have not. Is that done by going ot the Nong Prue Amphur office a the end of Nern Plub Wan and inquiring there?

assuming you are correct about the underground pipe being cracked, rather than dig it all up is it not possible to replace the pipe with an above ground one?

that's what i did, cost less than 2000

Sure that is very possible but I still need a thai to come out and do the work. Can you recommend one or did you do all the work yourself? Unfortunately, I can mend pips but drilling through concrete and running new pips to my house are a bit beyond what I feel comfortable doing. I don't even think I can fit through the opening that gets me under my house to work on the connection of the pips to the house supply.

EDIT:

I should also add that we have 2 ways to get water into the house. Via the city water line and from our tanks (via help from our pump). The water from the city runs into our property and goes to a valve which either diverts the water to the house line or the tanks to fill them. I use that valve to chose between using the city water directly or using the tank water. It's that valve that I have been using to stop the water from going to the house lines and diverting to the tanks which keeps the meter from spinning. I also have a power switch for the pump that I leave off when doing this so that tank water is not being leaked out into the pipes. If I turn the pump on I can hear it going on/off every minute or so to compensate for the pressure being lost via the leak. This is how I know the leak is occurring after this valve rather than before is from the water meter to the valve. I will go out and take a picture of the valve and hopefully that will explain how the digging needs to start there to find the leak. We could start the digging there and cut the pipe and lay new pips to the house as suggested and that might be much better than digging up the yard to find the cracked pipe going to the house. Thanks for that suggestion.

i had almost exactly the same problem as you at another house

after a number of growing government bills and a wildly spinning meter for no reason , it turned out not to be a pipe leak at all

it was the valve and ballcock

once replaced at 200 baht cost

problem solved, when tank full, valve closed, meter stopped

i was skeptical about this cure, as i expect you will be but it worked and that was that

for 200 baht i urge you to give it a go

good luck

Thanks for the suggestion but that has been tested and that's not the issue of the leak. As I stated, when I turn the valve to divert city water to the tank the meter stops spinning. This means that the tank valve is not the cause of the leak. It when the city water is diverted to the house that the meter spins. That is when the tanks are out of the loop. With the tanks in the loop there is no sign of a leak.

assuming you are correct about the underground pipe being cracked, rather than dig it all up is it not possible to replace the pipe with an above ground one?

that's what i did, cost less than 2000

Sure that is very possible but I still need a thai to come out and do the work. Can you recommend one or did you do all the work yourself? Unfortunately, I can mend pips but drilling through concrete and running new pips to my house are a bit beyond what I feel comfortable doing. I don't even think I can fit through the opening that gets me under my house to work on the connection of the pips to the house supply.

EDIT:

I should also add that we have 2 ways to get water into the house. Via the city water line and from our tanks (via help from our pump). The water from the city runs into our property and goes to a valve which either diverts the water to the house line or the tanks to fill them. I use that valve to chose between using the city water directly or using the tank water. It's that valve that I have been using to stop the water from going to the house lines and diverting to the tanks which keeps the meter from spinning. I also have a power switch for the pump that I leave off when doing this so that tank water is not being leaked out into the pipes. If I turn the pump on I can hear it going on/off every minute or so to compensate for the pressure being lost via the leak. This is how I know the leak is occurring after this valve rather than before is from the water meter to the valve. I will go out and take a picture of the valve and hopefully that will explain how the digging needs to start there to find the leak. We could start the digging there and cut the pipe and lay new pips to the house as suggested and that might be much better than digging up the yard to find the cracked pipe going to the house. Thanks for that suggestion.

Before you go the expensive of tearing things up, have you checked for a toliet leak? If the toilet is leaking, you can repair yourself. Just search Google for leaking toilet, you they give you intructions for testing an repairing. Usually it's just the rubber flapper in the bottom of the tank.

yes we have. All the taps inside the house that have valves like sinks and toilets have been turned off and the water meter still is turning. It does not seem to be the case of a leak inside the house plumbing but is much more likely caused by roots from a big tree in our yard cracking the pipes in the earth where it's buried.

Beef beef beef - all you can grill and eat - 499 Baht - A.K.A Central festival - even though have to do 2 additional hours of gym after having been there

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where would that be, or is there a restaurant called beef beef beef ?

AKA restaurant, 5th floor inside Central festival, 2nd road side. You order he beef you like and grill it on the charcoal table grill.

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Not sure if the name you posted is correct but there was a place the wife and I would frequent on 5th floor at festival next to the festival dept store. Has a Japanese look to it and you have charcoal grill at the table. Price was 399thb all you can eat ++. They had many different cuts of beef, both imported and local. They also had seafood (I'm not seafood guy personally). Pork and chick also on the menu. You fill out a little paper with what you want and they come bring you more. They also have a soup pot addon you can get or can just order off the menu and skip the all you can eat part.

I agree it's a treat and the wife and I would go there and get stuffed. Might have to make a visit there this weekend since it's been a while since we splurged on eating out.

So we have a house on the darkside and our normal water bill for the past many years has been in the 300-500thb range. Now we are getting bills for 1200-1500thb a month. Something is definitely wrong. The meter is spinning all the time and this means we have a leak. We can turn off the water from a valve outside our house and then the meter stops spinning. We don't seem to have a leak inside the house anywhere and had 2 different people come look and they think it's a leak from the outside of the house where the pips come into the house. Those pips are underground (on our land) and it's believed the roots from trees have cracked the pipes.

So here is where the problem lies.... no one wants to do the repairs. The people that have come out thus far keep saying they will return but never do. We can't keep waiting while our monthly bills are so high. We turn off the water now when not being used and still this past bill was 1400thb. The place to start digging is from where we turn off the water by our water tanks and then follow that line to the house. Concrete will need to be broken to get to the earth underneath where the pipes are buried. We are not talking about a huge distance that needs to be investigated. Prob less than 20 feet.

Can anyone recommend someone to do this job? If you have some contact details for a worker then please feel free to PM me if posting in the forum is not allowed. It's so hard to get anyone to do work here. Even without discussing money the Thais that have come out never return. They keep saying they will but never do. I'm told that they don't like working on built houses and would rather lay new pipe in houses being build as it's much easier work for them. There must be some workers that need to earn money and will take on this job. I really can't see it taking more than a few days.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

androids opensignal is a good tool as is cellular network widget. search the playstore for them

Here's my speed test on ais 2100 from the dark side

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Those ping times seem awfully low.. looks like your results might be skewed from a cache server.

Sorry, just saw a post on the previous page with a recent quote.

I do, however, have another question: What's the estimated travel time from DMK to central Pattaya on a Thursday morning?

Think it was about 2hrs and was 1200thb all included.

nope, sucks though. how did they find out? there are certainly plenty of people using them

IP Information: 27.55.146.147

ISP: Truemove

Organization: Realmove Company Limited

Connection: Dial-up

Services: None Detected

City: Bangkok

Region: Krung Thep

Country: Thailand

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Above is the data my ip address gives out. When I use a VPN it says Manchester UK.

Although the city I am in is Chiang Mai, it shows here as Bangkok for some reason, i dont know how they found out or how to stop them from finding out.

True move H is the best solution fore as it gives me the speed I need for less than 1000 a month.

If anyone has a work around, please PM me, I am desperate !!!

Not an expert but are you logging onto your own server in Manchester?

Most VPN services change the remote IP address constantlt so it can't be identified with a local address. That's what my service does. Also most services let you connect to various counties all over the world.. Under those circumstances I don't know how True could link back to your IP address.

VPN works by connecting to a remote server which handles all your requests. E.g. when you visit Google.com through a VPN in the UK, you connect to your VPN server, tell it you want to visit Google.com, it resolves the domain name, handles the request, then sends you the response. Google.com only sees your HTTP request from that system in the UK so thinks you're in the UK. True only sees your connection to the VPN server. They can identify that you use a VPN because you use VPN specific ports. SSTP VPN is special because it appears as normal HTTPS traffic - True would see as you browsing a HTTPS website.

This is not 100% correct. Yes, SSTP uses port 443 (as does Open VPN) which is the same port that HTTPS uses but that doesn't mean the ISP can't detect it's VPN traffic based on the packet headers.

Here is a very easy way that SSTP could be blocked by a corporate firewall and I'm sure the ISP have no problems implementing this if they want.

4) How to block SSTP based VPN connections to traverse out of corporate network?

For any reason, if the network administrator wants to block all outgoing SSTP based VPN connection, then it can be done at the web proxy level. If there is a web proxy (i.e. forward proxy) deployed inside the corporate network which can do filtering of different attributes inside HTTP CONNECT header, then SSTP based connections can be blocked as it adds a fixed field (SSTP_VERSION: *) inside the HTTP CONNECT header

I should also add that OpenVPN actually uses SSL which is what is normally found on port 443 so it's not as easy to detect from the headers as SSTP is. That said, OpenVPN does not use the standard SSL and China is currently doing DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) on 443 traffic and then blocking OpenVPN traffic when it's detected.

Diagonally across from the main entrance of Central Mall on 2nd Road, there is a small Indian restaurant called Madras.

 

Southern Indian specialties like masala dosa , all curries as well and quite tasty each time I have been there.

 

 

 

 

This one is my personal favorite but I haven't been there in many months now.

Doesn't at all surprise me that a mobile internet provider would ban voip as this cuts into their business. However, banning the use of a vpn is quite lame.

I use true cable net and have no problems using a vpn or voip. I hope that doesn't change.

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For people who do love a British curry, was in foodland yesterday and in the freezer were curries that claimed to be just like British Indian restaurant curries, there was a vindaloo, my fav so bought one thinking it was going to be rubbish!! How wrong i was. Had it tonight for dinner, it was lovely, just like the real thing at home. Can't remember how much it was but it wasn't expensive. Will be going back tomorrow to stock up in the freezer above they also had naans, not so great but ok! Don't have an oven so can't make my own.

Any more details like the brand would be helpful.

Thanks

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Yes unfortunately he closed months ago. Just don't think they could survive with the few customers they had. Really too bad since the food was good and very reasonable.

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I used the android eservice app to see that the calls I have been placing since the plan started are not costing anything. So I do have free mins. It's just I can't figure out how to ask AIS how many free minutes are left. Evevery answer they have given me just reports 0 mins left.

What about to the old airport Don Muang?

Use your fingers and search in the Don Muang forum

Or take a van to Victory Monument-100 baht-and then the 29 bus to DM,18 baht easy

Is that 100thb bus to victory monument the one that departs opposite Friendship super market on S Pattaya road? Any idea how early that starts running? And the 29 bus, is that 24 hours? Trying to get to Don Muang at like 630am so need to leave pattaya quite early.

So after searching the AIS site without luck I called the CS again hoping to get the code needed. This time I was told it's no problem to get the 399thb 750MB/150 min plan and with vat it's 427 +30th for switching plans. They gave me the code *777*51# and when I hung up I used the code, was charged the 457thb and received an sms saying I was activated.

Are you a pre-paid customer? Or post-paid? Do you have an Android phone? There is a new AIS app. in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ais.mimo.eservice

Is your balance being depleted when you make voice calls, assuming you've not exceeded your 150 minutes? Can you simply direct the AIS CSR's to the web-page/promotion?

http://www.ais.co.th/3g-one-2-call/th/promotion_detail.aspx?type=super_value&id=2

All their websites are in Thai with no English pages.

This is not unusual as during any major transition, in this case to 2100 MHz, web pages get created first in Thai then in English. I assume that they'll have English-language versions soon.

Thank you for that. You posted the link to the page I spent so much time looking for but just couldn't find.

I did receive a callback and sms from AIS this morning informing me that to check minute balance use the code *121*2#

Not sure why they couldn't tell me that last night.

of course when I enter *121*2# it responds I have no free minutes. So now, back on the phone to AIS and they are forcing em to leave another VM for a return call. What's even more ridiculous is that calls to the AIS call center for AIS customers is not free.