completion of bomba pipe project

our pleasure to announce that the bomba pipe (at the foyer area) replacement has completed smoothly :)

the vendor has set the bomba pump (jockey pump) to the auto mode, and now we are still monitoring & hope that the hose reel & valve in the riser room of every floor can continue to hold the pressure, pray....

this is the first time for many many years that we are able to set the bomba pump to the auto mode, as mentioned in the posting earlier, one of the reason we can't set it to auto mode was the leaking problem, so now we are happy to see this problem has been rectified and hose reels of every floor are ready to fight the fire in case it happens.

well, talk abt fire, just a reminder for our residents that, you should see at your floor, in the lift lobby, there are few riser room, 2 particularly important one is TNB riser room & Bomba riser room, pls make sure that you know which one is a bomba riser room, and in case of fire you (assuming you have some knowledge in firefighting) will need to break the padlock and pull the hose reel out to put off the fire.

lastly, pls help us to monitor the bomba riser room, if you see water leaks out from the bomba riser room, pls do immediately call management office 0195730637 or guard on duty 0174290637, so that we should immediately check if anything burst inside.

thanks.

Bomba pipe replacement

we are at the moment replacing quite a sizable length of Bomba underground pipe near the swimming pool foyer area, it's a long overdue project which we plan to do first quarter of this year, but due to lacking of fund then we only can do it now at the second quarter of 2015.

well, another 2 projects which also should be carried out in first quarter but still can't be done up to this day due to money problem are the lift T&G scanner & water tank :(

back to the bomba pipe, sometimes ago we have noticed that the bomba pump had been set to manual mode instead of supposedly auto mode, after much investigation, the conclusion is a section of bomba pipe at the swimming pool entrance is crack & it made the pump pressure keep dropping, and if the pump is to set to auto mode then there will be wasting a lot of water & current as the pump need to keep running in order to generate enough pressure, and we subsequently contacted few vendor to have a look on the problem but didn't go ahead with them as we were not convinced of their workmanship and proposal.

so we have reluctantly left the pump in the manual mode, always reminded the supervisor & guard to ON the pump in case of fire, but deep in our heart there's no peace, because we are not sure if the guard (especially those new guard).

until last year, when the issue was brought up again by the newly elected MC, we felt that we should get this done as soon as possible as we have found the reliable fire fighting facility vendor to maintain our equipment, but then the finance was an issue because the quoted price RM14K was out of our reach.

thank God, after months of effort to build the fund, we lastly in the good financial position to replace the Bomba pipe, and the vendor also kind enough to reduce the price to abt RM12K (we also have another 2 quotations for the same project, quoted 16K & 20K respectively), even can be paid in 2 installment, so few weeks ago we have confirmed the project with them & now they are installing the new pipe for us :)

it will take few days to complete it, meanwhile we will open the pool side gate residents to enter the swimming pool area, after the completion, we should check & make sure all the Bomba riser room hose reel & valve are still in good condition to hold the pressure when we set the pump to auto mode, or else it may burst & water will flow into the lift, which can cause major break down to the lift, like what happened abt 3 years ago....scary experience.....

let's pray that everything will ok, thanks.

our aging main water pipes

looks like our various main pipes are yelling for our attention recently....

after we have replaced the underground PBA main pipe in blk k parking area some weeks ago, we found that on the floor abt 3 meter away from the newly replaced pipe there's water too, and now we suspect another section of underground main pipe may facing the same problem, crack...... :(

to make the situation more worrying, past few weeks we received & attended to few corridor main water pipe burst cases, those main pipes are supplying water to every residents' unit, you can find it before resident's PBA meter, normally when these main pipe crack, the water will flow out from the main pipe & flooded the corridor area, worse case then it will go into nearest resident's house, and the bad bad bad one will flow into the lift & cause short circuit, and eventually kill the lift electrical component & cause major break down, which happen before to blk k lifts, it will take at least two days to make the lifts move again as the the components need to be dried up first before necessary repair works can be carried out.

to replace all these main pipes will cost huge sum of money, we don't think if rely on our maintenance fund alone can have sufficient fund to handle this job, so eventually we still need to run to the gov't for help, especially the state gov't 80%/20% arrangement for the low medium cost apartments like Vista Condo.

now we got to face the fact that most of our main pipes are at the end of their life span, and we need to make plan to replace them, as soon as possible, perhaps in the coming AGM we will share more with our residents, and may propose to collect monthly sinking fund (maybe RM10) so that when gov't approve our request to replace the main pipes, we will have enough money to pay for our 20%.

thanks.