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Oh, the 1992 Building Safety Control Act. Yup, but the law doesn't specify ALL buildings. Why not read the law? Being enforced, as I told w/ the example of my own building. Inspectors came by and required a retrofit. Finances not your strong suit I guess. Third choice: allocate part of future income. Fourth: draw on other outside sources of revenue to which you have access. Actually you don't have a clue. They may or may not. They may have other sources of income from which to draw. Yawn. Why, yes, it does. Not necessarily. They could borrow based on reallocation of current income. ALL buildings is another straw man. But what buildings (covered under the law) built since 1992 have not been able to do so? You must know (like you did about the pipes), so let's have your evidence, not just hot air. Now, suppose the apt/hotel didn't and closed. So what? Business is business and has risks. Is there a shortage? At least one poster has recently based his entire posting oeuvre about the "oversupply."

I'm with your wife. Enough w/ the stairway drama. Time to embrace the whole temple concept: pre-planning ensures a bang-up ceremony, better monks, flowers; then you got Pattaya Bay to look forward to. Now I dunno if Wat Chai still offers those niches in the wall in the back for your ashes and photo, but those are cool. More visitors there, possibly. Maybe your wife has a personal chedi planned for you somewhere?

I thought the UK is a welfare state with a free care home for such?

What's the plan for her if you die first? Just asking.

Whoops.

Of course not, hence the nonsense in your posts. All that blathering about aesthetics, drilling. I had mentioned that indirectly in my early post, however. And that's a reason it's not SO expensive to retrofit. The law's been in effect since 1992, two decades before COVID, plenty of time. And, as I mentioned earlier, money doesn't have to be laying lying around. <SNIP! Irrelevant USA info>

Great food, service, and ambience. One of the best pizzas in town. Popular with Thais, expats, and tourists. Survived COVID very well. Should get even more crowded when the Chinese get back. Ironically, today is the one-year anniversary of Tim Dueck's death, for many years the brewmeister of the Hops. Great guy, very, very funny, sorely missed by the many friends who knew him. Thoroughly enjoyed himself and only made it to 54. Big turnout at Wat Chai for his funeral. On the day, the TQ reserved his fave bar stool and kept a bottle of his usual beer above it on the bar.

Problem is, you're seeing the Evil Eye everywhere. So best save your tips to pay a shrink to get treatment for paranoia. Or leave to where you don't have the Evil Eye always on you--if there's such a place. Maybe that's what they're pushing to you to do. That said, I like our condo staff, they've been around many years, great characters, and work hard. One served as a witness for my yellow book. Of course, they'e quite poor. So I'll give them a tip now and then just randomly, out of the blue, as a gift. I get great service, too. I can leave my empty 5L water bottle for refilling when I go out for a walk and when I get back 30 min later, the new bottle's there--though it's during their lunch hour. I get immediately notified of any package, etc.

Unnecessary, as the odds are so extremely low. Your basic issue is that you "loath" (sic) living in a condo, so you'll just troll and stir the pot with whatever comes to hand. And you're off topic again.

1883's watchable, though it has an obligatory feminist undercurrent. Hard to beat Lonesome Dove. Broken Trail's also good. Took a look at Yellowstone, didn't do much for me.

The trailer makes it seem as if it would be. Got the women all in charge, of course. Lite story, usual tropes. I'll give it a miss.

Then you may love reading The ultimate bum gun thread. Would that happen to be the UK? Pattaya tourist illustrates use of bum gun

Lying about me. You may name the others. Not only have I not ignored your obvious, somewhat exaggerated point, I've addressed it several times already. I think you're soon going to need some help in getting out of the loop.

Off topic nonsense personal accusations instead of addressing the topic--inevitably. Ready for some posts to be removed?

Another straw man. Nobody said, implied, or suggested the amount required is trivial. I think you should come up with some useful, informative point or quit the thread, as you're just repeating the same thing over and over.

True that. I rarely tipped until I sympathized with Thais trying to make it through COVID. Paid back dividends. Disappointing thing was that a resto closed where I'd been giving out tips even to servers who weren't serving me that day

Been sleeping soundly on a high floor for about 20 years. Sorry. You've confused condos w/ middle-class owners for fleabag hotels on Soi Buakhao. But each to their own.

Like everything else, duh. A trivial point you keep repeating as it's some kind of news. Oh, and it doesn't mean the owner(s) doesn't or can't borrow or delay while accumulating the money. If it finally has to close for not meeting safety regs, it does. Hardly unusual. You seem to have fallen for the stereotype that all Thais are poor and only farang have money. The majority will agree if they have to meet a gov't mandate to live in their condos. And if they want to remain safe, as most do, actually. And yes, they will come up with the money, just as they do for other big maintenance projects. May take a year or so. Deadbeat owners exist, but they almost always pay up when their water and electricity are cut off and their condos threatened with foreclosure. I know from firsthand experience. So? You may quibble that the baked-beans-on-toast owners in the unmaintained dump condo buildings won't, but of course exceptions exist for the impoverished. If those don't, then they don't and they takes their chances, like riding an old unmaintained motorbike whose brakes may fail at any moment. So? No one's ignored that reality, nor would anyone, so that's merely a straw man erected so that you imagine you have a real argument. The law mandating sprinkler systems in buildings specified is already in effect, "advocating" is irrelevant.

Wrong !!! You can use the definitions to understand the motivations behind a number of posts. I should also mention our ANF Police Oversight Committee that shrewdly points out all the police mishandling of every accident investigation. We also have the ANF Bureau of Thai Road Standards to teach us about the probable poor condition of the road the victim traveled. And then we always have our Accident Statistics Criers to announce the accident rate in Thailand and compare with--the UK, of course.

Wirelessly to the router, then. So, yes, you could download files to an Android box via qbittorrent and play them. There's usually not that much space on an Android box, so you'd need to erase files after watching or get an external drive connected for storage, which is what I do.

Ours is, so you may end your doubts. Nor is that the primary consideration anyway, as noted, and becomes irrelevant. You don't have a condo, so you needn't worry about the delicate sensibilities of those who do. Just enjoying stirring the pot, I guess. Yep. And it'll get paid, one way or the other. So? It wasn't so expensive, BTW. Thai labor costs are quite reasonable, and the materials needed as well--large market. ANF Poster Building Engineering. None of this was necessary. And if it were, it'd be worth it. And it'd get done, if mandated. In our case, it was mandated as the initial impetus, but all the co-owners were on board. Those projects wouldn't save me if my building starts to burn down. I'm more concerned with my own life, you see. So I'll go for the sprinkler system. You go for the saved lives on the roads and enjoy your barbecue.

Why can't it be connected to a router, wired or wirelessly? Is the downloading going to happen via bluetooth? From where?

Between lesser aesthetics and burning to death, I'll take the former, thank you. You enjoy the barbecue. Besides, some buildings could benefit from a bit of added character. But more than a decade ago, gov't building inspectors demanded our building install a sprinkler system. We did. Pipes run up through the same pipe channels used by the other water lines and sewage pipes, then above the hung ceilings to the sprinkler outlets. Made no difference whatsoever to the aesthetics.

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Some as traumatized as the OP will also require an ice cream cone.