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    Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic View Post
    No Jeff, I don't buy into that as the annex has no solid walls so any breeze will do the trick instead. The winner of todays TD 'Why' competition will get a well deserved green from me. Good luck.

    Obviously, you've never seen this type of odd [if not impractical] application. Can be common, actually.
    Quasi-open air structures/houses that have partial tin sheet roofing - sprinkler or hose systems for coolant purposes.

    Need to get out more.
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    I'll go for a fire sprinkler system.














    Just in case Jeff isn't right this time

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    The wall contractor forgot his spirit level

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    Wondering what is the "Travellers Tale"?

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    Ha yeah the lady took those cones and all her other junk too. Sad as I'd hoped to throw it all in the pond.

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    The pond had quite a few catfish.
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    Not sure what this one is. The guy shot it with a spear gun.

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    The nutter was none to happy about us taking those fish. My wife told her to pound sand and go to see the police if there's a problem.
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    Here are the two bathrooms that were in that old building. It did need to be pulled down the walls had some mega cracks too.

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    Here was a bit of a distraction from the house project. A weekend market in Bantak.

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    Nice local girls spotted my camera.

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    There is a long bamboo bridge that leads out to on of the islands. These guys were set to light those candles and set them off down stream.

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    Its a nice walk out over the river.

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    This house looked great.

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    Here we go.
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    And there off.

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    I was surprised to see there was a safety boat waiting down river in case anyone got washed away.
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    Main street.

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    The view down river a bit.

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    After the party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    That sounds reasonable.
    Betcha Prag won't buy that either.
    Please stop trying to goad me into accepting Dill's obviously wrong answer.

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    Interesting thread, btw that toilet pic is a wet dream for Jeff..




    What plans do you have for the pond?

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    This was a happy sight the nutter heading out with their last truck full of junk.

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    your very lucky the wife's husb.oops cousin is a policeman,he will sort everything out.looks like it will be OPEN PLAN.
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    We had these two guys come in to tear up all the cement structures and push it all in the pond. There was the big garage and three smaller buildings that they used to grow mushrooms.

    they started with this small piece.
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    Then on to the big one.

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    I was real nervous about this part coming down on our new wall so was the wall contractor.

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    I like the guys tow rig for one of the machines.

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    The aftermath. It really bothered them not to scrap the metal wire in there.

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    All that cement hardly made a dent on the pond. I couldn't believe it.

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    Down at the village coffee shop for my favorite waffle and cappuccino combo.

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    Any of you old time F1 fans will like the ashtrays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic View Post
    Please stop trying to goad me into accepting Dill's obviously wrong answer.
    Many houses here, including the local shop, utilise the water spray, roof cooling, system. Effective cooling whether walled or otherwise. Some even have a horizontal blue pipe at the top of their sun facing wall and spray water so it runs down the external wall face.

    Getting a Village Water Supply to a House.

    I've just put a new supply to a property.

    I asked my wife who do we get permission from, her reply, "nobody". My "man" knew where the isolation valve was, dug up the soi supply pipe, turned off the valve, cut a section out and inserted a tee. He then added a few pipes, a valve, screwed on an existing water meter, turned the soi isolation valve back on and that was it.

    The local meter reader will slip a bill in the electric pole pocket and we pay for what we use. 5 baht/cubic metre.

    We could have quite easily added a second tee prior to the meter and once buried, nobody would be the wiser.

    Getting a New Village Supply from the River

    I was once roped into adding another supply pipe to the village system. The deal was one person to help or pay 300 baht. I was volunteered. Up at dawn met the others at the local shop. Told to climb up into the large truck full of plastic pipes and off we went into the jungle to find a river.

    We carried the pipes to the extraction point where the local water "engineer" decided on the best position. The pipe was dropped in and covered with an inverted plastic fruit basket, covered on heavy rocks and the pipers started gluing away.

    A JCB digger had been procured and the trench was dug along the roadside. More pipe laying, pipe gluing. The local tessebahn boss brought us lunch and water and drove off in his shiny pickup, much amused to see a felang working away. During the afternoon my role changed, I became the gluer's helper. My role was to hold the pipe ends in the correct position to enable him to apply the glue, he then push the pipes together and twist. I was not to be trusted with the twisting.

    We worked our way out of the jungle to the tarmac road where instead of trench digging the pipe was laid in an exiting ditch. Along the road until the bridge, where we had to pass under the road. Then out the other side the pipers and his assistant, me, progressed. One mistake was digging through a buried irrigation pipe belonging to the rubber plantation owner we were working through. I was sent off, with a note in Thai, for the required joints and returned having been given the correct size to a cheer from the farmer.

    We ended up at a large steel structure with a few pipes and and added ours to the manifold. I'm told it was a large sand filter which is back flushed, occasionally.

    Food and beer was found for us all and the job was declared complete.
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    ^ Sounds like fun. Thai's seem to get a real kick out of seeing a westerner working.

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    We had planned to fill in the pond when we bought it. It's not really attractive and a bit redundant with the river right there. Apparently it's only there because the person that owned it a long time ago sold the dirt for 50 baht a truck load.

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    The guys seemed to really enjoy it. The next day after the water cleared up they were pulling out fish one after the other with a pole.


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    The village take away restaurant. It's really good despite the appearance.
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    Nice scooter.

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    Here are a few of the old wall getting finished off. That huge crack got repaired. I'm real happy with the result the old unfinished walls looked bad.

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    The wall crew were real hard workers.

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    Pay day. Party time

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    Here is the last cement area going.

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    This dog snuck in and had some of the workers snacks.

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    This was about the time I wondered if I was making the place better or worse. Looking like a disaster area.
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