Hydro Worker dead, electrocuted , Queens Quay Condos

[dotdotdot69]

Yeah people know what they are doing and sometimes it's a cost saving measure. How many buildings around the GTA need extensive repairs? Or I'd say globally where residents even vent and sometimes it makes the news. Meh. There's buildings where they will turn the hot water off too at times and stuff as cost saving measures. Look at low income buildings around the GTA where the ceilings are collapsing or mould. During an election or something people show up and make a stink about it saying things will get looked into and then someone's elected and nothing is done and the story doesn't make the news again and you wonder at times why these people are sick or get mad. It sucks at the end of the day but some of these repairs are costly and they don't wanna deal with it. At the same time sometimes it's the residents causing issues because they lack the common knowledge of perhaps not putting certain things down a drain and stuff. People usually look for the cheapest way to deal with something being like a slumlord in sense. Drive around and just see how some factories and facilities look from the outside. It's generally not in the budget to repair things or making things look brand new like before. And the truth is sometimes you tell people not to do certain things like tenants or customers and they still will go ahead and do it. So what's the point of repairing things to a certain level for some tenants or someone to just make it happen again after a period of time. At a high end luxury place if they are making a decent profit they might do it. Tons of millionaires own mansions with issues and they at times don't care to do extensive repairs. Luxury condos eventually have the same issues too unless I suppose the owner of the room I'd say similar to owning a home should fork the cost. When you have a bunch of people living in a building issues with pipes and stuff happen.

 

[Bucktee]

Same boss. back a long time ago, but same year. Our water in the hotel was turning a greenish brown. One of my co workers and myself started getting the trots. The kitchen staff asked if there was something wrong with the water. City hall was across the street so I phoned them. They said they would be right over because the hotel was long overdue for a visit. 4 people in yellow and orange vests showed up. I asked them to say it was just a random visit, not prompted by a phone call. The manager was furious. Grilling me. Who made the call? I said I don't know, but you should be worried that we have green brown drinking water and people in the restaurant might get sick. But WHO MADE THE CALL?!!
The posse went down to the boiler room and found that somebody (the same boss) had turned some valve on the boiler where now dirty boiler water was flowing into the pottable water.

That's wild. Sounds like a really poor setup. The boiler and drinking water systems should not be linked at all.

 

[Ponderling]

That's wild. Sounds like a really poor setup. The boiler and drinking water systems should not be linked at all.

Boiler system needs a way to add liquid ocassionally to its pressurized water low side liquid reservoir

Better and more expensive way at time of original design way to do it with an extra rarely used pump system.
Cheap way is to use mains water with its own presuure
But there should be a check valve to water from domestic mains only goes in.
But check valves can sieze up and fail.

 

[bazokajoe]

Boiler system needs a way to add liquid ocassionally to its pressurized water low side liquid reservoir

Better and more expensive way at time of original design way to do it with an extra rarely used pump system.
Cheap way is to use mains water with its own presuure
But there should be a check valve to water from domestic mains only goes in.
But check valves can sieze up and fail.

Ball valve, check valve another ball valve. Simple and cheap.