Building Materials

[threelegcowboy]

Anybody know the best place for falang to buy building supplys in CR area?

thx

[tayto]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

[ISPY]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

You are right, even BigC has building materials.... When you cannot find the right material in Chiang Rai then Chiang Mai will be an alternative....

[threelegcowboy]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

Thanks....where is Homebase?

thx

[ISPY]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

Thanks....where is Homebase?

thx

From the busstation in the directon of the Super High Way....you see several on the left and right site.....

[tayto]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

Thanks....where is Homebase?

thx

On the highway near Big C.

Saha Paiboon is the name of the shop ISPY is referring to.

That shop is a bit expensive.

[ISPY]

I think nearly every street in Chiang Rai has a building supply store.

Some of the bigger ones are Homebase and the one near the bus station.

Thanks....where is Homebase?

thx

On the highway near Big C.

Saha Paiboon is the name of the shop ISPY is referring to.

That shop is a bit expensive.

No no, not on the highway, in the direction of the highway from the bus station.......on the right and left site...several shops with building materials....

[sceadugenga]

I bought a lot of stuff there when I built my house, mainly paint and plumbing fixtures. The doors and timber I bought at a yard almost directly opposite the White Temple on the Super Highway, maybe a little back towards town.

Tile places are everywhere along the Super Highway. I used to let the tradesmen go to their regular suppliers a lot as well, local businesses, and send my father in law with the money. I'd always make a great pretence of checking the bill against the goods when they were delivered.

[Joel Barlow]

on the west side of the highway (that's the town side, not Big C side...)

just south of the road to the bus station

unless you want unfinished poles (what my mother-without-law's house is built of)

which are available down toward MaeGon intersection

[Joel Barlow]

Googling Sahapaiboon, I came across this page, and another started by Brahmburgers about being shortchanged,

there and at Boots.

My current story is something far worse than being short-changed!

A year ago I bought land and contracted to have a house built.

For this house I purchased lots of stuff at Sahapaiboon and the contracter around the corner (just south

on the super-highway, where I've bought many times before and think I find the best prices in town,

same management, who built for their kids the Amazing Montrini Hotel or Resort or whatever they call it,

with amazing, impossible to thoroughly clean "Bali bathrooms").

I'd seen jacuzzi spa tubs at HomeCo, about B100,000, but Sahapaiboon had one on special for under B40,000.

I ordered it. First its little radio stopped working - nevermind.

Then the jets. Problem!

Someone came to fix them. Then again, and again, and again. Really.

Then a wait of three months.

Only after going in and explaining that I have ChaingRai's most prominent farangtourist website,

and might mention this problem there, did I get response.

After two more weeks! Despite the year guarantee...

so today 2 young guys come and work on it again, tell me it's fixed...

I enjoy a soak, but find I cannot turn the motor off!!

after a jacuzzi soak one hardly wants to do jumping jacks, and by the time I got to the fuse box,

there was a burning smell...

I'd tried not to turn it off, but didn't see why I shouldn't let the water drain, thinking there'd

be an automatic shut-off. Nope.

It may not be Sahapaiboon's fault the tub is far less than quality merchandise,

but be warned,

their "guarantee" might be much less than it at first seems!

[Joel Barlow]

It would be remiss of me not to note that this time they did return same day,

and supposedly (again) the jacuzzi tub is fixed.

The cut-off switch to the whole machine is accessible again, anyway...

and it was reported to me that Sahapaiboon no longer accepts merchancise

from Appollo Company of Bangkok. from whom they had recieved two of what I got.

wonder what's happened with the other one...

wonder, too, if this time it really will work.

[jubby]

A Radio in a bathtub would have given me alarm signals Joel

I do suspect a lot of Thai Guarantees are pretty worthless.

I recently returned a power supply for my Laptop. Ok, only about 800 baht but still the guy said it had a years gaurantee.

It wasn't totally broken, wouldn't charge the batteries, was making a buzzing sound, and was interfereing with the operation of the mouse, but anyway, acoording to the guy, it wasn't totally broken, but he would try and get the manufacturer to replace it.

So of it went to Bangkok. A month Later I got a call, they had replaced it.

Wow, I open the box, new sticker and they had cleaned it but it was the old charger for sure. Same 3 problems . What can one do, the guy says he's Jai Dee, has a good heart . I've learn't it should go without saying

My Kids take a bath this time of year, I do have to Boil several Kettles over an Open fire .

Is it the Aussie's who have the saying . KISS. Keep it simple stupid

[Joel Barlow]

Jubby - your kids take a bath once a year? whether they need it or not?

sorry... :-)

I realize most just shower.

but I get sore muscles, a chronic problem, and so used to do that boiling water thing -

used a big plastic trough originally meant for cement mixing...

I thought the radio pretty cool - push buttons to quickly run through the very few stations;

A couple times I even heard some amusing things.

the "community radio" station isn't all that bad (Red Shirt related or not)

and no, I never got shocked -

certainly not as much as I would have been had I heard Blueberry singing "Chee-Mee"

while not seeing the cuties doing their little quote marks with their fingers!

(for those who don't know about that, check the Thai language forum,

or go to YouTube - it's kinda funny).

As for a lot of Thai Guarantees are pretty worthless, I got a radio that takes a flash drive,

so I could listen to mp3, and had to take it back to the wonderful shop across from

the main market main entrance, maybe half a dozen times!

It says, don't charge while using, so you can't plug in while listening...

except that you can... nevermind. just one of those TIT neverland things

[jubby]

Still not convinced about that radio Joel. Hope its not AC.

Yeah, did sound like once a year wether they need it or not

I do it most nights in the winter, gonna get a chronic problem too.

I checked out spa baths myself not so long ago; before the financial meltdown .

The song rings a bell, I suspect my Girls have already given me a rendition while watching Youtube themselves

Edited November 18, 2010 by jubby

[Joel Barlow]

AC?

as in alternating current?

Edited November 18, 2010 by Joel Barlow

[skybluestu]

I wonder when sunny delight will be along with his chat-room-charlies thread?

[jubby]

AC?

as in alternating current?

Indeed ! .. What else could it be !? ....... Hopefully DC.

Sunny Disposition if I could spell it, will be busy watching His Fish and Chooks