sometimewoodworker

Naturally I looked at the link. That the amount of cement and grade of aggregate used is somewhat better that used by skilled workers in every building company in Thailand doesn’t change the facts that the bricks (usually known as concrete blocks), whatever grade of aggregate and amount of other materials are borderline the least good material for insulation, both sound and heat, of any wall systems used in Thailand. The only materials that are going to be worse are planks or wood/metal sheeting “made in a factory under a standardized and certified process” just means that they are standardized and certified low quality (from a sound and heat viewpoint) building blocks. Lipstick on a pig is a phrase that comes to mind. Now you have identified another material that seems to be a revelation to you, what is the cost per block delivered to your building site? Of course it needs to be in pallet or truck quantities. They can be perfectly good from a structural viewpoint and if there’s no requirement for sound and heat insulation they are a reasonable to good material, I use them in the wall panels of our perimeter walls.

They are available from every building materials supplier, manufactured locally and of varying quantities, cost about 4 ~ 6 baht each and have the worst characteristics of any build material. Have you ever looked at any buildings in Thailand? From your questions it seems not, as they are probably the most commonly used for low cost building.

The MWA and universities can do water tests as can other private companies

Please note. I did not and do not make any comments on @Netease ‘s build, he certainly should have (may have) had a proper survey done before building. That survey may have required piles, if so then he followed the recommendations. However there are a reasonably large percentage of foreigners who believe that because a certain building technique is practiced in their native country then it must be the one way that is “right” and they will not listen to other viewpoints. There are many more ways than one to do a job. However he asserted that Chang Mai doesn’t have pile driving rigs as if that is a problem. In fact the reason for there being few, if any, pile driving companies is simply because they have little work to do since other foundation types are more suitable. You can guarantee that if a business opportunity existed there would be companies available to do the work. That his work was done from a company based in Phitsanulok just proves the point.

My experience with a water supply is to have 7,500 litres backup with a 1,000 litre ready use tank in the roof. This allows for a backup in case of a water supply cut and for showers and washing water when there is a power cut. The backup water storage auto-fills from the village supply and will refill the ready use tank whenever there is power.

It has nothing to do with the availability of pile driving or boring rigs. It has to do with the correct foundations for a given soil structure. There are many different soil structures and foundations. That you think that piles must always be used just demonstrates you lack of knowledge in soil structures and geological strata. There are certainly areas that require pile foundations, but go a few hundred meters away and they are redundant. Build a house on ledge and you can get rock drilling equipment to bore down into it and put in piles but you would be incredibly stupid to imagine that you gain anything other than a smaller bank balance by doing it. In a mountainous area you seldom need piles.

Yes the above is a product used with colorbond Under a different company

It is perfectly possible that the earth rod has rusted. This is because you never get a pure copper rod, they would be both ridiculously expensive as well as too soft, they are always steel with a copper coating so once the copper coating has been breached the will be able to rust.

The most common reasons for the slowdown are, in order of importance; too little free space, you usually need 5 Gb to 10 Gb, too many unnecessary apps, apps that install junk, and often (but less often) an OS update that requires too much CPU time. My sister-in-law had a mobile device that was virtually impossible to use as even the startup time was measured in minutes and to launch the app that was important to her took about another 5 minutes. After removing apps that were redundant, archiving and then deleting photos, leaving 50% free space the time from restarting the device to having finished launching the app was less than 60 seconds. The takeaway is clean up cruft, delete junk, free up 50% of the space and your device will almost certainly be quite useful. However I make no guarantee about the planned obsolescence designed into android devices.

Yes

That depends on you, are you a sadist?

Then the are earthed Schuko plugs, that you don’t have the corresponding Schuko sockets and that they can be plugged into 2 pin non earthed sockets is a completely different matter. It is also completely possible that they are for double insulated items and don’t require the earth connection.

Going into the providers shop is the best way to do it. However there are numerous little shops that will unlock it for a fee in the U.K. if it is as easy once you get here is a very different matter. FWIW the locked phones I’ve been giver are not at all easy to unlock, but since they are perfect as a high end iPod I don’t really care.

She is correct if it has a clock

The gates are certainly good for child safety however they are certainly not just for (against) them. I have gates on the majority of of my outlets and so far haven’t noticed any plug that is any more difficult, I’m not saying that all protected sockets accept all plugs (or that your plugs should fit) just that none that I’ve got ever have had a problem. TIT YMMV

This depends on the author of the book, some have it some don’t. However every page has access to all of that in the bottom right corner with this symbol. the symbol is hidden until requested. Same symbol, same place It is there, see above, though not the pages into the chapter but since it can show much more than that the information is more valuable, available, but only accessible if wanted By having an iPad that has the version of the app you want. The old versions are even skeuomorph if that is what you prefer

The best way is to buy sockets without them. Disabling safety features is generally a very poor choice. However a moderately competent DIYer can reasonably easily make things more dangerous ????

My switches, outdoor outlets and outdoor lights has the same problem. Spray insecticide was OK for sometime but wears off, the long term answer is ant powder, which incidentally is also much cheaper.

The reason is not the cost of the glazing but the size and number of glazing units. In a single room I have 22 individual IGUs, none smaller than 1.5x1.5 and 16 of them open

Again and to be completely clear. The seal must be compromised for moisture ingresses. However depending on where the compromise has occurred the Argon may or may not leak out since the molecular weight of Argon is higher than both Oxygen and Nitrogen a compromise at the top and the fill is at normal atm a failure of the seal will not automatically result in total, or even major, Argon escape. So Q.E.D. compromise of seal ≠ Argon escape.

And when there is too much water?

Loosing the charge doesn’t cause condensation. Water vapour entering the unit allows condensation. The gas can be pure argon + water and you can have condensation.

Yes, they make the glass. They are a glass company not a window company, any widow company can make the windows, from a local mom and pop company (the local village window maker fitted 3 leftover door panels) to a company that does a fantastic job with German profiles (all of the others) There is far more than u values that affect the windows/doors. You pay, you choose. But like high quality tools you cry once and enjoy the benefits for a long long time. I know that we paid more for our windows that SWMBO paid for mums house. Given the option to redo our build I, and SWMBO, would not spend any less.

Is that not mostly what I said It may have been what you meant but not what you said????

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