repairs: 1350 w. 6th ave
‘king leaky’ sent in a batch of condo repair pictures from Fairview, a neighborhood particularly hard hit by the leaky condo debacle. I’ll be posting the others over the next couple of weeks, This first one is located at 1350 west sixth avenue and looks sort of majestic with its soaring scaffolding.
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DaMann Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am
They don’t call it the Fairview Leaks for nothin’
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jesse Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
How old is the building? Hard to tell from the picture
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DaMann Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
IF this is the one I’m thinking about then it was only built around 5-7 years ago. Not sure though.
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triage Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
DaMann, I think thats right – I used to work near there, Its at the foot of Hemlock street near the Granville st. bridge and I think its less than 10 years old. There are a lot of buildings down there though so we could be mistaken.
Is there a database of condo addresses anywhere that you can check construction dates and repair data? That would be very handy. I know building age can be found on the MLS if a unit in the address is listed (this one doesnt seem to be)
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Re-diculous Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Makes me think about all that tax-payer money wasted on the Royal commission into leaky condos 10 or so years ago – it seems to have been money well spent!
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Drachen Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Was just doing some reading, apparently some buildings that are less than 2 years old are already leaking. Give it 5 years and the whole ’80s shitpile will happen all over again, but this time the owners will be in for twice as much cash.
Sucks to be gullible I guess.
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Drachen Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Triage:
You can find a non comprehensive list here:
http://www.bccondos.ca/forums/viewforum.php?f=15
It doesn’t include construction dates but there’s some info there.
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M- Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I read the entire Barrett Commission reports. In every single leaky condo case they looked into, the problem that caused the leaks was due to fraud or poor workmanship. Every single case.
My old condo, prior to me moving in was repaired due to leakiness. I read the entire engineer’s report on the problem and the repairs. My building came down to weak design for one part of the leaks, which coupled with poor workmanship allowed water in. For the other major sources of water ingress in my building, it was due to pathetically-poor workmanship. The workers and foremen must’ve been green and stoned, or something.
The main outcomes of the Barrett reports were:
-Mandatory 2-5-10 warranties by actual insurance companies (as opposed to the industry-run New Home Warranty program that went bust).
-No PST on leaky condo repairs.
-Low/no-interest loans for leaky condo repairs.
For any condo seekers, go to the library and rent Ed Witzke’s “condo buyer’s guide,” a video about how to look at buildings. Very informative, an excellent video to watch. You’ll save money that would otherwise be wasted on failing inspections. I might have the title of the video slightly off.
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andrew Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:46 am
is there a builiding in Fairview that has NOT leak repairs?
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Anonymous Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:22 am
In the late 90’s, I was in the market for a condo & the toss-up was a studio in the then-new “Space” building on Seymour or a 2BR/2BTH 950sqft condo in Surrey … I went w/ the Surrey choice & had 4.5 years of hell living there. The condo wasn’t leaky, but squeaky … I finally had enough & sold in 2001 & kicked myself for not moving into the concrete building downtown. I then was in the market again & looked at a unit for sale in Space, & was told of an upcoming $1 million+ assessment on it (something about the tiles used on the building’s exterior were ‘indoor tiles’ & water had seeped behind them) … I didn’t think a concrete highrise was prone to leaks, but I was proven wrong.
At least I stopped kicking myself so hard.
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waiting for pie Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Yes unfortunately concrete buildings leak as well and they are very expensive to fix – look at this shot of 1188 Richards for an example of what a concrete tower undergoing repairs looks like. This is from the photos page on this site.
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Ed Bear Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I’m sure the masses of barely-skilled workers who have flooded construction sites over the past few years have all been carefully supervised to produce top-notch work, and there will be no significant issues with construction quality.
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milo Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Do 5 – 10 leaking units constitute a leaky high-rise building?
http://tinyurl.com/2kopza
Rosario already full of holes?
Published: Tuesday, January 01, 2008
“… engineering review identified previous water damage not related to the plane crash. In other words, the building leaks.”