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. 

[johng]

14 hours ago, scorecard said:

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. 

 

You don't need a work permit to do work on your own property.

[scorecard]

18 hours ago, johng said:

 

You don't need a work permit to do work on your own property.

 

Are you sure about that or just your assumption?

[johng]

28 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Are you sure about that or just your assumption?

How could it be any other way..do you have a Thai person wash your dishes cook your food walk your dog clean your house etc etc

You are allowed to "do work"

on your own property  meaning you can fix your car ,mow the grass change lightbulbs or rewire the whole place if you want to.

 

What you can't do is  fix someone elses car or build rabbit hutches and sell them online, or rewire someone elses house

that would require a "work permit"

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, johng said:

How could it be any other way..do you have a Thai person wash your dishes cook your food walk your dog clean your house etc etc

You are allowed to "do work"

on your own property  meaning you can fix your car ,mow the grass change lightbulbs or rewire the whole place if you want to.

 

What you can't do is  fix someone elses car or build rabbit hutches and sell them online, or rewire someone elses house

that would require a "work permit"

 

But re the light bulb, it's just your assumption.