Oh Dear...

[mmerriam]

It is an electrical mystery of epic proportions. It looks like whoever wired up the garages originally screwed it up right royal, to the point that the wrong units are powering the wrong garages. The electrician has gone to talk to the association's maintenance manager.

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[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Hi jinx ensue!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

This could get ugly fast.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh dear indeed. Yikes.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

The more because I fully expect the association manager to try and weasel out of any responsibility for paying for it to be fixed or coordinating the repair.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Riiiight, because it's somehow your and your neighbors' fault...you probably snuck out at night to rewire the garages, didn't you?

Sigh.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I ended up paying for it. Well, paying to figure out which wire was coming from my electrical panel and running the power from my house to my garage. As for my neighbor, we still don't know where the power is coming from or going, so that another matter. But mine is fixed.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

That will be lots of fun to fix. :/

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping the do a quick fix today and then have the electricians do a full fix this summer. But knowing my association manager, they'll try to weasel out somehow, and I'll end up having it out with the board.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Well, let's not automatically jump to the worst conclusion. Give them a chance to make it right.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

If it's anything like my association, 2 years later and I'm still trying to get my yard fixed where they drove heavy equipment through it :(

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

We are repaired. The electrician figured which wire from our panel was running to the garage, and moved that wire to power our garage. His boss told him to charge me a lower rate. The Association (Pat) maintains that it is the individual owners responsibility to pay for getting the wiring straightened out. I'm going to be reading the association manual very carefully, and I'm going to the January Board Meeting. At the bare minimum, the Association should be coordinating the repair and spreading the cost out among the eight owners in the building. And if it turns out to be original build work, the association should pay to repair it. I'll be hanging onto the receipt from today.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Yay repaired! So, does that mean that in doing so, the electrician unhooked someone else's garage from our power? Cascade effect?

As long as we only paid to fix our problem, I'm okay with that. If we're paying to fix other units' problems, I'm not okay with that. Or if the association built it wrong, then they should pay to correct it.

I'm glad you're going to follow up. Thanks for taking care of this.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

The electrician's boss told him to charge me for how long my individual work took, and the electrical company will make the association pay for the "investigative work caused by multi-unit miswiring."

Yeah, someone else's garage is unhooked from our power. It is going to cause a cascade of outages as they fix each one individually.

There is still follow up investigation to do on my part.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the electrician company being good guys.

Should we notify the other units of what's going on, if you haven't already? Especially since somebody has now lost power?

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

The association maintenance man did the notifications.