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Do not rule out color photographs. They can be easily rendered in B&W, adjusted for the brightness, tint, and contrast you want and sharpened, if needed.

I had a friend who did house painting and other redecorating projects. She told me that wall paper very often attracted mold. So be very careful of what you put it on.

Was this friend here in Thailand? If so where did she get her wallpaper from?

Yes she was working here in Chiang Mai. I don't know where she bought it if she used it at all.

Check around about mold with it. I never really discussed it with her it was just mentioned in passing as she was telling me they often have to remove it because of the mold.

Maybe there is other posters here with greater knowledge on the subject than I. My friend has moved to another city.

Whole houses here in our development are wallpapered (upstairs and downstairs) with no problems. I would guess anyone who has problems might have a water source on the other side, like a shower with tile on a poorly prepared wall and/or cracked grout. Wall are very porous and the water will wick through over time.

Soft cheeses (Camembert, Brie) are fine to freeze. Harder cheeses like Cheddar will go crumbly once defrosted, so fine for cooking but not for slicing. I have Stilton in my freezer that has been there for ages and only seems to improve with time.

With the harder cheeses if they are vacuum packed at origin they will last for a long time just in the fridge.

Several people echoed this but I have had a different result. I buy the large blocks (2 1/2 or 3 kg?) of cheddar from Makro and cut it up, wrap it in simple bags closed by a rubber band, and freeze it. So far, over about 2 or 3 months, all of it has thawed and retained the consistency it had when I bought it.

Mine in Mae Hia also fine and running at rated speed - 13+ Mbps. Possible problem with cable termination in the junction box. Contact them to run a line quality test. Rainy season and all, problems may be compounded.

When they installed mine a year ago and I ran a speed test I was only getting 6 Mbps. They came out promptly and the office ran a line check and found the signal not normal. They went out and found a bad connection and it has been running at rated speed since.

TOT did the same thing for me last year on my then 5+ year old ADSL connection at the pole. All they had to do was cut off an inch or two of wire to get down into the insulation past the corrosion and hook it up again. Problems resolved.

There is a Bangkok bank in New York. Have the IRS eft to that bank and use your local acct number. Google "best way to transfer money from us to thailand". Ots in there somewhere.

This works. I helped a deceased American's widow file for her IRS refund. She had never been to the U.S. and had no U.S. bank account so we requested direct deposit in the Bangkok Bank. The IRS complied with that request and direct deposited her refund in her local Bangkok Bank account via the New York branch.

We took our Thailand bought cell phone back and, to be specific, went to T-mobile and used their sim card with no problem. Bought an unlimited one month program for about $50 that covered all our travels.

Do you have a bank account in Thailand?

If so, they will usually oblige and do the deed for you.

I, too, have used a bank to certify a copy.

I hope someone has an answer as i want hoppy beer at local price.

And you can always ask your trash people how would they like you to "bag" it for them.

I put it in a separate, open bag (a small bag I get for groceries) next to my large household trash bag. The household trash truck people can see what it is and keep separate it from the rest of the trash. They never fail to take it.

Since there are unbroken bottles in everyone's trash, it stands to reason the household trash collection company has the means for processing glass.

Cars are vendors and suppliers setting up inside? Flashing sign on the corner has the opening date(s). I saw it yesterday but forget what it said as I only glanced at it in passing.

I would suggest using the good ole USPS, registered. Might even have it sent "return receipt". Such mail is brought to my door and the mail lady rings the bell for a signature. When no one is home to sign, she leaves a notice and I go pick it up and sign for it.

Have the sender send you the tracking number and you can track it from home.

I have to ask: what does this (or any tongue cleaner, for that matter) do that a simple tooth brush won't do?

I agree with OldChinaham and would suggest Salapoo do a little more research.

Monks do not attend the wedding. The come to the house early in the morning to bless the couple before the actual wedding.

I am perplexed by these words. Over 40+ years I have attended countless weddings and the morning ceremony was always THE WEDDING. It was simply a reception in the afternoon/evening, with people not invited to the morning ceremony coming to offer their good wishes, just like a western reception.

More so way back when than today, but it still happens this way sometimes, the couple did not register the marriage at the Amphur. Sure some couples only register at the Amphur, but but that is just fulfilling the civil legal requirement.

So, to iterate, my experiences say the Buddhist ceremony in the morning is the wedding. Are we talking past each other?

I think I saw maple flavoring at Rim Ping Mee Choke.

Try Carpets International; Google them. I think they have what you are looking for.

I can understand the problems you might be having in a multi-unit building's cabling with who knows how many connections between you and the fiber. But the other problems you mentioned puzzle me. In 6 years of listening to problems at the computer club I have never heard of a single case where the firewall or antivirus interferred with download speeds.

I have the TOT fiber 15Mbps program and run Norton for both the firewall and anti-virus and Webroot anti-virus. My programs will only stop a download if they do not like the type of file (e.g., *.exe) being download. Most files are downloaded and then scanned.

I do not know if this makes a difference (or if it would make a difference in your case) but I bridged the True modem/router and bought my own router. My PC is cable connected to the router. I frequently get 20Mps or more in download speed tests from the US or Europe. Rarely do I ever get less than 15Mbps. Performance is so satisfactory that I seldom test.

My wireless device gets a 130Mbps connection to the router (not from out on the web, just down from the router) on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

Now I am in a single family home and the fiber to copper coming into the house connection is right in front of the house so I do not have to compete with any other damand on that line.

All this probably does nothing to help. It is more of a plea for more info as this is a new subject for me: potential download interference from firewalls and antivirus programs.

Why is space a problem?

25000 3MB JPG's(average) = 75Gig.

As mentioned above 1TB will set you back a cool B2500...

No problem..

If one shoots in RAW, a 10MP camera saves a 16 MB file per photo or 400GB for your 25K photos. Process and save as a TIF file and you can conceivably get a 50MB for one photo. All depends on what you do with your photos. Your mileage may vary.

As Jimmybkk said, CCTV usually means closed circuit TV, a security system for monitoring real time or after the fact review of recorded video.

You mentioned finding TV channels.

Have you had enough thefts to warrant CCTV? Or do you not have cable TV in your moo baan and that is what you are trying to get True to do, run the cable in at your expense as a group.

If the latter, my immediate reaction is that is a waste of the moo baan's reserves. Let everyone that wants to watch TV use the satellite method. Works well. If few farang in the village, then most people will only opt for the Thai channels anyway, so why spend the money?

If you are after the internet, that is a different issue.

So, do you know?

All very good inputs. I would say go with the 6 inches of concrete. But I would also recommend a good layer of sand on top of the base. Get that down first as it will help dampen the effects of settling. And make sure the sand is compacted first. If nothing else, wet it down and let it sit (and set) for a couple of days.

I would insist on ready mixed concrete even if it may cost you a little more so that you will be assured the "pour" is of consistent quality. Do not allow hand mixed batches as each batch will create a weak point where it meets the other batches.

And with pre-mixed, you can get all your concrete poured in one day.

And have someone there to witness the laying of the reinforcing mesh. Even though I told my contractor before he started, he still just laid it on top of the sand like he does on every other job. I made him raise it up and continue to ease it up as the pour was done. If I had not, the concrete would have just pushed most of it back down on the sand.

As everyone said, NON-SLIP tiles after the concrete has set

I'd like to see what is on offer - if I didn't have to go through farcebook to do so.

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I agree with Amexpat. There are many of us who have not and will not sign up for Facebook and, therefore, your info or whatever is on Facebook is not available to us.

I have seen your ad but that just goes to Facebook. So other than that, I know absolutely nothing about you. A real web site would be informative. For example, you are the sole distributor for Northern Thailand for what beer? What are you direct retail prices? Pre-order/buying from you should give us discounted prices over what the beer would be selling for in some TBD retail outlet (who carries your beers?).