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sometimewoodworker

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  1. And the answer is on the EGAT water app, most are adequate 2 are lower than normal amount and 2 are into the danger zone Ubonrat Dam a lot of water Ratchaprapha Dam little water Sirikit Dam little water Huai Kum Dam is at 101% http://water.egat.co.th
  2. The problem you are having is in the name and looking in the wrong place. You need to go to an actual electrical supply shop and discover the way a Thai will name them, then you will find them either in stock or available to order. The problem with looking in places like Homepro, Dohome or Thai Watsadu is that they carry the small percentage of items that make up 98% of the stuff people need and don’t bother with the 2% that few people want, and few Thai sparkies understand how to use.
  3. IMHO no extra sand needed. Again IMHO the use or not of geotextile for that purpose is irrelevant, but it’s such a small area that the geotextile won’t cost much and can’t do any harm. See above, though I doubt that there will be any significant migration. There is a significant benefit of blue plastic directly under the concrete.
  4. That’s the stuff, it’s cheaper if you buy the roll, probably less than 500 Baht, I seem to remember it was around 330. Though probably waterproof at first, I wouldn’t guarantee it in a storm and after it been in the sun a while it certainly lets water through.
  5. The layerings aren’t correct, base if needed is sand then Hin Kluk, then plastic (to reduce water loss) with reinforced concrete on top. The reason for a base geotextile layer is to stop the crushed rock migration into the soil, but if you are putting concrete on top then it has no purpose. As we stopped with builders aggregate we needed the barrier to keep the stone on top as the water would allow it to sink without it.
  6. Originally we bought shade cloth but didn’t have enough for the complete driveway, it’s probably 4 metres wide and about 40 metres long half is shade cloth half plastic roll. When SWMBO built a car port she used the cut sheets of plastic we had as dust covers in the workshop
  7. No, that is mosquito net and much more expensive and if you have stone dust it will just drop through These are the thick more water resistant dark blue and thinner less water resistant two tone plastic sheet rolls, since they are 1.8m wide they are very inexpensive for this job the drive is relatively flat there is a little more grass on it now as that was May 2020
  8. what are synthetic fibres but plastics? so to repeat your question “Why don't you call it by a proper name”? You clearly have your own definition of plastic that is different from that of any of the many dictionaries Merriam-Webster vocabulary.com
  9. I doubt that the blue sheet would be sold as geo textual fabric but in our situation it certainly does the job and is inexpensive.
  10. That is correct it is semi permeable, though this is the first time you have mentioned that . Go to any building site in Thailand, go to any of the big supplies it’s on a roll about 1.8 metres maybe 72 metres long usually two tone semi woven, the thicker roll I have is a single colour and probably shorter. It is plastic F*F*S that is why I called it plastic.
  11. Virtually all geo textiles are plastics they include low density polyethylene (LDPE), high density polyethylene (HDPE), and polypropylene (PP) as well as a variety of other material You seem to have some special individual meaning of plastic that is something like ‘a material that is different from the one being described or the one I’m thinking of’ The blue sheet commonly used in construction sites is a perfectly adequate underlay over soil and under rock/stone dust/sand. It does not degrade significantly over time, we have some that has been down for 6 years, I’ve just checked and it’s as good now as when we put it down.
  12. No claim. An observation of the way national roads are being constructed in Khon Kaen and Udon Thani provinces.
  13. As to websites you will have to do your own investigation. I have seen the plastic being placed on road construction on R2 between KK & Udon
  14. FWIW there are no direct flights from U-TAPAO to Udon Thani at the moment so it’s likely to be better to use Suvarnabhumi as there are several options
  15. Did you actually read my post??? Because the answer is there You obviously haven’t watched many roads being built as plastic is part of the construction. You also don’t see crushed rock being placed on bare soil in road building do you?
  16. I actually have all the versions including the angled fork versions, though I don’t have the sleeve type. If someone were in my area I would be happy to loan out my tools. However filling in the user profile with location seems to be something people don’t do. ????
  17. The answer to the stone and rock disappearing is not that it gets washed away, it doesn’t it sinks into the earth, but before laying the rock/stone dust put down blue plastic and put the stone on that. If you have builders stone then you can use a 60% or higher shade cloth. that is what we have done on our drive way and car port and the rock can migrate so needs to be raked but after 6 years it’s still there, though with added grass ????
  18. The problem with getting a recommendation is that the recommender is likely to understand how to set it up, hence the ROM & RAM requirement, that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be possible for the OP to set it up However if there is an 8 to 12 year old boy in the house then that will probably be the answer. it’s quite likely that the knowledge of the OP means that an Apple TV would be a better choice if the apps he needs are available on it.
  19. The answer to that is that it may or may not. It’s impossible to give a definitive answer without knowing what model tv you have. It is quite likely that your tv already has the capability of doing what you want. Without knowing exactly which stations you want to connect to and who provides them it’s very difficult to to know if you actually need anything mote than you already have.
  20. If your grout is rough or not doesn’t matter as grout being less resistant to wear it is always recessed. The second reason is that if you have rough grout on a surface that is constantly being soaked with water you will get algae or fungi on the surface of both the tile and grout, that will need manual work to clear and that would erode the grout as well. So the practical effect is that even poorly applied, grout has no significant effect on the grip of wet skin on glossy wet tiles.
  21. You can continue to imagine that that is true, it isn’t, but you can fantasise. ????
  22. Virtually any kiosk can do it, I have a sim cutter somewhere.
  23. Since nobody has mentioned it, after the sim has been cut down you can get adapters to allow it to be used in a phone that takes the big SIM
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