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into a webinar
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but the idea for today's webinar is it's the top 10
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maintenance tips to save your strata money in the long run
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so the whole idea we've done a lot of these kind of how to how to save funds
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and things like that this one's going to be more about being proactive and actually about how to spend money because,
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you know, you're managing large assets here that do require a lot of capital reinvestment in order to keep them up.
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And you'll see when I go through some of these examples, how deferring things, how not doing maintenance,
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not spending money can actually cost you a tremendous amount in the long run.
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So that's the topic for today.
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and uh just going to get into it can everyone see the presentation okay my name is chris stepchuk ceo
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and managing broker at fort park property management real estate we
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specialize in strata management for residential uh commercial like industrial strata since 2008
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and uh we ensure you know uh
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or try to provide as as best as we can a smooth
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and hassle -free experience for property owners um the tagline for
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today an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
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and you're going to hear uh kind of a lot about that that's a famous quote from benjamin franklin
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from the 1700s and it certainly rings true in the strata world um
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and what we see a lot of times i guess is you know i i hear this a lot
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because i do sit in on a lot of agms and
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and hold some of my own
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and you know very often um you know you end up
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the year with a with a large surplus maybe thirty thousand dollars
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or something like that depending on the side of your budget
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and the owners are high -fiving each other
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because it gets to keep their strata fees low the next year
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and uh council gets a pat on the back for job well done
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and while it's certainly good to run surpluses um it doesn't always mean
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that uh the strata has done a great job by running
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a huge surplus what it can mean in certain instances is
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that a maintenance was simply not done that was budgeted for
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so it was deferred um which may end up coming back to bite in the end
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so just something to keep in mind if you're running surplus after surplus might not be the best thing in the world.
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I mean, it could be good if you're just shaving costs where you can, but you certainly don't want to do it at the expense of not doing maintenance.
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So these are the top 10 things that we see that you want to make sure you're, you are reinvesting your strata fees into.
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So roof maintenance.
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So depending on the size of your strata, your roof replacement can be a hundred thousand you know for
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smaller buildings it can be two million dollars um our strata
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right now uh where i'm on council we are redoing our roof
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and we've been in the process of it
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and it's going to be about a million dollars maybe a little bit over
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that by the time things are said and done
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so it's a huge investment um most roofs are going to last 25 years uh
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but if you can stretch it out for an additional 10 years
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or sometimes we even see roofs will last 40 years
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if they're really well maintained depending on you know how much sun or if they're they're covered with gravel or
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or just um you know different things like that but
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if they're you know if you've got moss all over them
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and pooling water and you're not clearing the drains you're not patching it where there's where it's required
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and water is getting in um you can expect it'll last
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a lot a lot um shorter of a period than than 40 years
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so you know you need to make sure
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that you're doing uh repair should be needed done as needed
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but uh caulking for the flashings
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and preventing water ingress replacing missing shingles just redoing the sealants every few years it's kind of common sense stuff
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but you really want to make sure
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that you're working with a you know a legitimate roofing company
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that specializes in maintenance that is taking care of these things
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and it can save you a bundle of money down the road.
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Trees so trees are something that can be really really invasive
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certainly the roots on certain trees can get into the uh
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into the water lines they can get into the waste lines
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uh collapsed drain lines can be very expensive uh to repair
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because you have to dig them up very often uh trench
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and it's a lot of labor involved if you're getting sewer backups because of um, drain lines that have, have roots in them.
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That can be very expensive from an insurance standpoint, uh, owners having to replace carpeting and, and cabinets and things like that.
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Uh, and then dead trees, like dead trees.
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I know I've had it happen to my property before where they just kind of fall over
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and they land on either your property or an adjacent property.
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And then you've got insurance issues.
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You've got to redo the roof.
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Um, uh, certainly in some of wind storms
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that we've had that's fairly often will happen
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so proactive tree maintenance costs far less than emergency repairs and cleanup
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so a lot of the owners might question well why do
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we have you know tree you know tree um inspections every year that's expensive where they go in
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and look at the drain lines and things like that
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but again if you're spending a couple thousand on
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that versus a huge insurance deductible or having to redo the drain lines it can be a very
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very well spent a couple thousand dollars
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so next thing that we've got here is parkade sealing
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so the parkade has to be resealed every you know it's not something you're going to do every year
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but maybe every five
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or ten years um this will prevent water penetration into the concrete it protects the rebar from corrosion
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and rusting and it will extend the life of your slab um
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when you have to redo it it's very very very expensive um
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so you don't want to be getting into structural repairs
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and things like
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that uh i mean we've seen buildings where the concrete is literally falling from the sky
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and falling on to cars and things like that
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so it's highly recommended you don't get it uh allow it to get to
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that point where those kind of things are happening
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and uh reactive concrete restoration can be very expensive it's very
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it's dangerous it's also um you know it should never get to that point
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next thing is rotting fences and decks so wood fences
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and decks are highly exposed to water
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and weather particularly here in in the lower mainland uh particularly
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in on the north shore i mean we see we see this all the time uh regular painting
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and staining should be done every few years this will help prevent the rot
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and decay many stratas delay or skip this maintenance allowing structures to deteriorate
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if you if you maintain your fencing it should last from at least 15 years maybe 25 years
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but again we see properties where they pay for a brand new fence it's a wood fence
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and then within five years the thing is already rotting
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because it was never stained properly um and then you have to replace it maybe at the 10 -year mark so
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not a good use of your your money um another alternative there is vinyl fencing
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so that's a super long -term alternative very expensive
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but uh it looks great and basically maintenance free
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and will outlast probably the property in most cases um
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so just something to keep in mind um even
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if it's limited common property the strata might want to kind of take this this over
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and make sure that it's being done
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and don't leave it up to the owners to do it because a lot of them won't do it.
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Some just don't care if they're, you know, sometimes when they're rental properties,
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people just don't even, don't even know that they're deteriorating because they don't go to the property very often.
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Number five that we've got on the list is the hydro flush.
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So we do recommend this gets done every few years.
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Yeah, it's expensive.
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It can be a few thousand dollars but um these drain lines
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and everything will clog up with soap and grease and hair and
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god knows what else people flush down there
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so um paper towel you know people put in paper towel
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or wipes down there so just the damage from sewer backups can be absolutely massive especially
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if you're in a high -rise building where the stack can get clogged
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and then it just goes right up the stack
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and it can affect three or four
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or more floors um can be hundreds of thousands i mean
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it happens in our building where i live it's happened a couple times
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and each time has been around uh two hundred thousand dollars in damage multiple suites
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so can easily be prevented or not necessarily easily prevented
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but it is can be prevented some of these things with regular hydro flushing of your horizontals and your verticals
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um caulking your windows number six
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so water is strata's worst enemy particularly here in in bc
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in the lower mainland um over time water can seat behind windows
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and flashings moisture can cause damage to the insulation framing interior finishes
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and if you don't know about it uh you assume everything's fine
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but sometimes undetected water intrusion can lead to mold behind the scenes.
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And, you know, we do see that where we weren't even aware of a leak and next thing you know,
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there's black mold on the drywall or on some of the envelope.
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And now you have a real problem, very labor intensive and very expensive to remediate mold.
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The companies that do that really take full advantage of it
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and you will pay dearly for that if
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that has to get done properly with the all the proper protocols
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and the hazmat suits and the masks and all those things
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so regular window caulking every you know five seven years can really help prevent water intrusion
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and can be very very inexpensive when compared to doing building envelope repairs which sometimes require removing envelope.
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It can require scaffolding at times, which is very expensive to set up.
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Next one is gutter cleaning, number seven.
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So clean your gutters every year to keep them flowing.
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Leaves and pine needles can quickly clog up your downspouts, and this can cause blockages water which then goes over the gutter
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and in behind and it gets into the fascia and your soffits
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and maybe you don't really see it right away but
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that constant water is going to eventually rot them
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and then again very labor intensive to you have to basically remove all your gutters
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and redo them and redo the soffits and the fascia
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so good timing for this is to do your gutter cleaning in the fall probably after the leaves have fallen
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so you get rid of those leaves
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and the water is going to flow freely before the rainy season
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so yeah like you know October late October early November even a good time to probably do that
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but if you notice them and they're starting to grow trees in your gutters
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and and leaves are spilling out probably better that sooner rather than later is a good time to do it
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uh winterizing number eight
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so this is really important uh inspect your hose bibs for
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leaks every few years i mean we don't really have a winter this year
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so maybe it's the timing of this isn't great but uh
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if winter ever does return um you want to make sure
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your owners shut off their hose bib valves before the temperatures freeze again i don't even know
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if they got below freezing this year but usually it does um
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when they do freeze if there is water like
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if you leave your leave your hose on
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and there's water in it then that can freeze and
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that can go right back up into the hose bib
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and into the actual supply lines and sometimes those will burst
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which causes a ton of damage to the inside of the
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property you want to insulate your exposed pipes especially in the parkade
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and make sure that they are serviced in the fall
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and all the waters drained out of them
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and again preventative winterization is far less costly than emergency pipe repairs
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and water damage so that's a bit of a no -brainer
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but again people don't really think about it all the time
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and they don't necessarily budget for it so it's important that you do budget accordingly.
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Boiler and hot water maintenance, hot water tank.
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So you want to maintain your boiler to extend the life of these very expensive capital items.
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Anyone who's replaced the boiler knows how expensive that can be.
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Your hot water tank, same thing.
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You need to replace them every probably 10 or 15 years, but at least have them serviced and make sure
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that you're replacing them before they go because
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when they do rust out at the bottom or
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and they go then it can be very costly
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and a lot of damage and we've seen
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that many times where hot water tank goes
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if it's on the ground floor maybe not the end of the world
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but when it's on an upper floor it can cause a lot of damage to suites below
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so just you know use a regular your plumbing company your hvac company to come in
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and look at that on an annual basis
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and tell you where you're at with it don't rely on the depreciation report for
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that you know they're not really inspecting it they're just looking at the age of it
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and telling you that it will need to be replaced in 10 or 15 years but
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um you know actually have a professional come in and do that and look at it
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And then number 10 is the sump pit cleaning.
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So these should be cleaned out every few years, remove debris that can clog or damage sumps.
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This will extend the life of the sump pump equipment
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and it reduces the biggest thing is reducing the risk of pump failure during heavy rain events.
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So if you guys do have issues and that sump stops working and you need it,
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it can cause a huge amount of damage to lower suites.
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And we've seen that, certainly seen that before.
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So you want to make sure that it is working properly, that's being inspected.
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And again, the theme of today,
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preventative cleaning costs far less than emergency repairs and nobody likes insurance deductibles going up because you've got insurance claims.
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And then the bonus one, very last one, number 11 is balcony membranes.
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I had to throw this in here
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because it can be a little bit tricky
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because usually balconies are limited common property and the strata council won't necessarily be aware if there's any issues.
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You're kind of relying on owners to report that
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which certain owners will but if they're again
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if they're tenanted properties uh they may not even know about it
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if they're not doing inspections and the tenant may not say anything
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so just something to be aware of that you know even
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if it's limited common property and you can't see it it doesn't mean
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that it's not damaged and it doesn't mean
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that it's not the strata's responsibility and when those membranes go
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and the water gets in and then they start to rot
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uh that can be very very expensive to repair scaffolding engineers all
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that stuff on strata's dime so make sure
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that you guys are either inspecting them or
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or um having the owners at least you know you can send out surveys some of our buildings will do
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that just kind of asking the owners if there's any tears in them um
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but you want to avoid the wood rot for sure because it is a very bad thing for strata buildings.
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So that's the presentation for today.
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And now I'd like to open it.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Save Strata Money with These Top 10 Long Term Maintenance Tips ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : strata, expensive, property. Cette vidéo contient 229 phrases et 2795 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 17:08. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 163 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 83 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| stratum nom | /ˈstɹeɪ.təm/ | couche |
| redo verbe | /ɹiˈduː/ | refaire |
| drain nom | /dɹiːn/ | drain, bonde |
| fence nom | /fɛns/ | clôture, cloison |
| clog nom | /klɑɡ/ | sabot |
| hose nom | /hoʊz/ | tuyau |
| surplus nom | /ˈsɝˌplʌs/ | surplus |
| freeze verbe | /ˈfɹiːz/ | geler, glacer |
| caulk verbe | /kɔk/ | calfeutrer, étouper |
| sump nom | /sʌmp/ | bassin, fosse d'aisances |
| boiler nom | /ˈbɔɪlɚ/ | chaudière |
| mold nom | /moʊld/ | moisissure f moisi, mildiou |
| flush verbe | /ˈflʌʃ/ | laver à grande eau |
| envelope nom | /ˈɛnvə(ˌ)loʊp/ | enveloppe |
| suite nom | /swiːt/ | suite |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| end up verbe | se terminer, se finir | |
| go through verbe | traverser | |
| go up verbe | monter, s'élever | |
| set up verbe | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | mettre en place, installer |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | we've done · has done · we've been |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | was deferred · are said · should be needed |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 69 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, don't, they're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: flush /ˈflʌʃ/, fascia /ˈfæʃə/, intrusion /ɪnˈtɹuːʒən/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, flashing /ˈflæʃɪŋ/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: deductible [dɪˈdʌktəbəɫ], deteriorate /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/, hydroelectric /ˌhʌɪdrəʊɪˈlɛktrɪk/, depreciation /dɪˌpɹiːʃɪˈeɪʃən/, inexpensive /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hose /hoʊz/, hydroelectric /ˌhʌɪdrəʊɪˈlɛktrɪk/, hazmat /ˈhæzˌmæt/, hassle /ˈhæsl̩/, horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: blockage /ˈblɑkɪd͡ʒ/, trench /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/, moisture /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/, adjacent /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/, benjamin /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: stratum /ˈstɹeɪ.təm/, redo /ɹiˈduː/, drain /dɹiːn/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, deteriorate /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme stratum, redo, drain.
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