The Kontiki complex has been a veritable beehive of activity this week. Only four units were occupied early in the week and it was a good time to get some work done.
The parking lot potholes have been pretty much repaired although Justin said he could have used about twenty more bags of asphalt. Pier repair started this morning. We have several sections that are in bad shape. Note in the picture that new posts are being jetted down to provide better support for the new joists.
Another worker is repairing the stucco that has been removed in order to replace the flashing around decks and stairs. Stairs have been completed on the 100 building and started on the 200 building.
The AC stands are being lowered and repaired. It is a tricky process. You can see on the picture of the stand for 206, that the new board has been placed below the old white board. Two men then lift the AC unit while another pulls out the precut old white boards and slips in new support 2 by 6s and the unit is lowered.
The decks are a major project. It looks like a crew of four works all day. Rob is doing this. He started at 108 and is working toward 101. He plans to begin on the 200 building next week. It is a massive quantity of lumber involved. As you can see in the picture the debris pile is large and he hauls off about this much every day.
Work is continuing on the wall of 707 and 711. The utility box had rotted off as you may have seen in an earlier post. The wall was found to be rotted and there were some termites so a large section had to be replaced.
A crew was here on Tuesday to power wash all wood and walls of all buildings. They started on 601 and it looked good, but it looked like painting might be needed after the washing so Justin said that he called them off until the board can meet to see if they want to paint because it would do no good to wash now and not immediately paint. The washing alone would be in the $10,000 range. The remains of a small fire was noted on the corner of 601. It looks like a cigarette may have caused the damage, but I can just imagine what would have happened had this been on the bayside where the wind would have accelerated the blaze.
A new landscape contract has been secured. They will do what Tommy was doing for lawn care including trimming the palm trees. I think the cost will be about $275 per week. I hear that this may have been necessary because we had a break in and all the landscaping equipment was stolen!
The extra dumpster that is used for high volume summer activity was removed on Tuesday.
The tennis court lights were put on a timer. I'm not sure this is a good idea. They are on right now at 1:30 am and I have no way to turn them off. The lights are needed very little in the off season and they don't need to be on every evening. A second manual switch could be placed in the line so that they could be turned off at any time and turned on only when the timer allowed.
At the board meeting last August it was noted that Moose Johnson was in the process of building a barge and he would then come to finally finish the work on our breakwater. I see in the Rockport Pilot that Moose will have his barge here to dredge the Legget Channel during the coming five weeks. The Legget channel is the one leading into Key Allegro. Maybe he will do ours then. We are still having problems with parts of the shoreguard and whalers coming apart. I also noted in the Pilot that the Duck Inn is closing for good this week. The present owners bought it from Mr. Duck in 1960!
The new Chili's is coming along well. It is in front of Walmart, as they sometimes are.
I understand that a board of directors meeting will be held on Saturday the 22nd. I have not heard the time or place. Usually they are at 9 am at the Phase II recreation room.
On a more personal note, I have not posted for the last week partly due to the addition of another grand daughter. She was born on Sunday the 9th. The picture below is of my youngest daughter, Allison and grand daughter Breleigh.
The parking lot potholes have been pretty much repaired although Justin said he could have used about twenty more bags of asphalt. Pier repair started this morning. We have several sections that are in bad shape. Note in the picture that new posts are being jetted down to provide better support for the new joists.
Another worker is repairing the stucco that has been removed in order to replace the flashing around decks and stairs. Stairs have been completed on the 100 building and started on the 200 building.
The AC stands are being lowered and repaired. It is a tricky process. You can see on the picture of the stand for 206, that the new board has been placed below the old white board. Two men then lift the AC unit while another pulls out the precut old white boards and slips in new support 2 by 6s and the unit is lowered.
The decks are a major project. It looks like a crew of four works all day. Rob is doing this. He started at 108 and is working toward 101. He plans to begin on the 200 building next week. It is a massive quantity of lumber involved. As you can see in the picture the debris pile is large and he hauls off about this much every day.
Work is continuing on the wall of 707 and 711. The utility box had rotted off as you may have seen in an earlier post. The wall was found to be rotted and there were some termites so a large section had to be replaced.
A crew was here on Tuesday to power wash all wood and walls of all buildings. They started on 601 and it looked good, but it looked like painting might be needed after the washing so Justin said that he called them off until the board can meet to see if they want to paint because it would do no good to wash now and not immediately paint. The washing alone would be in the $10,000 range. The remains of a small fire was noted on the corner of 601. It looks like a cigarette may have caused the damage, but I can just imagine what would have happened had this been on the bayside where the wind would have accelerated the blaze.
A new landscape contract has been secured. They will do what Tommy was doing for lawn care including trimming the palm trees. I think the cost will be about $275 per week. I hear that this may have been necessary because we had a break in and all the landscaping equipment was stolen!
The extra dumpster that is used for high volume summer activity was removed on Tuesday.
The tennis court lights were put on a timer. I'm not sure this is a good idea. They are on right now at 1:30 am and I have no way to turn them off. The lights are needed very little in the off season and they don't need to be on every evening. A second manual switch could be placed in the line so that they could be turned off at any time and turned on only when the timer allowed.
At the board meeting last August it was noted that Moose Johnson was in the process of building a barge and he would then come to finally finish the work on our breakwater. I see in the Rockport Pilot that Moose will have his barge here to dredge the Legget Channel during the coming five weeks. The Legget channel is the one leading into Key Allegro. Maybe he will do ours then. We are still having problems with parts of the shoreguard and whalers coming apart. I also noted in the Pilot that the Duck Inn is closing for good this week. The present owners bought it from Mr. Duck in 1960!
The new Chili's is coming along well. It is in front of Walmart, as they sometimes are.
I understand that a board of directors meeting will be held on Saturday the 22nd. I have not heard the time or place. Usually they are at 9 am at the Phase II recreation room.
On a more personal note, I have not posted for the last week partly due to the addition of another grand daughter. She was born on Sunday the 9th. The picture below is of my youngest daughter, Allison and grand daughter Breleigh.
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