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Thursday, August 10, 2017
This afternoon, another tenant and I were chatting in the community room. We saw a construction worker sweep dust from the courtyard where they are working on the building's brickwork into the community room. Totally outrageous. The building is already contaminated enough without THAT. We told him to clean it up, and he did. But how much of this going on around the building?
Here's the picture I took right after the dirt was swept into the room. I know, it doesn't look like much of anything - except that there's more of this all over the building; I have COPD, and shouldn't have to breathe this or be exposed to it. Neither should othinkther tenants with other respiratory issues. Do you think HSI cares? LOL...
Check out the archives going back to 2013. There's a panel in the right-hand column where you can find the archives. Click on a year to see the posts arranged by month.
HOW LONG DOES IT REALLY NEED TO TAKE TO REPLACE A BOILER?
This truck has been parked in front of the building for at least a month. Some tenants have been reporting problems with hot water, especially later in the evening and at night. Didn't we have a boiler replaced a year ago? And who knows how the water quality in the building is being affected by this. Management hasn't seen fit to give us any indication of a timeline on this.
The following memo was posted on building bulletin boards on Thursday evening or Friday morning:
There had been another in a series of informational meetings that afternoon in the community room
about the ongoing construction in the building. I (unfortunately) walked in at the end of the meeting, so I don't know whether this particular topic was addressed. I'm bringing it up NOW, though, because I'd overheard a conversation about this in the hall after the meeting, and later asked Jean Figueroa about whether and when there would be work starting on the building's facade. He said there WOULDN'T be any facade work done; scaffolding would be put up to let workmen haul materials to upper floors in the building without tying up the elevators.
Okey dokey. I hate to call people liars, but Jean says he works very closely with the crew that's doing the construction. He's the maintenance director for the building.
The reason I'd been asking about facade work is because I recall the last batch of brickwork that was going on the year I moved into the building (2009). It was noisy, dirty, and seemed to go on forever. It stopped for a while and then started again.The dust and grit generated by the work was not contained in any way, and it was all over the building. I had severe respiratory distress the whole time this was going on, and there was absolutely no relief. Some tenants complained, and for a while, when the crews were working on the FRONT of the building - where the public could SEE them - they had plastic tenting to contain the mess they were making. The workers on the scaffolds were careless to the point that windows were routinely getting broken. Dust and grit even got into the fire alarm system, and caused a number of false alarms. This was documented at the time on the first blog. Workers at the front desk were commenting on it at the time because part of their job is to deal with the alarms.
In case you weren't here at the time, or you've somehow forgotten what a living hell it was, here's a clip from November of 2009 which has been up on YouTube since mid-November 2009:
I just want to know whether this is what we have to look forward to all over again, or whether THIS company actually knows a better way to do this work.
My COPD is worse, and I've had several hospitalizations because of it in the last year.
Check out the blog archive; it's in the column to the right. You can see posts by clicking on the year/month.
I haven't been posting much over the past year because - although there's been plenty going on - there doesn't seem to be any real interest in a cohesive tenants' association. People complain and whine, but when it comes down to DOING anything, they suddenly become too busy, or worried about having H.S.I. retaliate. Why should I invest a lot of time and effort if people just don't care?
