Patio Condition Survey

 

Patio Survey - My Spreadsheet September 2012
Survey by our Manager and I.
Presented to the board in September 2012

After I joined the board in September 2010, I initiated a lot of onsite surveys.  These were a necessity because the board was unaware of the condition of much of the infrastructure.  The earlier board had left in September 2010 but did not turn over condition reports to the new board; I suspected there were none.  Management provided whatever they had and that became the beginning of regular, annual surveys from 2011-2018.

I did the survey, for some of them management joined me, and for others another board member joined me.  

The need for these surveys became apparent when several owners approached the board in September 2010 and reported issues with garage floors. The board considered a repair, but I asked if we had a list of the condition of the 84 garage floors on the property.  We didn't.  I asked the board to delay a replacement until a proper survey could be made.  The board agreed.  

The garage floor condition survey was conducted in early 2011 and was reported to owners in the May-June 2011 Newsletter.  That survey revealed eleven garage floors in "poor" condition. The article is available by clicking here:

May-June 2011 Newsletter - Garage Floor Survey

To avoid any confrontations, I would never do garage or patio surveys unless accompanied.  

Patio Survey

The garage floor survey was the first of many, regularly scheduled annual surveys. 

The patio survey in the image above was submitted to the board in September, 2012.  One board member, who had been on boards for a couple of decades contested my findings.  It was her position that earlier boards believed that they had repaired all of the patios.  The facts and owner statements disproved that.

I conducted a formal survey because I observed some patio issues during my normal walk-arounds on the association property.

All of these surveys had the intention of best directing maintenance resources and avoiding breakdowns.  All resources were paid for by owner fees, and breakdowns would be at a minimum an inconvenience for owners, and at worst, require higher repair costs.  Higher costs result in higher fees.

(c) N. Retzke 2021