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Sound is conducted perfectly through concrete when it is blasted out like this, and thus the noise this created was incredible and unbearable.
The hacking off was indiscriminate. We checked the marked areas before blasting, and there were less than 2 areas that might have had a hollowness under the old concrete, so why are all the walls being stripped?
TO DB Management and HKR: if it takes so much heavy work and to blast it out, perhaps it should have been left alone and the walls simply painted, while the tile could have been cleaned and/or polished. This internal work was the final indignity of a terrible experience. Why was it saved until the end, and why did so many buildings report that the majority of this terrible work was done on Saturdays and if done on weekdays, latter in the day when children and wives were home?
Since this was the worst and most disruptive of the work, shouldn't you have set up a FIRM timetable for it to be done? With ample notice to the residences effected?
Have you no sense of decency or consideration? Or is basic intelligence and lack of professionalism your collective problem?????
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Right on!! You go girl (or man!)
I can not understand why this is being done. Yes, the stairs were getting old, but you should see them now. It is like living in a bombed out building. Yesterday our maid tripped on the jagged stairs and cut her knee. I am worried about myself on them too, particularly after the football when I've had a few:)
Let's let the newspapers know we are all so fed up and tired of this. We can expose DB and HKR as nincompoops!
The jackhammer approach caused the plaster on my interior wall to break off; I showed it to my landlord, who called in building management and the construction workers, who promised to repair the damage to the wall. That was over a month ago. I am yet to hear anything else. The hole is still there. Here is the joke, I had to show the workers the digital pictures I took from the hallway side to 'prove' that it was indeed them and not myself, who caused the damage. They had since repaired the outer wall, hence my 'proof' came in handy.
... at least there are no snipers on the roof and the electricity is working. Else one could mistake our hallways for Sarajewo during the war.
We own our flat and have just recently renovated it. They pulled out a balcony light and in one of the rain storms water got into the electricals inside- so dangerous. We demanded they fix it on the day which they did with a huge fight but are yet to patch up the wall where the water was dripping down.
They forced a piece of steel reinforcing into a wall and then told us 'they don't fix internal work' but it was them who created the hole in the wall. After a lot of arguing and 2 months later they have finally fixed it.
The work is shocking, dodgy and very very unprofessional. Living through this has been one of the worst experiences we have had in Hong Kong.
I have never seen before such a bunch of animals soiling my terrace and once even pissing in my plants whilst my wife and I were observing from our living room, 2 meters away. My terrace was covered with empty bottles and cigarette ends. From my windows you have no idea of how many times i have spotted workers indifferently pissing in any corner. Since weeks and weeks works do not proceed any more, and our building has been left in disgusting conditions. It is worth to mention that, whenever asked, the Management Office emerges with either bullshit answers or no answers at all. Last point. I recently renovated an apartment in Central, where my workers were not allowed to work on Saturday. Why in DB nobody seems to care about a day of rest on Saturday, away from "earthquake noises"? Last Saturday i called the police and, believe it or not, noise and works stopped. Of course the Management Office, further to my initial complaining, had told me that workers were allowed to work during whole Saturdays, but when they heard i had called the police (and they saw the police) luckily things changed.
Yes, I agree. The rule (incorporated into the "deed of mutual covenant" that all new owners must sign) that renovation workers can make unlimited construction noise (including using jackhammers inside) 6 days a week, 9am-6pm, has just got to go.
It has no place in a civilized and gracious environment, which is what HKR wants to create with DB.
The rule should be that these jackhammers can't be used at all, but if we have to allow them, then how about 10AM to 3PM (when most people/kids are out) and only Mon- Friday, and only if all neighbors are pre-warned of the exact day that the blasting will occurr.
DB Management staff act like the "deed of mutual covenant" is the 10 commandments and can't be altered.
But if HKR was smart they would implement these kinds of restrictions into the deed so that residents have a truely peaceful and protected home environment, and then they could truely market DB as a peaceful haven away from the noise and confusion of HK.
HKR???? How about a comment?
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