sometimewoodworker

The meter deposit refund is completely genuine. However you go to the PEA to process it. That is not the way the scheme works. It is likely to be a scam as the meter refund scheme started about 9 months ago and was never done by SMS.

I had that problem about 14 years ago, I did bother to replace the washers as I knew it wouldn’t work, they would just work loose or crush. The fix, that is still working, is to use bitumen backed aluminium squares then paint to match the roof.

Not with a crane but with chain hoists on every support pillar. It is a traditional Thai house so rather lighter than your AAC structure and the fact that the only floor was at first floor level meant that there was plenty of lift available, your 1 metre high pillars will probably mean that this method won’t work About 10 ~ 15 years ago I watched as a house was moved from the back of a building plot to the front. So the locals know how to move a building, it gives a whole new meaning to “moving house” doesn’t it? There is also a couple of companies that build small houses near to Khon Kaen (these are not the tiny wood ones) these must be transported to the site they are destined for, so if they are picked up by crane or some version of a fork lift they are certainly lifted onto a vehicle. This means that the technology and expertise is available in Thailand, you just need to find it.

I might be worth noting that at the moment the FT is on a sliding scale. The effect is that your statement is only true for a subset of users, it is not universally correct.

The answer is that it is the responsibility of the buyer, it is nothing to do with you. Anyone could ask but if I were buying I wouldn’t believe your figures. I don’t know is a perfectly acceptable answer. Cheapest is 500 meters of 25mm aluminium cable, free for bamboo poles or a few hundred baht for eucalyptus ones. Worst case is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands for the PEA, this is why “I don’t know” is the correct answer.

Your tiler is an expert, or at least highly competent, for this kind of job there are many like him My suggestion is that he be permitted to work the way he is familiar with. I can guarantee that an expert will not get a better and more reliable result and a tiler who is unfamiliar with the system will either take very much longer or produce a result that is less good. The only thing that you will have to stick with is the spaces between tiles. Your tiles are being spaced at 2mm, those tiles are often spaced closer but you have to stay with what you have. Having just had our surface tiled, this was completely correctly done, then grouted by what seemed drunken baboons, they were trying to be cheap Charlie wit the grout {it only cost about 150 Baht for all the grout we used!} (the grouting is at least as important as the tiling) I had the messy grouting stripped off (I got to it fast so it was still soft) then I and our tiller and his wife grouted it again and the grout is now as good as the tiling. You absolutely must be on site when the grouting is being done to ensure that it is as good as the tiling, a bad grouting job can completely ruin a good tiling job, a good grouting job can rescue a slightly poor tiling job. FWIW Tiling was 3 days, grouting was about 3 ~ 4 hours. Tip; don’t grout more than about 4 square meters at one time, we did all 12 and it was very hard work and doing smaller areas would have been easier and no slower.

That question is impossible to answer without knowing the geography (we don’t, but possibly you do), this effects the sizes of poles needed, and the supply that is being requested (you will get different answers for a 5/15A supply compared to others up to a 3 phase 30/100A supply, if it is available, the load is relevant to the sizes of cables and losses that will occur with a low voltage supply (220v is low voltage) or if the load is high enough a medium voltage supply and transformer will be required.

This a Thailand focused forum so in general answers and comments relate to Thailand

They do. However “Apple Refurbished” items are not often used and traded in, they are mostly returned new or display products. That is a question for Apple, though it’s likely that they are disassembled for scrap

Completely incorrect, there is no such requirement.

There are no “Apple Refurbished” items available in Thailand, so you may be able to find used items that have the remaining Apple guarantee or AppleCare + but you are unlikely to find anything at the price you want, and probably nothing available used at any price. Neither Singapore nor Hongkong refurbished stores have the items you want.

Just a FWIW we were passing a place in walking street Pattaya and saw this example

We have just had tiles laid using the same spacers and wedges. Our worker had never used the system before but had purchased it himself, for 12 square meters of tile he took 3 days, but they are almost perfect. That is how I know it’s a smoke screen, as the diamond shaped base is captured by the tiles and left behind so each tile will use 4 of the white spacers, or if you look at a single tile in isolation it uses 8 of the bases, 2 on each corner. I am not sure of the benefits of the system, certainly a really good tilling team will be orders of magnitude faster not using it. A total newbi may be able to do a good job but it isn’t as simple as it looks.

He is not using the levelling system, the white units are upside down and are just being used as spacers, there are none of the green or orange wedges being used. It is just a smoke screen.

IMG_7852.mov This question really depends on if you have windows that open or if you are on the ground floor. If you do then it is trivial to get custom roller shutters built, there are hundreds of companies In Bangkok that will do the job. There are a verity on shutter slats with stainless steel being the most expensive, there are variations on the main roller and locks and floor hasps

Actually if you could get a real electrician, rather than a nightmare it’s a question of are you prepared to spend the money on the electrician’s time & ripping out enough of the structure to locate the problem. For a competent lecky it is not that difficult from a technical point of view just very time consuming so relatively expensive. The nightmare is actually finding a real electrician willing to work on domestic installations.

As @Crossy said the MCB protects the wiring from overloading and starting a fire. It does not stop your customers from electrical shock and possibly death. The safety-cut is an RCCB and will reduce time of a possible electrical shock to 30 milliseconds (some less than that), for 99.9% of electrical shock situations this means that death is unlikely. However it is still possible for either shock to be a part of the cause of death. If the person getting shocked is caused to fall and hit their head on a sharp object like a kitchen counter, to give one possible scenario. However many people have had electric shocks with no serious effects

My experience is that if you find an actual electrician (qualified and with his own tools) they are competent. The problem is that very few people doing electrical work in domestic installations are electricians.

Agreed But good luck with finding an actual electrician

While virtually any phone will, as you say, connect via Bluetooth what will connect is not at all universal. As an example Apple CarPlay will only connect via USB cable to some, maybe all, Mazda’s you can connect via Bluetooth to the same car for a few things. Other cars have wireless Apple CarPlay though the reliability of the connection is variable.

I wouldn’t include non contiguous areas & haven’t, if I did that would drop our price per square meter to well under 10k. The greenhouse is classified as an outbuilding.

Yes

You are clearly going by the European measurements. If I were to do the same and publish the numbers I would be considered to have a luxury high end building, this is clearly not the case, while our house is perfectly suited to our needs, is unique and is very comfortable, luxurious it is not. My opinion is that the roofed area is a more appropriate and accurate way of calculating the area in the tropics considering the lifestyle here.

The cost per square meter is dependant on the way you calculate the area if your house, if in the U.K. balconies, terraces and patios are excluded, and in the past rooms sizes plus stairs and landings was used. This makes sense as the roof overhang is usually zero or close to it. In Thailand where much greater use is made of shaded space outdoors, along with the shade of overhanging roofs the calculation is rather less clear or obvious as do you use 1) the living area, 2) the outside wall measurements or 3) the roofed area. for us the difference between using the living area and the roofed area doubles the square meter cost

Alternatively you can change the registration to your pink card and so avoid swapping numbers ever again.