How much does your condo charge to change a light bulb?

[Unamerican]

On 6/15/2025 at 11:14 AM, Freddy42OZ said:

What sort of person can't change their own light bulbs?!  

Those with high ceilings and no ladder, probably! 

[scubascuba3]

39 minutes ago, Unamerican said:

But my insurance pays that, however lunch more than 200thb it costs! 

Your insurance maybe pays that, first they will search about for possible reasons to deny the claim

[quake]

55 minutes ago, Unamerican said:

You can (nearly) reach yours from a chair!  Here a very large step-ladder is needed! 

 

 What in a condo.  

[scorecard]

On 6/14/2025 at 3:26 PM, TimBKK said:

no need to cut the power, just turn the light switch off.  Takes the technician a few minutes, at most.  Not cheap but I suppose it’s all relative.

"no need to cut the power, just turn the light switch off."

 

I suspect you're assuming that the wiring in your condo / house is done to a fixed standard.

 

I wouldn't assume that. Some years back a foreign friend bought an expensive house in a new village just outside Pattaya. The foreigner was a licensed electrician from Germany.

 

One day he started to watch the Myanmar workers installing the electrics, downlights, power points, 3 phase etc. After 30 minutes he told the supervisor to tell the workers to stop. He had noted that they weren't fitting anything to any standard / any colour code etc.

 

Foreigner instructed that they uninstall all that had been done and the German electrician installed everything himself, after seriously inspecting the main fuse / control box and after studying the colour coding of the wires etc.   

 

Took him 2 days.

 

He knew that he was breaking the law re work permit etc., and he realized a worker / the supervisor / the developer might intervene or might bring a gov't labour official to see what he was doing.

 

Lucking nobody intervened.