Bharat S. M. Karavadra

2 Months and Counting To Replace Carpets and Repair Electrics.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

This post contains a copy of correspondence sent to Chris Jones CPM/RMG (Birmingham) and copied to a few other people at CPM/RMG and others involved and interested in this matter.

It’s about a flood that happened in the building (read more here) which damaged the carpets and electrics of the water system which have not been attended to satisfactorily for over 2 months (since writing this Post).

Hi Chris,

With regards to your point 2 below:

3) There has been a delay in replacing the carpet due to the contractors having difficulty finding an exact match to the existing carpet.  Unfortunately the colour has been discontinued by many stockists. So far we have sampled two different colours both were slightly different. Since I spoke to Mrs Karavadra regarding this issue last week the developer has got back to me with the details of the company that installed the original carpet and they are sending over a sample in tonight’s post to the contractor. Once I have a confirmed match I will email you a date for installation.

It is has been now over 2 months since the carpet has NOT been replaced and CPM/RMG have not replied with an update since you made your point.

QUESTION 1:
Perhaps function may be more important than appearance; Is it not easier and comfortable for all to simply get a carpet put back in that closely matches the old carpet, instead of the residents having to put up with a cold, bare and ghastly floor? Would it not be a good thing to ask the 8 residents/owners of the block if they are happy with a closely matching carpet than the exact carpet that was there before, considering that an exact match has taken over 2 months to put back in?

Also, the electrics do not seem to have been fixed as per the plumbing service company’s suggestion. The plumbing company had a look at the pump that I switched off to avoid any further plumbing and they stated that they could not evaluate if there is a plumbing issue until the electrics had been fixed which were damaged by the flooding. The plumbing company were also managing the replacement of the carpet and when they came a couple of weeks after the flooding issue to remove and replace the carpet, I suggested that there was no point in replacing the carpet until the electrics and plumbing had been fixed considering that when they did their tests on the plumbing the water leaked out of the system onto the floor where the carpets would be. They agreed and were quite surprised (as I was) that it had been about 2 weeks since they told CPM/RMG that the electrics need to be looked and that nobody had come to look at them. The water flow seems to be OK despite the electrics not being fixed, but would it not be good to actually get the electrics fixed properly so that no other issues arise in future?

QUESTION 2:
When do you consider properly repairing the water system?

A copy of this email can be found on my online project at
http://www.karavadra.net/blog/category/my-work-clients/the-mall-2-erdington/cpm-rmg/

I will reply to your others points (as below) as soon as I can.
Thank you and please accept my best wishes to you and yours Forever,
Bharat Karavadra