TRS salt pattaya 25kilos 110 baht

[yankee99]

So with all the rain i have been going through some salt. After a forum search i read about a shop on 36 but really didnt want to drive there. So in my travels i stopped at a shop on pattaya nua just east of 3rd rd. Got a quote of 650baht (50 kilos) well not only are those bags to expensive they are to heavy....

Ok here are the directions to the 110baht for 25kilos. Heading torwards pattaya on 36 from regents school. You will pass a 7/11 on left then another 1/4 mile some open sheds with 100s of bags of salt...

[Jack Mountain]

_{OK, let me be the first then to ask you this, for what do you need all those kilo's of salt??}

[Hugh Jarse]

A great deal, up here in the wilds of Chiang Mai a 25kg bag of salt costs about 250 baht.

[Hugh Jarse]

A great deal, up here in the wilds of Chiang Mai a 25kg bag of salt costs about 250 baht.

[Valentine]

_{OK, let me be the first then to ask you this, for what do you need all those kilo's of salt??}

Because his pool must have a saltwater chlorinator.

[Billmont]

_{OK, let me be the first then to ask you this, for what do you need all those kilo's of salt??}

Because his pool must have a saltwater chlorinator.

Thank goodness for that. I thought he was trying to harden his veins to end it all. Sometimes when reading TV and read how bad my adopted country is I also want to overdose on salt, Chang is taking too long!

[WormFarmer]

If you contact Thai Refined Salt Company (TRS) at Korat direct through their web site, you can order 40 or more bags of their Pool Salt delivered fairly cheaply, price per bag decreases for bigger orders. Last December I had 80 25kg bags delivered to my home in Roi Et for 125 Baht per bag. They even unloaded it and stacked it all neatly in my store.

[yankee99]

Interesting that retail here is cheaper then wholesale by you (wormfarmer).

[WormFarmer]

Interesting that retail here is cheaper then wholesale by you (wormfarmer).

Probably comes down to the transport cost. I expect the shop in Pattaya is ordering large quantities at a time, or even collecting it himself, to minimise transport cost. Had I bought between 160 & 200 bags the cost would have been 120 Baht per bag. Also this cost includes delivery, you have to go out and get yours.

Edited October 6, 2013 by WormFarmer

[sometime]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, you just saved me about 800 baht, just collected 4 x 25 at 110 per bag, last time the price at the shop in Thepprasit was 320 per 25kg.

[yankee99]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, you just saved me about 800 baht, just collected 4 x 25 at 110 per bag, last time the price at the shop in Thepprasit was 320 per 25kg.

+1

[SantiSuk]

Thread reopened as I am looking to buy a batch of salt for the pool and I think I'll follow Wormfarmers advice and call the Korat sales office to get a delivered price at various quantities.

Anybody in Ubon or Sisaket provinces who wants investigate sharing a load (at least 20 bags x 25kg) speak now. Having previously contacted that office and been given three local distributors I found that the cheapest source in this neck of the woods is JD Pools at 200 a bag (Amnat Road 2 k north of Meuang Ubon Ring Road). I would be hopeful of getting this price down to at most 140 baht for a 40 bag requirement for myself.

Adding something specific to the original thread - maybe the Pattaya salt at 110 baht is plain refined salt? Not the same as Pool Salt, that reportedly has some (unspecified) stabiliser included. I also noted from somewhere now forgotten that pure refined salt is not so good for your chlorinator life, but I'm not sure now why that would be so.

[SantiSuk]

Collected a tonne (40 bags) of Pool salt from the TRS factory in Pimai (30 km north of Meuang Korat) last week*. 3,500 baht, so about 87 baht a bag (100 baht if I factor in the cost of diversionary miles off my normal route from Bangkok to Sisaket). I also picked up 100kg of Hydrochloric Acid from Ruangsanthai Builders Merchants in Buriram - costing 300 baht a 20kg carboy.

TRS factory is a very impressive modern facility. You need to arrange a visit as they want to make out an invoice in advance, though actually it seemed to take them another 20 minute wait to sort out the paperwork once there and, since they treat your pick-up in the same way as a 30 tonne sip loar (weighbridge queues in and out), the whole visit was about 50 minutes. They can supply 7 days a week normal office hours, but you would need to prepay online if choosing Sunday - I paid cash on a weekday. My basic - going a shade toward intermediate - Thai was enough to get by but you might want a Thai speaker with you otherwise.

TRS will deliver (in Isaan - did not ask about elsewhere) 100 bags for free at around that price and, if you are prepared to wait for a shared load in your area, they may do 40 bags. Best thing is to call their sales department and get all the options, including the phone numbers of local suppliers in your area. Cheapest local supply to me in Sisaket/Ubon is 200 baht so I made a nice saving by going to the source. Phone number is on the English language pages of their website.

Liquid Hydrochloric is as rare as rocking horse $hit in my local provinces, though TV member wormfarmer told me about a supplier in Roi Et - bit more expensive (think he said about 400-500 baht, but worth knowing if you are in Central/Eastern Isaan).

What with the salt, acid and 200kg of worm compost picked up from the ThaiV farmers meeting in Lopburi province the family Vigo looked a bit down at the rear end as loaded. Drove like a pig for 80 km and felt it was unsafe, so I put about 15 bags of salt inside the cab in Buriram. It was fine after that. I'm not going to recommend on a public forum that more than 1,000 kg (Toyota's recommended loading capacity) is safe - all I'm saying is that IMO steering was then fine, stabilty was fine, went nowhere near bottoming on the rubbers and braking was still ok. I stuck to a 100kph max and kept safe braking distances. Our Vigo is still quite new though.

*I have a 90 cu.m pool that uses 2 bags a month (3 when the kids are on holiday!) so my tonne will be used up well before the 2017 expiry date!

Edited April 7, 2014 by SantiSuk

[IMHO]

Liquid Hydrochloric is as rare as rocking horse $hit in my local provinces, though TV member wormfarmer told me about a supplier in Roi Et - bit more expensive (think he said about 400-500 baht, but worth knowing if you are in Central/Eastern Isaan).

Not sure what prices will be like, but any vendor selling the stuff needed to do sandwash (stones, coloring powder) will also have liquid hydrochloric acid in-stock. I'm certain there will be at least a couple of vendors in Sisaket.