Maintenance Committee: November 2017 Update

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Stairway Maintenance: The old grey stairway ain’t what she used to be. Well almost. Maintenance has completed refurbishment of the wood stairway leading from the Villas to Sea Terrace Two. The stairway, forty-one steps and six landings, was originally installed by the developer in the late 1970s and was in need of refurbishment.
The lower wooden deck has now been replaced with concrete, and several of the steps have been replaced and reinforced with metal hangers. Additional guard rails have been added. Bonding compound has replaced rot in some of the pillars. The entire structure has been painted, and a slip-resistant surface and yellow edging have been added to the steps.
Maintenance completed a similar refurbishment in March of 2009 when the wood pillars that support the structure were in serious disrepair. Replacing the pillars would have required essentially replacing the entire structure at a significant cost. Instead, the pillars were repaired by digging out the decayed material and then filling the pillars with an epoxy compound, thus saving considerable expense.
With this 2017 refurbishment, the stairway should be good for another five or six years. At that time we will need to decide if the stairway should be repaired or replaced. In the meantime,
stop by and enjoy a sunset view from the bench on the top deck.
—Jack Christiansen

Street and Sidewalk Maintenance: While our streets and sidewalks may appear to be passive and unchanging year-toyear, a number of physical factors result in their horizontal and vertical movement. The most common causes of movement are ground water and vehicular traffic, but other factors include construction, heavily loaded trucks, and tree roots.
Earlier this year, we identified a number of places where adjacent sidewalk sections are displaced vertically. A contractor was engaged to grind down the higher sidewalk sections to eliminate the offsets. In addition, the contractor replaced several sections of damaged sidewalk.
Through the annual inspections and selected maintenance of our streets and sidewalks, these important capital facilities should serve us well into the future.
—Bob Gregg

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