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OK thanks guys. I'll get the neighbour onto it. He does this kind of stuff. Wanted to fix it myself if I could.

At the fully-closed position it's started to leak a little bit of water. I'm thinking open it up a little, hold the top little bit with pliers, and close it again. Is this right? I don't have pliers so I can't try it but I can borrow some from the neighbour when he comes back home.

If you need to book it in the future in case it changes again, go to the BKK immigration site and it's there under 'queue online' in the top right https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/home_en/

Hempcrete, hemp-plastic hybrids (stronger, lighter), antimicrobial fibres

I know that no one gives a RATs (rapid antigen tests - good one dummy). But I thought that I'd just throw this in here for reference as to how bad the situation REALY is. Just one example. WHO recommended against its use. German validation, didn't meet criteria. Only 58.8% sensitive in the best scenarios. Recalled in France. And I didn't dig beyond Germany and France and the WHO thing. Sadly, this also got approved by Australia. Standards are tightening worldwide now, but it's too little, too late. Should've independently tested these things prior to blind approval based on paperwork from a country known for faking basically anything they're involved with. Approved in Thailand no issue.

I put my handyman neighbour to work lol. And just on time my aircon isn't airconning any more so the cycle of never-ending problems continues. Good luck with that pipe that's a nightmare!

That pump looks a lot more heavy duty than mine. Mine's relatively new too, and the problem's been fixed so it was the tiny toilet leak at the end of it all, and I didn't think that such a small thing could cause such rapid cycling and constant running given that turning on a tap briedly doesn't even engage the pump. And the 'water hammer' effect that I used to turn it off by rapidly opening and closing a tap made me think that it was a pump problem not a tiny leak one. But now I've learnt my lesson. Anything is possible.

OK so my handyman neighbour came back home after a bit of a holiday so I got him to take a look. It looks like it was the toilet after all. water was overflowing into the overflow tube at a very slow pace in the reservoir. This was such a slow and small leak that I never considered it to be the source. It's still baffling as to why this was a bigger issue at night time than in the day.

Oops,I got it in my head that it was Pfizer. Maybe because I read that it was still available at Bang Sue just before that.

who here reckons that they store them at -80C?

oops ignore this

I don't need energy monitoring, only remote switching. I'd pay more if it can be delivered from a local source rather than it being shipped and a 100 baht difference really doesn't worry me either way.

That's hemp. For the other oils I guess.

Thanks ppl. If you press the power button on that thing, can it be reactivated via app? And how do you configure it initially with your wifi details?

Does anyone know of any particular models that you can plug into the wall (2 prong) and that'll take a Thai plug? Preferably one that you can log into via a browser, but if it features a phone app exclusively that's acceptable.

How much quality is there in a 38 baht kit? None.

If you have a high >25 percentage, by default you're going to have a high <25 one. At the same time it means that you can pick up low viral loads before the person becomes infectious. The test I put my money on (EuGeni) can detect >30 and is 97.3% / 99.6% and that's with viral transport medium interference as there weren't enough covid patients / fresh samples in Victoria at the time that the VIDRL were doing the trials. The Aussie govt approved some tests that are as low as 18% at <25 according to data from Germany. And they don't monitor performance post-approval asides from requiring the manufacturer to provide them with assurance that they can detect whichever variant is dominant at any particular time. They're insane! And they've held EuGeni back for 3.5 months now. Approved another Chinese test yesterday though. I'm convinced that they want to hide true case numbers with rubbish self tests and self-reporting as elections are coming up in 5 months. who's gonna report that they're positive to the govt that had the harshest lockdowns in the world?

RAT - Rapid Antigen Test ATK - Antigen Test Kit Same same. Recently found out that an Australian RAT testing company that I invested into was effectively sabotaged by the Australian PCR lobby and government. It seems as if money and politics were the driving factor behind public health decisions. “We’re saying to companies, submit your data, show us, but we can’t formally make an approval decision until we get a signal from the government” - TGA boss John Skerritt. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/31/a-scramble-how-australian-governments-flipped-from-resisting-to-embracing-covid-rapid-antigen-tests No w they're approving any old junk. I wonder how this compares to Thailand. It took a long time for RATs to be accepted here. And I've been watching the FDA since. Like in Australia, they've been approving subpar tests without regard. On one hand we have to be careful about containing spread, on the other, they're approving useless tests. Let me give you an example of how ridiculous it is. I quickly drew up a table of 3 tests to illustrate the problem, not going to bother doing the complete set. The full lists of approved tests can be found here: https://www.fda.moph.go.th/sites/Medical/SitePages/test_kit_covid19.aspx# The data that I used for test effectiveness was gathered here: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.44.2100441 That's real-world data from Germany September 2020 to April 2021. For the uninformed, Cq is the PCR cycle equivalence. A low Cq number means that there is a high viral load. The percentage in the Cq <25 column should be 100% if the test is worth anything. 47% means that the kit will detect only half of the infections in a contagious person, the rest will be a false-negative. The Cq >25 <30 is the important column as this is where pre-contagious infections are detected and the person can be quarantined before they spread the virus. I know that I gave only 3 examples, but I assure you that if I were to complete the table, most of the tests would have inadequate Cq <25 values, and pathetic to non-existent Cq >25 <30 ones. This results in many false-positives. why is this? Is it to move testing from the private, to the public sphere, where people can self-diagnose? Private and government entities report official figures. Individuals do not, and they may want to hide their positive result for various reasons. This way, official case numbers appear low. There may also be political or economical motivations behind it. Lower official case numbers make the government appear to have handled the situation more effectively. Moving testing from government-sponsored PCR to private 7-11 tests means less spending. One test that you might find in your local 7-11 was registered by 2 entities. It's a Xiamen Boson Biotech test. Superior to the others that I'd listed earlier, but it still has a lot to be desired. บริษัท ชอบไทย จำกัด Shop Thai Co., Ltd. - https://www.jatujakmall.com/ บริษัท เวเกอร์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (ไทยแลนด์) จำกัด Veger Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. - http://www.vegerthailand.com/ what does a shopping company, an electronics one, and 7-11 have in common with the medical industry? On top of that, the kits have a 'Lotus NL BV' marking. That is a Netherlands based distributor. Did they resell EU stock back to Thailand via a local 'distributor'? Did China offload their old (expired?) stock into Thai 7-11s via the same method? Fresh kits sold into Thailand should feature the local distributors' details. Not last year's Netherlands marks. To me, it's not surprising that money and politics are a driving force locally, however, it appears that the same has occurred in Australia, parts of which had the longest lockdowns in the world. You could also reason that the government/s appeased the PCR lobbies delaying RATs, they've made a ton of money, and now that they've unleashed any old RAT test upon the masses, they can go ahead and say "we told you that RATs are inaccurate, and now the virus is widespread due to their use". Deflecting blame for the rise in cases whilst ignoring the fact that they allow inadequate tests onto the market. Only a small percentage of self-tests will be reported officially. That is the key. And the more of them that test negative, the more it can be ignored. Official figures are FAR from the reality. Since the sole purpose of lockdowns of the past was purely case numbers, they want to bring that down to appear to be competent and to not have to be criticised for past actions. That's my theory anyhow. They realise that they cannot keep it going. Vaccines or no vaccines, alcohol, or not. Nothing can stop the virus from spreading so no one wants to be responsible for ruining businesses and lives.

Thais don't spread covid. They only get infected. Seriously though, the guy that I've been buying beers from for the past year and a half around the corner puts on a mask to serve me, but not (maskless) Thais. He's been doing it ever since my country of origin started spiking in cases. Yet he knows that I haven't left the country for nearly 2 years.

He's wrong. Enough dirty farang made it back in to take refuge in Thailand, to start a big new wave. He should assign each a personal washer to scrub them down as they rarely shower themselves. It's the only way to stop the spread.

That's what I concluded. A change in water pressure from the mains. Pretty certain that there's no tank unless there's one underground which I doubt. I'll take some pictures tomorrow.

Thanks for the replies guys. Should've mentioned it before. I'm in Bangkok. It's a house that I'm renting, and the supply comes from the mains I assume as there's a hole in the wall where the pipe feeds from. There's enough pressure in there to feed downstairs, but not enough to make it upstairs. All of the houses in the neighbourhood are like this. It's illegal?

I know that there have been some other threads about pumps and I've read through some of them. My issue is odd though. During the day, it sometimes cycles after longer periods of time briefly. I can accept this as it's not overly frequent and lasts for short periods of time. Usually around 10pm-12am, it turns on frequently and runs for longer periods of time. Sometimes it turns off, sometimes it doesn't. It frequently runs for long periods of time and I've been forced to switch it off at the wall every night. I've found that if I turn on the water full blast briefly in the nearby kitchen and then turn it off, the pump stops. So I don't think that it's a low pressure issue as I just released pressure and there was plenty. The old plumbing isn't in use, there's indoor/outdoor plumbing running to the upstairs bathroom (where there's no leak), the downstairs kitchen, also no leak, and an outdoor bathroom right next to the pump that is also not leaking. I can't see a leak anywhere in the plumbing before or after the pump either. It's all external. The only thing leaking very slightly is the downstairs toilet, but it's at such a slow rate that it doesn't warrant turning on and staying on. I assume that's what causes the infrequent daytime short cycles. But it just doesn't make sense at night. It's driving me mad! I'm tired of getting up to go to the kitchen to let out a burst of water to make it shut off, which it does immediately as soon as I turn off the tap, so I'm pretty sure that it's got enough pressure in the system. Any ideas?

Try putting some corn kernels in there so when it gets up to temperature, they start spitting out popcorn as the put along. Much more amusing than a sock.

Cheap Chinese low-quality batteries aren't the way to go. All lithium ion batteries are destined to short circuit themselves due to the laws of physics. There are plenty of videos of Chinese-made e-bikes/scooters setting on fire. Also, let's postulate that 10% of BKK's bikes change to electric. Again, the power-generation problem and the stress that it puts on the grid.