Button Button on the Panel Which is Working of Them All

Button Button on the Panel Which is Working of Them All

A common sight in the elevators and always changing.  What concerns built this building?  Who was maintaining standards during construction?  And why are there all these damn unending problems?

Elevator outages continue

Elevator outages continue

This post was made at another forum and the resident asked for it to be posted to the blog.

"Apparently this morning around 12am August 1,2015, there were only two elevators in service.The other four elevators were out of service, specially on weekends."

A Partial State of Awfulness on the 21st Floor

A Partial State of Awfulness on the 21st Floor

(Yes, I will take photos of the other floors.  If you want your floor done sooner, let me know.)

The first four photos are Passenger Elevators 1 & 2.  The next shots are 3 through to the Service Elevator.  You will also notice a shot of the floor where there are permanent stains.  We are not sure if this was done in the process of restoring or not.  The restoration is awful.  Just awful.  Look at elevator entrances on each floor and see the work done.  If the elevator entrances were done properly as sold and turned over in 2009, why could they not be properly restored now?

See below for comments on unrelated elevator photos near the bottom of this post.  

The window sills near the elevators have been used as ashtrays and garbage holders.  Who is so awful to do this?  Then most, if not all, floors have seen the garbage on the connectors outside the windows.  Who does this and why?

This crack has been spackled and painted but it is back.  You many see it on many floors just around the corner from the elevators going to the Mayflower tower.  Do those that built the building have an explanation?

Do many recall the ropes and scaffolds with workers sealing and painting the outside walls?  Well, was that to stop this from taking place?  This is peeling below the windows going to the Mayflower tower.  Again, do those that built the buildings have an explanation for this?  You know, I see issues in this and other buildings, where is quality control and knowledge & skill to build?  Where?  Those in and outside are leaning about the condominium industry.  It is not a pretty picture.

Scrap policy on property ads? Why?

Scrap policy on property ads?  Why?

I do not know about this ad company, but I have seen many other ads and how they ever passed a judgement using Presidential Decree 957 and HLURB Board Resolution 921 is only known to them, God and the Devil. How many have even read these two docs? I have.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/upmg-to-hlurb-scrap-policy-on-property-ads 

What to Report?

What to Report?

Yes, there have not been many postings but the piles are here of material with more coming.  The elevators are still a mess.  Will they ever be fixed?  The destruction of the entrances in order to finally complete the building of Soho Central Condominium are then repaired but hardly to the original.  Why?

The first photos up to the last one below are of the Service Elevator.  This entrance has been destroyed in the past to try to fix this one of six elevators.  The repair job was as awful as the rest on each floor from those I have seen.  If they were able to build the entrances before properly, what was the problem in fixing them now?  Why give us this mess.  Look at this!  What a disgrace.  Sickening.

The last photo is Passenger Elevator 5.  Like the others on all the floors destruction and then repair to much less quality.  Unit Owners, how will this impact the value of each of your units?

I will try to post but much of it will only be bad news.  Hearing from other buildings about Metro Manila seems as if the condominium industry as a whole is spiraling downwards.  What is being done about this?  I have not heard anything and expect the worst to come.

The Sick Joke called the Elevators

The Sick Joke called the Elevators

The sick and pathetic and dangerous joke called the elevators continues. I was sent this text message yesterday morning:

"Careful of passenger elevator 2. Middle one. 4 of us got stuck while going down. Intercom elevator working. Report filed."

Later last night a resident said they also took the same elevator later that morning stating that if someone had not pushed the button on another floor they would have been stuck, too.

Why was the elevator allowed to run when broken?

New Rule for Buying: Earthquake fault lines and building

New Rule for Buying:  Earthquake fault lines and building

This rule will be added to the Rules for Buying Condo Units in the Philippines.

This is copied from a post.  Remember the articles a few years ago on liquefaction and the mapping showing areas such as the Fort.  What was done?  Were buildings improved?  Were current buildings retrofitted?  Were there follow-up reports?  Do I need to tell anyone the answers to these questions?

They had better hurry and build more since they knew all this and allowed the building anyway. Build more to make a bigger impact.

You could not have planned a better disaster.

Property values may drop when areas are now known.


"from Mon _______

Heto ang interactive map ng West Valley Fault.
Tignan niyo baka malapit kayo diyan. Kami ay 500 or so meters away.

These are the notable barangays, villages and infrastructure that lie exactly on top or within 500-meter radius from the fault line.

 Southville Montalban
 Kasiglahan Village, Montalban
 Litex Textile Mills, Montalban
 Dulong Bayan 2, San Mateo Rizal
 Santo Nino, San Mateo Rizal
 Bagong Silangan Quezon City
 Sunnyside Heights Subdivision, Quezon City
 Batasan Hills
 Kasiglahan Village
 Tagumpay Elementary School
 San Isidro, Marikina
 Santa Elena Markina
 Loyola Grand Villas
 Ateneo De Manila University
 Barangka
 Industrial Valley
 Blue Ridge
 Libis (Eastwood)
 J.M. Basa Compound
 White Plains, QC
 Valle Verde
 Ugong
 West Rembo
 East Rembo
 Comembo
 Aguho
 Rizal
 Cypress Towers
 Pinagsama
 South Signal Village
 Amkor Anam, Cupang, Muntinlupa
 Alabang Hills
 Bayanan, Muntinlupa
 Lake View Homes 1 and 2, Muntinlupa
 Midland Subdivision
 Gruenville Subdivision
 New Rain Subdivision
 Muntinlupa City Hall
 Sto Nino Village
 Poblacion, Muntinlupa
 SM Muntinlupa
 Park Homes, Tunasan, Muntinlupa
 Villa Carolina, Tunasan, Muntinlupa
 La Marea
 Susana Heights
 Sampaguita Village
 Stonecrest San Pedro Laguna
 Rosario, San Pedro, Laguna
 Juana 3, Binan, Laguna
 Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club, Binan, Laguna
 San Lazaro Leisure and Business Park, Carmona, Cavite
 Carmona Estates
 Canyon Ranch
 Moderno Homes
 DLSU Science and Technology Complex, Laguna
 Ayala Westgrove Heights
 Richland Hills Phase 1
 Adventist University of the Philippines, Laguna
 Canlubang Golf and Country Club"

Click for the interactive map: http://www.s1expeditions.com/2014/07/158-west-east-valley-fault-line.html

additional storage site for map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WCiesljdVhVFM5UURSM0RfbWs/view?usp=sharing

Click for the news:

Phivolcs: West Valley Fault ripe for strong quake
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/05/15/15/phivolcs-west-valley-fault-ripe-strong-quake

Phivolcs chief explains timing of feared 7.2 quake

http://www.philstar.com/nation/2015/05/16/1455406/phivolcs-chief-explains-timing-feared-7.2-quake

Will you be affected by the East, West Valley quake fault? See this atlas
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/05/18/15/will-you-be-affected-east-west-valley-quake-fault-see-atlas

New maps show Metro Manila's quake danger zones

Disaster officials say the detailed maps of the Valley Fault System will help Metro Manila and surrounding provinces prepare for a 7.2-magnitude earthquake expected within our lifetime

http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/93575-valley-fault-system-map-launch?utm_content=bufferbaf32&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer