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Home » Reader question » Reader question: How should I install electricity at a holiday home in Isaan?
Dear readers,
In a few weeks, I will be going to Thailand with my wife on a family visit/holiday. The last time we were together was in February 2012. During our absence, my in-laws built a wooden house near Nakhon Ratchasima. It is therefore the intention that we will use it as a 'holiday home' during our stay there.
Now nothing has been arranged in terms of provision and I have promised my wife to contribute to that, especially with regard to electricity, since I know a little about that. My mother-in-law will soon request the meter and it should be installed when we arrive.
Now it is the intention to carry out all work yourself from the meter. My questions to the technical people who read the forum. What are the technical pitfalls that I should be aware of?
Where can I best get the necessary materials, such as a distributor, wire, PVC pipes, wall sockets, switches, etc.?
I hope your knowledge can help me a little bit.
Thanks in advance,
Ronald
Would the group cabinet from here take 2 phase 6 groups with earth leakage.
pipe and wire at Makro aldaaar or hardware store.
ps you are not allowed more than 2 double sockets on 1 group site when they come to inspect.
you can also use vmvk abel with connection boxes. good luck
You can buy everything at the Global House. A large DIY store.
Found all over Thailand.
Ronald Q8 (?)
In Korat you can buy everything. Here at my house everything has also been installed according to the rules, including earth leakage switches and a cabinet with 6 groups of 16, 25 and 32 amp. Home Pro has a lot, but just look around there for 1 day and you will find everything. Even here in Chumpae and Khon Kaen they have everything, especially in Korat. Good luck
That's my profession. If you wish, I can draw up a plan for you according to current safety standards. Send me a private email
Thank you Gerrie, I understand from Pum that there is also a Home Pro or something similar in Nakhon Ratchasima. So let's go shopping there.
@adbosch
2 double WCDs behind a 16A group?
Then I'm going to need quite a few groups, I suspect.
I also plan to use VmVK cable, but I also like to put it in a tube. Still a bit tighter. Have already received the tip to bring nail clips from here.
@Djoe,
I would like to send you a private email, but I don't have your email address. Maybe ask the management if they want to forward it?
By the way, are you an electrician by profession in the Netherlands or in Thailand?
Wherever you can look is at one of the larger hardware stores. Such as Global House of Thai Watsadu. These are better equipped than Home Pro.
Ronald just outside the center of Nakorn Ratchasima is a branch of DOE HOME there you can really find everything you need and cheaper than in the Netherlands, the Home-Pro in the MALL has already been mentioned and you can also buy a lot there good luck with it and I really wouldn't bring anything from the Netherlands except a box of welding caps because I have not seen them there yet I am an installer myself and have also done my own electricity in Khorat Greetings,
Ben Khorat
The Doe Home is known to my wife, we will have a look there.
Good tip, regarding the plug-in welding caps. Will bring a stash.
Home Do, also in Korat, is surely the store with the largest assortment,
in Thailand the meter hangs outside, place the group box close to the entrance / exit, which is not usual in Thailand, with a main switch for that, also not usual.
In Thailand you have the phase wire (supply of current) and zero wire (discharge of current) but NO earth because this is not supplied with electricity in Thailand,
the flat (vmvk) cable is usually two-wire 1.75, so of good quality, but the reason is that almost everywhere in Thailand the sockets are NOT earthed, do not forget to place copper earth leakage pins, one for the group box, and an extra one if you heating element for a shower.
You have an advantage because with a wooden (traditional) house you have to work with construction.
ps plastic pipe as we know it in the Netherlands (is also not the method in Germany
is not available in Thailand, unknown.
Hereby good luck with the construction, which you can do in a few days with the usual rest in Thailand
Thank you for the good tips Chris, especially the grounding is an important one.
If I were you, first ask for a price before you start it yourself, these people do that for you
so little that you don't even want to start. and bring everything.
And then pay attention, you are allowed to work in Thailand, even if it seems so
innocent, be careful!
Good luck, greetings Cor Jansen
Dear Ronald
I also had a house built myself and designed by the family and villagers
have it performed.
If I were you I would just have it done, it's not expensive and people also earn something.
If you want to do it yourself, there are plenty of material shops and you can negotiate in price.
And what has already been said, make sure you ground everything.
Good luck and let us know if it worked.
Cor and Erwin,
Thanks for the advice.
I am familiar with the fact that I am actually not allowed to work in Thailand. The house is somewhere in the jungle far from the public road and civilization. Except for some family.
Still, I'll see how and what...
If it's worthy of a report, I'll be sure to post it.