Victory is a #6 Robertson Screwdriver Away

[mbarrick]

What I hope is the final chapter in the festival of stupid over the windows played out today. After three years, adventures in arbitration, multiple arguments over the use of "or" in the English language with Scotsman,  and having my day off for my 40th birthday interrupted, the "work" was done on the windows today. Amusingly enough the contractor showed up without tools this time, clearly expecting to be chased off again. I decided after my birthday that I couldn't beat my head against this brick wall of stupid anymore and let him in. I even had the plants and furniture in the living room out of the way for him.

In the end, none of the windows have been sealed and this is what we have for "restrictors":

That's it. Chunks of chains held on with wood screws. Anyone care to take bets on how long those are staying on once the weather warms up again?

And on a related note regarding the requirement that the window openings be restricted to 4" because we are "too high up" - here is a picture of floors 26 through 29 of the brand-new 40-storey apartment block across the street...

Comments

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

what a load of fucking crikey.

chains have a habit of 'breaking' pretty easy though....

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

<Mr. Burns Fingers> Yeeeessss </Mr. Burns Fingers>... these *do* look particularly flimsy...

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

That's a mighty feeble chain...perhaps you'd better "fix" it before it hurts someone.

Your apartment isn't all that high up as I recall, and the window restriction has to be some kind of absurdity dreamed up by a crack-addled liability lawyer. It makes NO sense.

I do recall that MOST of my apartment windows barely opened, which made for a special hell in vancouver. Is there some past history of folks randomly tumbling from their windows whilst viewing the city?

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

additionally, i don't think i ever heard of any random falling out of the window incidents in 13 years in vancouver. ( i mean, i could see it here.)

In one highrise i lived in, in alberta, two drunk morons fell off a 10th storey balcony when he, leaning on the rail, was carried over by his drunk love leaping into his arms.

They put an extra 6 inches of rail on that one balcony after.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

I think people are more likely to fall off a cliff at Lynn Canyon than they are to fall out of an apartment window in Vancouver. Frankly, I fail to see the "safety"... a stiff breeze is going to either snap those chains or pull one of the wood screws out. Amusingly, my windows have no regulators -- opened fully I could toss a couch out of my 9th floor living room window, and would only need to lift it over the 24"-high sill to do it.

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

The quality of the job and materials on the window makes me wonder if they're playing along with the silly rule in spirit as well.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Except, as I maintained in the arbitration hearing and even went so far as to confirm with the Chief Inspector's office, the rule they are enforcing doesn't exist.

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

ah, yeah! right.

Again, token effort for a non-existent rule. they can say they have done this, and what you do with it after is your business.

We had a landlord INSIST that we had fleas and pestered us to let her douse the place in something, and when we relented, the husband was 'yeah, i'm just playin along here, she's nuts"