Gotong-Royong ke-3

On the 25-03-07 we had another gotong-royong activity. This time around we deside to concentrated on removing debris from the corridoors from 12 floor to ground floor. As well as debris from the roof top. Gotong-royong works start abt 10.30am.. till abt 12noon then we had some makan2 and some drinks.








Getting ready for action. Our persatuan president is seen here giving some information to the members garthered for the gotong -royong.

members listening..








and listening..

And listening.. while Sahfi is doing some magic tricks .. trying to grab some attention..hi hi

Sahfi gave a short speach. Abt motorbike parking at walkways. Motorbike parking area is designated to be behind the Gen-Set room where there is ample space to park motorbikes under shade.

Simon having a chat with Sallem.

and it was Saleem and Sahfi's turn to do the individual water meter recording today.










Works begins from the lobby area.. removal of the staircase sealing.











At the roof top. clearing debris..












Seen here our producer, director & actor TS Jeffrey shooting our friends doing gotong-royong.. well actually shooting me hi hi.

i was buzy helping Simon to buy some petrol for his grass cutter. As well as buzy helping to clear the debris from the roof top.. i couldn't take more snap shots. Maybe i will get some still shots from TS Jeffreys video.

Meeting with buyers - 25-02-07

Chairman called for meeting with all buyers. I and some other AJK members help to call/sms other buyer to inform abt the meeting on sunday morning 10am on 25-02-07 at estana court dewan. As usual we wasted our personal money calling/sms buyer who never bother attending meetings. Hj Bakar rented the chairs( to paid by persatuan). No food or drinks were prepared this time around. Many of our usual AJK's didn't turn up as they were busy elsewhere.

The meeting was suppose to be hand-over of our unit keys officially when we produce our prove of full payment. Many buyer didn't bring any prove of payment. Rosman too had only incomplete keys to the units.

Water bill was issued for the first time. Not very organised as many AJK's didn't attend to help out.

Some of the buyers listening to Rosman.

Rosman giving explaining to those who attend, the estana court progress and requirement by OA abt handing over the keys. It was disapointing to note that OA did not give all the keys to Rosman.

Hj Bakar taking notes.













More of the buyers listening to Rosman.

Water Works 19 - Water Tank Leakage - 3

It took abt 3 rounds of sealing job for Simon to seal the internal parts where the water was leaking in the Main Tank.

The sequence went like this...

1. Identify the leaking area. Inform Simon, who was given the task to seal the leaking area in the Main Tank.
2. Wait till water in the tank is used up then call Simon to inform that the tank is ready for sealing job. Simon comes and seals the identified leaky area with tank sealants. After the seal dries up, I manually activate the water pump and fill the tank with water. Then i check for any leakage. Identify the leaky area then call Simon and inform about the leakage.
3. Wait till the water in the tank is used up by tenants then call Simon to inform that the Tank is ready for sealing again. Simon and his worker comes and does the sealing job again. After the seal dries up, I again fill the tank with water, check for leak. Identify the leaky area. Call Simon and infom him abt the leakage.
4. Wait till the water in the tank is used up by tenants then call Simon to inform that the Tank is ready for sealing. Simon comes and does the sealing job again. After the seal dries up, I again fill the tank with water, check for leak. Identify the leaky area. Call Simon and infom him abt the leakage.
5. Wait till the water in the tank is used up by tenants then call Simon to inform that the Tank is ready for sealing. Simon comes and does the sealing job again. After sealing had dried up, fill the tank with water, check for leak. I sealed up the last leaky area from outside by myself with sealant gave by Simon.
6. The Main Tank is confirm good. No more leakage. Persatuan Paid to Simon for the labour cost for his worker and the sealant cost.

There still was some minor leakage. With the tank sealant that Simon gave me, i helped to seal the minor leakage. The payments for Simon's workers labour cost and the sealing materials was issued by persatuan.

Water Works 18 - Water Tank Leakage - 2

Following the advice from Bakti Suci, two weeks ago(14-02-07), AJK decide to repair the leaking Tank if the price was reasonable. Simon said the leakage can be repaired with tank sealing componds. Contractor/AJK Simon was requested by Chairman to give a quotation for repairing the Tank at a minimum charge. It was decided during the committee meeting to allow Simon to repair only the roof top Main Tank( A and B). Simon says he will charge only for the material cost and the labour cost for the workers.

Example of leaking area. There were many such areas that need to be

Inside Main Tank A.

Helping Simon to remove the remaining water from the Sauna .. opss Tank.

Worker from Simon cleaning and then applying sealant at the join areas in the Main Tank A and B

Same here.. Simon's worker doing the sealing work.

Sealed area.

Sealed area.

Inside the Tank after the Tank was sealed. Before testing the leakage. The Tank is dry and ready to be filled with water again.

Water Works 17 - Water Tank Leakage - 1

delayed update..

Water leakage from the MAIN TANK-A.

The roof top main tank(TANK A) leaks when the water level exceeds 4 feet height. So we could not switch the water control system in Auto Mode. For sometime the water pump motor was operated in Manual Mode.

In December we requested Hj Ramlan of Bakti Suci to help solve the leakage problem. Hj Ramlan send his man to check the problem. They looked and tried to tighten the nuts and bolts where the water leakage was apparent, but the leakage could not be stopped.

Bakti Suci workers checking the Main Tank leakage problem.

Hj Ramlan told me to call him when the Tank is going to be empty, so that his worker can seal the leakage area from inside. When i called him few days later, he said it would be better if we get another contractor to do the repair work thoroughly.

Since the PPPEC bank account balance was pathetic, we postpone the Tank repair work till some other time.

It was hectic and troublesome for me, to run and ON the water pump motor manually whenever the water level drops. Sometimes, some units use up more water since they want to wash their unit or for whatever reason, the water level drop fast and the tank goes empty, then someone will calls me and inform that there is no more water in the tank. I had to run and ON the water pump motor.

Then about a month back, i made a temporary modification to the water level sensor rods in the main TANK A and switched to Auto mode. If the water level drops below 1 feet the water pump motor will operate and pump up the water from the "ground floor water tank" to the Tanks in the roof until the water in the Main Tank A reaches abt 3.5 feet then the water pump motor wili stop operating. The cycle will repeat again when the water level drops below 1 feet.

The picture show the water level sensor rods in Main Tank A.

A simple extension of the water level sensor rods using metal cables with green sleeves.

Water Works 16 - Water Level Sensor Problem

delayed update...

Problem: The Water Pump Motor cannot stop in Auto mode.

The Water control system has 2 mode. Manual and Auto.
1) Manual mode: where manually we have to switch ON the water pump motor to send water to the roof top tanks and manually OFF the water pump motor to stop the water to the roof top tank.

2) Auto mode, where the water pump is control by the sensors in the Main Tank A. If the water level drops below the "low level" sensor, control system will ON the water pump motor. When the water level reach the "high level" sensor in the tank, the control system will OFF the water pump motor.

The Tukang Paip was unable to solve the problem. The Tukang Paip consulted another contractor to help them solve the problem, but the other contractor wanted to charge RM6000 for rectifying the problem. It was too expansive, so Mr.Sahfi and myself decided to hold on the repair work until a solution was found. Until then we decide to operate manually... meaning i have to ON the water pump to supply water to the roof tanks whenever the water runs low.

Fortunately, the electrical schematic diagram for the control system was available. Electrician Abu gave me the schematic diagram. Abu also was not able to understand the circuit. Spend few days reading and understanding the water control system from the schematic diagram. Finally i was able to located the root cause of the problem which happen to be a short circuit at the input to the water level sensor amplifier A1, causing the water pump motor to always ON when switch to Auto mode.

After rectifying the level sensor system, the Auto Mode was checked and was confirm working. In the Auto mode, when the water reach high level sensor the water pump motor was automatically stops and restarts back when the water level drops below the low level sensor.

This is the Water control system's electrical and electronic components. This control system is stationed in the water tank room at ground floor.

The test pen points to the sensor emplifier known as floatless sensor amplifier. The signal to this emplifier was short circuit causing the water pump to always ON when put in Auto mode.

Water Works 15 - Roof Top Water Tanks

Delayed update...

By the beginning of November 2006 the roof top water tanks were cleaned. It was very very dirty.
1) Water Tanks on Wing 1 and Wing 3 was cleaned by me... F.O.C

Tukang paip was on Raya Leave.FOC
2) Tank on Wing 2 and the Centre Main Tank cleanned by Tukang Paip workers.

Roof Top Main Tank Overflows.
1) Informed Tukang paip about the posibility of overflow problem due to water level feedback design problem. Main Tank is split into 2, (Main Tank A and Main Tank B). Incoming water pours into both tanks but only Tank A have feedback sensors. The capacity of Tank A is much greater than Tank B due to the way the tanks were connected to each other. Main TANK A linked to tanks on WING1 and WING 3. Main TANK B is linked to WING2 tank only. So the water will overflow from Tank B until Tank A water sensor is activated.

Tukang Paip guy Zarkhan did not believe me. So he wanted to fully fill-up the tanks and see for himself. As i suspected the TANK B did overflow long before TANK A fills up.

We solve the problem by installing a Balancing Pipe between Tank A and Tank B.

This is the newly installed paip called Balancing Paip. The paip connects TANK A with TANK B. Therefore, the gravity will balance and maintains the water levels in both tanks at same level.

The main tank on roof top.

Electrical Works 11 - Individual TNB meters

About 2 week ago, Electrician Abu together with TNB guys have started installing the TNB meter for those units that hv paid all dues. ie revival contribution(rm2000), TNB deposit(rm120/rm150/rm200/rm500 depending on units), electrical contractor charge(rm120) for endosement, photocopy of IC, copy of S&P( 3pages), TNB forms filled, signed and submitted.

Abu watches as the TNB guys install the individual electric meters

The newly installed individual unit TNB meters on level 9.

Meeting with buyers

Today(13dec07) we had a meeting all buyers.. not all turn up but about 50 buyers.

Issue abt water, electric, renovation procedure, keys from OA, garbage disposal, access road were discussed.

Water Works 14 - Water sub-meter readings 2

On 30-12-06, i got to know that Hj Bakar did not complete the water meter recording for Wing2 as aspected on the 20-10-06. 10days later he is telling me that he did not complete the task. What he had done was tagging only i.e recording of the unit numbers to the respective water meter pipes. He said Amir left him alone, so he couldn't do the meter readings.

Took the meter reading again for Wing2 with HjBakar. Recorded the serial numbers of the sub meter and the water reading.

Also re-recorded the sub water meter reading for the Wing 1 & 3 as well.

Water Works 13 - Water sub meter readings

Last Tuesday(19-12-06) few buyers gathered to identify the water sub-meters and record down in a note book the sub-water meter reading along with the meter's serial number. These reading will be regarded as initial meter reading. Any additional reading will be charged at a rate which is yet to be set by Persatuan.


Those present for the job was myself(A-9-8),HjDollah(A-3-05, Rosman(A-4-01), HjAbu Bakar(A-12-6), ), Amir(A-6-05), HjRamlan and 2 more workers from BaktiSuci(SL-1,SL-2,SL-6,A-6-14&A-6-15), EnFaizal( ex-promista site supervisor).


Estana court Block A have 3 wings called Wing 1, Wing 2 and Wing 3. The Wing 1 faces Block B.


Recording of the sub meter in the water meter riser room for Wing 1 was done by myself and Hj Dollah.


Recording of the sub meter in the water meter riser room for Wing 2 was done by Hj Bakar and Amir (went back early)


Recording of the sub meter in the water meter riser room for Wing 3 was done by Hj Ramlan and En.Faizal.



Example of water sub-meter.

Electrical Works 10 - Lightning Arrestor

Installation of Lightning Arrestor Conductor Copper Strip was installed. This installation of copper strip is required by TNB in addtition to the alluminium based earthing strip installed earlier by Electrician Abu.




Abu and Yus preparing to install the copper strip from the Lightning Arrestor all the way down to ground floor. Watched by Simon at the roof top.

Copper strip.

Reaching Ground floor


Connecting the copper srtip to existing earthing strip( not stolen)

Electrical Works 9

The collection of additional revival contribution was decided on 17 sept 06 during the AGM meeting. After 3months, only 58 buyers have made the payment. Electrician Abu will only install the missing/stolen cable to the units from the electrical RISER ROOM once payment is made to him.

3 months and only 58people hv responded. and people wonder why persatuan is moving so slow.

It would benefit the owners if they do their part and pay the agreed amount of RM2000.

Anyway, following are the name of buyers who have paid the additional reivval contribution of RM500 as agreed on the 17Sept06.

( UNIT NO / NAME / RECEIPT NO. / DATE )
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A-9-09 / Arumugam a/l Thandauthapany / 19501 / 17-09-06 AJK
A-8-18 / Ting Tiah Seng (TS Jeffery) / 12075 / 17-09-06 AJK
A-3-05 / Zaiton bt Mhd Jani / contra / 17-09-06 contra food for AGM
A-7-16 / Zainal bin Mahfodz / 19504 / 23-09-06 AJK
A-G-SL3 / Ariffin b Ahmad / 19505 / 23-09-06 AJK
A-7-01 / Borsra b Ab Wahab / 19507 / 23-09-06 AJK
A-4-07 / Chong Choon Kong (Simon) / 19509 / 16-10-06 AJK
A-9-08 / Robert Kennedy Saysoo / 19510 / 16-10-06 AJK
A-4-17 / Mohamed Sahfi b Mohd Sadik / 19511 / 16-10-06 AJK- by invitation
A-5-16 / Muhammad Zairullah b Basiron / 19512 / 16-10-06 AJK
A- 2-01 / Zaileen Jalil / 19513 / 16-10-06
A-5-09 / Shamsul Kamal B Nizam Islah / 19514 / 16-10-06 AJK
A-4-05 / Dalbir Singh Gill / 19516 / 16-10-06
A-2-12A / Mejar Muhammad Zaini Mahmud / 19517 /16-10-06
A-4-11 / Fung Siew Mee / 19520 / 16-10-06
A-8-07 / Amir Hamzah / 19521 / 16-10-06
A-9-16 / Mohd Jainuri Yamo / 19522 / 05-11-06
A-11-05 / Rohaya Mohamed / 19524 / 05-11-06
A-7-07 / Ani & Aton Hashim / 19525 / 05-11-06 MrLion-AJK- by invitation
A-11-03 / Abdul Rahim bin Abdul Majid / 19526 / 05-11-06
A-9-14 / Mohd Sukri Husain / 19528 / 05-11-06
A-3-04 / Afridza by Komari / 19529 / 05-11-06
A-11-04 / Hashim bin Md Aris / 19530 / 05-11-06
A-12-03 / Zoal @ Zulkiflee / 19531 / 05-11-06
A-2-09 / Md Tahar bin Hj Ujang / 19532 / 05-11-06
A-9-11 / Mahathir Ahmad / 19533 / 05-11-06
A-5-10 / Anthony Das / 19534 / 05-11-06 AJK- by invitation
A-5-11 / Hafazah bt Hafidz / 19535 / 05-11-06 AJK
A-SL-1 / Bakti Suci ( Ramlan ) / 19536 / 08-11-06
A-SL-2 / Bakti Suci ( Ramlan ) / 19536 / 08-11-06
A-SL-6 / Bakti Suci ( Ramlan ) / 19536 / 08-11-06
A-6-14 / Bakti Suci ( Ramlan ) / 19536 / 08-11-06
A-6-15 / Bakti Suci ( Ramlan ) / 19536 / 08-11-06
A-6-12A / Chow Chee Keong ( Raymond ) / 19538 /08-11-06 AJK
A-4-08 / Noraini Ramli / 19539 / 13-11-06
A-2-16 / Saleem / 19540 / 13-11-06 AJK
A-2-17 / Saleem / 19540 / 13-11-06
A-G-03 / Md Aris Abu / 19541 / 13-11-06
A-10-11 / Ibrahim bin Mohamed / 19542 / 13-11-06
A-SL-4 / Ibrahim Taip / 19543 / 21-11-06
A-2-05 / Norazhar Mohamed / 19544 / 26-11-06
A-12-06 / Hj Abu Bakar / 19545 / 26-11-06 AJK- by invitation
A-1-08 / Hj Sufri b Hj Mhd Zin / 19547 / 26-11-06
A-4-01 / Rosman b Zainal @ Abdul Samad / 19548 / 06-12-06 AJK
A-9-17 / Rusida Zainal @ Abdul Samad / 19549 / 06-12-06
A-3-12 / Kamsiah / 19550 / 06-12-06
A-8-01 / Assunta Magret Rocky / 12176 / 06-12-06
A-1-02 / Nor Mas Hayati / 12177 / 10-12-06
A-4-16 / Ani Hitam / 12178 / 10-12-06
A-1-14 / Mohd Zahid Abdullah / 12179 / 10-12-06
A-4-12 / Rohaida bt Ismail / 12180 / 10-12-06
A-8-15 / Hanafie Mohd Imam / 12184 / 10-12-06
A-1-9 / Salmah bt Kechot / 12189 / 10-12-06
A-7-18 / Khairon Abd Ghani 12193 / 10-12-06
A-5-07 / Lee Sow Ying / 12194 / 10-12-06
A-5-15 / Mohd Soffi b Ismail / 12198 / 17-12-06
A-2-12 / Shihamul Fikri bin Abd Rahman / 12199 / 17-12-06

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UshraLite ~ Mohd Esa(A-11-02) - did not present for any meeting since elected as AJK during 17Sept06 AGM
Pintha( A-5-1) did not present for any meeting since elected as AJK during 17Sept06 AGM.

Ukay Bistari's Retaining Wall 4

The Ukay Bistari retention wall been repaired. The drainage been cleared.






BEFORE

Begining of October 2006












AFTER

End of November 2006

Water Works 12 - Ground floor water tank float switch

Rectification of ground floor water tank over flow. There was no mechanism to stop the water from entering the tank when the tank is full. Our Tukang Paip was inform of the problem and the problem was solved by installing a new Copper Ball Float Valve in the tank to stop the water from over flowing.





This is how the copper Ball Float Valve looks like.

Water Works 11 - ground floor pipe leaking

Rectification of water leakage at ground floor near office area.




Water leaks from cracks in cement floor. Tukang paip workers were informed of the problem. The workers broke the cement to isolate the faulty paip and replace the broken portion.











The broken PVC paip was removed.














New PVC paip was cut and joined.

Water Works 10 - Water System Problems

Today(30/10/60) the Tukang Paip and Electrician Abu were back from their raya holiday.

Few thing were highlighted to Tukang Paip, Zarkhan.

• Water leaks at ground floor near office area. Tukang Paip had to break the cement to isolate the broken paip. The broken paip was replaced.
• Ground floor water tanks over flows. The Ball Float Valve was missing, it was either not installed by developer or its been stolen. Tukang Piap replaced new Ball Float Valve to stop the water from the bulk meter when the tank is full.
• One of the main roof top water tank over flows. not rectified yet. may need Ball Flaot Valve.
• The tanks leaking at some nut and bolt area. not rectified yet.
• Roof top water sensors not working. not rectified yet. Electrician Abu is working on it.
• Water tank need to be cleaned. Last week, I alone manage to clean the tanks facing block B and the Main road. The tank facing Ukay Bistary and the 2 tanks in the center need to be cleaned.

Security Issue

Security issue.

Hj Basiron who was in-charge of security, had already fired the Rela night guard (En.Din) and the Rela Day guard( EN.Ramli). Reasons given was that the night guard was gambling and missing in action. The day guard was fired because he was absent attending Rela calls.

Hj.Basiron took over as security guard during daytime and he hired Pakcik Yani from the neighboring setinggan house as night time guard for Rm20 per night. Unfortunately Pakcik Yani resign after few days.

There was a break in on the 19Oct06 when Hj Basiron was away. Newly installed cables to 6 units from the Riser to the unit on the8(1 unit),9(4unit)&10(1 unit) floors were stolen again. The robberies took place a day after the electric suppy was energised to the common area by TNB.

To company Hj.Basiron n his wife, i have moved into my unit (A-9-8) on the 20Oct06. Cable to my unit was re-installed on the night of 20Oct06 by Electrician Abu so that i can put up there during this raya period. Mr.Anthony of A-5-10 and myself have requested police patrol from Melawati station. Police man in charge of the patrolling is Inspector Ng. On behalf of persatuan, we(Anthony, Sahfi n myself) have also hired an Indian security guard named Chandra to guard Estana Court at night, tentatively for 2 weeks at a rate of RM30 per/night during this raya holidays. Starting from 22Oct06 till 4Nov06.

Lift

Now, the electric power supply to the Lift Bomba is coming from TNB sorce and not Get-Set. The Lift bomba is tuned to the new power sorce and it is in operating condition. The electric power supply is supplied to the Lift Bomba since 19/10/06. The Lift is test run daily, so far the Lift operation is stable.

The Lift repair guys have checked the PassengerLifts and will give a details of the damage after raya holidays.




Lift repair guys working under Ismail from dover, checking the Passenger Lifts electrical wiring.

Cost for repairing the Passenger Lifts will be known soon.