JimmyGreaves

Try sligo mulligans, Irish spew, the penny whistle and the goat with no legs if your into (straight) irish bars!

if your into naughty bars then 'The Colleen with no knickers'

Just had a two storey house built on some land I bought, steered away from projects as the owners seem to have too much control even when the house is finished.

Really good builder, builds bank premises also.

Drop me pm if I can help.

Well pissed off!

The thai TV commentary is so so so without any atmosphere as they are stuck in bangkok and the sounds from the stadium are cut to almost silent. I would have thought the thai football fanatics would have complained about this. Probably used to this and know no better :-(

Don't forget Eurosport. The heineken rugby games are live, tour de everywhere bycycle. channel 8 - house. jay lemo or someone like that

Well this simply means i will be closing my Nationwide Flex account as the only thing i use it for is ATM transactions abroad.

NO PROBLEM ,,

today , i called into my local NATIONWIDE office ,,{returning to LOS, end of mounth ]

with the flexiaccont debit card , you can continue to withdraw money abroad , as before .

nationwide are issuing a new cash card in june this year,

which cannot be used abroad , and this card does not have a overdrawn facility .

[possibly for high risk , customers ].

Have you checked the withdrawalrate on the debit card. From what i remember the cirrus Cash card was the better option.

Additionally i do not want the ability to overdraw on the card as it is left in my Wife's Family hands as an easy and cheap way to transfer a small amount of money each month as and when needed. No way i want the ability to build up an overdraft on an account where i do not have total control of the card itself. I may trust the person who keeps the card but do i trust everyone around him and who has access to his house?

Will probably have to look at prepaid cards which will mean a lesser exchange rate.

Snap, in the same boat. bloody pain what with the exchange rate and now this arghhh

YIPPEE

Good news for me - I'm going to the UK this month.

Also, when I send money home to my mother, she gets more.

It isn't too bad for the pensioners - it was only 37 baht to the pound when I first came here in 1992.

It might make a few of the undesirable stay away from here, or go back too.

Your post is total rubbish.

Back in the early 90s the cost of living in Thailand was less than a quarter compared with today`s prices and Thai bank interest rates reached a high of 13%. Plus only 150000 baht was required for a one year Non Immigrant visa.

With an amount of 1 million baht in the bank, you could very comfortably live on the interest without tapping into the capital or need to bring over more money.

Things have changed dramatically and it`s going to be financially down hill from now on.

very very true, 'Neeranam' does not know what he's talking about!

Can anyone explain how I can register my smart card/sim (same phone number) and then pay for ad hoc channels via 7 eleven I think.

Can't find out how this all fits together and have just had the box/dish/freeview installed non-rental bought it.

Many Thanks

Go see the guys in the index store, they are doing the dreambox thing. Not yet decided on this as would hate to be in the middle of something and the internet goes down!

Get your 3 shareholders sorted (you being 1), make sure they have the money to buy their shares. Set the company up, buy the land, build the house. Volia!

The new Hua Hin hospital is now open, anyone have any experience with treatment here and charges for having to stay a few nights?

These are some hospital prices quoted by my insurance agent for hospital room per day:

Sao Paulo 2,900

Hua Hin Hospital 1,800

Petcharad 2,470

Bangkok Hospital 6,750

Bunungrad 7,785

Well the g/f just spent 8 nights in HHH at 1,200 baht a night on the 7th floor, Excellent big room and was taken care of better than SP at less cost.

Ok, So what are the options to get Premieur Leagus football? I know True Visions have the option Gold package about 1500 baht month, Platinum 2000 baht. Does the Dstv South Africa install give you the football as this is my main requirement?

Next to soi 10

So excuse me, do you mean the old Hua-Hin hospital that was doing up the top floor for the King and Queen?

The new hospital complex that was built next to the old one. The whole building was new as far as I remember not only the top floor

Thanks Lopburi. Can you also confirm I get 60 days and when should I apply?

I have an expired visa not marriage but type 'Other-to visit Thai spouse/family' and have to leave the country at the end of the month, however I want to stay until late January.

I have heard that I can goto immigration and extent this visa for another 60 days for 1900 baht

I have a young daughter here and we live together with my girlfriend and they both have their names in the tabian bahn, I don't.

Does anyone know if this can be done as I don't fancy leaving the country to get a 60 day tourist visa?

Cheers

How long do you have to wait for this in vientienne and do you have to fly in and out?

Next to soi 10

Wow.

All through 2005-6 the company route and lease+relationship route added up to about 50/50. After the clamp down after Taksins balls up, seems that the lady is getting the land now via relationship route, very odd

Thai relationship means just buying without any legalities. usufruct should go under lease as it was not that popular in 2005-6

The new Hua Hin hospital is now open, anyone have any experience with treatment here and charges for having to stay a few nights?

So I buy the house from you and the building permit is in your name, you still own the house do you?

Hi, I have read a few threads about the tabian baan but am really none the wiser about what it is really for.

My understanding, please tell me if I am mistaken, is that it details the owner and any residents.

As a farang, I have been told that I cannot be entered in the blue book but must have my own yellow book.

Does the yellow book detail that a farang is the owner of the house?

I ask because at the end of the year we, Thai wife and myself, will start to build a house.

As all the funds are mine I would like myself to be 'the owner of the house' and wonder if the yellow book details the owner of the house?

I know that I do not own the land and intend to go the lease or usufruct route on that one.

Thanks for reading, Andy.

Tabien Baan or yellow book does not state who the owner is, only who resides in the property. The first resident in tabien Baan is master of the house, and does not need to be the owner (even if your wife can continue to belive so).

To become the owner of the house you must get buildingpermit in your name, and to do that you normally need a lease or usufruct for the land its build on. Several threads how to do this already. Good luck

Building permit in your name? That must be rubbish because how can you still own it when you sell it?

Yes, been shopping around and nobody seems to have any examples, they all want to do outside frame with alot of glass.

Company called Finestre that I'm trying to contact now in bkk anyone have any experience of quality?

Interesting post about the length of the pipe Jombom. It about 6 meters from the compessor and maybe 2.5 meters is behind the tiles they could easily reduce 3 meters that is exposed in the roof space. Not sure I understand it all fully though. Does it mean that if I only had a meter between compressor and units then I could use 2 inch pipes which equates to 8 meters on using a 1/4 inch pipe?

Unless you've got one wall that is all glass, kilowatts of electrical equipment/lighting & many people in the room, a 3 to 4kW unit should do the job (10k to 15k BTU).

If you don't change the pipework, you're stuck with a 24 000 BTU init (7kW).

i [not so] humbly beg to differ Señor Kangorito. if it was the other way round there'd be a problem. suction and pressure pipe for a 24k unit will work on an 18k or even lower capacity unit as well. in fact in my house i run a number of 13k units on pipes normally used for 18 and 24k because of the distance between inside and outside unit.

perhaps you remember... for aesthetic reasons my outside are lined up left and right of the house, that means some of the units have a pipe distance of 16-20 meters.

Does this mean that I can just install the 18,000 btu unit with the larger piping or do they need the reducers?

My "rough" calculations are based on the below attachment:

air_con_calc.txt

I've found this calc to be ok as a rough guide providing that the room errs on the side of "good insulation"...as opposed to poor insulation (i.e. wooden walls etc).

Based on the attached calc formula

I get this approx:

7000 Room

6125 Patio Door

2610 Windows

1200 People

500 Lights

500 TV

about 18000 = 5.275 KW = 18,000 btu machine.

I don't have much faith in the engineers (said "money grabbing people") at any of these hardware stores.

Totally agree. Also about the inverter not being useful.I'm gonna look at the non invert 24000 to see if the pipe sizes are the same and which will reduce my initial costs. Can't find the specs on the net so will visit a shop tomorrow

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Air-Consitio...rt-t185082.html