New Home Build "LET THE HEADACHES BEGIN"

[Los Amigos]

I've got to sign off for while folks.

Started to move and I still neet to sort out a new internet connection at the new place.


I'll be back soon with some interesting updates.

Stay tuned

Starting to look great, Baht Man.
If you need a hand with anything gimme a call. =D>

[Stantheman]

I need to get my home painted in Udon in the next year or so. The house was built in 2002 and hasn't been painted since then. It blimin needs it. Inside and out. It's two stories, 4 bedrooms (2 smallish) plus a maids room. It's pretty high in places. How much do you guys think this might cost for the paint and labour? I was thinking 20,000 plus baht.

I don't live in Udon and I'm not going to spend my annual holiday in Udon doing it myself.

We paid 17,000 to paint 2 floors of our small shophouse (paint, labor, and cleanup). However, we were under some time constraints and did not get any competitive bids. I would guess the job you describe to be close to 50,000, but I could be wrong. Labor is cheap, but paint is not.

From my wife's experience with our house rebuild I would contract the labor and get the paint yourself so you can insure quality and color of paint.

[BigBubba]

I need to get my home painted in Udon in the next year or so. The house was built in 2002 and hasn't been painted since then. It blimin needs it. Inside and out. It's two stories, 4 bedrooms (2 smallish) plus a maids room. It's pretty high in places. How much do you guys think this might cost for the paint and labour? I was thinking 20,000 plus baht.

I don't live in Udon and I'm not going to spend my annual holiday in Udon doing it myself.

We paid 17,000 to paint 2 floors of our small shophouse (paint, labor, and cleanup). However, we were under some time constraints and did not get any competitive bids. I would guess the job you describe to be close to 50,000, but I could be wrong. Labor is cheap, but paint is not.

From my wife's experience with our house rebuild I would contract the labor and get the paint yourself so you can insure quality and color of paint.

Agree Stan. If you pay a flat rate price the person will certainly buy the cheapest paint possible. Problem buying yourself is all the Thai labeling, etc. I found maintaining an all wood cabin in America for 7 years that sometimes the more expensive products are actually cheaper over the long haul. However, this is a concept that most Thais find impossible to comprehend!

[dogger]

it is problem in thailand. rip offs and poor qulity workman ship both BM and I know of one poor guy who paid for his house and half way through the build they all left the job. proper site management is the solution, but sadly we, wont pay for it.

[glalt]

Those people who have lived here a number of years and have had houses painted will have found out that good painters are few and far between. The good painters are very busy and the best ones have gone to Bangkok to work for much bigger money.

You are likely to get a price per square meter. I was quoted 25 baht per square meter. That sounds high but it includes preparation and painting wooden trim with enamel. There is a lot more to painting than spreading the paint with a brush and roller. Average painters will have splatter all over everything and as much paint on the ground as they have on the wall. That price is for labor only. He suggested what paint he thought was the longest lasting and the best brand. The house is now finished and I am happy with the work.

I have never heard of a brand called Beger Shield but that is the brand he liked for exterior color.

[Baht Man]

I've got to sign off for while folks.

Started to move and I still neet to sort out a new internet connection at the new place.


I'll be back soon with some interesting updates.

Stay tuned

Starting to look great, Baht Man.
If you need a hand with anything gimme a call. =D>

Ya got any spare ceiling tiles laying about??

[Baht Man]

Ok, so the build is 99.9% complete, with just a few minor things for the builder take to of.
I hooked up with True for an air card as my ISP but the speed is suckin' something fierce. , and it's single use only, no wi-fi.

Went to CAT today and they'll run an optics cable here and provide 8 down and 3 up for 860 B a month, 20 and 7 for double that.

Problem is the que of about 400 ahead of me and even an offer of a bit of tea money was rejected.

I'm lookin' at a months wait so I'll be crusin' looking for some unsecured wireless or hangin' out at Caspers more as the True card is going back monyana.

In time ..... "I'll be back"

[Stantheman]

When wife was in Udon I think she used AIS air card. Not the best but better then TRUE, and only used for Facebook email and reading blogs. Slowest was during non school hours up until about 10PM, we tried SKYE a few times but way to slow so timed out. We live away from main roads, near the backside of the airport runway, closest hotel is Presidents which is about 5 minutes (by car) North west of us.

[Nong Bua Dave]

"I hooked up with True for an air card as my ISP but the speed is suckin' something fierce."
There has been a major break in the undersea internet cables off the coast of Vietnam. This is slowing things down.
Reports are that it will not be fully fixed until mid-October

[dogger]

Good to see you back BM, i was worried that you may have been fed to the ducks.

[Baht Man]

The ducks don't like white meat.

[Baht Man]

"I hooked up with True for an air card as my ISP but the speed is suckin' something fierce."
There has been a major break in the undersea internet cables off the coast of Vietnam. This is slowing things down.
Reports are that it will not be fully fixed until mid-October

I took the air card back as it was only 5gb per month download, not speed.
Ater you use it up, it pretty much stops until the first of the next month.

Nothing I can use.

I want back to CAT and they're going to run a fiber optics cable.
20 down and 8 up at 1600 a month. 8 down and 4 up for 850. Good to go but 400 in que and a months wait.

Guess I'll just have to wait.