Raymond Update

Jon Andersen and his crew came to visit with me this morning. We had a great visit and talked about the Raymond project in detail. Essentially all city projects have a one year warranty; they are now verifying the completion date and seeing if the problems we are having fall into this warranty or not.

Some of the problems I discussed and showed them were:

1. Missing Sprinkler heads (on my lawn). We also discussed the problems others have been having with their sprinklers.
2. Chips in Curb and Gutter
3. Chunks of Curb and Gutter missing
4. Breaks in cement and flaking cement.

I have put together a slide show of the damaged areas I showed them.

They agreed that some of the damages were fault of the cement plant and the contractor. "Essentially we are getting poorer cement for higher prices these days" they said. Interesting to note, they told me the same contractor has done other work for them at the Nature park and the Fire station 82. Both of these are seeing the same, if not worse, wear on the cement. I wonder if we will keep using them? However, they were quick to point out the use of ice melt and snow plows last year on the new cement would cause some, not all, of the damage. This could account for some of the flaking cement in the approaches and chips in the curbs.

Anyways, I am glad that we are getting some things done. Jon mentioned he thought the project ended in August. I was quick to point out it was scheduled to be done in August, but wasn't done until the end of September. You can see my post on September 25th, 2007 as proof of that. [See Here]

I will keep you posted from here.