Benjie

Probably all the returns from over the year.

talcum powder underneath and around, ants don't like walking on it.

Are you sending them small packet? If so they used to just tie it up with string

the URL might have been in the name of someone who isn't around anymore, or the email sent to an address no one checks, plenty of reasons why sometimes URL's lapse.

What? If you have an ecommerce website with a viable business, that business is going to make sure the domain name gets renewed.

I have no idea what you mean by an email might have been sent to an address no one checks. That makes no sense either. And no there are not plenty of reasons why a domain name would lapse, especially if it is tied to a business unless the business is shutting down or already gone.

Guess I will stop by and see if anyone on the premises has anything to say about this. That's if they are still open when I get there.

It's not an ecommerce website. It's a website for a business.

I thought the owner died, maybe nobody had his password for his email or URL management?

You purchase URL's for a period of time, like say a year, and then when they are to run out they normally automatically bill the same credit card for the renewal. If the guy is dead then that would have likely been declined because they don't tend to keep dead peoples credit cards active.

the URL might have been in the name of someone who isn't around anymore, or the email sent to an address no one checks, plenty of reasons why sometimes URL's lapse.

Just to follow up, Home Sukkapan followed through on their promise and replaced all of the tiles (even the ones we had laid already) with our choice from their showroom, very happy with their professionalism throughout the whole situation from their prompt reply (in English) to my emails, detailing the problem and then providing a solution for us.

There's a shop in Kamtien market that has a lot of timing equipment some of it very sophisticated, we also bought our drain piping there for our french drain. It's opposite the fish market and they often have turf outside for sale.

isn't it an option within Kodi itself? Sure I saw it there.

These aren't what anyone would expect of B Grade Tiles or Grade 2 as they are written on the box.

No-one would willingly buy these, if this is the quality of the tiles, their display to help you choose what to buy should reflect this.

Home Sukkapan have come out to my house today and taken photos, I've also had a professional response by email from them. As I said we've bought from them before, many times and never had a problem with the quality of tiles. We shall see what they say.

but not a cheap tile either (I think like 299 baht a square metre maybe a little more)

Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor, not cheap LOL.

Its all relative.

I can get perfectly good tiles for 150 baht a metre from the same shop, my Kitchen floor tiles were 189 baht from Homepro and look fantastic, my bathroom counter which is Cotto Homogenous 90x60cm tile that weigh a ton were only 5-600 baht and were extremely high quality.

Put it like this, I don't expect to spend 300 baht a sqm on tiles that look like they have about 5 years of wear when they are brand new. When there are hundreds of other identical style tiles available at that price or less that don't have heavy blemishes.

Wait a year how the 189 Baht tiles will look after they have lost all the top coat/color where you walk frequently. Been there, got the T-shirt.

As for the Cotto homogenous tiles, I have them in 2 Bathrooms, one on the wall and the other on floor and wall. Never again.

I don't mind if it's my wear and tear though, lol. I just don't want to buy tiles that look like they've had 5 years use already.

Any recommendations for tiles in the future then?

but not a cheap tile either (I think like 299 baht a square metre maybe a little more)

Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor, not cheap LOL.

Its all relative.

I can get perfectly good tiles for 150 baht a metre from the same shop, my Kitchen floor tiles were 189 baht from Homepro and look fantastic, my bathroom counter which is Cotto Homogenous 90x60cm tile that weigh a ton were only 5-600 baht and were extremely high quality.

Put it like this, I don't expect to spend 300 baht a sqm on tiles that look like they have about 5 years of wear when they are brand new. When there are hundreds of other identical style tiles available at that price or less that don't have heavy blemishes.

Dear oh dear 80m2 at a 299bt cheap tile rate....ouch

I remember spending 17k at exactly the same price.

I was warned that grade B are like seconds but nevertheless when home pro delivered to me I opened every box they brought before I accepted.

I wasnt checking for colour imperfections i was checking for cracked tiles.

My seconds were perfect thankfully.

And thats the lesson to you.....ok i have been in construction many years and you learn to reject the bent piece of wood; the ripped bag of cement; ....and the broken tiles BEFORE you accept them.

In your position if i cant blame myself for not being there to accept them I would without doubt lay full responsibilty on whoever was in charge or the tiler.

Seconds are a much higher standard than you have. Can you manipulate passing the cost? If not for the sake of 24k bht just write it off to experience; sack the builder and tiler without a second thought and start again.

On starting again you have 2 options....opt for grade A or take control and check quality on delivery of a grade B.

Ps.open every pack regardlrss to check for breakages.

Half of the tiles in my house are these same brand/make/type/grade - I bought those earlier and was very happy with them, not a single blemish.

If I take these ones up, they don't sell the same in a Grade 1 as far as I can make out, These weren't cheap tiles I bought out the back they are literally the first line of tiles as you walk into Home Sukkapan. I'm going in tomorrow but looks like smashing this lot up, getting the ones I haven't laid yet refunded and going elsewhere to try and buy the same tile in Grade 1.

Or I keep the ones laid replace the ones not yet laid with grade A and just try and take up the worst ones. Money's tight and I'm not sure how I'd feel smashing up all that concrete and tile from an ecological viewpoint, it seems a waste. I might just buy a big rug to cover all of the tiles, lol.

They are supposed to be Grade 2 - B Grade - same as I have all over the house.

Or it is C -grade, which mean this is exactly what to expect, or the builder doesn't know his job, but if my house had tiles laid that way I would smash them all.

I see they have not only marks, but also cuts, and they don't line up.

Without wanting to castigate the tiler; this is also another typical characteristic of grade B/C tiles. sizing uniformity leaves a lot to be desired. just 1 or 2mm difference gives you that result on tight joints.

you can mitigate it by opening the joint a tad.

Goes from bad to worse doesn't it.

Its done! look forward not back

I don't mind slight uniformity issues or slight blemish's which is what I expected, I'm willing to live with those. I don't need it perfect.

But these are really heavy noticeable blemishes, I don't know how they can even sell them, maybe OK for for a closet or something but who would knowingly install these happy in their purchase? I've bought 50 sqm of this exact tile before and it was fine, not a single blemish actually, which is why this is such a shock.

I would actually suggest the builder & supplier scammed you.

Supplier gave him really low quality seconds, he agreed to install so they can't be returned, and they split the profit 50/50.

No the builder is my handyman

I bought the tiles myself from Home Sukkapan, they were identical to ones I've used for the rest of my house except a slightly different colour - we've been more than happy with all the tiles we've bought from them before but these are awful.

I would actually suggest the builder & supplier scammed you.

Supplier gave him really low quality seconds, he agreed to install so they can't be returned, and they split the profit 50/50.

I know anyway, just couldn't be there for those days and had these exact tiles before.

They are supposed to be Grade 2 - B Grade - same as I have all over the house.

Or it is C -grade, which mean this is exactly what to expect, or the builder doesn't know his job, but if my house had tiles laid that way I would smash them all.

Maybe a younger builder who would notice the flaws before installing them is in order?

No he's been excellent in everything else, worked with us for 18 months, normally very tight - everyone makes mistakes.

The blame lies solely with the seller/manufacturer trying to get away with giving me what IMO are junk tiles. no-one would purposely install those in a house.

They were delivered by the store, exact same tiles we'd had before which were flawless. Builder didn't notice until cleaned afterwards (it's low light and he's getting on a bit).

Staff at Home Sukkapan saying this is what we should expect, even though we've bought hundreds of boxes of tiles from them before with no problems.

It's probably too late to take them up, the concrete's been raised to place them on. I need to finish the house fairly quickly now and I'm sure they wouldn't take the smashed tiles back.

I had some tiles delivered and had my builder install them, we've used the exact same tiles - same grade - same colour (but different colour code) before and been very happy.

So we ordered these from, they were a little more expensive than before - which is fine. not an expensive tile (for out here) but not a cheap tile either (I think like 299 baht a square metre maybe a little more)

My builder installed them and asked me to come take a look, around half of the tiles have very strong blEmishes - the floor looks like its got marks all over it.

When we called the store they said this was the quality to expect?

I'm fuming half have already been laid, no one would install them in their house over other offerings at the same price.

You say anyone can edit wikipedia so why hasn't someone changed the wrong definition of hard disk drive? Not only wikipedia but everyone else here are also all wrong and only you are correct.

what gets me is being unable to fix the drive letter...

I have 3 hard drives in present PC all with 2 partitions each...

C, D, E. F.G and H

So 'C' and 'F' are the partitions on the same drive WHY ? and 'D' and 'H' are partitions on the same drive Why..?

when I had more drives [smaller HDD's] in a PC was a great pain, take out a drive of the low letter and all the others move there letter.. Very Very annoying and confusing, if you use a partition just for one thing, it has gone moved

I'd get Neversure to sort it out for you.

You will need 7 Software Hard Drives, 3 Hard Disk Drives and at least 2 Firmwares :-)

From wikipedia

A hard disk drive (HDD) is a data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.^[2] An HDD retains its data even when powered off. Data is read in a random-access manner, meaning individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order rather than sequentially. An HDD consists of one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) with magnetic heads arranged on a moving actuator arm to read and write data to the surfaces.

Simple..Do not work! This subject has been beaten to death!

Would like to disagree with that statement and offer some anecdotal evidence.

Had my curiosity piqued by the 'special' magnets that were being sold to aid fuel efficiency for gas boilers and cars and magnetic wrist bands to aid health.

Purchased one for £30 and cut it open to find a standard bar magnet inside.

Any magnet will do the job.

Now the anecdotal stuff. Friend has 3 dogs. Two close to 10 years, one is 4 years old. The youngest develops an arthritic condition and is always lagging behind, struggling to keep up with owner and the 2 older dogs. Medication from the vets had no noticeable benefits.

She put a small neodynium magnet on the dogs collar and within days the dog was walking better. About 2 weeks after the first use of the magnet, I received a thank you letter from her dog, signed with a paw print. Her youngest dog is now up front and not struggling at all. I don't believe the placebo effect is relevant with animals and therefore believe that magnet did something.

Second personal experience is a gas boiler. My aunts ageing boiler made quite a loud noise every time the gas fired up. Medium sized neodynium magnet placed on the gas pipe very close to where it enters the boiler. It's supposed to save money. Don't know if it saved her any money, but the boiler stopped making the loud noise.

Small neodynium magnet was about 8mm diameter and 3mm thick. Very cheap on eBay. It needs to be close to or touching the skin. For people and animals, bigger is not necessarily better. I tried a big neodynium (25mm diameter 10mm thick) and it gave me a headache within hours. Tried it on and off over a few days 'cos I didn't believe a magnet could do that to me, but it did, every time.

Nothing to offer regarding copper.

The dog learned to write and post a letter due to the power of magnets.