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Endoscopy or upper GI is frequently packaged or combined with a colonoscopy, that way the gastro can see the entire start to finish digestive system

Round trip, upper and lower that is, package price 36k, RAM. All the privates are similarly priced.

I think Malaysia is number one at present and India is number two, I suspect there's more money in Chinese tourism than Indian.

I'm really sorry to hear that connda, I wish there were words that could make it better.

No, Resin is a type of water filtering that reduces hardness and removes specifics such as small sediment etc. Google Resin Filter Water for more detail.

My installer doesn't do screw fittings on blue pipe, fortunately there's plenty of room around the well to extract 35 meters of continuous pipe! There's also a steel cable attached so at least he got one part right.

Simply not true at all, against the Pound it's moved at least 20% in that period, against USD it's moved even more: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=THB&view=10Y

I have heard that a permit is required, beyond a certain depth but I've also heard that it's universally ignored.

Our water bill averages around 110 baht per month, from memory we use about 6.X units per month. Since we also are a two person household but don't have dogs, our usage is not dissimilar. We have a fairly large garden but all our irrigation needs are met by the well or by the klong that flows through it.

Wow, that looks industrial strength, do you have the contract to supply the entire province! ????

Lots of farmers are competing for water which means they keep drilling deeper and deeper. I live on the edge of a very large rice field plain covering hundreds if not thousand of acres. Ten years ago, when we first moved here, our fifteen meter well and its centrifugal pump were adequate for our garden irrigation needs, albeit the pump is limited by about 9 meters of draw. By the end of the fifth year the pump would go dry, two months before the end of the dry season. We now have a 35 meter well and a submersible but the fifteen meter well is only usable for half the year. If I was to do it again I might drill to fifty or 100 and be done with it, that also would mean cleaner water and less iron deposits (which is a problem).

I suspect MiL is going to be four times better off albeit she won't understand the how or why, the shiny new tank will get all the credit I suspect....which is just fine, as long as she's happy. I'll see if I can sneak in the one inch and will let you know what happened.

I've wondered about this for many years, I think there are several answers, depending on which group the poster belongs to. Long tenure older guys who have been here for a long time are angry that they used to get a lot of Baht for their money and today they only get half as much. They're annoyed they lost that bet, didn't join up the dots twenty years ago and need somebody to blame it on, corruption, manipulation, incompetence are all suitable candidates. Shorter tenure younger guys, don't equate visually the things they see to an ever strengthening economy. A low hanging mish mash of electrical cables, uneven sidewalks, masses of impoverished rural poor, those things aren't components of a strong economy. There must be another answer, corruption, manipulation, incompetence possibly, they're fiddling the books and the currency! To both those groups, any economic good news is always going to be met with suspicion, scepticism and derision. Only a super weak Baht will make both groups happy but that just aint going to happen, oh well.

Yes. The pump contains electronics that are sealed within the pump and a cable runs from the pump, up to the surface, to the control box. The pump sits about two meters from the bottom of the well shaft and is activated in accordance with instructions from the control box on the surface.

I have to say that if it was my house and my project, I'd opt for the 1 inch pipe in a flash, but the dynamics of this project are a bit odd, to say the least! At Global House today, 3/4 inch blue pipe was 35 baht, 1 inch was 70, "the committee" may not sanction the budget overspend....:) Also, it seems MiL was asked by the village head, at the time the City water supply was installed, to please use 1/2 inch pipe. Why this was is not clear to me, I imagine it might be an attempt to balance demand in some way. I'll see what I can do to push the upgrade through. ????

I'm sure you're right, it's been years since we did this. There's also the choice between self jointing pipe and pipe that requires a separate joint.

I think so. The house has been using half inch pipe for several years, an improvement is in order but where to draw the line, three quarters seems like a reasonable compromise of cost vs performance. I note your comment regarding one inch.

I don't know anything about solar powered pumps with internet controls, they sound sexy but also sound problematic......dunno, just a feeling. I haven't seen any of those at Global House,. Thaiwasadu HomePro. Franklin Pumps is the best name in submersibles, they are US made and available in Thailand, beware cheap Chinese made pumps that proliferate. A 4 inch Franklin for use at 35 meters will cost around 25k, including the controls box (which is a significant piece of tech). Grundfos also has a good reputation. Lucky is Chinese, as is Samson.

My well is 4 inch but 3, 4 5 and 6 are not uncommon. The availability of submersible pumps is a consideration, as is the cost of the different size of pumps. 4 inch pumps are very common. The bottom two meters of the blue pipe are slotted to allow water into the pipe. You can buy the pipe this way or make it yourself using a grinder. The pump has a filter on it, the well lining does not although the lining itself keeps large debris from the shaft. After the well is drilled there is a process to flush out the debris at the bottom of the well, chipping etc, the shaft is therefore fairly clean of debris. Yes, there are several different quality/thicknesses of blue pipe, as I recall we used a middle grade.

I did notice the additional comma!

I just read that on the internet, you should have put it in quotes and supplied the link address, the link is here: https://blog.craneengineering.net/6-basic-rules-of-centrifugal-pump-piping

"It is not so much about why it is coming, but a sum like that hitting them unannounced puts them at some market risk with the USD after converting to THB for you". USD 200k is about 7 million Baht or the price of a small/medium condominium ,upcountry. The GDP of Thailand on the other hand is USD 520 bill or around THB 16 trillion. There is zero market risk in that size of transaction. It is not primarily AML that wants to know about the reasons for the transfer, BOT has always asked (via the banks), for the past two decades or more, why money was coming in and for what purpose.

I see quite a few references on the internet stating that the discharge piping should be smaller than the suction piping but nothing from a source I would consider authoritative. If I understand the issue correctly, the purpose is to avoid cavitation. https://www.modopump.net/news/pump-34593302.html

Yes indeed, something is not quite right with the part about the ponds, there are several near us, they rise and fall with the seasons unless there is a feeder from a klong or similar.,

Thanks for this, you're right, well spotted.