Life in a quiet/ crazy Issan village

[colinneil]

Early start this morning, wife driving to Nong Kai to an uncles funeral, so i got woken at 4.

Clatter, bang, clatter, ( she can never do things quietly ).

Of she goes at 5, sod this i will get a bit more sleep, no chance, dogs kicking off, cows kicking off, so i get up feed them.

Sitting here at my computer, hear a neighbour shouting Colin Colin, what is going on, so out i go, he was doing me a favour cutting the long grass outside the front wall, and he broke the house water supply right next to the meter..... S++t.

Phones my wife, get your B.I.L. over see what needs done to fix it, useless sod comes over, looks at it, turns walks away.

Only thing left, phone PWA, which i did, gave the lady our address, 30 minutes later 2 men in a pickup turn up.

Only 5 minutes job sorted, so i gave them a large LEO each, everybody happy.

Sit back now and wait for the next problem.

[worgeordie]

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

so i gave them a large LEO each,

I hope you have a few left for yourself.

regards Worgeordie

[colinneil]

Just now, worgeordie said:

I hope you have a few left for yourself.

regards Worgeordie

Dont drink mate, they were left over from new year.

[Crossy]

Get the neighbour a nylon-line head for his brush-cutter then he won't do it again ????

 

I won't allow Madam to use the brush-cutter with the solid blade, her lack of spacial awareness means that anyone attracting her attention would be taken off at the knees when she swung round. The nylon line stings but not a lot else, I know

 

Great service from PWA. We had a similar reaction time when our water meter "fell off" after the bit of wood which the builders used to "install" it finally rotted away after 4 years.

 

[Justgrazing]

13 minutes ago, colinneil said:

dogs kicking off, cows kicking off, so i get up feed them 

 

 

[hotandsticky]

11 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Dont drink mate, they were left over from new year.

 

 

 

Let me know when you restock and a visit could be in order

[transam]

I have that T-shirt, I have put bricks around a couple of pipes.....????

[KhunBENQ]

22 minutes ago, colinneil said:

and he broke the house water supply right next to the meter..... S++t.

When the zealous neighbor starts to cut I just wait for it.

Better have strong wooden poles around.

They will always find the water pipe.

[CharlieH]

When you're in the boonies its always good to kerp a length if pipe, elbows, connectors and a tin of glue in the cupboard .

With the "spares" and stuff I got I reckon I could open a bloody shop ! 

Amazing what you learn to keep and aquire when living in the countryside.

[colinneil]

1 minute ago, CharlieH said:

When you're in the boonies its always good to kerp a length if pipe, elbows, connectors and a tin of glue in the cupboard .

With the "spares" and stuff I got I reckon I could open a bloody shop ! 

Amazing what you learn to keep and aquire when living in the countryside.

Great idea Charlie, if it was just the pipe he broke it could have been easily fixed, i have pipe, bends , glue etc.

Problem was he broke the connection at the meter, not the pipe, so nothing i could do.

How he managed that i have no idea, its about 450 mill above the ground.

[colinneil]

4 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Fascinating. I wished I had your amazing life!

Fascinating !!! Its a bloody nightmare living here, never a dull moment.

[CharlieH]

Just now, colinneil said:

Great idea Charlie, if it was just the pipe he broke it could have been easily fixed, i have pipe, bends , glue etc.

Problem was he broke the connection at the meter, not the pipe, so nothing i could do.

How he managed that i have no idea, its about 450 mill above the ground.

 

Not so easy to get a new meter, have to be a drive to mom n pop builders place to get one for us. There aint no one to call here, gotta sort it yourself or know a man who can. ????

[jvs]

19 minutes ago, transam said:

I have that T-shirt, I have put bricks around a couple of pipes.....????

Same here,"fool proved' as much as possible.

[bluesofa]

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Great idea Charlie, if it was just the pipe he broke it could have been easily fixed, i have pipe, bends , glue etc.

Problem was he broke the connection at the meter, not the pipe, so nothing i could do.

How he managed that i have no idea, its about 450 mill above the ground.

He's obviously got it down to an art. Well some sort of artist anyway.

[jvs]

11 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

When you're in the boonies its always good to kerp a length if pipe, elbows, connectors and a tin of glue in the cupboard .

With the "spares" and stuff I got I reckon I could open a bloody shop ! 

Amazing what you learn to keep and aquire when living in the countryside.

I have two big barrels full of the stuff,anything you can imagine!

Somehow when i want to build something or even a repair,the part i need is not there and i end up going to the shop again.Lately not much going on.

We have underground 2' plastic pipe and i always have to tell the gardener to watch out and not break a pipe while digging  somewhere.He forgot a few times but now he realizes he is the one that has to dig it all up and fix it.

[BritManToo]

My kid ripped the outside water pipe out of the main feed to the house earlier this week.

Down to the local plastic shop ........ 2 glue joints 20bht, pot of PVC glue 20bht, hacksaw 60bht.

It was a stupid place for a tap anyway .............. holy poop, that was hot work!

 

[BritManToo]

15 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

When you're in the boonies its always good to kerp a length if pipe, elbows, connectors and a tin of glue in the cupboard .

With the "spares" and stuff I got I reckon I could open a bloody shop ! 

Amazing what you learn to keep and aquire when living in the countryside.

My emergency glue (of any kind) is always solid when I need it.

My local plastic shop is only 600m away, no need for me to keep any parts.

[Surelynot]

Moved out of my tiny, 'quiet' village, Village No 18..........cannot stand the noise.

 

Motorbikes, rice tractors, cocks (various types), temple speakers, village speakers, hawkers with PA systems, 5 day funerals, personal music systems, dog fights.....never mind the charcoal cooking and constant bonfires for no apparent reason.........moved into a Thai 'resort' (a no tell Motel).....heaven at B500/day.

 

Free electricity, free water, room cleaned and new towels and linen everyday, proper shower and toilet....sorted.

[cmsally]

Well lets see you had "fire" the other week, "water" this week , so I think that leaves earth and air! Watch out for wind damage next week maybe !

[Oldie]

58 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My emergency glue (of any kind) is always solid when I need it.

My local plastic shop is only 600m away, no need for me to keep any parts.

Simply store it in the fridge. I always had this problem with the super glue. With the fridge it holds years after being opened. 

[Justgrazing]

29 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Its a bloody nightmare living here, never a dull moment

Not wrong there .. I lived out in the sticks forra while on a private estate that backed onto overgrown  land with a bit of a pond .. At night during the rains the noise of the frogs who hung out there croaking and chirruping was deafening .. then I'd see some lights darting about .. bit like when someone waves a torchbeam at night and all the while the noise is deafening from the little croakers .. Couldn't work it out .. None of the frogs I'd seen when growing had grown lights or danced .. Mystifying didn't do it justice .. 

Next morn' me and the bird ride into her village stopping at her Mothers place .. On the floor outside the house in shade was a cloth sack 'bit like a potato sack .. I'm sat on the bike outside while she's in doors when my eye is caught by this sack moving .. not a lot but definitely moving .. My imagination goes into overdrive " a bloody snake and a big one " I'm thinking .. after about 10 minutes staring intently at this moving sack bird comes back , I point at sack saying " what is in there a bloody Python I'll bet !! " ..  she laughs calls her brother who comes out puts his hand in the sack and pulls out one of the frogs him and his buddies had caught the night before wearing lights on their heads to hypnotise the little critters before bagging them .. So much for my dancing frogs with lights theory .. 

[DPKANKAN]

Just another day in Thailand really then. You never know!!! 5555????????????????????????????????

[Crossy]

58 minutes ago, cmsally said:

Well lets see you had "fire" the other week, "water" this week , so I think that leaves earth and air! Watch out for wind damage next week maybe !

 

Or another quake!

 

[Puchaiyank]

You forgot roosters crowing before daylight!  ????

[Daffy D]

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

2 glue joints 20bht, pot of PVC glue 20bht, hacksaw 60bht.

The other day watched a neighbor do some pipe work at his place. 

 

He had a pair of special cutters, a bit like garden sheers, to cut the blue plastic pipe, made the job dead easy.

 

I'd never seen these before, always used a hacksaw, but that has the problem of cleaning up the rough edges and all that. This tool made a nice clean job ready for gluing, AND had the advantage of using in confined space, like the ground, where a hacksaw is notoriously difficult to use. 

 

Shall definitely be looking for one of these on my next trip.

 

 

 

[Daffy D]

Just had a quick look, seems Lazada has them:-

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/pvc-cutter-i235390657-s361042692.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlNWSncCp6QIVzXwrCh16cQGUEAQYASABEgKmvvD_BwE&exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:1498579383!58089999096!!!pla-890424186153!c!890424186153!361042692!129568033

 

Why have  I never seen these before?

Could have saved me years of unnecessary aggravation with a hacksaw 

[BritManToo]

3 hours ago, Daffy D said:

The other day watched a neighbor do some pipe work at his place. 

 

He had a pair of special cutters, a bit like garden sheers, to cut the blue plastic pipe, made the job dead easy.

 

I'd never seen these before, always used a hacksaw, but that has the problem of cleaning up the rough edges and all that. This tool made a nice clean job ready for gluing, AND had the advantage of using in confined space, like the ground, where a hacksaw is notoriously difficult to use. 

Shall definitely be looking for one of these on my next trip.

Nah, you gotta sand the pipe anyway, otherwise there's bound to be grease on it, so you won't get a good joint.

Confined space, you just take the hacksaw blade off, wrap some tape around one end, and use it free hand.

There's no tool smaller than a bare hs blade. 

[Crossy]

8 hours ago, Daffy D said:

Just had a quick look, seems Lazada has them:-

 

Why have  I never seen these before?

Could have saved me years of unnecessary aggravation with a hacksaw 

 

All the big DIY places have them, you just have know they exist in order to see them.

 

They work well on new pipe, but pipe that's aged and hardened may crack. Don't throw away that hacksaw blade.

 

[geronimo]

I guess sitting back and waiting for the next problem to arrive is one way of looking at it. 

[cornishcarlos]

19 hours ago, transam said:

I have that T-shirt, I have put bricks around a couple of pipes.....????

 

There are only 2 types of people in Thailand, those that have cut a water pipe (valve) with a weed whacker and liars ????