September 30, 2015
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An Endless Summer -- Part 5
The saga of the HOA has continued! My home was scheduled for fumigation on 9/15; however, it rained that day, and my home was rescheduled for 9/16. I decided then that it was a good thing I had chosen to stay away for a week, rather than the required 3 days. On Friday evening, I had a call saying that the Gas Company had left the property without turning my gas on, and could I be there at 7:15 the next morning -- I told them that I expected to be home on Monday afternoon, and that I further expected to have the gas turned on by then as had been promised. It was, but there was a problem with my furnace that was not resolved until today. Fortunately, it was ok to use the air conditioner, as the temperature has been around 95-100 since I returned.
On Monday, 9/21, I returned home. My home was fumigated during the first of two weeks of work to accomplish the complete fumigation of 197 homes! When I arrived home in the mid-afternoon, the homes at the end of my street looked like this (note the folded tarps draped over the roof).
As the day progressed, homes began to look like this:
The tents came down on Friday (9/26), and the community is now recovering. There has been some damage to the newly repaired trim and paint (such as this on my home), which will again be repaired,
and there will be a roofing inspection and patching, which will not be intrusive. Hopefully, now, life will be back to normal very soon!
Comments (14)
I hope we never have to do this to our house!!!
I am gald you wrote about it. Helps.
I hope not, too, Frank! I think if the HOA Board had handled it a little differently, it would not have been so bad, but it is pretty intrusive, and the gases they use are nasty! I'm glad my blog helps!
Sounds terrible. I've seen an occasional house fumigated here, but never a whole neighborhood. What was the reason?
I think the HOA Board made it worse, but they use pretty nasty gases, and you really do have to be out for at least 3 days. I'd never seen a whole neighborhood done at once -- after doing the trim and the paint, the Board believed they had to fumigate right away to prevent termites from re-habituating our wood. And it all had to be done at once, just because that's the way the Board does things. They convinced the Board that this should be done every 10 years or more often -- funny thing, my mother's house was almost 100 years old, and had never been tented!
I think you have had enough home trauma to last a couple years!! I do hope all can be put to right before the cold (relatively) weather arrives!!
I'm told the roofing tune-up will not be intrusive (i.e. I can put my home back together now). The last painting was done about 10 years ago, and most of the complex has never been tented. Hopefully this will take care of it for as long as I'll be here!
Good Lord! I do hope the minor repairs are the end of it. Good for you, having set them straight about the gas.
@RighteousBruin: I hope so too, Gary!
Our entire Navy housing neighborhood was tented and fumigated when we lived in Hawaii the first time. The Navy put everyone up in nice hotels for the three days. It was kind of nice lounging around the pool and eating in the very nice hotel restaurant, but Krysten was a baby and it was hard to keep her meals and naps on schedule and order those early solid foods she could eat. It wasn't the kind of place that served mac & cheese; I think we ordered a lot of rice and green beans. I've been trying to remember what we did with our fish. I think we just closed the lid of the aquarium cover and hoped for the best. I don't recall any of them dying from the poison, but it's been almost 30 years ago. Glad you're back home and settling in. I'm not recovered from vacation/moving Krysten/window replacements/dentist appointment/etc. but when I am, I will start writing letters again.
The fumigators recommended taking fish and house plants out of the house. I don't have fish, but one house plant that wasn't doing very well has survived nicely! I think the whole thing would have been less difficult if it had been presented with more than 2 weeks lead time, and with a bit more sensitivity from the BOD and honesty from the fumigators. I'm also behind on letters, too, and will try to get one out to you this weekend. Hugs, and welcome home!
Oh my! Soooo unsettling!
I finally have put my patio furniture out again (it's been in the garage since March or April for all these projects), and yesterday there was a notice in the mail suggesting we close drapes for privacy and protect patio furniture from debris that might be dropped during a "roofing tuneup" project to be done sometime during the next 6 weeks or so! I think I can simply put small glass tables under an overhang, and protect the larger table by propping chairs against it and keeping the umbrella open. It will be nice when the Board decides that the projects are all completed and I can once again enjoy my home!
Goodness, Janet! What a worrisome weak for you and your neighbors! I am glad you told them that the gas had to be turned on before your arrival. I am sorry about the "little" damage to the roof and the gutters. Hopefully you won't have to pay for that nuisance. I am glad you are back in your home. Love,
Zakiah.
I put most of my patio furniture back over the weekend -- and on Monday received a notice that there will be a roofing tuneup over the next 6 weeks (two weeks per street in the complex)! We are to keep shades drawn to protect our privacy and to cover patio furniture to protect it from falling bits of roofing! Hopefully it will take care of the damage from the fumigation, but the timing couldn't have been worse!!! Then, I hope it will be over with for the year!
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