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most are cheaper in Thailand, UK suzuki swift start at £18699 (840kbaht) Thailand 580k baht

1 hour ago, Dmaxdan said:

We have a well maintained 12000 BTU inverter air conditioner in our bedroom. The room is 16 square meters. It is set to 25°C and runs every night from about 7:00pm to 5:30am. 

Our electric bill in April was 1,186 baht.

If my wife didn't use the well pump to water her longan orchard our bill would have been under 1000 baht.

I'm estimating that May's bill may be a little higher but not by much more than say 200 baht.

What I will say is we live out in the sticks so we pay the standard PEA rate. We don't get ripped off by some unscrupulous condo landlord.

My bills  normally lower than I posted but due to there being NO water in the village this year I have to use my own deepwater  well (2) which has increased my monthly cost.....I water  about 1 acre of garden trees with small sprinklers at the base of each tree (2-300)  so as not to waste  water, its basically drip irrigation as the spray does not spray an area more than 2sq feet......whereas  locals  use sprinklers and reckon most  of it evaporates

1 hour ago, gamb00ler said:

Your figures don't take into account the actual amount of heat that the air conditioner must transfer from the room to maintain the selected temperature.  Obviously a well insulated room allows less heat from outside to raise the inside temperature.  Less power is needed to remove less heat.  The "average" consumption needs to be adjusted for different circumstances.

my  point entirely as many houses here have awful windows/doors and often zero insulation + single redbrick or concrete block with no sealing. My house is surrounded by trees  I planted 12  years  ago to mitigate the heat, none of the walls get any sunlight, even the aircon unit itself is mounted high up on the wall to help out of the sun. AAc blocks were too expensive when I built so I went  with this 

1 hour ago, itsari said:

12000 btu airconditioner will on average use 1kw per hour . 720 hours in the month will equate to 3600 baht . 

heres the  bill from yesterday, this  also includes a  deep well pump thats  running 4 hours a  day @750w and 27 x7watt leds lights on 12 hours per  night .................surely any cost would depend on the insulation you  have............and mines very VERY well insulated

47 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Keep in mind, you'll need to trim your doors and trim and whatnot. 

 

Unless I were doing it myself, and was certain the existing were sound, I would not consider it. 

 

You can always hit it with a grinder to knock the glaze off and just go with thin-set. 

you can use this without primer https://www.th.weber/en/webertai-flex

including in shower areas etc 

41 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I want to retile a bathroom top to bottom. I just figured on taking out the old tile first was the only option. Am I wrong?????

If the tiles are  well stuck down you dont need to remove them, tap  them to see if they sound  hollow as many Thai tilers are crap hollow ones need to be removed, Ive just found this primer made by Davco and available in Thailand for non porous  tiles ie shiny ones  https://aus.sika.com/en/construction/tile-stone-installationsystems/primers-additives/davco-ultrabond.html

This is the Australian site  but you can buy it in Thailand here https://www.pbtechno.co.th/product/davco-ultrabond/

Failing that run an angle grinder over the tiles if they are  glossy at a  shallow  angle ie not the usual vertical position, make sure you clean the tiles down really well, you dont want ANY  dust at all. After youve cleaned the walls  wet ypour finger tips, run them over the walls, if you get dust on them they arent clean enough

about to do the same, any update for finding a  tile primer here?

Ive done  it angle grinding the walls and using  Weber Tai flex https://www.th.weber/en/webertai-flex

Used it in a shower floor  without problem but would  still prefer a  primer .

Australia  use  sika NPP..............which isnt available in Thailand!!

Also seen this which is suitable but  again no primer https://www.beger.co.th/en/product/304/Beger-Cement-Tile-Bond-Premium-T-300

On 4/27/2024 at 9:05 AM, Ralf001 said:

I live in a house.

The morning a toaster was launched through the kitchen window damaging their car parked in the carport was interesting, I actually grabbed a beer and sat out on my front veranda and watched them... they went at for a good few hours !

living the dream eh..........thankfully i live in a 5  acre  field with no neighbours

On 4/27/2024 at 7:59 AM, Ralf001 said:

 

Not seeing the problem with that in all honesty !

I keep my nose out of your business, you keep your nose out of mine.

great so you wont mind when i move in next to you with all night parties, park across your  drive  etc etc its my business right

On 4/26/2024 at 11:14 PM, Keep Right said:

OK, I have a definition. Anyone that you see on a motorbike in Thailand is not intelligent, rather stupid in many ways. Therefore, if you do not ride a motorbike in Thailand, you are intelligent. Hows that for a definition.

how  about if you buy one but never use it?

On 4/26/2024 at 8:13 PM, Bill97 said:

Who are they ?

Everyone......because everyone thinks  theyre  normal 🤪

On 4/26/2024 at 7:37 PM, Danderman123 said:

So your view of a global problem is based on a prediction by one guy 20 years ago.

 

Sea levels have risen, but sea level rise is not a uniform process. Some places have higher increases than others. Moreover, the Maldives took the predictions seriously, and built seawalls to hold back the water.

 

The Maldives are sinking

ah always an answer, id swear if theres  no catasrophe in 50 years someone  somewhere will have an answer for why it never  happened. I know  all about the Maldives been going there since 89 the first island I went to meerufenfuhsi is  still there, no sea walls around it. Theyve put a few  walls around the cpaital which is a  <deleted>hole and always had problems, the main one being the huge  amount of people  on that single island. The Maldives ARE NOT sinking, I can but cant be bothered to show you some researcher saying that shifitng sands are increasing the height. \Its  <deleted> and it wasnt ONE erson saying it it was almost EVERY climate alarmist for donkeys  years.

13 hours ago, THEN said:

Sat pic from 2015 had full white lines for all 4 entrance points, but what happens when an intersection is split by a rail track and no stop line or signal before crossing road no 2?
Does entrance no 1 allow the right of way to cross no 2?

well the roads been changed since 2015 so thats irrelevant and they probably left out stop lines where you mark red to avoid people  building up a  queue and getting mown down by a train behind them + theyre  too close to the rail lines anyway. Pity the suv wasnt trying  that with a train coming on the other road , now that wouldve been interesting

5 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

 

The Motorbike rider probably just came off his phone!.................as well as his bike!

c'mon man  his phone fer christs sake.....his  phone, doesnt get more serious  than that

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the foreign couple focused on inspecting their car's damage, seemingly disregarding the injured individual.

yay the Thais never do that, they always rush to the victim, comical.

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Snitches get stiches.

in which case many crimes would not get solved..................what a  great world that would b eh...............see no evil hear no evil....etc get over run with crime

On 4/18/2024 at 4:34 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Do you have a local Cop in your village nearby ,how do you find police response times ?

1000 baht a month ensures instant  response with anything

18 minutes ago, BigBruv said:

 

Yep.

 

Can you vouch for their uni schooling edukatshun  though? that's my laugh icon btw.

5 hours ago, milesinnz said:

"none of those beach front properties on the oceans could be insured"... some coastal property regions are becoming uninsurable in New Zealand.. but then in your world, maybe Thailand won't be affected by rising sea levels.. but if you ever did any research on these sorts of subjects, then you would know that sea level rise is a very slow but progressive fact... - it is the storms surges that are causing the most damage... not just going out and finding the sea level has gone up a few mm....

is that why when I went to the Maldives in 1989 they told me it would  be gone in 20 years................must be very slow rising  then, still good for handouts when they can blame "the west"....... then increase tourism massively, it aint sea level thats the problem there its ridiculous over building.

Still can now view the webcam on the very same beaches I walked down 36 years  ago, went from 60 odd  rooms to several hundred yet it remains the same size

On 4/24/2024 at 1:25 PM, Bkk Brian said:

No complexity. The war started 10/7

 

https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1782979397458215335

 

 

and lets not forget https://www.timesofisrael.com/father-of-fallen-soldier-terrorist-decapitated-my-son-tried-to-sell-head-for-10000/

All that uni education and they still say "you is complicit" 

8 minutes ago, BigBruv said:

Problem is the younger generations ARE noticing.

 

id  say many are as thick as  sheite

keep pushing  and  pushing them, dont give up, theyll get bored and do something.

As an aside I had on the 5th floor  water backing up into my sink once, reckon all the other people in the building threw their  cooking oil down the drains blocking or restricting the main  pipe which all floors  feed  into. Office said it wasnt their problem, told em to go to the access  point and rod the main pipe.They did  nowt until we started to push them however I couldnt wait any longer, in the end I rerouted the sink waste into a washing machine wastepipe as  I have the  full plans for  the building and the two arent  linked  and as  such no one can chuck cooking fat into that separate  pipe. Both are grey water so its  no problem . Id rather  sort out problems  myself but as yours is an exterior  wall its THEIR problem, get a  lawyer to send them a letter, kick up a  fuss otherwise theyll just keep smiling away forever and a  day