klikster

A few things to consider...if you aren't locked into a design you can't live without, try incorporating a breezeway, orientated north and south (the direction of the monsoonal air movements) and think of a radiator core. Then use ACC block on the exterior and red brick on the interior with a dead air space in between. I did this with our house and even though I pre-wired for AC in two parts of the house, I have not yet bought any for cooling purposes. We open the house up early in the morning and turn on the exhaust fans that were put in at ceiling heigth to get rid of any warm air that has found its way to the ceiling, thus drawing in the cool air. Before the sun gets to cooking, we close all windows and doors and it stays just as lovely as can be, all day long. You will notice the loss of cool air in the evening as the sun is setting, but by this time it is already cooling outside, down again. This breezeway makes for three wings of the house, the east side (office and guest room with an adjoining bathroom) that only gets morning sun, the west side that is the kitchen, living room and dining room with only three windows to cover, and the MBR and related bath, up over the breezeway. We have a terrace opening from the bed room and a balcony opening on the other end to get unrestricted airflow and it works like a champ. I did go with large gable louver vents for more than adequate air exchange in the attic and it makes a huge difference compared to those wimpy, so called louver vents I see available here. I think we accidentally hit the jack pot with this design and I am so pleased with it. By the way, the breezeway itself it probably the most used room of the house during the day. Good luck. ett

love to see a drawing or pics

+1

I think you have missed the point of both posts (Kimo's and mine). KM gave some good advice. With a retort like yours you run the risk if getting less help/advice in the future.

You have thrown some tantrums (imo) in the past. You even threatened to leave this forum at least once. Think about it.

Maybe there are poor communications because of language barriers. But the onus is on you to really understand a post before calling someone out.

As I said before, "up to you".

I'm done.

Now may be a good time to start planning for a replacement desktop, rather than waiting for a truly catastrophic failure, especially given your distance from a major metropolitan area. IME, these little failures are nearly always the precursor to a major failure.

I think in 1-3 month would be good:

Ivy bridge cpus coming end of April

new chipsets for mainboards are coming now

new GPUs coming now

So buying now will give the old things to a high price.

In 2 month you can buy these much cheaper or buy brand new technology.

When is the HD market going to get real again (prices and availability) ?

NAT GEO HD & ESPN HD free to view on Palapa D C band in 1920x1080i

FREQ: 4101

POL: V

SR: 30000

HD: 1080i

VDO: free to view

Does that satellite footprint cover all of Thailand? Those are 2 great channels!

Consider a hybrid drive http://www.seagate.c...ops/laptop-hdd/

Made the wife promise to be gentle when she tells them to take a hike.

Kimo Max!

Once again one of those people who judge other people whitout any knowledge about the hole storie.

And I dont entend to tell the hole storie-

Looks to me like KimoMax does not deserved to be scolded.

You didn't tell the whole story. KM drew some logical, albeit incorrect (?), conclusions. He doesn't seem to be "judging" you. Looks to be like he is trying to help.

Up to you.

Some folks here may want to read this.

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=16002552

Got the house up for sale. A 15 year old house on 1 rai. Farang and Thai wife show up and look the place over. Called back today and asked for a reduction of 10% below our "last price" (Thats all he can borrow). Expected that, but here's the jaw dropper.

He want's us to guarantee everything about the house for 10 years.

Gary A +1

isanbirder +1

mario299 +1 -- especially "Man Up, dammit, take care of business! Not something that affected you? Leave it alone."

I'm not pumping water, but am blowing air through the system. This has been experimented with in a process called earth pipes typically buried underground. From a link from Crossy, a test in India produced the following figures from a 50 meter 4 inch pipe, albeit with a 300 watt motor doing the pushing. In the tests the ambient was 40c with an pipe temp of 26c and an output temp of 27c

Ah, sorry, my bad, necronx99. One of the first things would be to decide how many cfm of air you want to move, then the pressure drop through those pipes. You would likely be talking "blowers" not axial flow fans in order to overcome the static pressure of each duct. You might be able to find a site that has formulas or calculators for the pressure drop. Then there are those nasty bends.

I'm not expert on heat transfer, but I used to sell fans for large cooling towers and process air-cooled heat exchangers so I picked up on come of the basics. It sounds like you might end up with a relatively expensive big mess that doesn't do very much good.

PVC is not a good heat conductor. If you really want to recirculate water from the pond, pipe it through a metal radiator of come sort and blow ambient air across it. But that really won't do much. One of the more effective (IMO) methods is cooling the space above the ceiling using a forced draft fan at one end of the attic and drawing air at other openings. Think in therms of a fan diameter of 1 mt or more.

As far as cooking the fish, not likely to happen. As I understand things, the entire surface area of the pond is continually being cooled by evaporation. (latent heat of evaporation?).

Naam, *knock* *knock*, Naam?

If his wife is Thai then why was she translating ?

If? So you apparently didn't read that far into his OP.

But to answer, I can think of a number of reasons. I speak a little Thai -- but it's Bangkok Thai and I don't have a great accent. So my wife translates for those who do not understand my 'accent'. She also translates for those who mainly speak Issan.

One of my Thai buddies who moved from BKK to CR had to have his Northern wife translate the Northern language (kham muang?) on numerous occasions. Should he "learn some Thai"?

But you apparently have, and expect all farangs to have, perfect colloquial fluency in Thai and all the local languages. Would that include Khmer for those lads over in Surin and surrounds?

As to your comment about my Thai,you have never met nor heard me speak so the only remarkable thing here is your ignorance.

Yes, I admit to being ignorant of you ability or inability to speak Thai. BTW, was your use of "ignorance" meant as an insult?

ignorant [ig-ner-uhnt]

adjective

1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.

2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact

3. uninformed; unaware.

4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.

Why don't you learn some Thai.

Did you fail to see that that the OP's Thai wife attempted the translation?

.. mai aroi,mai suk sabai,mai dee,with slight gesturing and some face pulling often works

Remarkable Thai vocabulary you have there, Stoneyboy.

Asking for fries (chips) in a Thai rural restaurant, baa baa bor bor. get real chum and yes learn some Thai.

So you are saying that anyone asking for fried potatoes in a rural Thai restaurant is insane? Did you see that his Thai wife made the translation?

Just be a bit careful about taking the p*ss toward them -- some are the real deal.

so what ? they are not navy seals anymore and have no more rights than a tuk tuk driver over here

They might decide to give you some training -- after you have exercised your "rights", of course. You want to p*ss off a Navy Seal, active or ex, go for it!

Using true move in Korat

talkingpointsmemo.com >> okay

huffingtonpost.com >> okay

t.co >> okay

yahoo.com >> okay

After the messages are tagged with folder names, try checking their respective boxes and clicking "Archive".

Just had a house painted .. nice heavy bamboo poles. Wife negotiated a great price on a new (plant) nursery.

Way back when, there was a former SAS guy on here who claimed that he beat up a couple of burglars that were in his house and ended up getting charged for it.

Did he live Pattaya by any chances and some of his closest associates were ex-navy seals, CIA and ninja's

Of course he did, just go to any bar in Pattaya, you will surely find several ex SAS and ex Navy Seals.

Just be a bit careful about taking the p*ss toward them -- some are the real deal.

^^

Hi David,

I thought that way for awhile, but I don't do stairs very well. Mostly, I want .7 - 1 m elevation for an open crawl space for utility access. and I don't fancy weeds under the house.

That being said, I'm back and forth on elevation as my mind tries to override my good sense.

Need 1 m fill for a 2 ngan plot about 2 km north of downtown and 1 km east of RR tracks. Queries are suggesting a short supply & high prices with all the new projects going on there.

I want a ~ 1 m crawl space, would it be better to build 2 m high and fill 1 m after the fact and pour ground slab under house when driveway is poured?

One of my best Thai buds recently moved from BKK to CR. He takes care of twin boys about 10 or 11 and told me he had enrolled them in CRIS, "The best school in Chiang Rai."

As an aside, the boys are now speaking the northern dialect quite easily.

I have made the trip many times.

Upon reaching Ubon Ratchasima (Korat) you will be on Highway 2 from Khon Kaen. Do not exit this road when entering the outer limits of Korat.

You will be on an elevated part of the highway for several kilometers until Highway 2 shows an exit left. Do NOT take this exit.

Follow the highway straight ahead on the elevated roadway for "Pak Chong" which will turn into 304 at the point of Highway 2 exit.

Keep driving straight. Make no turns off the elevated highway and you will be on 304.

Clear as mud???

I believe everything chuckd wrote above is correct except the sign reads "Pak Thong Chai" rather than "Pak Chong". Keep to the right lane. After the elevated road you will find a very pleasant divided road.