T&G system for lift...again checking

so the upgraded lift is abt to complete the 2nd week operation, thank God, so far so good.

few nights ago, while MC having their regular meeting at the foyer, few residents stopped by, give some suggestion on various matters, we are thankful for their initiative & keenness to see improvement here in this place, and during the conversation, they strongly recommended T&G system for the lift....

well, for this matter, we did check with residents at this blog some time ago, and surprisingly most of the residents who commented, actually not really in favour of installing the T&G system inside the lift, reasons cited included inconvenient, got to pay extra for the card, then if card missing got to pay again, also other reasons like if going out from the house & forget to bring the card the got to climb stair, etc...

and another reason we didn't pursue the idea is those days both blk k lift were in bad shape, we ourselves also have no confident to install the T&G system, worry that it will bring more difficulty to blk k residents.

but lately we heard some residents asking us if T&G will be installed in upgraded lift, in fact some of them do urge us to install as they saw few nearby apartment also got this system in the lifts, of course the selling points are security in Vista Condo will be improved, it will also helps in the service charge collection, perhaps it will help to increase Vista Condo property value as well :)

so, what do u guys think?

thanks.

upgraded lift running, and under monitoring

the upgraded lift of blk k started the full operation last Saturday afternoon, except on the same night due to some technical issue which halted the operation but resumed on next day, so far it's ok, so which it has been running for one week already.

we are still monitoring the performance of this lift, of course as we always carefully telling our residents that it's upgraded lift but not completely new one, we should not expect it run as smooth as new lift, but then compare to other 3 lifts of Vista Condo, we should feel the different, quieter & smoother.

we are not in the hurry to start the 2nd lift upgrade, mainly because we want to make sure this upgraded unit is stable & reliable enough to carry out it's duty when we shut down another lift later, another reason is at the beginning of November there's a holiday week, Deepavali & Awal Muharram, we have received request that have both lift running because some blk k residents their relatives & friends will be visiting them during these holidays.

so tentatively we set time for 2nd lift upgrade at the week after these holidays, and we do expect the 2nd upgrade will take much shorter than the 1st upgrade, reasonable time frame should be 3 to 4 weeks.

so now our prayer to God is this upgraded lift will continue to perform well, and later on when we do the 2nd lift upgrade, it won't take more than 1 month..... :)

thanks.

so close, yet so far away.....

another week :(

our patience is running very thin now, how long should we wait some more?

now new doors are up, formica also done, door safety sensor also fixed, but why the lift is not running? we also ask the same question.

yesterday chased them again, they left our place at abt 7.30pm, explained to us it took very long time to install full height sensor, reason for lengthy time taken because need to hack door/wall & others, so now full sensor installed, one thing left is to put new floor, then lift can run on Monday as they plan for new floor to be done on same day.

we told the vendor no point to wait until Monday, if they plan to do new floor on Monday, and they must up the lift on Saturday & Sunday for residents to use first, then on Monday when our residents go to work or school, only they should shut it down (1 lift) to do new floor, because we feel that if we don't run the lift but just wait for the new floor, then it's waste of time.

now Malaysia time 12.45pm Saturday noon, 2 senior lift guys are there doing the lift job, our message to them is clear, pls up the lift today.

well, just feel important to mention here too, we do check with them concerning the safety, yes it's safe to run the lift now.

calling them almost every 2 hours to monitor....

on the repainting of buildings....

after 1 week of urging, confronting, chasing, making a lot of of noise to the lift vendor to quickly settle the new door, wall formica & flooring for the blk k lift, we still didn't see it completed even until today, besides impatient, also a lot of frustration, we know that it's at the end of tunnel but it doesn't seem arrived already, now we fix the target date at next Monday or Tuesday, hope to see the lift running then.

but while we are angry & upset abt the slow process, we are also thankful for at least it's making progress although it's so slow, it's so torturing, reason being, last week we received a phone call from a supervisor of one apartment project in Penang Island, asking us how to take back the 20% of the deposit money (which they deposited in the government treasury dept) for the lift upgrade project because they want to scrap this project, after giving the contact person in the EXCO for them to pursue the money, we also found out there's some issue in their project with some vendor & until now didn't even start work & their project was approved abt the same like ours, so now as we are not too happy with the pace with our vendor, we also feel fortunate for at least it's still on the right track.

in last posting we saw a comment of a potential buyer of vista unit abt when to repaint our building, honestly we have no answer on this question but trying now to work out a solution or formula to repaint our building. For info, sinking fund still stagnant as we are now seeking EXCO & senior lawyer's help on how to make use of the court order (that the developer should release the fund of amounting to nearly 400K to our residents) to recover the money, and we also have visited the state gov't office for the gov't fund (same as lift, 80% by gov't, 20% by residents) but first attempt was rejected, we were told by them that the fund is only for low cost & gov't owned apartments... :(

but anyway, we have asked contractor to view our building & give us quotation to repaint the external wall, ie not including the wall facing the corridor of every floor, in another word, only paint those walls which can be seen from outside, now still waiting for their quotations. Our another restriction is we can only pay them in installment, perhaps first payment can be 20K, but then the subsequent ones will be maybe 4k per month, so this will take up to 2 or 3 years to pay up, hopefully we will be able to find contractor who is kind enough to agree on this, do u guys got anyone can recommend?

thanks......