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Legally the contract should survive a change of ownership, however what will actually happen is often different to what the law technically allows. There are contracts that will survive a change of ownership more easily than a lease, but in Thailand some contracts are treated more like recommendations than established law.

Even worse things can happen if the landlord gets money from the loan sharks and defaults on repayments. The loan shark enforcers are much worse than the banks.

You can have as many clauses in your contract as you wish. The overwhelming problem is that if the contract is challenged the courts are likely to rule that the majority, if not all, of them are worthless and unenforceable so not worth the paper it’s printed on. You can get a lawyer to draw up any contract you want, with the right brown envelope/s you may get a land office to register the contract. But once challenged in a court that is not accepting brown envelope’s (most don’t) it will all be thrown out. It may well be years before the contracts are challenged but there is no time limit on the challenge.

You may be able to have an adapter made for you by a local machine shop. Even small shops are likely to have a lathe that can cut threads. So you may be able to design an adapter that they can fabricate.

The platform is rarely the problem. if you are advised stay with iOS or switch to android will be very dependent on usage and the apps you use or buy. For some the switch is virtually painless, for others extremely painful. If you have a modern variant and only use a few apps, banking, line, browsing, taking photos that you store in Google photos then the change will be easy. For myself the iOS Mac integration is so profound that, though I have an android phone in a drawer, I will not swap to the less comprehensive platform.

None of the blue pipe has UV stabilisation so if you use the thinner pipe it will become brittle and easily damaged quickly the thicker pipe will also deteriorate so it would be better last longer and eventually be cheaper to use actual PVC gutter

It should be a closed system but some do either get damaged so leak or can fatigue so leak. Depending on the refrigerant it maybe inflammable or li may not be inflammable. In general the more modern the unit the more likely that the refrigerant is a petroleum based one so it is quite inflammable.

Don’t! You will kill a car battery in very short order, they are designed for being charged all the time and short bursts of high discharge. You need a deep cycle battery or a battery technology that is designed for your task, car batteries aren’t.

You need to specify the number of tools that will be in use at one time and the power consumption of them, as the answer will be very different between a 350w drill and a 3000w table saw and 1500w chip extraction unit running simultaneously

Any U.K. unlocked Apple phone will certainly work OK in Thailand, you can change the language to Thai without problems. Now there is likely to be no cost saving and a probability of problems with repairs if the are required. The iPhones are not 100% the same in both countries and The warranty is valid only in the country it was purchased Now iPhones probably won’t need a warranty repair, but if there is a problem you have to pay.

No I did not just realise that. Nor did I say that. the USA has only screwed over smaller virtually unknown minorities in the past (like other big players) However trump has single handedly blown up the trust that has allowed relationships to progress and build and that trust once broken is going to take years to reestablish if it ever can.

Even better than just a motion sensing light. Are the hard wired CCV cameras with motion triggered, tracking and 2 way audio cameras we use the Reolink system PoE cameras + NVR and a moderate UPS that will probably do almost 24 hours so even a power cut doesn’t effect them. one of the 4k cameras is the Trackmix. REOLINK 4K 8MP Dome PoE Security Camera 5X 3D Optical Zoom Pan and Tilt Auto Tracking Smart Detection 8MP Onvif Outdoor IP Camera THB 7,689 | https://a.aliexpress.com/_oFUE8El It is surprisingly disconcerting to have all your movements tracked and illuminated!

While individual RCCBs are a requirement in the U.K. and good practice if you can afford them and you have no borrowed neutrals here, whole house are a PEA standard (we all know the compliance that has) your generator tripping yours on startup is a symptom of an incorrect wiring/switchover not a fault of the RCCB

It’s not the brightness of the lights that are a deterrent, it’s the fact that the property is well lit. As you can see a number of lower powered lights illuminate completely. a single high powered light will provide inky black shadows for miscreants. Also have you considered that if you are running them all night you are going to need blackout curtains to sleep? FWIW if 2w bulbs were easily available I would be using them not the current 3w ones

From the February highs the S&P is down 15% the Dow is down 19% the NAS100 is down 18% so a small market correction??? Trump is always bragging about his influence on the markets!!! This is showing how true that influence is. By next week he will probably have single handedly turned a long term bull market into a a bear market

Well your opinions have been shown to be completely wrong. The biggest crash in the US markets totally fuelled by trump, the previous 2 giant falls were the subprime crash (no single institution or person caused it) and the COVID crash. Trump has turned a booming economy into an almost recession, it has fallen by between 15% and 20%. by next week it maybe a full blown recession. Trade patterns are not changing overnight but in a couple of months or weeks. Canada heavy crude is now going to go to China as well as LNG the US had an almost monopoly on Canadian oil exports. That is just one example. Trump has single-handedly wipe out decades of good will and friendly relationships that probably will not recover for many years if they ever do. He has proved that the USA is not trustworthy and that legacy will tarnish its reputation and influence permanently.

We have lights all round our house, the rear wall is 20 metres and has 4 lights the workshop side is 12 metres and also has 4 lights the front of the house has more decorative fittings with 5 up and down lights the bulbs in all of these are 3W at night 4 x 3W is more than enough to not only light the walls but a considerable distance into the garden. we do have a 20W led street lamp at our gate that we run all night along with a few more accent lights in the garden and Waterhouse. My opinion is that 20W LEDs are excessive and vastly more than is needed. CCV images as an example here is the daytime the early evening, so dark but with 3W lights they are enough to allow the CCV to capture colour and lastly we turn them off after midnight so this is the IR illuminated image

While absolutely true it is possible that you can find the same product from the same supplier on Lazada and you may be able to use cash on delivery. I know that COD is not available for everything on Lazada. AFIK we almost never use COD as it’s much easier to pay first as we often get the driver to leave packages on our gate or garden wall

Raise a dispute with AliExpress they have been good

I have never had a package go totally missing, I have had hundreds) However I have had a few that were marked as delivered when they hadn’t been, the reason for this is that the local agents (flash drivers) have a number of packages to deliver and if they start to run late the loose money. In each case the actual delivery came a day or so late. The first time this happened I queried the non delivery with AliExpress and the courier (flash express driver) came to talk with SWMBO they were extremely worried as non delivery is regarded a theft and they could loose their contract with Flash The do and often orders are consolidated FWIW the 17Track app is excellent for AliExpress and Lazada

Why? There is no vibration so no need to attach them. Of course OCD could be why 🙂 that said there are cheap cable clips that stick on to surfaces

This is so true. It is also a really good idea to install many more sockets than you can imagine that you will need, you are likely to find that your needs are going to multiple exponentially and the cost when building is trivial, probably less than 200 baht per fitting.

That is absolutely incorrect. it is certainly the case that high demand outlets are directly connected to the main consumer unit, one example would be a cooker. However groups of sockets are connected as a radial and each radial has its own breaker. While partially correct, that groups of outlets can (quite often are) connected as a ring final, this wiring pattern is being superseded by groups of outlets as a radial. broadly speaking a ring final has 2 connections (ends) to the breaker while a radial has one. Very few countries use ring finals, in most it is prohibited. Thailand has nothing stopping you from using ring finals but no Thai electriction or electrical fitter is trained on them. The testing of ring finals is not that difficult but is completely unnecessary to learn for Thailand.

You decide, but if you are sensible you will insist they are. Again you decide, however the standard PEA installation requires at least 1 RCCB it is specified for the whole house. Current U.K. practice is that each circuit has its own RCCB this is good practice. However it is sensible to have the freezer and fridge on an unprotected circuit so you don’t loose the whole lot if 1 circuit trips. @Crossy will probably be persuaded to draw a custom installation wiring diagram but you need to know much more detail as to exactly what you want. a typical Thai double story house may have just 4 circuits, we have an over kill and it maybe 30 😉 we also have double outlets at 50cm intervals in the house and groups of 5 outlets at similar spacing in the workshop, even so I still need a few extension cables Again you have to decide, but twisted wires + wire nuts is not always bad. Wago connectors are good but you will have to insist and watch like a hawk and buy a few hundred of various versions. Few if any installers have them or know where to get them If they refuse get a different installer. There is no reason I know of to exclude AC from RCCB protection. all our AC units are behind an RCCB

Probably the Zircon is similar to the black CyberPower units. FWIW you want the CPS unit in a place you don’t hear as when recharging the batteries the fans are LOUD. The battery expansion is given as unlimited BUT the unit will not charge an unlimited number of batteries. It is billed as noiseless BUT there is a warning beeping when in it’s not on mains (I think you can disable that) and when recharging the battery’s it’s far from quiet