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22 hours ago, Kinok Powell said:
The solution is so dig down to below for floor level and "TANK"
Sounds interesting. I am not familiar with the term and don't see search matches. Can you provide any more detail on what this is about?
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I don't get choosing to make surrounding like a man made concrete jungle and apply nasty poisons to it periodically to keep it that way. The cost is high, the appearance is poor, and it is unhealthy to you, your pets, and the runoff. Nothing but disadvantages. With something like perennial peanut if you don't want to then you never water it, never mow it, never fertilize it, and never spray it. Work with the earth rather than against it and life will become a lot easier and better quality.
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Planes are always fueled sufficiently to land at an alternate airport in case for some reason they can't land at their destination airport. So fuel alone should not have resulted in declaring an emergency. Have you checked flyertalk?
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Perennial peanut is just such an excellent ground cover for Thailand. Since it only gets to the perfect height of about 3 inches high you never mow it. And no need to ever fertilize it. It's hearty with a good root mass that is good for curbing erosion. It is fine with foot traffic. No need to ever water it, but it will go dormant in the dry season if you don't. Has an attractive yellow flower. Wildlife is attracted to it.
There are other ways for fast ground cover results with it, but here is the lazy man's guide: buy a bottle of seeds from lazada. This is the hardest part since you will probably need to copy in ถั่วบราซิล to get search results. Poke seeds into the ground on 20cm centers. Now just mow the area every month or so to keep the weeds down. Over time mowing the tall stuff will allow the perennial peanut to win out. That's it.
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46 minutes ago, Ventenio said:60 million......and we do nothing!!!!!!!
Back in the 50's the mekong commission decided to exploit the mekong resources including damming it all up. China was not allowed to be part of the commission--it was a decision by SE nations for the benefit of the of SE asian nations. The US fully backed the plan as they saw it as a way to stave off communism in poor nations and everyone was happy. Now that China has their hand in the cookie jar the US suddenly flip flopped their position and has taken the environmental high ground and are dead set against anything china does and making big waves. It's fun to watch the US propaganda machine in motion because they have gotten the common man to flip flop in turn with US foreign policy so perfectly that these new environmentalists only care what china is doing and nothing of the hundreds of new dams being built in SE Asia on the mekong and its tributaries. These "environmentalists" condemn dams in china a thousand kilometers away on environmental grounds, but downstream in their own countries not a peep. Laos's new mega dam being plopped just 2KM up from the thai border will devastate Thailand, the environment, and the poor people living along it.
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21 hours ago, lopburi3 said:
Agree they [Amazon] do a better job but it is not black/white.
This explains why I do not need to "think about that statement". Lazada seems content to have a bad search engine showing manipulated results and manipulated reviews and does absolutely nothing year after year.
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20 hours ago, l4ml4m said:
just as on Amazon, lazada sellers pay to get reviews.
Please do not use these two companies in the same sentence. As has been mentioned countless times in this thread already, Amazon gives sellers that manipulate reviews the boot. It is not clear lazada cares.
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On 5/11/2021 at 7:49 AM, rcuthbert said:
I bought a Western Digital 2 terabyte hard drive...it was fake
While I disagree with how Lazada handled it, I am a bit skeptical. Sending a non-working drive maybe, but you believe "fake"??? That implies it was not made by WD but is some counterfeit product. Hard drives would be extremely difficult to counterfeit--nothing like making a fake hand bag. Maybe it was a refurb, a returned product, damaged somewhere in shipping & handling, possibly even damaged by your own handling? Hard drives are very fragile. If you so much as sit them on their side and they fall over flat that can be the end of them.
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16 hours ago, lopburi3 said:
but they also offer a good choice for normal shopping for many of us who use a bit of discretion
If you can't trust the product description, the pictures, or the reviews, then what's left to get this bit of discretion? And is that reasonable to expect the general population to be able to do?
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9 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:
Amazon also has had a lot of fake reviews
Please scroll up two posts from yours and read.
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1 hour ago, simon43 said:
I can't believe some people actually write and complain that their purchase failed or is not genuine.
Reviews are intended to be written by customers so others can learn more about the product to make an informed decision, not frivolous promotions by the seller. As someone posted here, Amazon has been giving chinese sellers the boot due to "product authenticity, genuine reviews and products meeting the expectations of our customers." But in Thailand we are stuck with the hopeless lazada that has no desire to fix glaring issues of sellers manipulating and abusing their store. I think this thread is valuable so people can be further warned.
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7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
So it seems you have the choice between finding an expert and the perfect wooden door or you chose another material and avoid all that possible headache.
I think that's good advice. I have made quite a few doors, all of the doors on my house in Thailand. The norm I see in Thailand is doors and windows are made by carpenters that don't understand or care about expansion and just slap some wood together. In the dry season there are gaps to the outside and in the wet season they bind. Sad part is everyone from carpenter to home owner just blames it on the fact it is made out of wood. Not true! It's the carpenter's fault. The properties of wood have been well known for centuries. All a carpenter has to do is watch a youtube clip to get on board, but they can't be bothered with anything that delays them getting to the whiskey. So on it goes with the markets being flooded with error prone doors.
Properly engineered wood doors and windows account for shrinkage/expansion and work perfectly throughout the year. Some of the techniques fine wood workers use is to achieve this are floating panels, species of wood, grade of wood, and frame design.
An occasional pelting of rain won't warp a wood door that is properly finished. If it gets rained on continually or puddles of water form under it would be a concern. In extreme environments sometimes professionals glue sheets of veneer to each side to hold it dead straight. It's best to have a good overhang and good drainage.
I have used a uPVC door once, a pricier one from homepro with matching uPVC frame. A strong wind blew it once and it broke off the hinges. Only wood for me.
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There are companies in Thailand that inject structural foam under slabs that will raise them back to being even. Example:
https://www.facebook.com/1571881319695555/videos/1575650542651966
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I find what you have uncovered disturbing. I think you should contact lazada and ask them how the same review by the same people with the same pictures is ending up on multiple products. I doubt what some here say is true--that sharing reviews is approved by lazada. My guess is the seller has a bunch of lazada accounts and for each product he lists he buys from himself with these accounts and gives it 5 star reviews. Sellers already love opening up dozens of pages for the same product so putting reviews along with them is just one step further to plaster your screen with his product and have fewer competitor products in your view.
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The cutting depth of either planer is greatly limited by the width and hardness of the wood. Below are the guidelines for the dewalt (picture) and Makita (table). No matter what blades are used, either machine with more power would be very welcome to those planing wide boards and there's nothing more annoying than a rough cut board getting stuck and the breaker tripping because there was a spot just 1mm thicker than you could see.
Now back to helical. It's true a helical cutter head in theory will reduce the maximum cutting depth. I cannot definitively say whether helical significantly effects maximum cutting depth, but I can say dull knives will shake both the makita and dewalt to pieces. I use the DW735 with helical in Thailand. Power from the PEA is low; 200-216 volt range. With helical I can take 1.5mm per pass off teak (this isn't pine) 6 inch wide boards but not 2mm. I'd love a bigger motor. Nevertheless, helical is a fabulous upgrade and makes it a completely new machine that is so quiet and cuts so much more beautifully saving a lot of time sanding the wood. I have sent kilometers of boards through and it's as sharp as brand new and only ever rotated one blade which is a simple allen key. With HSS the amount of down time and hassle of opening up the machine and sharpening multiple times a day and throwing away knives when chipped are all gone. If you aren't sure, look at what the professionals say about helical carbide. Plenty of clips out there on youtube.
There is one fly in the ointment when using byrd shelix on the DW735: there are two sizes. Get the OEM size instead of the reduced size. Read the comments on amazon and you'll learn why. For Makita they make only one size--OEM.
Dewalt DW735
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Makita 2012NB
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1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:
Flat roofs in high rain areas always start to leak, eventually
That would indicate poor design, common in Thailand.
1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:[flat roofs] also cause rooms below to become very hot.
This also indicates poor design, again common in Thailand.
1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:Most countries that have high rainfall, or snow use steeply slanted roofs to shed rain and snow fast.
For snow yes it can be a common approach. Steep roofs for rain? Thatching is the only type of roof I can think of that benefits from that. Modern shingles found in Thailand on the other hand do not even allow steep roofs.
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3 hours ago, Barty said:
Are you buying the carbide blades or helical cutters locally?
carbide knife blades for the makita 2012nb are in some hardware stores and on lazada. For everything else carbide see amazon. The thing I love about the helical heads is they make the dewalt dw735 so quiet. Without them it is a noisy beast needing ear protection. Another advantage is a chip ruins knife blades but with helical you just rotate the chipped insert and you're good to go. Helical is also better cutting quality--no more chatter marks around knots. I love helical, there's no going back.
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The problem with ubuy is even though you pay shipping up front you will also get a bill from DHL at delivery for a ridiculously high price, higher than the price of the item!!! I cannot stress this enough. And I am not talking merely a duty fee here as ubuy calls it. You are not told what this price will be up front nor given any idea that it is a total scam price. I was also not satisfied that it can take them weeks sitting on their hands to get so called in stock items to their warehouse, and that's before they bother shipping it off to Thailand. It can take a month or more to get things under their normal operating conditions. Amazon makes ubuy look like a bunch of fools. As long as ubuy cannot tell you how big the DHL bill is going to be, stay away from this company.
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On 5/1/2021 at 9:27 PM, Barty said:
Any opinion on the Dewalt DW735?
There are 2 decent bench top thickness planers sold in Thailand: dewalt and makita. I have owned both. The upside of the makita is it is pure metric units where dewalt did a half baked job of customizing for metric. The Dewalt is 13" wide and Makita is 12". The most important thing is to use carbide blades which are available aftermarket for both. And going with Helical carbide cutter heads make them into dream machines. The woods here like teak blunt HSS very fast.
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This topic comes up so often. I have never seen any advice that is better, cheaper, or easier than this:
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Here is a link to find Franklin distributers.
http://www.franklinadhesivesandpolymers.com/home/distributor-locator.aspx
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I use the top of the line that the professionals use--Titebond III which is waterproof, food safe, and can be used with oily tropical hardwoods. Perfect for Thailand and any project. Found on lazada in bottles as small as 4oz and for large quantities 10L containers can be purchased direct from franklin in Thailand.
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13 hours ago, BritManToo said:
I'm not sure how much water can get through concrete planks + an inch of reinforced concrete + tiling cement and tiles.
People who build showers for a living understand that water goes right under the tile floor so they install drains that catch water below the tile level. In Thailand people don't understand this and 2nd floor showers often leak down to the first floor. So if a hairline crack forms in the roof slab it's probably going to be all over and such a crack will likely form directly over one of the plank joints due to the stresses which is precisely where you wouldn't want it and drip down the seams. A waterproofing agent in the mix will not stop this. In Thailand building is in the stone age with nothing but guesswork and associated problems. Developed countries and smart thai builders know how to make flat roofs 100% waterproof. A membrane with flashing to the house wall is excellent for this.
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3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:
also had a few of those q-cons on it, but they were much bigger than my roof
q-cons ceiling panels come in various lengths and thicknesses to suit. The advantage of the q-con's is you don't need to pour a slab over them like that, saving that money and also get a well insulated roof automatically.
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New inverter a/c daikin not very cool...I'm baffled
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Temperature will also be a function of blower speed. The higher the blower speed, the less cool the temperature coming out the vent will be. So when you press the "powerful" button on Daikin the temperature coming out will actually be higher than other modes because while it runs the compressor at full, it also runs the blower at the very highest speed. And of course inverter units throttle how much of compressor energy they use over time that effects the temperature a great deal.
I have a Daikin inverter. I am not real happy with the throttling technology. I prefer traditional AC that blasts cold air all out until it gets to the set temperature. It is frustrating when the Daikin decides to throttle back greatly on the compressor even though I still feel a room is too warm. I am probably saving a bundle on electricity bills, but comfort suffers.