Bill97

Buddhists are welcome at AA meetings.  Here Thai Buddhists go to meetings.

9 minutes ago, Mahseer said:

I gave the name of the road which limits the choice to one I believe.

Yes you did fine, very clear, and even came up with an uncommon word, gurudwara.  
 

Thank you.  No offense.  I was just offering some clarification because I like Sikhs and their temples.

Washer is enough.  Tape tapered threads.  Taps and those hoses are not tapered threads. Not good practice, unnecessary.

55 minutes ago, Mahseer said:

the Sikh temple named Gurudwara

????
 

All Sikh temples are called gurudwara.  It is the name of a Sikh place of worship.  There are at least three gurudwara in ChiangMai with different names.  All good for a quiet meditation,  some have free food.  

17 hours ago, unheard said:

is that how it's done?

Yes I have observed the process several times.

16 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

That is interesting and possible, but I still think it has some kind of top coat, maybe just sort of lacquer.

Possible.  Mine had no coating and no chipping or other issues.  Putting the cement on and smoothing it should be done when the underlying concrete is still damp to insure good bonding.

Doesn’t look polished.  I think the concrete is poured and smoothed then before dry cement from the bag is spread and rubbed in until the surface is very smooth, sometimes several applications of cement and a lot of rubbing.  I have several floors done that way and no chips or cracks after 20 years.  It is a finish option not uncommon here.

21 hours ago, treetops said:

Nobody is building anything.  It's a refurb.

Cheeit suppose they put a new wall in,  that could not be called refurbish it would be called build.  Check it out, the op is tearing out everything except external walls.

Might check with neighbor who has a gardener,  it’s not a big job for a gardener to fit in.  

5 hours ago, Daffy D said:

Funny thing, some time ago watched a neighbor replace one of those taps and it fitted the right way, just like that. 

It will be water tight, not leak, without being fully tightened mechanically.  Only the anal require the latter.

Get one year or get another contractor.  
They should be building to last for 30+ Years.

No.  The top screw holds the handle onto the valve it does not adjust the valve.

47 minutes ago, cardinalblue said:

Planning dept = no vision

 

aug and sept wettest 2 months of the year….maybe turn the hole into a fishing pond?

Where is the hole?

What does your Project Manager say?

2 hours ago, elektrified said:

No they would not have. You can get a bank book and ATM card and conduct any banking services at ANY branch.

True for foreign currency deposits?  If so that is a change in just the past few years

 at SCB.

35 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

It seems to me that if a company was relocating part of its holdings, and requires its customers to know in the future where to go to handle transactions that they would have informed the customers of that fact. They certainly have our addresses on record. Simple to send out another boiler-plate letter telling us where we would need to go. A simple chart showing which branch one must use for which service (IF that really is required... Frankly, I haven't found it to be so.) Especially true for such an very important daily service such as banking. 

 

Yes but if they trim the trees every year they could not be building a tire shop this year.

No everywhere else is similarly nightmarish.

20 hours ago, Crossy said:

Edit the full stop off the link and you get this:-

 

 

Valves are set in an unusual way for filtering.  Not sure filter would function with valves set like that.

Yeh that is a concern.  I see pipes blowing up in houses several times a week on my routine drives.

Link no good

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I would be hesitant about buying gold in a market

Some of the most established shops are in the Warrot market area.  Excellent reputations. There many decades before the first mall opened in Thailand.

16 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Your saying you paid the days spot gold price and the shop did not add in a shop commission of 400 baht.  If that's the case then the shop either charged you a little more or they actually lost money or broke even o the sale for the day.  Never seen a shop whether its a gold shop or a restaurant that gives away the item for the same price they paid for it, have to make a profit somehow to cover costs........

You forget that the shop’s cost is not necessarily equal to the spot price.  They might have bought it in the past at a lower price or bought options or futures at lower costs.

1 hour ago, JimmyJ said:

Every store I've checked only sells with powet strip.

You need to go to a real electrical supply store like the well known one on Wualai Road .

8 hours ago, connda said:

That was the first monkey I've ever seen in Thailand.

8 hours ago, connda said:

have never seen a monkey in the 15 years I've lived here. 

Don’t get around much or not observant?  Aren’t there monkeys at Doi Suthep Temple, Chiang Dao Caves and and and?

4 minutes ago, stargazer9999 said:

Has anyone used The Colonel Company across the street from immigration?  

Yeh the receptionist there is really hot. 

48 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

When I had these symptoms on my system in USA, it was due to a ruptured bladder in the storage tank.  The bladder could not be repaired so the only recourse was to replace the tank.

Here too.