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Gormley glass might to do it even though they mainly do commercial jobs.

Looking to lease 100 - 150 talang wah for 10 years for small office/warehouse.

Must be within 10 km of Ban Chang in any direction. 

Preferably on a main or good road. 

5 years up-front lease payment for the right land at the right price.

I asked around a few months ago and ended up contacting a german guy who ended up doing an outstanding and quite complicated (changed out 3 phase consumer unit) job for me at what I thought was a fair price.

Contact is Plattek Reinhard on Line

I need a small Backhoe (“machro” in Thai) to remove a 3m + 3m x 0.3 m concrete slab in the corner of my garden - and take away the rubble.

Even one of the small ones should be able to do it from the street so its not a big or complicated job -and its just too much to do it by hand.

Any contacts would be appreciated - I see them occasionally on the back of a truck or on a trailer behind a pick-up but lately have not seen one that I can pull over and molest ????

thanks 

We moved from BKK 2-1/2 years ago and now live on Eastern Sta in Vintage 1 Village. The  rental rates here are around 35,000 for a three bedroom house. The village is very well maintained and very quiet.

Currently there are two houses with rental signs (including telephone numbers) in the village and I assume its the owners as no agent mentioned - rents may be more negotiable right now. so its probably worth a drive down here and call the owners - thats exactly how we got this house although we ended up buying instead of renting.

My 14 year old son goes to Garden and loves it.

Susco,

Thanks very much, I’ll give it a try and actually know exactly where to go to get the batteries done.

as for the other reply ???

Does anybody in the Pattaya / Rayong area service the Zodiac SWC. 

Mine is 12 years old with a 2 year old cell and rund fine except that it loses its time / timer settings whenever there is a power cut. 

From what I have read its very likely that the “backup battery” inside the enclosure is dead. The problem started a few weeks ago after several long power cuts (2hrs+).

I don't feel competent to rip it apart and change the back-up battery as the manual - and ab Australian forum - says they are soldered in.and not particularly easy to change.

Right now am running it on an external timer but still will not start without going out to press the start button but it does stop on the external timer - also chlorine production reverts to 10% so have to jack that up as well.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Molasses is a fixture of my pantry, have bought this very good Australian brand at Villa many times over the years.

Does anyone have a recommendation regarding use of an AntiVirus/Malware app on my Mac and iPhone. I have used Mac and iPhone and iPad for the past 15 years and never felt the need to have additional protection but my online bank account was recently hacked (big reputable international bank in Bangkok) and I think it may be time to beef up my security.

I have used them for 3 years with one claim handled very well. To date for me, a very good outfit.

Their app is worth having as it reports the location - very useful if uour Thai is not very good.

I had my Macbook repaired last year by Pattaya2U (at their shop near the Tukcom car park) and they did a good job at a good price. Also, my son recently had his Acer notebook repaired under warranty at JIB in Central Festival and they did a good job and he (14 years old) was very impressed by the very helpful techs at JIB. 

So both places worth considering . . . 

My 13 year old son goes to GIS and loves the school and his diverse mix of friends at the school (he went to a BKK british curriculum school for 8 years before we moved from BKK).

I personally looked hard at all the local international schools and choosing GIS 2 years ago has worked out very well. Based on the last 2 years, I think its a very good school with some great teachers.

Its worth pointing out that both the Head of School and Head of Secondary are both leaving at the end of this academic year which is pretty strange and a bit of a worry but time will tell.

As for fees, for this past year for Year 9 the fees were +/- 140K per term for 3 terms per year. 

Also worth noting, I prefer GIS’s IB programme for years 12 / 13 over the A Levels at most of the other British Curriculum schools. 

I need to relocate the 3 phase consumer unit in my new house as 1) its underneath the stairs and you have to crawl 3 meters on hands and knees to get to it and 2) its a Square D Load center with 18 ways of which 4 are doubled up. I also need to upgrade by installing an RCBO.

It seems to me there are two ways of doing this,

1. buy a new Square D 3 phase 63 amp 24 way load center along with a new 3 phase 63 amp Safe T Cut RCBO and install both on a convenient wall about 3 meters from the existing load center.

2. buy 3 new 63 amp (50 amp ?) 8 or 10 way single phase consumer units and use one for each phase, installed together on a convenient wall about 3 meters from the existing load center. I was at Global House this morning and single phase 63 amp consumer units with RCBO and 10 MCBs (16, 24 and 32amps) are readily available. 

 I do not want to re-locate the existing Square D load center as that will mean at least 2 days without power whereas installing a new one will mean a few hours without power. Also, I’ll keep the Main breaker in the existing load center so you can isolate the house with one breaker. 

The cost of the 63 amp single phase consumer units ranges from 2,500 to 4,000 baht - my choice would be a Siemens unit as opposed to other “unknown to me” brands like Racer, CEO etc even though they appear to be OK. 

the cost will be about the same for either option but I think the second option will be the is most effective with three separate RCBOs so if one trips I still have the other two phases working. I will need to “balance” the three separate phases but thats easy enough to do and really involves no extra work.

Any comments and/or advice appreciated . .. 

The only short crust pastry I make these days is Rose Levy Beranbuam’s cream cheese pastry. Just google it and you’ll find the recipe. Easy to make, very easy to roll out and very tasty, cant adk for more . . . 

I am re-plumbing my pump room and cant find any plastic high pressure 45 degree 40 mm elbows anywhere around Pattaya / Ban Chang including two Home Pros, two Thai Watsadu, and Megahome). They all have the low pressure (drain pipe) elbows but not the high pressure elbow.

Pretty strange but thats the situation so would appreciate it if anyone could help. I tried to order online from Thai Pipe but they wanted a 600 baht delivery charge for two elbows and thats far too much. 

I may use the low pressure elbow and see if it holds up as pump pressure is only 10 psi ?

I have two comfortable old teak Planters Chairs and I need to replace the rattan which has broken on both chairs.  Does anyone know any place where they make / repair traditional rattan ? (We had the rattan replaced in Bangkok 15 years ago at a shop in Jatujak Market but live in Ban Chang now so would prefer somewhere local).

Roojai, online, efficient and certainly cheaper than most all others. 

Our maid asked the other day if she could have the plastic and glass from the rubbish bin as she wants to take it somewhere local in Ban Chang Where they buy it for 5 baht/kg. 
Anyway, then went out an bought another rubbish bin and we now put all the plastic and glass in that and she takes it away when she is here twice a week. It’s pretty surprising just how much stuff there has been over the past week.
So now you know and should start doing the same thing, I don't think it will not be too difficult to find out where to take it. I regularly see the rubbish truck guys re-cycle stuff as they pick it up but this seems to be a better alternative and everyone (including the planet) wins.
 

I wish I could answer the questions asked but don’t know enough about it to provide an intelligent answer. Like I said in my initial post, we need some expert help as e really need to get this issue sorted out.

Was driving south from Pattaya along Sukhumvit the other day and saw a really good looking beach buggy on the back of a truck (it looked brand new). From a quick glance, it looked like a VW based beach buggy kit car and it occurred to me that it would be a pretty useful way of getting around - safer than a motor bike and nearly as much fun. 
Anybody know if it could have been built / available in LOS ? 

We am currently having a problem with a purpose built LED RF Dimmer system (60 lights over 7 zones) which we now have to hook up to the building’s PLC control system and it appears the two are not compatible. We would like to retain the existing system and change out the dimmers if possible otherwise quickly build a new system.

Anybody who can offer advice or practical help please feel free to contact me - a good earner is very likely for competent experienced help in Pattaya. 

Rengboon Auto In Bangkok is a good place to start. The workshop/showroom is on Pattanakarn Soi 35 and is always worth a visit as typically there are 20+ classic cars undergoing restoration and 10+ classic cars stored there. The owner is Khun Yo, an extremely nice guy who speaks fluent english and is both passionate and knowledgable about classic cars. He typically has and/or knows of a few cars for sale. Additionally, he is the best man in the kingdom to talk to if you want a classic car and are prepared to pay the Thai price for same (the cost of classic cars here is most certainly well above that in the UK, US and Oz).

Thanks for the replies so far, I’ll take it down and plug it into a “diagnostic thingy” at an expat mechanics workshop in Ban Chang this morning.

The flashing light is when driving (should be solid D but now I’d flashing P) 

As for Ford dealers, my old dealer in Bangkok (Seinakarin Ford) was great but now in Ban Chang and numerous people have told me that the local Ford dealers are not very good so never use them.

Also, a special thanks to Ezzra as a post on Thai Visa without an ignorant reply would not be much fun.

Automatic 4x4 2014 Ford Ranger Wildtrack:

two days ago, when driving the gear selector light (P / R / D) started flashing a P instead of a normal solid P. 

There is no other indication of a fault, no yellow fault lights and vehicle drives normally.

Cant really fine anything definitive on the internet so thought I would ask here, anybody have some advice ? 

Not interested in taking it to a Ford dealer as life is too short.