peter267

I have rented a car in USA, Canada UK & Germany with just a Thai Licence - the essential key is a Thai licence is a photo card and dual Thai/English language that the rental company can read. Sending a scan of Thai license when booking may be double check worth doing and blab about being a resident in Thailand to give context

I may not have read all the threads - but are you very sure there is no leak on the pipework going to your errant tap - somewhere where you can't see it? Hmm glue a valve in pipe work leading to that tap. If closed, the pump stops - open the valve if the pump starts up a bit , it's leaking where you can't see?

Yup, this was me about the 800. The Issue of cert has moved into the private sector. If you are able, see if you can hookup with an "agent" who could purchase it on your behalf? Maybe lower than 800? UK embassy does not issue

End of the Driving Licence Story - For Me! Still at an impasse between Immigration and expectation of Affirmation from Embassy. Went 7.00am to DLC for allotted apointment for final reaction, colour and other stuff - 1st day after 3 day holiday not very busy with staff or punters. 2 desks went through my paperwork paying attention to my current visa stamp validity and my blue work permit book that has my residential address inside. photocopies and signed. All OK passed through to testing, photo and issue of new 5 year licence. I did meet a fellow Falang in DLC on a retirement visa same immigration office as me. I asked about residency letter - he said no problem at all, taken to an immigration back office and 800 baht letter done - however no receipt given. I think conclusion is Immigration Dept do letters of confirmation but welcome cash donations to thier "benevolent fund". Also different staff at DLS doing the checking today. TIT. If at first you dont suceeed ............................

To all, thanks for the responses and the options offered. I did, and am following up with the Embassy - filed an online case and waited the indicated 1-3 days to get no response!. However on a call back to what I assume is the UK call centre with the established "case number". They then transfered call to the embassy in Bkk where I spoke to a Thai working for embassy. They are going to call Pathum Thani Immigration to say "UK does not do proof of residency any more". "Watch this space". I have appointment later this week to do the some of the DLT process, colour blindness and reaction test etc I assume - hope that proceeds and fingers cross can establish identity by getting agreement between immigration and DLT over the line. 3 days intervening public holidays, more patience required.

Yes, my Work permit has my address in Pathum Thani - but no blue or pink card issued by my landlord or local authority - which I have never had or been asked for. (yet). My blue work permit & visa in my passport align - with my address - and current and valid

That was the reason to contact them, my immigration office is Patum Thani and was told to go back to them - CW could not issue.

Just renewing my Thai Driving Licence ( 4th time, been here 15 years) - and near the end of the process, to be tripped up. Applying where I live and work Pathum Thani. The Road Ministry is asking for a certificate of residency despite having copy and sight of my original blue and current work permit & valid visa in my passport. These used to be additionally authenticated by a letter from Immigration to Road licence. Patum Thani Immigration has recently decided not to do these letters and advises they must be issued by the Home Embassy, in my case UK. UK embassy used to do an "Affirmation of Residency". visit to the embassy 50 pounds signed and stamped. UK embassy no longer doing this or offering an explanation or, more essentially, a public written notice (Thai & English) that could be passed to Thai authorities to establish a " Certificate of Residency - Not available from Embassy". (UK only, or are other ambassies able to do this still?) Checking with Chang Wattana Immigration, they apparently still issue letters of confirmation. Pathum Thani do not, just last few months? Need to break this impasse. UK Embassy has gone very corporate (not in a good way) - Call the .local number and click to consular call service takes you to a UK 24 hour call centre. Their primary advice is everthing is solved on thier web site from UK.GOV. hmm we wish - and from there on in not overly helpful with advice - than filling in a web form to complain. UK Gov websites are a complete mess. Google UK.Gov surely leads you to a Thai list of consular services which no longer include service of "Affirmation of Residency despite this being an income generation exercise. Google Search Thai Affirmation of Residency certificate leads you to UK Gov site where you can actively book an appointment at the embassy down load the self fill Affirmation of residency & a booking form - to be then let down with no accsses to payment. Yes, I had a booked and confirmed appointment on the UK system before falling at this last hurdle. OK it is in an ongoing impasse and a long story. Hope to get a breakthrough. Am I alone in this wilderness?

I work as a water engineer - mostly projects in rural Africa but live in Thailand Issue is with UV water for the UV to work water must be clean filtered to a low turbidity - any particulate however small with clinging microbes on can pass through UV chamber clung onto what is the "dark side of the moon". UV light sources need changing every 12 months. For the most part Thai pipe water is not bad - said to meet WHO standards at least when tested. If your water supply from a borehole it may have chemicals that need to be filtered out and there are many Thai installers with domestic "back washing" filters with a range of media options to deal with different impurities. Key always any treatment needs to start with a detailed analysis before and after treatment to see what needs removing and then has it been removed. Gets complicated quickly. In my Thai life, peace of mind comes from using a kitchen top ceramic drip through filter for drinking and cooking water. Microbe free water virtually maintenance free and no plastic bottles to recycle or haul about. I have used 12 years available from Laos - here http://www.terraclear.org. Can get similar "candle" type in water filter stores all over Thailand. Maybe not the answer you thinking - but a way to go

Post 2011 Pathum Thani & Ayutaya provinces to my direct knowledge had some major engineering works lasting many years not only to just rebuild road surfaces but in many cases raising road levels to create dykes and some huge under road drainage canals - quite likely creating 'monkey cheeks' with greater storage capacity - if that is improved capacity its effect will only be measured as people begin to get their feet wet now. Sure the river is at full overflowing banks capacity now set to the maximum volume that can travel to the sea through Bangkok the "bottleneck" . Thailand is far from the only country to be caught out by environmental events already this 2021 that many might argue could have been avoided