Comments on: repairs: 1350 w. 6th ave

By: milo

milo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:00:40 +0000

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.”

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By: Ed Bear

Ed Bear — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:00:04 +0000

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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By: waiting for pie

waiting for pie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:37:39 +0000

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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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:22:07 +0000

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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By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:46:02 +0000

is there a builiding in Fairview that has NOT leak repairs?

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By: M-

M- — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:52:11 +0000

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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By: Drachen

Drachen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:26:16 +0000

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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By: Drachen

Drachen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:23:53 +0000

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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By: Re-diculous

Re-diculous — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:18:02 +0000

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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By: triage

triage — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:14:13 +0000

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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By: DaMann

DaMann — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:42:03 +0000

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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By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:50:56 +0000

How old is the building? Hard to tell from the picture

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By: DaMann

DaMann — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:29:14 +0000

They don’t call it the Fairview Leaks for nothin’

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