Benjie

Placebo effect perhaps?

I have always got rid of 'depression' by first following a few suggestions - exercise everyday, get enough sleep by going to bed at the same time, good diet, trying to help those less fortunate than myself. Strangely it goes away all by itself.

It's pretty obvious then that you've never actually had 'depression' .

Kasikorn Bank is notorious for cheating farangs on the card fees. When I got my first one 4 years ago it was 100 Baht and a receipt... Then I got my second one 3 years ago and still 100 with receipt. Next one was 200 Baht an no receipt, then 300 baht and no receipt and the last one was 500 (!) Baht and no receipt.

I'm pretty sure the official charge is still 100 Baht, maybe 200 Baht max... This is also what Thai people will tell you.

Why did you need 5 cards within 4 years?

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

Its a payment scheme with a 10% transaction fee?

How much % were investors offered return, anything above 5% would be ringing alarm bells.

I must receive stuff weekly from all over the world, never any issues. nothing lost. Hang Dong post office.

Lots of people expect to make significant money on property, perhaps like they would back home, when I tried to sell my home I only sold it when I put it on for exactly what it cost me, we had it 7 years. Are you expecting significant profit from your home?

Don't want to be that guy, but you can't connect directly from laptop to speakers (at all) , laptop to amp (via headphone to 2 Rca Jack as suggested) or laptop to headphones is fine.

How much did the house cost?

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

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And there's my family on the right of your picture, crazy coincidence.

Went there today... The burger place is great and good value at 100 baht for a meaty double burger with cheese. The Sushi was very nice, Pizza was nice but comparatively expensive 140baht for a small 9" Pizza. Great choice of healthy drinks, lemongrass mojitos etc.... the seating and general setup is very cool.

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.

I got an email from them today saying my 90 day notification was approved. I did it about 2 weeks ago.

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.