General - The main building-key opens eight doors: inner lobby, parking-lot elevator, front and back stairwells, basement storage, sauna room (behind the laundry room on the lobby level), roof, and trash shed (in the parking lot).
- The outer lobby door locks itself from about 10pm to 7am. When it's locked, the keypad allows entrance. For maintenance, the front-door timer is in the locked fire-alarm closet in the inner lobby. A single switch toggles DST on and off. No other settings normally require change, but if a malfunction occurs, here are instructions for reprogramming the timer. (Beware of uninsulated scalding-hot pipes in the fire-alarm closet.)
- There is a lock box in our outer lobby with keys to the building, the basement, the roof, the boiler room (basement), the elevator machine room (roof), and the alarm room (inner lobby). A separate lock box for emergency personnel is outside our building next to the front door.
- Our building was constructed in 1965 (according to the City of Cambridge's assessor database) and converted to condominiums in 1973 (according to our Master Deed).
- Annual preventive maintenance:
- Clean building's main drainage pipes (summer).
- Check/refresh heating system's antifreeze (autumn).
Electrical system
Each unit has a circuit-breaker panel in the hallway. The basement has per-unit electric meters and breakers, accessible with the main building-key.
Elevator
Lobby, Hallways, and Office
- Our balconies were renovated in 2001-2006.
- 2013: extensive balcony and window repair may be needed for the x3 tier. See preliminary report.
Information reviewed and modified 2020-02-15. |
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