The Home Improvement Thread. Successes and Failures

[SJHovey]

It's a condo. I own the unit. The management company sent their sewer and drain company to look at it. There's a pipe in the closet where the heat pump is and connects to. Guy drilled a hole in it, snaked it, and removed the blockage. The pipe where the blockage was is not part of my responsibility, it's part of the building's drainage. The damage to my unit was caused by this blockage. It's not extensive by any means. I'm happy if they agree to come in and fix using their people. It's a closet. My biggest issue is not having mold set in.

I would definitely talk to the management company about it. Frequently in condos the mechanical and plumbing systems that service the entire building are considered common areas, and are the responsibility of the association to repair and maintain. It's also pretty frequent that if those "common" facilities fail and cause damage to an individual unit, it will either be the association's responsibility to repair that unit, or at a minimum they can submit it to their insurance.

[St. Clown]

I would definitely talk to the management company about it. Frequently in condos the mechanical and plumbing systems that service the entire building are considered common areas, and are the responsibility of the association to repair and maintain. It's also pretty frequent that if those "common" facilities fail and cause damage to an individual unit, it will either be the association's responsibility to repair that unit, or at a minimum they can submit it to their insurance.

When I owned my townhome, the association had to fix an issue that was causing water infiltration into my basement, but I had to then fix the crack in the basement floor myself.

Just adding my experience.

[Scarlet]

Thanks all. She got back to me saying she was waiting for the sewer company guy to get back to her. We'll see what happens.

[akerry]

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[dxmnkd316]

I'm thinking about redecorating my house and don't know where to start

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[St. Clown]

Painting project day! When we bought the house, the kitchen came with this dark color scheme, something like an eggplant purple and a darker green, like the deep green of forest grass, but it’s not forest green. I have to put on a darkish gray primer coat and then the paint because we’re going with a lighter, brighter color - Sherwin Williams Rainwash color. But first I’m repairing dings that prior owners ignored. So many dings.

[Spartanforlife4]

This could be a crossover post in here, computer issues, and gear grinding. Got the new HVAC system and along with it came a new thermostat that can be wifi enabled. It comes with a separate gateway that plugs into the router. The gateway has power, recognizes the thermostat, and recognizes that there is an internet network to connect to, but it refuses to actually connect to the network. Per the manual, the light color indicates it's just perpetually trying to retrieve an IP address. I've tried power cycling the modem, the router, and the gateway. I renewed the DHCP leases, and tried assigning the gateway its own IP, but still nothing. Some further investigation yields that this is a somewhat common problem for the gateway, in that it just won't connect to certain routers due to firewalls. Some people have pulled out older or more bare bones routers and gotten it to work, but for the time being I think I'm just stuck with a much updated, but still dumb, thermostat.

[dxmnkd316]

Why does it need its own gateway? Can't it connect to any wireless router?

[Spartanforlife4]

Why does it need its own gateway? Can't it connect to any wireless router?

Not on this unit, evidently.

[dxmnkd316]

Not on this unit, evidently.

Could you just buy an ecobee? Most utilities have fairly deep discounts on them.

[walrus]

Why not ***** at whoever installed it? it’s suppose to work, right ? Companies that install stuff and don’t get it working suck.

[Spartanforlife4]

Could you just buy an ecobee? Most utilities have fairly deep discounts on them.

Might end up doing that if I can’t get this one to work. On the plus side it’s not like I lost any features. This one is still programmable without the gateway, which is better than the old one

Why not ***** at whoever installed it? it’s suppose to work, right ? Companies that install stuff and don’t get it working suck.

I’m going to reach out to see if they’ve had issues with other customers, but at the end of the day it sounds like a firmware issue which I don’t really expect the HVAC installers to be experts in or responsible for since there are how many different types of routers out there and countless configurations for each of those. Next step is probably the company that makes the gateway to see if they have any solutions, but based on others with the problem I’m not sure if they’ll provide much help.

[Swansong]

I'd absolutely go at the installers. Part of any installation is getting it to work, and they didn't.

"I don't care that you're an HVAC guy and not a network admin. I paid for this product and for you to install it. So, install it."

[walrus]

Might end up doing that if I can’t get this one to work. On the plus side it’s not like I lost any features. This one is still programmable without the gateway, which is better than the old one



I’m going to reach out to see if they’ve had issues with other customers, but at the end of the day it sounds like a firmware issue which I don’t really expect the HVAC installers to be experts in or responsible for since there are how many different types of routers out there and countless configurations for each of those. Next step is probably the company that makes the gateway to see if they have any solutions, but based on others with the problem I’m not sure if they’ll provide much help.

They sold it to you. You paid for it. If it’s a piece of **** some other company makes one that works. It should be remedied by the company that sold it to you.

[dxmnkd316]

Who the **** wires a light with 10ga wires???