Remedying the deficiencies

On June 22nd, I did a walkaround with Charles to create the list of deficiencies that need to be remedied. This list of deficiencies is part of the Ontario New Home Warranty Program - which is administered by a company called Tarion. (You have probably already noticed that Tarion is an anagram of Ontario - very clever. hah!)

One of the things that had been irking us for quite some time was that there was no indicator on the HRV controls if the HRV was On or Off. In other words, I could go into one bathroom, and push the HRV "On" button to activate the HRV before having a shower. If you went into the other bathroom and did the same thing, you would have no idea if the HRV was on or not, and pushing the "On" button might actually turn the unit off! This problem was caused by the HVAC installer running 2-conductor wire to the controls, instead of the 3-conductor that it needs to support the indicator light as well as the switch.

Back in May, I had a meeting with Luc, one of the owners of the HVAC company, and he tried to tell me that the HRV and controls were working how they were supposed to. I quickly proved to him that it did not. Last week he was trying to get "turn" timers, that would work with 2-conductor wires. I told Charles that mechanical timers were not acceptable as it is no longer 1970, and Charles passed that along.

This was finally remedied on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 (Day 455).

On June 20th, a guy from the HVAC company came and fixed the leaks in the plumbing of the heating system. (Look at the May 29th blog entry for the description of the issues.) Luc had blamed "something in the water" for the rust, and I said that I thought it was bi-metallic corrosion. Guess what? The original installer had not put sufficient teflon tape on the treads of the pipe joining the copper pipe to the iron fitting. This means it was bi-metallic corrosion.