Thread: Marty's New Home in the sticks

I'm quoting Oz sizes, King is the larger in Oz, here they just use 6x6, 5x6 etc

Hi All,

Thought I would show you a couple of pics of disastrous plumbing sent to me from LOS. We have a friend with family staying and looking after the house. This is a pic of the wall in my walk in robe, the bathroom on the other side is obviously leaking into the wall!

This one shows the basin drain in the spare bathroom that has been disconnected because it didn't drain!

This is the wonderful job done in caulking around the spa bath in our ensuite

This is the bum washer in the spare bathroom, obviously lacking a head

My wife said - He not do very good job - None of this should be too much of a problem apart from water in the wall, but not being there I will have to rely on help from friends to get it all fixed. Wonder what else has gone wrong?

Originally Posted by FatOne

Hi All,

Thought I would show you a couple of pics of disastrous plumbing sent to me from LOS. We have a friend with family staying and looking after the house. This is a pic of the wall in my walk in robe, the bathroom on the other side is obviously leaking into the wall!

If you are lucky it will be a simple case of Somchai not doing the grouting properly.

This lets the water into the wall. Looks horrid but not a big deal.

If you are unlucky Somchai has not joined the pipe properly and the water is leaking into the wall.

Thats means you will be knocking part of that wall out to find the leak.

Good luck with it.

Thanks Terry, I reckon it will be the latter, pull it apart and try again!

Originally Posted by FatOne

This one shows the basin drain in the spare bathroom that has been disconnected because it didn't drain!

I do know a tiny bit --- and those brackets are for bookshelves .

or for pine shelves in your shed so you can display your 500ml half-empty bottle of White Spirit -- and your collection of used sandpaper scraps .

They are decidedly NOT for supporting the weight that is on them now .

You got one of the many many many slack workers there .



Unfortunately.





Wasp

Originally Posted by FatOne

Thanks Terry, I reckon it will be the latter, pull it apart and try again!

No do not do that, I had the same problem in my gaff in Perth.

So I contact my Insurance company and they sent a plumber out to test it.

He puts a pressure test on the system and informs me that there is no leak in the system so the water must be coming through the wall, the grouting has come away.

So the deal is that you must then let the wall dry out then get all the grouting redone by some foker who does it properly.

I had an outside shower so moved outside and let the wall dry.

Once regrouted correctly all was good.

You need to get a Plumber out to pressure test your system before you do anything.

Do not assume Somchai has fuked up the Plumbing.

^^

Wasp,

The brackets supporting the sink has fuk all to do with the plumbing problem.

When Somchai the plumber comes out to sort the leak in the wall he can explore what is blocking that drain pipe.

Could simply be a piece of shit. Blockages are generally no big deal unless some foker has pored concrete down the pipe.

I did not think for even a fraction of a millisecond that the brackets would have any influence at all in the problem of the water ingress leak situation difficulty.

But they are shit crap useless Chinese tin brackets .

Somchai strikes wherever he can .

^

I think you'll find those shit brackets will actually last forever.

But I do agree with you that they are shit.

And I agree with you Terranss .

But they will not last forever .
They will rust and bend and crease and bring down the whole house !

Marty's home is doomed .

DOOMED I tell you .

AAArrrgghhh!!! Doomed before I even move in!!!
The hard part will be to find a decent plumber, we will need to ask around. It was a cheap build, so I guess you've got to expect a few screw ups.

^

I would not panic yet, water leaking through the grout is a common occurrence and the vast majority of damage to walls is because of this.

That said, it should not happen in a new build such as yours but considering Somchai has done the grouting no one would be surprised.

Just make sure when the cause is found that wall is completely dry before attempting to repair and paint it.

You will need to shut down the bathroom for a while to achieve this .

When you get back the first thing to do is scrape all that flaking paint off and bring it back to bare plaster.

FatOne, thanks for the thread and I would not worry too much about doomsday... deal with it if it becomes a prob, otherwise live long and prosper mate

Thanks Exit, I intend to, tho prosper could be a challenge!

Really like this design

Thanks Sheldon,

Very comfortable to stay in when I was there earlier in the year

So where are we at now FatOne ? Been a few months now. New year, new look ?

Hi Dead Metal, yeah, right now we are no where. Wife is over there at the moment, has fixed a few little things like the bl..dy pump not working (again) but I can't afford to get into anything too expensive right now, so waiting on $$$

Rural Rd Nong Khai 3098, Nam Chan, Bueng Kan, Thailand | Instant Google Street View

Hope this works, this is a street view of our home on google maps. It was taken when I was there last February (2015) as the car I rented is in the background. Interesting that they would bother in such a small village. The SIL little shop at the front is no longer there, but you can use your mouse to look around the village.

Originally Posted by FatOne

Thanks Terry, I reckon it will be the latter, pull it apart and try again!

Which is not a big deal.

Originally Posted by FatOne

Rural Rd Nong Khai 3098, Nam Chan, Bueng Kan, Thailand | Instant Google Street View

Hope this works, this is a street view of our home on google maps. It was taken when I was there last February (2015) as the car I rented is in the background. Interesting that they would bother in such a small village. The SIL little shop at the front is no longer there, but you can use your mouse to look around the village.

Great view of your village, the thing I noted is that like where we live there is a range of houses from near derelict to much better than our place.