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Jul. 8th, 2008 | 02:31 pm

Today's goal was, I thought, simple: supervise the fixing of the AC and the ceiling in [info]tgregoryt's room. I can do this, I thought. Sure, I'm still dizzy, but even I can lie down on the floor and look at a ceiling.

The first clue that All Might Not Be Well came with Step One, the AC unit, which was repaired again this morning (for those keeping track, which is as far as I can tell none of you, this would be its third repair within one week) and again not exactly fixed. "The part doesn't work," said the repair guy gloomily as we felt the rush of nice, hot air push out of the AC unit towards us. The repair guy has, as you might guess, a fondness for the obvious.

But, he assured me, the ceiling was completely and utterly fixable, and he would absolutely and unquestionably be back that afternoon to fix the ceiling, even if he had said pretty much the same thing yesterday and not actually shown up.

TO my surprise, he did appear, to tell me again that the AC was broken -- which I'd worked out on my own -- and that they were here to fix the ceiling, which would be done promptly. And it was -- too promptly -- since about ten minutes after they took off, the ceiling was dangling again.

Oh well. They'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaks With Fingers

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from: [info]technoshaman
date: Jul. 8th, 2008 07:09 pm (UTC)
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Tomorrow?!?! When I was in Atlanta, having the A/C out was considered a Sev1 emergency, and the issue (a) warranted hitting the maintenance beeper even at 4am and (b) was worked 24x7 until fixed.

Dunno about Florida law, but in Georgia you could notify the complex in writing, have the issue fixed, and take the amount off your next month's rent (providing the receipt, of course). No lawsuit required.

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Mari Ness

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from: [info]mariness
date: Jul. 8th, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC)
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They've installed a window unit, so they aren't breaking the law. The problem is: a) it's a single window unit, for a two bedroom apartment, which means to keep the rest of the apartment ok, that room has to be frigid; b) it's very noisy; c) it leaks in heavy rains, which incidentally we just had.

Also, they did have the part delivered and installed -- the factory sent a defective unit.

Which is not to say that I am happy about this at all. mostly because I need to stick around here until the damn thing is fixed, and I do have some things that I need to get faxed, which right now is a major errand, and by tomorrow, this will be three days of sticking around here, not to mention last week's repair attempts. So yes, annoyed.

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