Contractor Found Dead in Ceiling in Bang Lamung House

Another curious death. R.I.P.

After the family had reported him missing (exactly what date isn’t clear from the article) I would have thought the police could have traced him from his cellphone location. Probably wouldn’t have saved his life if he died from electrocution but might have found his body sooner.

Lots of heat and electricity in those attics.

11 minutes ago, novacova said:

Lots of heat and electricity in those attics.

Looking at the picture , it was well insulated.

25 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Looking at the picture , it was well insulated.

Insulating foil and electricity don't mix well.

Several years ago the down stairs ceiling of my house was decimated by termites. So I got a builder and his crew to replace it. When they ripped the old ceiling down I couldn't believe the amount of electric wiring that was up there. To make it worse I never seen one joiner as all the cables were joined by friction tape. That's really dangerous if someone were to come in contact with those wires. I'm a qualified plumber so I've been in many ceilings prior to my retirement.

One other thing how many water heating devices in Thailand are earthed. Probaly no more than 50% that's why people get electrocuted whilst having a shower.

51 minutes ago, Rams86 said:

Several years ago the down stairs ceiling of my house was decimated by termites. So I got a builder and his crew to replace it. When they ripped the old ceiling down I couldn't believe the amount of electric wiring that was up there. To make it worse I never seen one joiner as all the cables were joined by friction tape. That's really dangerous if someone were to come in contact with those wires. I'm a qualified plumber so I've been in many ceilings prior to my retirement.

I wonder how many of those working as electricians, or anything to do with construction, actually attended college and are qualified. I'd guess very few. Somchai knows it all and passes on his 'knowledge' to others, while actually knowing nothing, spreading the incompetence.

I had my house extended, and while doing so asked for wiring to be installed in a new bedroom in readiness for an aircon unit. Bought it from Big C and when they came to install it they discovered the wires weren't connected to anything and they had to work around that and now we have two units on the same circuit. Not ideal.

Then part of a ceiling fell down due to termites, and I decided to 'go industrial' and not replace the plasterboard ceiling in that room, but to paint the underside of the upstairs wooden floor dark grey. Looks good, by the way. But, to reference your experience, the wiring wasn't great, and a qualified electrician did a good job fixing it all and placed the exposed wires into piping.

And that wasn't the only problem. Thirteen years after the build, we have walls not attached to walls and plasterboard ceilings have shrunk away from the walls - photo attached (common here, according to others I've spoken to). I wanted a damp course laid, but that wasn't done - apparently normal here) and so now we have flaked paint both inside and outside the house.

My mistake was assuming my wife had hired professionals rather than a couple of family members and their mates, and I left her to supervise them at the house up-country while I largely stayed in Bangkok to avoid the chaos. Big, big mistake. At least they didn't rip her off with inflated costs, as they told her what they needed and she went and bought it.

And, by amazing coincidence, as I write this a safety cut switch has activated.

RIP

That house will never sell to a Thai family. I've got one around my house that a person killed themselves in, has been empty for decades.

Wiring here in Thailand is lethal, is it getting any better or what?

I remember some years ago, A guy who owned a bar here in Rawai, he had not long bought it and now decided to do sone renovations, he asked me if I knew an electrician, yes I do, so I will contact him for you, I sent him down there, sometime later the electrician called me, the bar wriing will all have to be re done, whoever did the wiring used speaker cable, them cables must have been glowing at night, my electrician said he is not doing anything unless the bar owners agrees to strip it all out and start again,

Poor lad,he was hoping to hold the world record for hide and seek.

18 minutes ago, Keeenok Powell said:

Poor lad,he was hoping to hold the world record for hide and seek.

Really poor taste buddy. 😡

We all have electrician story’s in Thailand. In my village in Isaan a guy was annoyed because people were coming on his land to steal his ducklings.

So he rigged an electric fence around their pen. He turned it on at night and switched it off in the morning. Except one morning he forgot and when his wife went to feed the ducks she was electrocuted and died. Sad because they had two young boys.

I always wondered what would have happened if the duck thief and been electrocuted. Would it have been manslaughter?

Anyway, suffice it to say that electrics in Thailand are in general quite often dodgy.

My late brother-in-law was a very competent bulder and handy-man, but I would never let him near eletricity. He had no fear of it.

8 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Wiring here in Thailand is lethal, is it getting any better or what?

Slightly as you can see in those pic yellow flexible conduit is being used , still no ground tho

8 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I remember some years ago, A guy who owned a bar here in Rawai, he had not long bought it and now decided to do sone renovations, he asked me if I knew an electrician, yes I do, so I will contact him for you, I sent him down there, sometime later the electrician called me, the bar wriing will all have to be re done, whoever did the wiring used speaker cable, them cables must have been glowing at night, my electrician said he is not doing anything unless the bar owners agrees to strip it all out and start again,

That is a good electrician. Happy to hear some are really good .

10 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

We all have electrician story’s in Thailand. In my village in Isaan a guy was annoyed because people were coming on his land to steal his ducklings.

So he rigged an electric fence around their pen. He turned it on at night and switched it off in the morning. Except one morning he forgot and when his wife went to feed the ducks she was electrocuted and died. Sad because they had two young boys.

I always wondered what would have happened if the duck thief and been electrocuted. Would it have been manslaughter?

Anyway, suffice it to say that electrics in Thailand are in general quite often dodgy.

He should have put it on a Timer, How did he get away with killing his wife?

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

He should have put it on a Timer, How did he get away with killing his wife?

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

He should have put it on a Timer, How did he get away with killing his wife?

One of the first things the villagers as a whole did was help him to concoct a story, not just so that he wasn’t blamed for the death but also so that he could claim on the insurance.

I don’t know what the story was but it held up because some six months later he was one of the people who helped lay a new driveway to my house.