sometimewoodworker

It looks as if the various U.K. banks and other companies are increasingly requiring a U.K. phone number for things like OTP and other security measures. Since I hope to be in the U.K. in a while I would appreciate information on the cheapest company to maintain a prepaid U.K. number. I guess that there will be TopUps required and I have a U.K. bank for that Any feedback will be welcome. jerome

Not at all, you are clearly involved in a discussion that is not the same as the thread. It is common for answers to posts not to relate to the OP post

They are totally irrelevant to anyone’s budget but ours as they are not essential or even relevant to anyone else’s situation. Our budget amount was posted as a comparison to @Will B Goods point that 40,000 was high and a higher one was unlikely. To repeat his PEA bill is 1,800 ours is 7,000 The point is that families in our village have monthly budgets ranging from 3,000~5,000 at the low end to others that make ours to be in the mid to upper but not top end. The families at the low end will be the ones that reduce the cicadas, frogs, and rodent wildlife in the area so having a protein diet that has no or little monetary expense

Why is it of any importance? Or is it just prurient interest?

The house sundries item in our budget includes materials that a couple of family members use for maintenance and refurbishing, an example is the painting SWMBO decided for a wall, not required but it looks nicer.

Not likely booz and a typical yob

What do you want to know, and why the interest? I can certainly give more information for a legit reason.

Not at all, our electricity is at about 7,000 and we do include everything phone and internet (2 phones and fibre) village festivals (including funerals and weddings) garden spending (well worth the 1,000 a month) car costs (newish Mazda and old perfect condition pickup) including fuel animal care House sundries; this is a big one as we employ family to assist and of course we pay for materials this is 15~20k so about 45k excluding pocket money. our own spending money at about 18k each insurance about 12k a month beer maybe 500 every few months, though I probably get through about a bottle of Pastis ever couple of months so high life? Not remotely. Comfortable and we spend less than we get and can afford almost anything we want, absolutely Do tell what is the high life? I am serious as I really don’t know what I should be doing that I’m not.

Use the TOA calculator https://www.toagroup.com/en/product/product-calculators/construction-chemicals?slug=toa-pu-waterproof&wide=25&long=4

That is completely dependent on the people. it can be 3,000 per month SWMBO’s mum. our spending is about 90,000 per month for 2 people. We are in an Isaan village as is SWMBO’s mum. YMMV

Mistaken absolutely. You misunderstand the ability of some people to spend vast amounts of money, specially if it is not theirs. the question should have been “What is a reasonable family expenditure” the answer to that in a reasonably comfortable style is probably in the 10,000~15,000 range but that very much depends on the size of the family and other factors.

Having repaired a couple of microwaves that were thrown out and not fixed a third. The problems were 1) a bulb that burned out 2) a blown glass encased fuse 3) something more serious Thai I didn’t spend much time on as it was free No 1 & 2 functioned perfectly for about 15 years. Time taken, about 15 minutes for each, it’s worth 10 minutes of your time to check.

Neither did I !! Personally I learned the basics when I was knee high to a grasshopper and find it incredible that it’s something that can be so misunderstood. Thanks, I see the hours spent are showing through 😜 Well I thought my original reply was enough but probably not, so no harm in belabouring something that is obvious to me It certainly should but that maybe somewhat more challenging. With that your reservoir opening is large, the drain is small and you aren’t sucking gunk out. So a bit less good of a technique IMHO. There is one point that hasn’t been made and that is that letting water flow into the tank during siphoning is a good idea.

It seems that you really don’t understand how a siphon functions and don’t know to start one. You don’t need a pump. no a hose pipe is not going to work or is going to work badly as the pipe is too small diameter STEP 1 fill the tank to 100% fill the 1 ½ pipe to 100% any way of filling it works STEP 2 get someone to hold one end of the pipe higher than the tank. Use your hand to block off the other end of the pipe so that little air enters put that end of the pipe under water in the tank STEP 3 put the end of the hose in the tank just above the gunk level get the person who has been holding the other end of the hose to put it below the bottom of the tank using your bamboo pole put the tank end into the gunk you will have a flow of several litres per minute of watery gunk REPEAT steps 1~3 until it works. Keep filling the tank. as a wise man said “I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you Though what @Daffy D said is strictly true, in practice it isn’t A ¾” hose will be poor without a significant hight difference (the OP only has about 1~1.8 meters) For that small a differential you need at least 1” but 1.5” is better bigger than that doesn’t make enough difference to matter.

Have you tried filling a pipe that size by sucking on it? I know for sure I can’t, and I doubt that even the most talented BG has the lung capacity.

If you are using a 1½” (the best pipe size to reduce friction but going bigger doesn’t reduce friction losses by much) sucking to start the siphon is going to be a really interesting experience, so filling the pipe a different way is going to be required.

Don’t do it. The fuller the tank the better it works the full tank is 2.6 psi the half empty one is about 1.2 psi siphon pressure. use a minimum of a 1.5” pipe as a small one kills on friction losses. A ½ pipe is about 80X worse than a 1 ½ one. the only time you run the tank down is before taking the drain plug out and that doesn’t do much if anything for cleaning gunk. @Daffy D has about 8+ psi

While I wasn’t there I can virtually guarantee that it was for cost savings and supply and that the extra splatter it generated was either explained or ignored as I doubt that the welds were critical along with the practical aspect of practice in grinding off the BBs i do have a baby CO2 tank and a small Argon tank but much prefer the 75% 25% mix

6 bar!! It should probably be 0.6 bar and a 6 metre tower😇 but maybe he is also the control tower for the airport

Physics: The hight of the water level in the tank (usually about 1.5 meters +) above the outlet is the thing governing if the siphon is going to work, not the location of the bottom of the inflow tube. I’m not going to give a lecture on physics, the fact is that it will function. try the experiment for yourself, it’s simple enough if you use a small dimeter pipe, less than ½” for the experiment, probably more than 1” for the cleaning pipe FWIW the bottom of the column of water (your tank) can be far below the outlet pipe, with the inlet pipe well below the the level of the outlet pipe and it still functions and the siphon still siphons EDIT as @Daffy D said a greater hight between the top of the water column and the bottom of the outflow will work better. 10 meters = 1 ATM or 1 bar of pressure. Also he needed the extra hight as he severely restricted the flow by using a small diameter flexible pipe. It worked so all is good

The use of piles may well be preferable to waiting for natural compaction or digging the foundations to below the fill level.

Of course there are but when you talk of using CO2 as a welding gas it’s logical to assume 100% CO2 and that is a poor gas to use unless you are needing to use the cheapest and don’t care about throwing BBs off. If you are talking of the most common welding gas for those who can’t mix their own and don’t buy enough then it’s 75%Ar 25%CO2 and nobody I know of would call that CO2 And it is 6 X the 75/25 cost, is suitable for a few metals (not steel),good for robotic use and unforgiving of less than perfect manual welding See above.

Our lad was filled 7 years before building, I can assure you that a single year however wet will not have been enough to compact the soil, and the fill trucks won’t have done very much. Probably about 3 years along with compaction. the soil has at least 30% air when filling. The only way to reduce the time for settling is to compact after each load is dumped and spread and you will still need time for further compaction. The trucks driving over the fill will do little as the load on each tyre is designed to be comparatively low. A heavy 50~100kg vibrating plate compactor or a heavy road roller or better a vibrating road roller will do a better job.

It’s untrue that paint must be sanded off before repainting, probably sanded but not sanded off. But it is possible that your paint was in such poor condition that it required sanding off. It is equally possible that his large sanding machine cut his time enough to make it cost effective. So lying? Yes, or possibly no.