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Russell, I wholeheartedly agree with you. BUT, it is the local governments that are causing the problems. Unless someone puts up a stink about what another person is doing in some type of construction that does not meet the required specifications, the construction proceeds without a hitch. Some of it is probably due to large sums of 'tea money' provided to the engineers who sit in the Tambon to look the other way.A neighbor was going to expand their house to come to within a few centimeters of the privacy wall. My wife knowing construction went online and search for and found all the building codes in Thailand, which are the same for everywhere in the countries (no excuses.) She went to the tambon with photograph of the initial digging and the placement of the foundations, and the Tambon engineers came out to the private dwelling and instructed the home owner and their construction company on what was required for distance from each others properties.If Thailand would enforce the building codes prior to any construction, many of these problems would be resolved before there were any problems. It should not require one private individual to get building codes enforced. The government should not allow ANY construction whether new or additions and upgrades. They need to enforce the use of permits for building any structure but they don't. Sad situation.Just like you said, if the local government would have been there to enforce the building codes, they would have made the owner to put in the fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire alums, etc., before anything was being built. I know for a fact that any village owner that proposes building a new village HAS to get approval of the local government agencies prior to building. He has to get the government engineer's to approved of his drawings, specification and materials before any construction can begins. that includes sewers, electric distribution, roadways and sidewalk, size of lots, etc. So if these village owners have to do it, why doesn't a person who elects to develop a resort or 1-10 unit guesthouse(s) be held to the same standards?