Repiping Project – Your Keys – Important!
November 24, 2011 by Howard Olsen
Notice To Residents
Brighter Mechanical is scheduled to begin the Re-piping Project in January 2011 . An information meeting will be scheduled the beginning of January to provide a detailed presentation on the Re-Piping process, time frame, hours it will affect the residents, what is required prior to Brighter Mechanical entering each unit, and answer residents questions.
Residents are required to provide unit keys for the duration of the project. The project assistant will be in Club Solo on Saturday, December 10 between 1 0:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and Monday, December 12 between 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. to collect the keys. It is extremely important to obtain all suite keys for access to complete the work in your unit and in case of emergencies (quick access could be a cost savings to residents who may incur water damages). Keys will be stored in a high security lock box which will only be accessed by Brighter Mechanical, the building manager and the project assistant.
If access is unavailable during the scheduled work dates residents will be charged $100 an hour plus the cost of a locksmith. Work in units cannot be delayed or dates changed. The plumbing is all interconnected vertically and the contractors will be working simultaneously in many vertical stacked suites at one given time.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Strata Agent: Bunny Porteous
Strata Plan LMS-3170
November 24, 2011
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3 Responses to “Repiping Project – Your Keys – Important!”
Why are we giving our keys up well before work even begins?
If work begins in January how is having an information meeting IN January helpful to those whose units will be first? How can they plan?
My family will have a new born at the end of January. If my family has to be displaced due to this then I require proper advance warning to make arrangements and to book somewhere to stay without incurring the high costs of late bookings! Or worse not being able to find a place to live for who knows how long?
It is the resposibillity of the strata council / corp etc to provide adequate warning and scheduling prior to comencement of work.
Please post a schedule ASAP!! And have the Information meeting sooner than later (originally posted as being in december)
Thank-you
Hi Kurt those are good questions so let me address them for you. First of all, the notice we all received is a bit misleading as it could have us believe that work will begin as soon as the keys are collected. I can assure you that’s not the case. We’re asking for keys now so that we can mitigate glitches and delays in January. As you can imagine, coordinating residents from 176 units will be a big enough challenge in itself, so we’re starting now. We know that there will be some non resident owners and others that we will need to “Chase” to get their keys. By begining the collect process now, we will have time to identify and track down the less than cooperative owners before work begins.
With respect to the information meeting, yes that that will happen in January but there can be no meaningful info meeting without a schedule and the schedule has not yet been produced. In January, Brighter Mechanical will be onsite to establish their site office (Likely in Duo Guest Parking) and then they will perform a full site survey to assess the buildings / units so as to determine the full and actual scope of work. Once that has been completed the schedule will be produced and the info meeting will be held to get us all on the same page.
While we don’t have a schedule yet here’s what we anticipate: Each unit should be approximately a day’s job. No one should be displaced as a result of the work. Of course if we don’t have access to the units that will cause delays, which is why we’re beginning to collect keys now. We want to mitigate any chance of delay. Here’s what else we expect. Solo and Duo were re-carpeted 3 years ago and this year is Treo’s turn, so we have put in a request to Brighter, that when scheduling the work, to begin with Treo so that we can do the carpet job over there after that work has completed. Further updates will follow but we won’t have anything more concrete until after the Christmas Season.
UPDATE:
I’ve had a few more conversations since these comments were posted:
Each unit is about a 15 – 17 day process, which includes repiping and drywall repairs, some days may take a day; other days may be an hour for drywall repairs etc. ( one coat at a time) There will always be water in the unit at the end of the day.
There will be a 2 week notice, no one needs to move out.