blk k lift crisis

we called it crisis, coz one lift is forced to shut down as we need to send it's rotor for service, but another lift which remain to serve our blk K residents is not stable as it's old too, & it's track record had not been good, the break down time is relatively high compare to other lifts.

true enough, 1 day after it shouldered the responsibility alone, it started to throw tantrum, first was control system keep interpreting the signal wrongly, as the result, the lift stop at the improper time, or didn't want to open the lift door to let passenger to come out, for that, the technician work until abt 2am to get it fixed.

but as we thought it's settled, the following day (toward late afternoon) the mechanical part give problem, it get overheated due to the motor overworked, the internal sensor forced the lift to stop so to avoid further damage, so for that the technician checked around for bigger blower to cool down the motor so that it can continue to run the lift as we can't effort to hv both lift down, but they can't get the equipment as it's already night, but thank God we manage to get a heavy duty industry fan from a MC member's office, and after the technician did the necessary adjustment on the lift system to get the problem solved, it's already abt midnight....:(

3rd day went on peacefully....

today is the 4th day, so far so good, MC member monitored the performance of this lift, now already passed 11pm, didn't give problem the whole day, we pray & hope that it will continue to run well, coz the school term going to start tomorrow, more ppl going to use it then, really praying hard now...., we also arrange technician to stand by daily, early hour in the morning & also afternoon when ppl come back from work, jz for in case.

earlier on our plan is to get the sinking fund back the developer so that we can do the necessary upgrading for the old lift, but as they still dragging their feet, we can't wait for them coz all the control system need to be upgraded urgently as many parts have obsolete & can no longer be sourced in the market, we have written to EXCO member YB Wong Hon Wai abt our problem, his dept ask us to submit our application for the state gov't fund, under this arrangement, if our application approved, we can hope state gov't to contribute 80% of the cost, management fund bear the rest 20%, so now we are busy getting quotation, bank statement & other necessary document so hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday can send to them for consideration, for this, we are not sure how good is the chance, so again, got to pray hard for God to help....

(for those following the development of the sinking fund court case, we hv filed in the case, the hearing of application is fixed on 19/6/2012 morning at high court, now we want to sue them for contempt of court)

look back, we only hv one regret, 3 years ago when we urged residents to collect strata title, so that we can form MC to demand the sinking fund from the developer, the response from residents actually quite slow, still remember we need 25% of residents to get their strata title in order to form MC? it actually took more than 2 years to meet the quota, then only we manage to form MC last August, then took few month for talking to state gov't to get their help, negotiation with developer, until took legal action in this April..., we always wondering if in yr2009 or early yr2010 we already get cooperation from resident to hv enough strata title quota to form MC, then perhaps by now sinking fund (or portion of it) already made available for us to use for the lift upgrade......& this lift crisis can be avoided.

now we just hope that we can get the state gov't fund soon, lagi best if developer is kind enough to release the sinking fund in next few weeks.....let's pray.

thanks.