Smell The Quality

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Main floor bathrooms at work flooded a few weeks back. Restoration has been on hold for weeks . . . waiting for tile.

What the hell, Menard’s has tile. Is this some special hand-made Italian marble tile? What are we waiting for? These are the main public restrooms for a public building – slap up some white subway tile and get them back in service.

They’re cutting tile now. Ceramic dust billowing, sucked up in the exhaust vents, distributed all over the building, everybody is sneezing.

You couldn’t cut it at night after the blowers are off, or on the weekend when nobody is around?

You couldn’t seal the bathroom exhaust vent and suck the dust out through a filter?

True, the dust is making all four floors of the building uninhabitable, but they’re a union shop and low bidder . . . so what’s the problem?

Un. Be. Lievable.

Joe Doakes

Someone’s got to pay those dues to the Teamsters…

4 thoughts on “Smell The Quality

  1. This is a very valid point. I experienced this same issue a few years back when the building that I was working in was being remodeled. The majority of the commercial remodeling companies, don’t care about the tenants in the building when they are working. God forbid you ask them to cut down the noise, lest they increase their use of their power saws.

    Conversely, two of my neighbors had some remodeling done over the winter. Even during the coldest days, both company’s tile fitters, cut their tile in the garage with the door(s) open.

  2. It’s worth noting that that dust also is Hell on things like computers, remembering that Joe works in some area that seems to require them.

    But that said, it also strikes me that many building venitilation systems feature something called “filters” by which this may be removed. Joe’s employer may want to look into this new feature. :^)

  3. Someone’s got to pay those dues to the Teamsters…

    ….and that someone is Joe.

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