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  1. The two entries were for visa exempt, nothing to do with tourist visa entries. You could always do back to back tourist visa entries they were never limited. However certain borders have a different protocol for visa exempt, an example is Nong Kai where you must spend one or two days in Laos before you can return. I don’t know the rules for other borders and most restrictions can be avoided by use of the brown envelope with pretty pieces of paper in it.
  2. It stops it from moving down and defects the bounce
  3. It was absolutely NOT taken out of context. The absolute quote was If it was not your intention to say that an expat living in Thailand could not do a renewal while visiting the U.K. then you are really bad a writing your meaning. Because that was EXACTLY what you wrote, and the omitted sentence was not relevant and only emphasised your wrong statement. The number of visits to the U.K. is a snare and delusion and totally irrelevant and an attempt at obfuscation. Personally since 1990 I have visited the U.K. about 5 or 6 times so definitely not many.
  4. Well! I live in Thailand. have done so for years. HMRC have my Thai address. I visited the U.K. last year. I replaced my soon to expire passport at HMPO western gateway in docklands. My documents were received on 29/4, paid £207.50 for the large version, I attended the passport office by appointment on Saturday 4 May at 3:00pm. Apart from the usual inclement weather will waiting outside to enter the actual office (about 30 minutes) the total time taken was less than an hour and a half the appointment was about 4 minutes. The only difference was that I was told The extra time was due to the bank holidays and weekend compressing the applicants time. So your contention that an expat living in Thailand cannot do a renewal wile in the U.K. is dead wrong, and I have the evidence, and passport, to prove it. I could have opted for a faster or slower turnaround at more or less cost.
  5. Just because you don’t have room in the box in which you have the current power socket doesn’t mean you don’t have room. Just add another box to enclose the termination of the current large tails and the new smaller 2.5mm tails. There is no reason to try to attach the terminals of the incoming 6 & 8mm cables directly to the socket and every reason to keep them separate.
  6. Rather than try to fit a 6mm or 8mm tail into the standard power socket terminal you would be far better advised to get a terminal block that is designed for the 6mm cable and run 2,5mm tails from that theses are available in every electrical supplier and all the big DIY stores in many sizes and multiple numbers of connections.
  7. As I said in quiet mode it is silent. It is similar in noise level to the MrKen fans on level 2 both of them are silent, and I do mean silent not just quiet. However as with everything there is a trade off, in that in silent mode it will maintain the room temperature but you will wait a long time for it to reduce the temperature. Both the carrier app and the Daikin app are reliable but they do not have all the functions of the remote. I can’t comment as I have had no need. But it is your installer who should provide immediate service, so how good are they?
  8. We started as a Mitsubishi only house. However on the advice of our AC company we then got a Daikin for our bedroom, on its quietest setting it is totally silent I then got a Carrier non inverter for my workshop, the reasoning being that it is specifically too small for the room size so it will be running flat out or off, it is far from silent but in the workshop it doesn’t matter, Both the Daikin and Carrier have WiFi and it is really convenient.
  9. It is certainly possible to see the suggested costs. However it is impossible to know the quality of the work. You can only have an idea if you can see other installations done by the company and know the qualifications of the individuals doing the work. The pricing has too little information to give a correct reply. Missing items include; the area where the job will be done, the distance from the installer to the property, the projected time for the work, the number of times the installers will attend. That said the prices do seem to me to be on the high side but Crossy may have a different opinion. Also depending on where the project is I may be able to give you the contact details of a trained professional electrician who can give you a second quote.
  10. While it is just possible that someone has developed a laser welder that is also a TIG welder, DMK has not according to their website. The technologies are totally different. As to handheld units the majority of smaller units are handheld. As to portable, few if any are portable, they are transportable. The costs are in the hundreds of thousands Baht and all are strictly workshop use only.
  11. The top-up setup is either illegal or prohibited by every water authority in every county. There are many reasons why, not the least is that water supplies to properties are all positive pressure and sucking from them will drop the pressure, even making it negative, this allows various forms of contamination including but not limited to air entrainment and other forms of unwanted material. just because others do it makes zero difference to the fact that nobody should.
  12. It is extremely likely that information that you gave to the IO will be logged into the system, however that said unless there was anything written into your passport (it is extremely rare that this is done) once stampeding in you can leave on any flight or boarder crossing on or before the permission to stay date, if you get an extension of permission to stay that of course means that the last day you can be in Thailand is also the date on that extension. Just because you had a flight date when you entered Thailand does not mean you must keep that flight date. In all probability there are hundreds, if not thousands, of visitors who change plans and depart on different dates.
  13. There is also an adhesive nylon/plastic fibre mesh, similar to adhesive tape that is probably designed for the same job which maybe even better than the wire mesh. I bought some by mistake when shopping for reenforced packing tape
  14. If you contract with a local villager you can get free range chickens, however the chicken breasts will be considerably smaller than the cage farmed chicken you will usually get.
  15. It is clear that the aluminium sleeve is crimped. Depending on exactly where the leak is and if the hose is still in good enough condition then 3M self amalgamation tape will be a possible answer and is certainly the fastest, cheapest way to attempt to fix the problem
  16. There is a significant semantic difference required to the above, as the meaning of the post would mean 4-6 conductors: Derate by 80%. = 20% of rating 7-9 conductors: Derate by 70%. = 30% of rating 10-20 conductors: Derate by 50% = 50% of rating this is an obvious mistake
  17. It affects the maximum power available on a circuit before it gets too warm. So decide on the maximum power you want to use and then make sure you have enough circuits for the load. Things like instant water heaters and AC’s should have dedicated circuits and for water heaters 4mm cable at least
  18. Really?🤔 Absolutely, in free air the heat induced by the current can dissipate easily. That is why the power rating is different for wires in conduit (about 20%) compared to wires clipped to walls etc.
  19. I’ve driven it once a number of years ago, I did the CM to Mae Hong Song (through Pie) in 1 day. Though only 245km it took about 8 hours, probably ⅓ of the road was under construction so just a laterite surface and the 1,800 curves and hairpin bends ment that at times 5 KPH was the fastest safe speed. I wouldn’t advise doing it that part in 1 day
  20. That was because the only manufacturer of the gas closed down the plant. It is possible that the new plant/s could not use the exact same formula or that when they started it was then possible to reformulate and redesign the torches to take advantage of the new mixture.
  21. Can’t you? I haven’t investigated as I don’t use one but this section of the email suggests you may be able to.
  22. The Microsoft email said ”Existing calling and Skype Number subscriptions will continue to automatically renew until 3 April 2025. After May 2025, those with active Skype Credits and subscriptions can continue to enjoy these paid features and use the Skype Dial Pad from the Skype web portal and within Teams Free. To transfer your Skype Number, contact your new network provider or learn more here.”
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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