[Tropical]

Love 98% of it, but man o man those 'spandrel' sections are just terrible.

DO. YOU. LIKE. ANYTHING.

 

[ChazYEG]

DO. YOU. LIKE. ANYTHING.

I think it's a consensus on this forum that the answer for that is no. Unless it's Vancouver.

 

[IanO]

Kinda

DO. YOU. LIKE. ANYTHING.

 

[TAS]

Kinda


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One of my favorite lines of theirs at the end of one of the episodes:

"Tonight's show wasn't half bad."

"It wasn't half good either." Hahaha

 

[Clearshades]

It's crazy to think about how far this area has come in such a short time. Less than a decade ago, Ice District was a parking lot and 104th street was one of sketchiest parts of the city.

Anyone with my memories of this area , north to south of Jasper -104 st., since 1988 would have a good laugh with that one. I remembered a field after the tracks were torn out where we saw migrants took over the area as their needle ground, a real life art displayed- not in way we wanted it. That direct area, is where Roger's is sitting on top off and the rink is literally the needle epicentre Let's not talk about about the Greyhound station or the Cecil on 104sr-Jasper ave. GOOD TIMES NOW!

 

[thommyjo]

I love this building. 5 units per floor, all corners, all glass. But it's a huge building to manage and multiple floods already sucking up all their cash.

What sort of floods?

 

[Greenspace]

Multiple unit floods, basement floods. All the floods you can think of.

 

[IanO]

Are they baseboard radiant or forced air/HP?

PEX or copper?

 

[MetroEd]

Anyone with my memories of this area , north to south of Jasper -104 st., since 1988 would have a good laugh with that one. I remembered a field after the tracks were torn out where we saw migrants took over the area as their needle ground, a real life art displayed- not in way we wanted it. That direct area, is where Roger's is sitting on top off and the rink is literally the needle epicentre Let's not talk about about the Greyhound station or the Cecil on 104sr-Jasper ave. GOOD TIMES NOW!

Gawd what a hangout that old Greyhound station was!!

 

[Avenuer]

Multiple unit floods, basement floods. All the floods you can think of.

This is why I don't want to own a condo lol.

 

[Airboy]

Are they baseboard radiant or forced air/HP?

PEX or copper?

Probably Pex. Have done my fare share of damage reviews were PEX is involved. If its left out in the sun or installed in to cold ambient temp can all lead to failure. Had on in town that had Aquatherm piping. The damage was done at installation but was not felt for 2 years. The pipe was not kept warm and when they cut it the created micro cracks in the line. They just have to read the service bulletins to know.

I know there is allowances for using PEX or similar to connect Reheat coils and Radiant panels, but I'm fighting that and insisting on braided connection.

 

[David A]

This is why I don't want to own a condo lol.

Plumbing problems can happen in SFH or non high rise buildings too. Its unfortunate, if such a new building has had a lot of problems already.

It makes me wonder about the workmanship or the materials used now. It seems to be a bit more of an issue these days than in the past.

 

[bodsbods9090]

Plumbing problems can happen in SFH or non high rise buildings too. Its unfortunate, if such a new building has had a lot of problems already.

It makes me wonder about the workmanship or the materials used now. It seems to be a bit more of an issue these days than in the past.

Sure but if it's a condo wide issue, you aren't being asked to pay, say, $25k to do the fix. You'll have to pay for it on your house too obviously but I don't think it would be a $25k fix.

I'm with @Avenuer . I had no interest in owning a condo for that very reason (special assessments).

 

[Greenspace]

I am unsure if the floods were due to failure or owner negligence. The basement flood was due to the large rain event we had this summer which affected many buildings Downtown.

 

[Airboy]

I am unsure if the floods were due to failure or owner negligence. The basement flood was due to the large rain event we had this summer which affected many buildings Downtown.

From the work I have done on Damage assessment in Condos. Don't expect a quick resolution. It was 5 years after one failure that the Lawyers finally called me and asked what I found. Good thing I don't assign blame just state the facts. The last one was in an older building that was converted from Apartments to Condos. There was a heating system failure one Christmas that ended up cascading into about 12 frozen pipe breaches. They shut the system down to fix one problem but as they did that more lines froze. As the brought the system back up they started getting more breaks which prompted more shut downs and then more frozen pipes. What should have happened was when they did boiler upgrades a year before, they should have installed zone isolation so they did not have to shut the whole system down. The frozen pipes would then be isolated to one floor. Insurance did pay out but they wanted to recover the money. I don't think the court case went very far.

Its not the consultants that get dinged on these failures, even though they get dragged in to the court case, it eventually is the contractors. Since they do the install. Consultants cannot be blamed unless they are to be determined t by deficient in the design. Consultants to not "Inspect" protects they "Review progress". Liability is still the contractors issues since they must follow product installation guidelines. I know the Ipex story but there was also a 10 million dollar law suite for the flex connections to toilets failing. The white plastic connection failed. The ones with Grey plastic were better.