Bill97

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Yet another vote for Thaipae/Chiangklan, they have been good with my banking for about 10 years.

What kind of work do you want to have done? Cabinets? Walls? Plumbing? Windows? Electrical? Do you speak Thai well enough to work with a non-English speaking contractor?

What I'm getting at is, is there such a service in Chiang Mai?

I have not seen or heard of one, mine just dials a family member in the police dept.

Too easily defeated unless you have a dedicated phone line for it.

if you want a dialer, it MUST be on a separate dedicated phone line to a response service.

The Fly Fisherman

Dedicated phone line is definately a requirement but IMHO it is necessary to mark that line as dedicated by putting on a red or yellow tags with "dedicated" clearly written on them. Tag the line several places outside the house. That way the burgler will notice that it is a dedicated line and not cut it when he cuts the other line(s). I have never had a thief cut a dedicated line that I labeled with a tag.

And, as a nation, Thailand has applied Dharma 101 to the point of becoming comatose."

Off topic, but

Thailand has not applied Dharma 101 and the basic Dharma does not produce comatose states.

An envelope with some cash is the traditional gift in Thai villages. Many just give a small amount to help cover of the cost of the ceremony and cost of food. Others give several hundred baht. Big friends, big ceremonies, and big houses, the amounts are higher but some gift is appropriate.

'ProThaiExpat'

Does your pump have a pressure tank? (I am not familiar with the Mitsubishi pumps) If it does, you should be able to get a few liters of water out of the pressure tank before the pump turns on. They are designed that way so they do not cycle on and off in short time intervals.

The "relay contacts" you mention have been replaced twice in five years.

You can clean up relay contacts with a small fine file or fine black sandpaper on a thin flat stick just like the routine maintenance on old auto engine points. Faster and cheaper than replacing them. They just need to be made flat and smooth on the contact surfaces then blow out the dust and they again work fine.

My question remains, what makes pump run without pumping water?

It is very often air in the pump. A hole or loose connection and the pump sucks in air and stops pumping water. Or air is comming in the with the water from the water source. A pump with air in it will not pump water and will run and get hot. Is your water source a well? If so a leaking foot valve in the well will cause air to go into your pump.

Sorry, I reread your post and see that you are pumping from a storage tank, not a well.

If the water system worked satisfactorly when the pump was working properly over a period of 5(?) years, then just get a reliable pump of the same size and you should be ok. I have had good luck with Hitachi pumps for many years. If you did not like the water system performance when the pump was working, then you have other issues like pump and/or pipe size.

My question remains, what makes pump run without pumping water?

It is very often air in the pump. A hole or loose connection and the pump sucks in air and stops pumping water. Or air is comming in the with the water from the water source. A pump with air in it will not pump water and will run and get hot. Is your water source a well? If so a leaking foot valve in the well will cause air to go into your pump.

There was a guy in Pai making good Yucatan style hammocks. Do not know if he is still there now.

Very sorry about your loss.

Also concerned that if they overdose a bird to that degree, might they also be overdosing other amimals? Think I will not take any pets there.

I've just researched, and am curious about COST. It isn't mentioned anywhere that I can see in this forum, and I checked websites of the main schools mentioned here. I can't find it for CMIS or APIS and didn't look for NIS. The costs for a 13 year old student in their first year would be 688,000 baht at Prem, and 203,000 baht at APIS (not including boarding or ESL, and some deposits are refundable). Big difference there. Any other total costs for the other schools?

I suspect that the figure for Prem for a new student would include a one-off 50,000 Baht refundable (upon leaving) Security-Deposit, also the one-off 130,000 Baht Foundation-Fee, which helps fund scholarships. Also Transport & Lunches may be included in this cost, are they included in the CMIS fees ?

As a rough-guide, tuition-fees in Senior-School at Prem are more like 375k-400k, which is probably still more than at any other International-School in the area.

Got some info that Prem is using two fee schedules and the 375k-400k is for old students. New students prices for high school are a bit more, 435k-462k not including lunch, transport, ESL or the one-off fees mentioned above. Prices for new students are on the school website.