Saanim

Yes, exactly. The monopoly in the beverage business has not been here just for few years of this govt. Same as monopoly in other kinds of business. Did we forget the telecommunication business? When the mobile phones bought abroad had stopped to work once you switch them on at the Don Muang Airport? Unless some clever shops in MBK had been making a good job breaking the code? Did we forget the rates of the mobile phone calls that had been here among the world most expensive? Wondering to whom the monopoly telecom business had belonged? Surely no connection with the govt democratically elected?

Then, please let us know how much rubbish have you heard in your life? Just curious... Anyway, I understand that my views are obviously not very favorable for a "proffesional" [sic]. That's not my problem. I am just mentioning how it can be made in Thailand where the bricklayers, tilers (chaang pun) are so cheap as well as the suitable material. That in contrast to the "proffesionals" (in Thailand). And describing how I did my 2 pools (in Thailand), clad by "kitchen tiles", the last one I have been using daily over 17 years and counting... (but I do not sell the pools ????)

If the pool is tiled you (better your wife) can search in your area for any good tiler, getting offer for how much he can re-tile it. A lump sum, in Thai they call "mau". Or for a reasonable daily rate. Then you can buy any tiles as per you liking, easy to count how much you need. In Thailand there is plenty of any size and style offered. And don't get fooled by some that you cannot use kitchen tiles for a pool. With a suitable mortar you can lay the new tiles directly on the old tiling, hence, you will get double cladding. And with a large size 40x40 or even 60x60cm it's going fast, reducing the kms of grouting gaps that always cause the troubles at the mosaic tiles. With this style by own managing and supervising you will make it for a 10% of the sum what a pool company would ask for.

Actually, the old man (79) - prior to be led out - he was also led in. And his body language and face expression was saying something about his mental state. So, is it normal that such a man will be kept in a leading position?

Yes, you are damn wrong. The material is free? Prior to working with a clean straight piece of bamboo, somebody needs to cut it somewhere and bring to the working place. Then, about your rate 200 Baht/day? Waste of time to comment. Which Thailand do you live in?

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Here it is again (without x at the end): https://www.reuters.com/world/madagascar-minister-fired-voting-against-russias-ukraine-annexation-2022-10-19/

Interesting would be to know how the high diplomats - when in NYC - will cast their vote, thus expressing the will of their own people at the other side of the world. E.g. how the Thai minister knows what his people (e.g. in Isaan) feel about the Ukraine conflict? Obviously, they (his people) could not care less, could they? So, his vote was not so bad, expressing the feeling of his people who he represents. (not the feeling of the many enraged expats residing peacefully in his country). In other cases, some just cast the vote as they feel it, under the "discussions" with other colleagues and friends, being in NYC, very far from their own people. However, not everywhere his people are happy with his vote. Somewhere he gets sacked once he gets back to his people. Madagascar minister fired for voting against Russia's Ukraine annexation https://www.reuters.com/world/madagascar-minister-fired-voting-against-russias-ukraine-annexation-2022-10-19/x

Why not to make use of the bright sunshine during the winter months, adding up few degrees to the pool water? And making use of it when the water comes to 33oC, cooling it few degrees down during night hours... Then, no filtering/pumping during daytime, the upper warm layer - when undisturbed - "insulates" the cool water underneath, enjoying evening swimming when the body is feeling the different temperatures. Unfortunately, only for 2 - 3 laps.

If you would be watching TV with one of your previous ladies (not Thai, if any) and happened to comment on a war where many people were killed - people of her nationality and much more of other nationalities? Wandering what her answers would be, if any... (and yours either?) BTW, in what nationalities' war(s) do you have an interest? (just curious...)

Actually, I care about that. My cheap pump is after years still quiet. Not really hearing it when swimming at the other side of pool, 10 m from the pump placed in an open pit half covered from top only. Bought many years ago at a pump shop - not a pool shop - for 8,500 Baht, seeing similar offered on Lazada.

Of course the water from the well comes very clear/clean, it has not got oxidised yet. Give it a chance for a while...

The various aeration systems you can see in many villages where they have problems with iron in water. And you can see that the tanks and everywhere around are rusty anyway. Usually, there is a concrete ring tank with sand inside, placed onto two concrete storage tanks where the filtered water should flow in and get stored. The problem is that the sand will be very soon clogged by the fine rust and the water does not go through the sand but over the edge of the tank. An easy solution is (as it had worked for me with very strong ironized water): As you wrote you have got large tanks, not just one. You can store the fresh water in one tank, keep it there for 2 -3 days to oxidate (whether with or w/o aerator) and to sediment. The oxidation process can be sped up by addition of chlorine. The rust will sediment well to the bottom, only then the clear water can be taken few cm above the bottom. In the meantime of the sedimentation in one tank you use the water from the other tank(s) where the sedimentation has been processed before. Hence, the levels in the tanks are to be supervised every day and once empty the intake to be switched over to the other tank. (and when empty to fill it up again, etc.) Any try to make it as a continuous process will fail, even with very large tanks and with some kind of labyrinth between the inlet water and the outlet. About that I could write stories with enclosed rusty and muddy pictures. The long storage and sedimentation does not fully remove the iron from the water (if a strong iron content), there are also some other metals (manganins) needing a longer oxidation. Therefore, the clear water after a proper sedimentation should be led through a filtering system that is possible to be timely backwashed. Then, such water you can use for drinking (after a further filtering) and also for a swimming pool. And of course, the sedimentation tanks are to be drained and cleaned after few months. For that a really large drain outlet is advisable, with a proper slope. The remaining rust sediment is pretty heavy and does not flow out easily.

It's always better to pull the water from the storage tank through a sand filter that is possible to be backwashed after some time period. Even if the municipality water is considered to be clean, a longer storage will cause some kind of change and sediment. The water is no pure H2O, certain reactions will occur. The ones who do have such filter (for the clean municipality water) will confirm that once backwashed the cleaning discharge shows certain discoloration of the water. Then, they will feel satisfied with their decision to have the filter: "OMG, this dirt would get in my water system?". And once we have the water storage tank it is advisable to frequently add a bit of chlorine. Not the special one for swimming pools but an easy one, calcium hypochlorite, without cyanuric acid stabilizer. It will help to clear up some kinds of bacteria that at a longer storage in warmer countries could come up.

Isn't a secret vote same as anonymous? Anyway, whose forte a transparency is, that's another question. BTW, ever heard what Obama said about arm twisting?

Guessing that the potential tourists - when thinking about their next cheap holidays - will google what side the country in that or other war had taken? BTW, wondering what the results of the "side taking" would be if the voting was anonymous? (as it was required and vehemently refused)

There have been so many conflicts in the world, some very serious ones even in Thailand's neighbourhood. I guess that nobody was ever outraged by Thailand's side taking or not taking. Perhaps there were some (outraged). But it would be well off-topic, won't it be?

Actually, the same statement was found on the "western media" - if Amnesty International is considered as "western media"... But sometimes obviously not. I just mentioned that it was recently publicised by them and now I no longer see it here. Are the AI now illegal? The AI are functioning under wings of UN, with Dr. Agnes Callamard as their Secretary General, she being a long time working for UN human rights departments.

Perhaps the decision Thailand made is based on the experience with the zillions UN condemnation of Israel-Palestine situation within the last 70 years...

Why not to keep the swimming pool? Others pay big money to procure it, you get it free. Then, make a use of it, it's good for your health. Spending money for demolishing to get an area for some flowers or another mess?

The pump is designed for its rated (nominal) speed when the efficiency is the best. The speed is changed by lowering of frequency, reducing the rated 50Hz to a lower value. Similarly as the pump optimum, also the motor is in its optimum at its rated voltage and rated frequency. Then, to these efficiency reductions there is another loss in the frequency converter, he will not change the frequency for free. So, where do the savings lay? And to pay off the increased equipment? A simple pump driven by a simple motor can run for decades without any care. Will the speed converter live also so long?

The variable speed pump is usually a normal pump with implemented speed (frequency) converter. Whether such pump is an easy product available in Thailand? Perhaps more easier - and cheaper - would be to get a normal cheap pump and the frequency converter (suitable for the power input of the pump) to install separately. Another question is: what advantage (beside the spent money and possibility of more headache with the converter and/or pump/converter) does such a variable speed bring to your pool? Better to use a variable pump time. BTW, did you try to see the difference in your pool when pumped 4, 6, 8, 10 hours daily?

Anyway, many esteemed members surely know about this topic coming up quite often. So, instead of browsing through the valuable comments, somebody (or the MOD - they know the best what's good and what's wrong) should clearly say at the beginning: "You cannot connect a pump directly to the municipality system". Period...

Wondering why this question in the OP? There are surely few previous threads here where it's explained that to run a pump sucking directly from a municipal water system is not only dangerous (for the owner and for the neighbours as well) but also against the law.

You can purchase the lowest grade of the mixed cement that should be less than 1,800. You can spread it up in ca. 10cm thick layer by yourself, no need to bother with any rebars if the terrain is compact (more or less). There 2 cbm trucks available, should be enough.