June 18, 2025Jun 18 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!
June 18, 2025Jun 18 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
June 18, 2025Jun 18 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.
June 18, 2025Jun 18 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.
June 19, 2025Jun 19 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.
June 19, 2025Jun 19 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?
June 20, 2025Jun 20 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"
June 20, 2025Jun 20 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.
June 20, 2025Jun 20 5 hours ago, scorecard said: But re the light bulb, it's just your assumption. I suppose I should say that it only applies to your own private property NOT business so if you own a restaurant you can't change a lightbulb of wait table's or do the washing up and wouldn't get a work permit for those jobs anyway... Happy now ?
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