Our apartment building will undergo an external renovation sometimes in the near future. This is a mandatory repair, correction work mandated by the City. Buildings of a certain age are required to have their joints pointed and other repairs done. This building was built around 1939 and it falls into this category. This is a very tedious work when every brick joint must be checked and if found to be cracked, dried out to be corrected.
In March the contractor erected a sidewalk protective scaffolding around the building, and we were told work would begin in April. Well, April came and left and there was no activity at all. May is now in its sixth day and there is still no sign of any work to start. The landlord notified us of this work and said it is scheduled to be completed in the Fall. I doubt it. These contractors are known to take on more work than they can handle. This type of work is also very weather dependent. If it rains, nobody work.
Most of the buildings in my neighborhood are surrounded with these scaffoldings but very few has anybody doing any work. I can just imagine my landlord climbing the walls because there is still nobody working.
One of the drawbacks of this work that we can not have our window air conditioners installed because they would interfere with this exterior work. We are looking forward to a very hot Summer. The other negative aspect is that the building parking lot (we have no garage) will have to be emptied out when the contractor will be working on that side of the building. This will be very inconvenient because we and everybody else will be forced to park our cars on the street maybe for two months, where parking is always a hassle.
But as we humans do we will survive this also. As we always say, this should be biggest inconvenience in our lives!
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