Taichung Condo's clogged lines

5-30-13

I just emptied out a full bucket of water extracted from the air in the study by the air conditioner. The tube the technicians put into the Renoir Condominium’s water evacuation system in the enclosed patio didn’t work; the water came out through the electric outlet near the floor.

      The cable guys came yesterday to activate our TV and internet services. One guy had come a few days ago without a drill to put the cable through the wall. Yesterday, two guys came without a drill to put the cable through the wall! The line from the cable box in the hall was good, unlike our next door neighbor who had to have an additional wire run from the box to their home. Initially, the line from the cable outlet in the living room to the cable outlet in the bedroom was blocked but there were able to extract a small rock that was blocking the canal; they didn’t have to run an unsightly wire through the house into the study. Instead, they were going to run an unsightly wire up the wall in the bedroom through the air-conditioner duct, six feet over the floor along the wall on the outside patio, through the whole drilled for the air-conditioner lines at the top of the enclosed patio, through the air con hole drilled into the study, down the wall behind the bookcases (I would have to move them) and across the floor to the corner where the hard drive will be kept.

 I told Leona not to let them do it! She argued with me again, taking the technicians side instead of the better judgment for taste, perhaps a little more expensive. Finally, she relented and called Jenny; the electrician would have to be called in to do it my way, the right way. The right way would be to drill a hole through the wall through the cable outlet box and along the base of the wall out of sight around the corner of the patio and through another hole drilled directly behind where the hard drive will be placed; no up and down and along walls; just three holes drilled through the concrete and filled with silicon to prevent leakage. The cable guys set up the cable and in the living room and internet in the study with enough wire (black wire, they didn’t have white) to facilitate the outside job. They then hooked us up with the wires indoors (they seemed to be ready to leave the wires through two open doors that wouldn’t be able to be closed) until the electrician comes in a day or two to set it up.