Post by The Tax Returns Are in Kenya on Mar 1, 2016 21:44:27 GMT -5
We've (my entire building) been without cooking gas for going on I think 8-9 weeks now. In January the idiot who lives down the hall from me apparently decided to renovate his apartment. There had been notices on his front door for days about a dumpster that would be in front of the building (or something) which I didn't understand why it was there, or to who this note was addressed. Well a few days later, there was a dumpster in the street, and a crew of gorillas demo'ing his apartment. Not two hours later the Building Dept shows up and shuts him down with a stop work order for not having a permit. Don't know if they fined him but the landlord got fined $5000.
So a day or so later someone reports a gas smell. The FDNY showed up (and made us remove all our stuff from the hallways) and ConEd shut the gas off. They tested for the next few days and couldn't locate the source of the smell/leak/whatever. So weeks later we get a notice from the landlord that the problem will take longer than expected to resolve and in the meantime we should all buy ourselves hotplates. Then, more days later we are told the solution to this problem is that they're going to install new, electric stoves in every apartment. This may become the only building in Manhattan with electric stoves AFAIK. Old building with inadequate electric supply so they have to add all new risers and receptacles. So about 3-4 weeks ago they started this work, the new risers are going - guess where - right in front of my front door! Of course.
So this work has been going on for weeks now, drilling, hammering, etc. OMG what a PITA and last week they were in our apt. to draw the cables thru the ceiling and install the new receptacle. YUuuuuuge mess, threw my belongings all over the place and did not replace them after they left (and stole my iPhone charger, which mysteriously they recovered from the "garbage" the next day when I complained). They drilled holes out of the walls and ceiling and did not save the cutouts to fill them in. We got a nice hole in the ceiling, perfect for Ceiling Cat. There was GWB downstairs in the lobby, only 3/8" thick (ceiling is 5/8"). So they finally came and filled in the holes somehow, but the taping/spackling is horrible, you can still see all the outlines of the tape. And today they boxed in the risers in the hallway with the same GWB, no Type X or anything.
And still no stove, of course! I'm sure the cheap LL is going to buy the cheapest possible electric stoves in existence, yuck. Hate cooking on electric, though at this rate we may never have one.
OMG what giant PITA. I have left the asshole down the hall anonymous nastygrams under his door (which BTW had an eviction notice on it earlier, LOL).
So a day or so later someone reports a gas smell. The FDNY showed up (and made us remove all our stuff from the hallways) and ConEd shut the gas off. They tested for the next few days and couldn't locate the source of the smell/leak/whatever. So weeks later we get a notice from the landlord that the problem will take longer than expected to resolve and in the meantime we should all buy ourselves hotplates. Then, more days later we are told the solution to this problem is that they're going to install new, electric stoves in every apartment. This may become the only building in Manhattan with electric stoves AFAIK. Old building with inadequate electric supply so they have to add all new risers and receptacles. So about 3-4 weeks ago they started this work, the new risers are going - guess where - right in front of my front door! Of course.
So this work has been going on for weeks now, drilling, hammering, etc. OMG what a PITA and last week they were in our apt. to draw the cables thru the ceiling and install the new receptacle. YUuuuuuge mess, threw my belongings all over the place and did not replace them after they left (and stole my iPhone charger, which mysteriously they recovered from the "garbage" the next day when I complained). They drilled holes out of the walls and ceiling and did not save the cutouts to fill them in. We got a nice hole in the ceiling, perfect for Ceiling Cat. There was GWB downstairs in the lobby, only 3/8" thick (ceiling is 5/8"). So they finally came and filled in the holes somehow, but the taping/spackling is horrible, you can still see all the outlines of the tape. And today they boxed in the risers in the hallway with the same GWB, no Type X or anything.
And still no stove, of course! I'm sure the cheap LL is going to buy the cheapest possible electric stoves in existence, yuck. Hate cooking on electric, though at this rate we may never have one.
OMG what giant PITA. I have left the asshole down the hall anonymous nastygrams under his door (which BTW had an eviction notice on it earlier, LOL).
The guy across the hall who caused this problem? He has a screw or two loose and has told stories about his wife kidnapping his child and running away with him, how he got stuck in Kentucky for 3 months and almost died of diverticulitis or some other intestinal problem, and about being a veteran, none of which I believe is real. 