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how much per chute?Aug 09, 2011

a number of people had asked this at our building. The answer was it was impossible or to expensive. I looked at it and i saw that it would be pretty simple to do, knock out some brick and make sure you have clearance on the far chiminy wall. put a new door on and be done, i think an air chisel or one of those carbide saws would do it quickly. This managing agent that says it cant be done also said it was impossible to stop the hallway stairway doors from slamming shut. i guess adjusting the closer or buying a new closer was impossible too.. Trouble is the rest of the building believes him, i guess they don't know which end of a hammer or screwdriver to hold either.i would be much happier with an andwer that is would cost $$$$ and we don't have the money . The door closers are not that expensive and i am sure salvage or rebuilt kits would work too. The same MA said the store room could not be made into lockers due to too many pipes. I can almost guarantee this is BS , since the self dealing president, has the room filled with 80% of his stuff and he has not even lived here for 5 years. I told him at this years annual meeting that he was seld dealing by doing this, since a coule years ago a 10 year shreholder was complaining of no storage space due to a couple people had it alll used up. The BOD pred said at the annual meeting that he ddidn'tcare , didn't know what self dealing was , and wwasn'tmoving anything. Of course the shareholder sheep said nothing. i wish there was some way i could prove that they never had a storage unit builder up for an estimate, but i am sure he has somone he works with that would give him a backded estimate if i pushed it. Maybe i can convince one of the new board members to call a locker company and get a couple estimates on his own. or even pull it off myself, take a bunch of pictures and mail them to storage builders, that is the only way to get the self -dealrs stuff out.. The way i look at it the pipes are unused space now. ski storage could be built around pipes.

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