Life In Scarborough: The Building Confronts Kitec Plumbing Problem
So the condo corp held a big meeting the other night. They rented a room at the local community center. They'd already sent around a letter so everyone knew what it was about; the building has Kitec plumbing. You can look it up but the stuff was manufactured between 1995 and 2007 when the number of recalls they were getting made them stop. Under certain circumstances it wail fail prematurely, and when it fails it blows (splits, more technically) and you get floods. The meeting was held so the condo Board could tell us we would have to pay about $3,500 to $5,000 per bathroom, and maybe more in the townhouses, to get it removed. So despite the fact that the engineer Atilla wasn't overly communicative, and they had mic problems, it didn't become a shit-show. I said my bit urging caution--I know a lot of folk in the R.E. profession who think this is more media driven than real (remember UFFI?)--but in the end the decision to re-plumb the whole place...
