Sunday, October 1, 2017

Second 2017 "Annual" Inspection

Got a 24 hours entry notice on my door for "annual inspection". I saw some on other doors in the building. Last week or two weeks ago i also saw some notices on the building across the alley. It says they need to install anti-tip brackets on the stoves. Only thing is stoves in this apartment has anti-tip brackets. There was already an inspection this year at the apartment, in March.

Here are the sins i have to confess in relation to the apartment.

It all started with my first and only complaint that i made several days after i moved. The toilet upstairs was flushing by itself continuously because of a leaking valve, they didn't address that and i was discouraged in the future to complain of other things like kids playing in the backyard making noises for hours every day for more than a year or the guy upstairs walking for hours, uselessly (not talking about his treadmill i once saw through the sliding door from the back). I think they fixed this earlier this year, more than one year and a half after my complain.

About one year ago. One day i forgot the oven of the stove on after i baked something, it was empty but the thermostat didn't work, resistor was on for hours while i was asleep. The place filled with smoke from burning whatever crumbles and grease in the oven and i got woke up by the smoke alarm though i think i had ear mufflers on. I replaced the thermostat myself, after about a month of not using it or so, thinking it would be too much inconvenience to call the management.

Got an extra fan in the bathroom, in parallel with the main fan. It's a 4 inch small computer fan under the main fan that works continuously, makes very little noise and i think if i stop it the exhaust backflows and smell and dust gets in here from the pipe that has half inch of dust on it. It runs on a DC variable power supply set on 6 volts instead of 12. When i installed it it changed dramatically the smells in here. It doesn't interfere with the main fan. When i start the main one the small one simply turns faster. It is installed on a plastic frame glued with silicon and is removable within minutes.

But since, i plugged lots more nail and bigger holes in the bathroom and other rooms that were painted over and in years paint cracked and the holes became open though unnoticeable. I plugged the holes with gypsum that is of the same color with the paint. It is very hard to see those and will get covered with paint anyways next time when the apartment will be painted. There are many irregularities of the walls, especially in the bathroom and above the sink in the kitchen from past works. Holes were painted over with different type of paint that in the mean time cracked, invisibly.

Maybe the smells were coming from there and the small fan is useless now as it simply kept pushing the smells coming from those. I unplugged it to see what happens. Right now the place is full of cigarette smoke from upstairs and can't tell.

There is still is a blue Dodge with modified exhaust that starts several times a day and shakes the place. If i didn't do it the place would have been filled with dust every time.

I plugged the exhaust for the drier as it stinks. In the mean time they probably removed the water that was condensing in the pipe in the basement but i think if i use it again the water will start condensing again the part of the pipe that runs through the basement and is not insulated. I use a small 5000 BTU unit to dry the air coming from the drier that i uninstall every time. I can reverse this in one minute.

During signing of the papers when we moved, one of the leasing assistant, the one who looked like Keiko Fujimori told us that (aprox.) "people sometimes pack their laundry wet because those don't work due to the way they were designed".

I've done other small repairs like cleaning the mold under the sink and sealing the leak around it with silicon.

I removed hundreds of pounds of mulch from around the building, in many different evenings/night using regular 13 gallons garbage bags. Even right now there is too much mulch, maybe more than 6 inches in some areas. It was two days ago when i felt mold or wood alcohol smell coming from fermenting it. I think it was made of red wood chips.

There was a hole (probably a sewage line) under the water heater. It was stinking real bad in that closet. I filled it with foam. Smell started to disappear gradually within a year or so. Big gaps around the pipes, some inches, everywhere that i filled with gypsum, one by one as i discovered them. A 3x10 inch hole for passing the wires powering the light on top of stove. Smaller gaps under the light fixture in the bathroom.

There are two areas in the bedroom outer wall where the drywall was damaged and painted over. I fixed one of them. The drywall is damaged (hit) around the heater in the bedroom in an area of about half square foot and painted over.

I don't use the forced convection heaters in the walls as they burn the dust. The ninja upstairs didn't use them either last year and this year he starts them at night and they probably malfunction because they make noise continuously, with not signs of stopping due to thermostat. But he stops then during day time.

Got some low temp heaters filled with oil i bought at Fry's that i use on 700 Watts setting only but didn't start to use them this year.

The heater under the kitchen window had the fan plugged with dust and was running on a much lower RPM and higher temperature, and the ceramic on the grill was burned long time ago. Fixed that one in the first days after moving here. Around it under the ceramic grill and mask they were big gaps up to half inch wide exposing the inside of the wall making the air in the room communicate with the wall and especially pulling air from wall rather than room when working. It also had numerous unplugged unused mounting holes inside, allowing air from wall to be pulled in the room. Plugged those with gypsum and silicon, several times. Again, don't use those heaters and they are disconnected from the breakers.

I sealed the lids of the breakers' box with silicon for the same reason, it communicates with the wall. If i need to use it i need to reseal it.

I plugged the gap between walls and floors with round foam rope i bought from Home Depot. It is reversible.

I filled the electric plugs with foam like described here. Not thinking for saving energy, for dust and health purposes. It is reversible though time consuming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BHLm8xCZC8

I spent lots of time doing all these things, maybe because i didn't know how to in the beginning and had to figure first. I think if i didn't do it it would have been impossible to live here. I also know for sure they are aware of every of them and they choose this moment to make me reveal them. Many of them are unusual and may seem strange or unsafe to those unfamiliar or even most doityourselfers and they simply want to discredit me or fill my time and the time of those who read with describing those, not to know what to expect from the inspection.

Also, at the inspection two years ago i'm pretty sure one of the young women who did the inspection was the singer known as Bebe Rexha, from Macedonia. Among other things, she asked where the bathroom was, went inside, closed the door and stayed there silently for about a minute.

BTW. Last night at the casino, among other things, i saw a group of 4 or 5 people speaking either Hungarian, Turkish or Macedonian next to the machine Angela was playing at but they looked like Macedonians. They spoke softly and i heard only a few words and i don't speak any of the languages. They might had switched languages during their long conversation and i left after i started to believe they were them for that purpose only.
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