Refilling Swimming Pool

[Thailaw]

I had my pool re-grouted and I now need to refill it with water. It is a relatively small pool in the Na Jomtien area near Baan Amphur Beach. Can anyone give me the name and contact information of someone that will supply water to fill my pool? Thanks for any help/information. TL

[jacko45k]

My Mrs used Facebook (and her phone) and found two or 3 options, and the guy was picking up water somewhere near the hospital (BHP) and bringing it out, 9 loads. He decided he needed more money when realizing I was on the other side of the Hwy. They offer a price per 'load' so you need to have an idea how much water you need and the size of the tanker he will use, and make sure each tanker load arrives full and leaves empty. Home and Pool offered to do it (they re-grouted) , but initially I thought their price too high. It ended up not being! 

Sorry, she didn't keep his number, but if you have someone who speaks and reads Thai, a Google Search yields quite a few. 

Edited November 25, 2019 by jacko45k

[Guderian]

Just a thought, do you have decent mains water pressure? If so and you're not in any hurry you could just run a hosepipe into the pool and leave it on for a day or two, or however long it takes.

 

I get a water truck guy to clean out my water tank once a year (500 Baht), and at the end he always filled the tank up with water from his tuck, an extra 200 Baht on the bill for that service. After the PWA relaid the water mains supplying us, the water pressure improved dramatically and I found I could fill the 1000 litre water tank in around 40 minutes, and for free since the water supply to the house is in a company name and the 1000 litres was just a part of the 15 m3 monthly allowance. Even if your supply is in a Thai name, 16 Baht for a m3 is a heck of a lot cheaper than the usual 200 Baht the truck guys want, though I guess you might get a discount if you order a 10 m3 truck full.

[Thailaw]

4 hours ago, Guderian said:

Just a thought, do you have decent mains water pressure? If so and you're not in any hurry you could just run a hosepipe into the pool and leave it on for a day or two, or however long it takes.

 

I get a water truck guy to clean out my water tank once a year (500 Baht), and at the end he always filled the tank up with water from his tuck, an extra 200 Baht on the bill for that service. After the PWA relaid the water mains supplying us, the water pressure improved dramatically and I found I could fill the 1000 litre water tank in around 40 minutes, and for free since the water supply to the house is in a company name and the 1000 litres was just a part of the 15 m3 monthly allowance. Even if your supply is in a Thai name, 16 Baht for a m3 is a heck of a lot cheaper than the usual 200 Baht the truck guys want, though I guess you might get a discount if you order a 10 m3 truck full.

Thanks a lot for both of the replies. The lady in the neighborhood whose brother did the tile regrouting said that water was available at B550 per truck and 5 trucks would be required. It is a small pool, about 3 meters x 4 meters, so filling it for B2700 seems very high. I expect that she gets a cut of the payment to the water supplier. The house is in a company name, so I expect that it can be filled for not much more than the monthly minimum charge and will take 2 days to fill, which is no problem. I will look on Facebook or try the hose method. Thanks again.

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, Guderian said:

Just a thought, do you have decent mains water pressure? If so and you're not in any hurry you could just run a hosepipe into the pool and leave it on for a day or two, or however long it takes.

That was my idea when I got the first quote, but you are talking of a serious amount of time there. It took a while to pump it out.

[Guderian]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

That was my idea when I got the first quote, but you are talking of a serious amount of time there. It took a while to pump it out.

Yeah, it all depends on how eager you are to get the pool filled and whether you've got plenty of water available via the mains. The guy who cleans the water tank seems to think I'm crazy waiting up to an hour for the mains supply to refill the water tank, when he could do it in seconds with his truck, but I'm happy to wait, the 200 Baht saved buys me my late-afternoon ration of beer, lol.

 

The first few years I lived here we lost all water pressure during the day almost every day during the dry season. It wasn't a huge problem as long as you kept in mind that you only had the 1000 litres from the tank available, so filling a swimming pool would have been out of the question. With the supply pressure almost non-existent, even filling the water tank after having it cleaned would have taken days. Then the PWA relaid the water mains and everything was fine, we had plenty of water and plenty of pressure, well usually anyway.