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On the contrary, it makes a lot of sense. On a sunny day a metal roof without insulation will be re-radiating lots of infrared energy, in-directly heating up everything parked underneath.

Actually from what I've seen, builders normally create much wider footing pads to distribute the house's weight. Especially for the multiple story houses.

Is there a solid rock layer (bedrock) that comes close to the surface? Was your house plan permitted?

What is the usage plan for collected water?

There's a much better option over the glued-on very thin silvery material. It comes in the form of the 25mm PU insulating layer, which is also applied by the roll-forming shop during the roof sheet production. PU insulation has different properties and applied without any additional gluing agent, therefore it doesn't fall off and has much, much better insulating qualities.

DOS Bio Clean or WAVE Bio Seed

@MJCM Have you run a test of your well water?

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The cost IS the reason. I was referring to the Thai market in general and not to your particular case. As @proton has previously mentioned, most Thais prefer to have their houses built with many windows and multiple sliding doors. Cheap, Thai standard windows. The vast majority would never even consider getting western standard, thermally efficient units due to the costs.

Pretty much the reason for the energy-efficient windows being so uncommon in Thailand.

Yes, the residual moisture (if any) left from manufacturing or maybe just a minor ingress of the not too humid air in the case of a minor seal compromise. But it won't last long.

Congrats. You win! Can I go now? ????

Nothing to do with being gas charged (mostly). And everything to do with air leaking in and out of the void between the panes (broken seals).

Do you?

I really don't understand your point in regards to labor. As In regards to foreign based U.S. located auto plants... To have access to a highly protected auto-market. Also to be insulated from currency exchange rates fluctuations (which is the case with the Japanese). And often to take advantage of the local tax breaks (job creation incentives). Did I pass the quiz?

Are they gas charged in Thailand? So far I haven't seen any evidence of that. But I'd admit not closely looking into it. btw, gas filled as in inert gas, not air. ????

Labor is widely considered to be the biggest cost of doing business in the U.S. It's a fact.

The vast majority of Thai windows are of the aluminum frame/single pane or upvc frame/single pane cheap variety. There's no much reason to discuss similarly built dual pane windows, if available, since they would be of similar quality. What normally referred to dual pane windows in this discussion is associated with windows manufactured up to the western standards by farang-run shops (upvc, complex shaped frames, thermal brakes between the panes, coated glass). Not sure if they offer inert gas filling over here. In the west most of double pane windows come argon filled.

Labor costs are normally the biggest expense in the US manufacturing, or whatever has left of it which led to a huge push into automation.

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Labour costs and costs of regulations (environmental, taxation, employment, insurance etc.)

The updated Fortuner won't arrive until 2024, at the earliest. More likely to be released at the end of 2024 as a 2025 model.

Yeah, but you weren't able to get any discounts over the financing option.

Is that a common thing now to have discounts for new car purchases when paid in full?

If you try to price them (basically western prices)... The reason why they're rarely installed in Thailand.