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Please, Please, Please show me a link or 2 to such a storage tank/house pump. I'll be buying a tank and pump in a few days and don't want to get it wrong and buy the wrong damn things and then later on have regret because I didn't know what I really needed. So please make this clear to me, show me what I should be looking for and buy.

Thanks for your reply Hummin. I started this thread with the idea of pumping and filtering water from the bore. But we have since dropped that idea, and now going ahead with installing a water tank + pump connected to the town water supply.

Excellent reply sometimewoodworker, obviously I know very little about this, so what you tell me here is valuable info. I want to make sure we do this right. Thanks for the links to pumps as well. It's been recommended that I get a 250W pump for this job. It's a single story house. Do you agree on 250W or would 150W suffice?

OK guys, I'm now back in Korat and it's time to start this thread up again. We'll be getting this tank/pump/filters sorted and done (hopefully) by end of the month. There's a local guy who does water testing and installing the appropriate filtration. Tirak has already taken a water sample to him, and we're currently waiting on getting a report back from him, along with a quote for installing the filters. Around middle of the coming week we're driving into Korat city to the big stores (Do Home/Thaiwatasdu) to check prices for a 2000 lit tank, plus a 250 Watt constant pressure pump. All the other bits & pieces we can buy locally. Now 2 questions: 1) I presume it's better to place the pump under some kind of roof rather than have it outside when it will get wet with rain? 2) Tirak told me this morning that we'll need to have the pump at the rear of the house because it's illegal to fit pumps to the town water supply (nam prapar) and if the pump is at the front (where I intended putting it) some gov official may see it and we'll have a problem. This sounds like the usual Thai BS to me, but is there any truth to this?

I do my annual retirement at Korat, and I've found there are slight variations in the requirements each year, nothing much, just an extra copy of this and a copy of that. So I always pop into immigration about a week before doing my renewal and just check on exactly what they require this year, and while there I get the forms for the renewal and the multi-reentry stamp (which I always get at the same time) then I can fill those forms out at home. So that's my suggestion, drop by your immigration office and find out from them exactly what they require.

If any dog I ever owned intentionally bit me I'd pick up a piece of wood and beat it senseless, and then I'd boot its worthless as* into the nearest dog pound. No ifs, no buts, no excuses, no "the dog was eating". Biting the owner's hand is TABOO.

KhunLA: many thanks for the reply and info. I'll be flying into Don Muang next week and my wife is meeting me at the airport, so I'll tell her to meet me in the food court rather than have her standing around waiting, it'll be noon by time I get there, so I'll be ready for some lunch.

Is there a food court at Don Muang airport? If so which level is it on?

VN GuestHouse looks very nice, I particularly like the look of that balcony photo looking over the river. Many thanks for your recommendation, it's certainly one I'm considering.

Cheers Salerno, I usually have motoring holidays in Thailand. I guess not having the car on this one we'll need stay at a resort close, like the one you recommend, so we can walk.

Looks very nice and price is good, thanks for the recommendation.

Many thanks everyone for your recommendations and links, you've all been very helpful. Salerno mentioned transportation, and this is something that concerns me a little. We do have a car but my wife isn't a very experienced driver so she won't be driving into BKK (from Korat), she'll take a van in to meet me, so if we go to Kanchanaburi we won't have our own transportation. So I guess we'll be better staying close to the river but close to the town as well. Anyway, thanks again everyone, I still have a couple of weeks to check out those links and make a choice, but I now have some good recommendations.

I'll fly into BKK near end Feb, my wife will meet me there and after spending first night at a hotel in BKK, I'd like us to go somewhere nice for a few nights but not too far away from BKK. Don't want to go to Pattaya or HuaHin but thinking Kanchanaburi would be good. A peaceful riverside resort with river view would be nice, or one of those raft houses. If possible I wouldn't want to be too far out of the town as we'd probably like to go into the town in the evenings for dinner and a walk around. So does anyone have any recommendations for nice places to stay for a few nights? Nothing too pricey, maybe 1500Bt a night max.

Thanks Encid, when I get the tank and pump installed I'll also probably get some filtration installed with it, at the same time...not for drinking but for other general use, taking a sample for testing is a good idea. Does anyone know if there's a similar service to test water and recommend filtration in Korat?

Thank you unheard, for the links...very helpful. And thank you Stevemercer for your very useful post above. All this information is very helpful for me. I think it's best if I wait until I return and then get it all sorted, but now I have a very clear idea of what's involved. Thanks again.

I'm currently on holiday in Australia and won't return to Korat until mid-March. I spoke with tirak yesterday and she has already gone ahead and bought a new replacement pump for her well, she's now just waiting for one of the local guys to come and connect it up. So the well-pump-filter idea has now been dropped. However, I'm very interested in the idea of installing a 2000 litre water tank and connecting a 250watt pump. This whole idea seems the ideal solution to me. As I'm not currently in Thailand, could you, and any others please, show me some links to the type of water talk and the type of pumps I should be considering. Perhaps links to Thaiwatsadu, or MegaHome or Do Home, or any similar store, so I can check out my options and do some costing.

Yes this is a good idea, and something I'll look into further.

Thanks everybody for your replies, and thanks Muhendis for the link. I'm looking around online for more info & prices. I don't know how deep the bore is, or if it has any pvc lining, I seriously doubt it has any lining as it's a cheapo set up just to water her garden. But where she lives the main water supply is very unreliable, and often you turn on the tap and there's no water, so I'm thinking if I can get her a good pump and some filtration, then the water from her bore could be used for general household use as well as the garden. All our drinking water gets delivered in big plastic bottles, plus we buy packs from Lotus's, so it's only general household use that we'll need the water from the bore for.

Tirak's plot of land in rural Korat, she has a bore with a cheap pump (think it cost her 2000 Bt) that she used to water her crops, anyway the pump has now broken so I want her to replace it with a better quality and more powerful pump. Also the water that came from the bore was full of sand and impurities, so I'd like to get her a pump that has some water filtration, so it can remove the sand and dirt and purify the water somewhat...obviously not purify enough for drinking but enough so the water is clean enough to wash in and use for washing clothes. So any suggestions or recommendations for us?

Pathetic little spoilt twit.

Years ago I was given Tramadol by a dentist after a tooth extraction, lovely stuff, back home I curled up in a warm fuzzy ball, scratching away. Then after I used what the dentist gave me I happened to spot a box of Tram on a pharmacy shelf, so got some more. Fast forward a few years and I was an addict. I did 2 detoxes in Australian drug & alcohol centers. Anyway, I've been off it for years now, over 10 years. The withdrawals were terrible, horrible muscle spasms in my legs. Glad to be finished with that.

I've been in and out of Thailand since 1978, I've been on tourist visas, non-imm visas, marriage exts, retirement exts, I've had WPs, and I've entered without any kind of visa and got 30-day stamps. And in 44 years I've never overstayed a minute, not once.

Why don't you go to the nearest IT shop and get one of the Thais to sort it out, that's what I'd do, one of those Thai techs will fix the issue in no time. Probably cost a couple hundred baht.

English mate of mine lives in Savannakhet reports the following: I walked past Thai Consulate about 9.30am-ish. There must have been close to 200 people queing. On the way back 1hr later, still over 100. Not many falangs, maybe 20-ish. The rest looked Korean. There were 10 mini buses parked up for them. Now it closes at 11am. No way would they get processed in time. On Friday not 1 person was there. Because that meant, you had to spend 3 nights in Savannakhet.

Can understand how some dumb farang who doesn't know the ropes can get stomped for not trying to nick off without paying his bill, but you'd think all Thai men would have a clear understanding of the consequences.