Chang Kitti (for it is he) conveniently lives just at the end of the soi and quoted me 15,000 baht for the lot, which seems sensible since there's a lot of fiddly stuff to be done; with a token discount it's 14,000. His free-hand drawings, when I showed him round, were slightly neater than my own ruler-assisted designs. The breaker has moved yet again and will now sit on the left-hand wall, next to the second post.
(Maybe I should say that these shophouses consist of three or four pairs of steel-and-concrete posts held together by i-beams, meaning there are no load-bearing walls at all, which is why you so often see two of them knocked together or the whole front torn out or glassed in.)
I'll need a few more lamps than I thought, for the stairs and the corridor upstairs, but the ones I fancy cost all of 100 baht.
PS: 200 baht, it turns out. They're marked on the Boonthavorn website as 1xx baht, which seems to mean roi gwa baht, or 'under 200.'
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