Plumber wanted and found
For months we, my family and I, have had a problem with the municipal water supply. Water comes out of the tap, but not enthusiastically. With horts and bumps and especially a lot of air. We purchase some extra tanks and they are slowly being filled.
The annoying thing is actually giving water to the plants outside. This is going to be a battle of exhaustion, because I can no longer physically withstand standing for a long time. My neighbor knows our problem and when she happens to see the municipal water pipe passing by, she brings it to my water supply. They open the pipe immediately after the meter and the water flows out there in full force. Thirty centimeters from my house is the hose to water the plants. Hardly anything comes out of it, so there must be a blockage in those thirty centimetres. The council is not helpful. They only work up to and including the meter. In case of household problems, I normally call in my Thai support. A few times I explain the problem to him, but apparently this goes beyond his circle of contacts.
We continue in this way until I am hit by a new advertisement on the homepage of our website during a board meeting of our association on the topic of sponsoring. I see the following there: I can call a Dutchman who apparently deals with plumbing. That's ideal.
At home I call and I do get a Dutchman on the line. I don't understand his name, so I say I'm looking for a plumber. That's convenient, he replies, because he's standing next to me. His name is Rit. I explain to Rit what my problem is. The Dutchman asks my name, my address and my telephone number. Besides, he says he knows me. Rit will appear tomorrow morning ten o'clock.
Just before ten I get a call from Rit that he is at security. A few minutes later, three men show up at my door. They understand that there must be an obstruction in the foot between the gauge and the garden hose. All loose pieces are unscrewed and it is clear that the metal pipes rust inside and that deposits lead to blockages. It's like hearing my cardiologist talk. Rit says he can clean the small piece, of course, but it's better to replace a pipe that runs from the front to the back of the house, which is also the same metal, with a PVC pipe. Now I understand why we always have brown water for quite some time after a municipal interruption of the water supply. accumulated rust.
I ask for a price and it seems reasonable to me. So PVC pipes are purchased. After some time, all metal pipes have been replaced by beautiful PVC pipes. And the best part is that when everything is screwed back together and I turn on the tap, I see a powerful jet of water coming from the garden hose. Initially brown, but soon cool clear water. Everything works fine inside as well. Showering becomes a party again. Watering plants becomes a pleasant job again.
Shortly after the plumbers have driven away, the Dutchman calls to ask if everything has been arranged as desired. I can wholeheartedly confirm that. Now I ask his name and of course I know him too. By sponsoring the Dutch association, he apparently also sponsors a young Thai company. That's how everyone is
satisfied. At least I very much.
My water has not come out of the tap via the water meter for months.
So regularly refill the water tank
But everything went.
I just don't understand that sky.
Then there must have been a hole in the pipe, otherwise you only have water and no water.
Congratulations Dick.
The "Sanitek" water often does not come out of the pipe with sufficient pressure, we have an extra pump that ensures a considerable pressure in the house pipe.
Dear Ruud, I'm going to give you a tip and it's completely free, you say no water is coming into the buffer via the meter, have you ever checked whether that tap is mounted correctly because there is a return in the tap you can do that see if you disconnect it and see if that arrow is pointing in the right direction, I'm telling you this because I had that too because that bokkum had put it the wrong way, cost me a new tap 400 baht but no more problem, good luck with it .
Thanks for the tip, but I can't get water because the village's water supply has been dry for months.
We are waiting for the rain and hopefully more than last year.
I have already talked to the village chief several times about a connection to the city.
Especially since the village is growing and the shortage of water will only become a bigger problem in the future.
There is a water pipe from the city a few kilometers away from villages.
However, the tessaban prefers to spend money on a non-functioning water drain that no one is waiting for and roads whose concrete is already full of large holes after a few months.
The problem with the rain is that a city heats up in the sun and when the sun goes down all that heat rises and sucks in the rain clouds from the surrounding area.
They also rise, cool down and turn into rain.
Around the city, however, there are no more clouds and it remains dry there.
That problem increases as the city grows.
Je kunt het ook zien, als je ’s avonds de stad uit rijdt.
The city is pouring with rain and as soon as you leave the houses behind you, the sun starts to shine.
Glad that problem has been solved. Here it is the same: we often have a very weak stream of water and sometimes not at all and that for a day or two in a row. A neighbor down the road has had to call for the tanker to fill his tanks for weeks.
Most of the time water comes in, but it's such a thin trickle of piss that the water tank can't even be filled up, because the water doesn't reach that two meter height.
I did the following: I made two underground tanks. These consist of concrete rings. I waterproofed the rings from the inside with a special layer of cement. Connected the water pipe to it, made two water stoppers and connected the pump, which sucks from both tanks, to the whole to the house. With this I now have about 2000 liters with which I can take care of our small household. Even if a small trickle comes, it is always enough to fill the tanks.
I also have a separate tap, connected directly to the municipal water, in case the power goes out. And the "old" water tank is always filled and is next to the house. The water thereof is also filled up from the underground tanks with the pump and is used slightly less. But in the event of a power failure, we can also tap into it.
You could probably have connected the pump to the water supply and the tanks more easily with a few extra taps.
Dan kunt u water uit de waterleiding pompen om de tank te vullen en door een paar kranen te openen en te sluiten het water uit de tank pompen voor gebruik in huis.
So in the supply of the pump a tap to the water pipe and a tap to the tank and from the discharge of the pump a pipe to the tank and a pipe to the house.
Just keep an eye on the position of the taps.
Otherwise, the pump will pump water from the bottom of the tank back into the tank at the top.
Well, I've had a similar system. But because sometimes there was no water, we couldn't do anything with a pump on the water pipe. Now the underground tanks are always full and the pump takes the water from there. Goes very well. The tanks are also a lot cheaper than a plastic tank, which is in full sunlight all day. (another advantage: the underground storage keeps the water reasonably cool). I have a pipe down to the bottom in both tanks, so the water is always sucked up from the bottom. So the coolest water first.
The reason was that it happened to us twice that we had used up the water in the above-ground tank without realizing it…
Aan allen die problemen hebben met de watertoevoer van het waterbedrijf: ’n waterput laten boren van ca. 40 m. diep (afhankelijk waar de goede waterlaag zit). Het kost wel wat, van 30.000 ฿ tot 100.000 ฿ ongeveer, alles inbegrepen, afhankelijk of men door hard gesteente moet boren of het juist normale zachte grond is. Zo heb je altijd water met voldoende druk en het is dikwijls nog drinkbaar ook. Alleen als de electriciteit uitvalt, wat wel eens kan gebeuren, dien je ’n bovengrondse tank te installeren (van pakweg 2000 L.) met water gevuld, van waaruit je dan genoeg water hebt om bv. de sasbak van het toilet bij te vullen of ’n keukenkraan van water te voorzien. een tip misschien: Indertijd voor WO 2, toen er nog geen pompen waren om het water op te pompen, gebruikte men perslucht die men op de put aansloot en waardoor het water langs ’n pijp omhoog gestuwd werd en welke ’n reservoir (in kastelen oa.) vulden die onder het dak zat en van waaruit het water naar de keuken en het toilet geleid werd.
I would be careful about using groundwater as drinking water.
It is possible that the used agricultural poison ends up in that water.
Can you give me the details of this plumber please .
Ruudje
Take a good look at the picture in the text at the very top.