Benjie

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.

Thais and foreigners are ripped off big time in Thailand because there is no competition and high taxes.

You can buy 2 BMW's in Europe for the price of 1 assembled here and there are many more examples. Also look at the fuel consumption of the average local produced car compared to western standards.

It's not just with cars, almost everything here is more expensive now than in western Europe. Thailand is a major exporter of agricultural products, how can it be that vegetables and fruit are the same or more in the market here as in Europe? Believe it or not, but my son buy dragon fruit cheaper in the market in The Hague (NL) than I buy them here???

Why is my dentist charging the same as a dentist in NL?

Burger King is almost 10% more expensive here than in NL!

The cheaper international schools charge 2 times the price of an IB program on an international school in NL!

Thailand is colonized by their own elite, 20 or so families, that run the show, form the cartels, set the prices and farm the country. In the mean time the poor and middle class people are robbed dry.

Kind of true. Only poor quality local stuff is cheaper here than back home, which also happens to be the stuff that most foreigners come to Thailand to seek. For example, cheap local transport (if they decide not to drive), cheap street food (made from questionable ingredients but with no taxes, rental or salaries to pay, the savings are passed onto the customer hence why Pad Thai only costs 30-40 Baht, or perhaps 100 Baht in tourist areas compared to 250-400 Baht equivalent in a Thai restaurant back home), cheaper hotels and apartments (but only because back home we don't have 10 sqm pads with no kitchen available for rent) and cheaper local shopping at the market.

Anything imported, anything of quality (even if it's manufactured locally), cars (including locally manufactured ones), electronic items, all more expensive here than back home. Even Thai made cars exported to say Australia are cheaper there, after shipping, than the ones sold here?!

Every year I've noticed cars in Thailand become more expensive. When I bought my 2013 Isuzu D-Max V-cross 4x4 manual, the top model, it was 952,000 Baht. The auto model was 993,000 Baht. This was December 2013. The current list prices for exactly the same 2 models, only difference being that it now uses a stop-start button instead of putting a key in the ignition but otherwise exactly identical and suddenly it's 972,000 and 1,017,000 Baht respectively. That means a 20,000 and 24,000 Baht price hike respectively. Where did that come from?!

Surely that's just inflation, It's around 2-2.8% if I remember correctly which seems to correlate almost perfectly with your figures.

The thing is the OP was perfectly happy to pay the asking price here in Thailand for his Mitsubishi but got upset when he looked at what it cost in another country.

How many people are looking up what it costs in Australia and making a decision based on that.

The local price is the highest that the market will take whilst keeping optimum profitability from supply and demand.

Why it doesn't work could be explained this way. Over simplified too. Because the heat load on the roof is greater than the cooling effect from the water, you can never get the attic air cool enough to make a noticeable difference in the room. If you put fans in the attic it would do more good than the water would.

Best example of this, is a fire. Ever notice how much water is required to put out fire? Then cool the it down so you can find hot spots? Even after the flames are out the stored heat in the wood is so great it still takes thousands of gallons to cool. Same physics are in motion in cooling the house but not as severe. Thermal heat transfer problems can be very complex even in a simple house problem like this.

Try attic fans first. One at each end of the house. You want one blowing in from the shaded side and an exhaust fan on the sunny side.

Exhaust fans function much better here than swamp coolers.

It is not unreasonable to think that a swamp cooler in a room and a dehumidifier at the far end of the room could have some beneficial affect on the air temperature

They are totally different concepts, an exhaust fan is not going to cool your house, it will stop the roof from heating it up a little and from retaining the heat but a better idea would be to put a roof over your roof, if direct sunlight doesn't even touch your roof then it won't aid in heating your house up.

An evaporative cooler will actively reduce the temperature and humidify the area, very useful for very hot and dry climates.

Exhaust fans get rid of the hot air which rises to fill the space below the roof. They also keep air circulating. Hot air goes up and out. Cooler air from the floor level moves up.

Yes, shading your roof is a good thing as is having a light colored roof.

An exhaust won't cool the living space below air temperature though.

Why it doesn't work could be explained this way. Over simplified too. Because the heat load on the roof is greater than the cooling effect from the water, you can never get the attic air cool enough to make a noticeable difference in the room. If you put fans in the attic it would do more good than the water would.

Best example of this, is a fire. Ever notice how much water is required to put out fire? Then cool the it down so you can find hot spots? Even after the flames are out the stored heat in the wood is so great it still takes thousands of gallons to cool. Same physics are in motion in cooling the house but not as severe. Thermal heat transfer problems can be very complex even in a simple house problem like this.

Try attic fans first. One at each end of the house. You want one blowing in from the shaded side and an exhaust fan on the sunny side.

Exhaust fans function much better here than swamp coolers.

It is not unreasonable to think that a swamp cooler in a room and a dehumidifier at the far end of the room could have some beneficial affect on the air temperature

They are totally different concepts, an exhaust fan is not going to cool your house, it will stop the roof from heating it up a little and from retaining the heat but a better idea would be to put a roof over your roof, if direct sunlight doesn't even touch your roof then it won't aid in heating your house up.

An evaporative cooler will actively reduce the temperature and humidify the area, very useful for very hot and dry climates.

Benje

No, the average Thai buys a motorbike.

The cost in Australia is just under half the yearly salary,do you believe they should price the pickup at 2,999 dollars here in Thailand for the average Tha?

Who's driving the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of cars and pickups on Thai roads if they aren't average Thais?

No, I don't expect a pickup to sell for $2,999 here, but it would be nice to get the same level of equipment the buyer in Australia gets for the same price. Instead what Thailand gets is the "poverty pack" in equipment levels, probably the same in nearly all vehicles manufactured here. I think Thai buyers get short-changed.

Perhaps the market in Australia is more competitive and the buyers there won't settle for low equipment levels.

Why not just try drying your clothes inside with a fan blowing on them and see the effect.

Indian households hang woven Mats of Vertigris in the windows which they spray with water to cool down and keep insects out the house.

Things aren't priced on what it costs to manufacture but what the market will pay. You paid A$29,900 so I think they have it figured out right.

Don't talk rubbish.

How is that Rubbish, Do you honestly believe businesses manufacture things and then just add a set percentage on top as profit? Regardless of supply and demand and competitors.

So, the average Thai on probably less than $7,000 a year has to pay the same as the one sold in Australia, but to an Australian whose salaries are probably $70,000 plus a year on average.

No, the average Thai buys a motorbike.

The cost in Australia is just under half the yearly salary,do you believe they should price the pickup at 2,999 dollars here in Thailand for the average Tha?

So you ask your phone to tell your watch to turn on the air-con?

More like Wifi controlled A/C units and you haven't got any on your network.

The 2nd hand market is changing, you can buy a new Toyota Yaris for a little over 400k that does 20km to the litre, automatic, airbags etc.... Many of the car companies are offering 0% finance or loans over 7 years and theres a glut of cars/pickups at the tents. It will be interesting to see what happens when they bring out the 2nd phase of the ecocars with 25km to the litre.

Why not use the new Raspberry Pi, it's like $39

Probably just going to put the price up and doesn't want to sell any at the old price.

Why would you need to pay 400k?

You can get a nice quality screen here for around 20k, and decent projectors start at around 70k, then you've got your surround sound on top. Projectors have come a long way even in the last few years, if you have a room you can make dark and like big screens I would definitely go with a projector system.

For me (as an AV/Home Cinema professional) there is nothing like the feel of watching a projected movie on a large screen, it's just a totally different experience than watching a tv.

Sure you can pick up a locally made Vertex screen for 15-20K Baht, but the difference between it and a 200K-400K Baht Stewart screen is everything you'd expect.

Same goes for PJ's - 70K Baht is only going to get you into a 1080P run-of-the-mill 1600-2000lm beamer - for something that's going to have a hope of keeping up with the PQ of a current gen 4K flat panel TV though, you're talking 300K up.

Having had both (and others) I don't agree, was the Stewart screen better, yes but you certainly aren't getting a screen that 10 times better.

I could setup a "Run of the mill" 1080p projector and blow the socks of 95% of the population in terms of image quality, most people haven't seen a well designed and commissioned projector setup.

No point having 4k until that's the standard for HD releases. Thats the beauty of a projector, instead of being stuck with a 400k TV when the next best thing comes around, you just buy a new projector when the new standard comes into being, the rest of the setup stays the same.

I disagree when people say a projector can't match a TV picture quality, I much prefer a projected image.

Why would you need to pay 400k?

You can get a nice quality screen here for around 20k, and decent projectors start at around 70k, then you've got your surround sound on top. Projectors have come a long way even in the last few years, if you have a room you can make dark and like big screens I would definitely go with a projector system.

For me (as an AV/Home Cinema professional) there is nothing like the feel of watching a projected movie on a large screen, it's just a totally different experience than watching a tv.

Why would you want to buy a brand without a good reputation, Why not start a new company without the headache of expectations for servicing for old customers.