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For Your Information ~ Questions and Answers:
This section will introduce various questions that residents have asked about the running of the building and answers provided by experts such as the Office Manager, Superintendents and Board members. If you have a question you feel might be of concern to a number of residents, please send it along to the management office, and both the question and answer will be published here.
Q: What was the impact of the fire alarm that was sounded in the early morning of January 1, 2013?
A: Please see the copy of the notice posted in the elevators. Notice
Q: What remedies are available to management when an incident of this nature occurs?
A: YCC323 REVISED CONSOLIDATED RULES AND REGULATIONS do provide sections to address inappropriate actions of residents and/or their guests. The pertinent sections are outlined for your review by clicking here.
Q: Are there precautions I should take when disposing low energy light bulbs?
A: Energy-saving fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent lamps and LED bulbs use less electricity and last longer than conventional light bulbs, but they also contain small amounts of mercury, a poisonous heavy metal.
Mercury should be treated as hazardous material, and should not be thrown in the garbage. Liquid mercury should never be poured down the drain. If a mercury-containing product ends up in a landfill, the mercury can leach into the surrounding soil or be released into the atmosphere. If waste is incinerated, the amount of mercury released into the atmosphere may be higher.
Fragile products, such as fluorescent lamps, may break during transportation and release mercury into the air. If such a light is accidentally broken:
- Open the closest window, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, and leave the room, taking pets with you, for 15 minutes or more. Make sure no person or pet walks through the breakage area on their way out.
- Upon returning, carefully scoop up glass pieces and powder, using stiff paper or cardboard, and place them in a sealed plastic bag.
- Wipe the area with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels in the plastic bag together with the broken glass and seal it.
- Vacuum the area where the bulb was broken, remove the vacuum bag, and put it in the same sealed plastic bag.
- Wash clothing, shoes and other materials that have been exposed to mercury vapour, such as the clothing you were wearing when you cleaned up the broken light.
- Wash your hands after disposing of the plastic bags containing the clean-up materials in a hazardous-waste trash container.
For the recycling and disposal of lights containing mercury, Management will supply special hazardous-waste containers as soon as possible in the Recycling Room.
On the Lighter Side:
Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.