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Resort living in Discovery Bay



Here is one of the home-wreckers

These handheld pneumatic jackhammers are used to rip up concrete floors and walls. They are legal to use, even indoors, in HK. The noise they make is similar to the blasting of a heavy machine gun, and its impact percussions are conducted and amplified though the solid concrete walls of our flats. HKR/DB Management allows contractors to use these 6 days/week, from 9:00AM to 6:00PM.


updated Wed June 7th:
General consensus seems to be that tenants should seek compensation, or withhold rents, from landlords, and landlords/owners should withhold final payment for the job, and/or management fees to HKR/DB Management.

There is a Beach Village Owners committee meeting this Friday, June 9th at 7:30 PM in DB at the Management office (behind the Plaza apartments) ground floor, conference room #2 .

Everyone who has been negatively effected by this should come to this meeting.

We hope to see you there, and thanks to all who commented with their stories, advice and information.



Please add your comments to any of the posted articles below. We would like to build consensus for meeting and action, so please add (to this post) your thoughts on that as well, then check back to this site for updates.

Thanks,

Group1

And/or:

Complain directly to DB Management:

Ken Woodhouse
GM DB Operations
DB Office Centre, #2 Plaza Lane, DB
2238-3601

OR

Anthea Ho
Assistant Manager, Beach Village Estate
DB Office Centre, #2 Plaza Lane, DB
2238-3605

Welcome to the war zone

Another fine mess you have gotten us into HKR!















Here is one of the hallways in Beach Village after the internal "hacking off" work with the pneumatic jackhammer. There was NOTHING WRONG with the concrete or tile in this hallway, why then did they need to rip it out??

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?????

DB Management takes down our flyers and posters

Hey! Privacy please! Can't you see we're sleepin' in here!






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We noticed this week that DB Management instructed their staff to take down the small posters we pined to the bulletin boards in Beach Village. Why? Are we now not even allowed to criticize the way this "renovation" has been handled? HKR and DB management would now deny us the right to free speech and to express our concerns?

Interesting. I guess we hit a nerve with them, as we are advocating that compensation be paid to residents for the suffering we have all had to endure for so many months.

Complain direct to DB Management at:

Ken Woodhouse
GM DB Operations
DB Office Centre, #2 Plaza Lane, DB
2238-3601

OR

Anthea Ho
Assistant Manager, Beach Village Estate
DB Office Centre, #2 Plaza Lane, DB
2238-3605