From a resident:

FREE SWIVEL COUNTER STOOLS!! (See pic)

Text 412-708-2622

Must pick up by Friday morning.

Thank you!!

In response to recent requests, some general information about our fire alarms and other fire safety systems has been compiled. Some of this should be appearing on our glass-front bulletin boards in the next few days, and it should eventually be making its way into the Canal Place welcome packets. In the meantime, here are the links to printable pdfs:

A general information handout: https://www.canalplaceone.com/alarms-etc.pdf

And a map of exits and equipment: https://www.canalplaceone.com/firesafetymap.pdf

A message from Georgi:

Hi Everyone! My client in CP3 is moving and she has a console table – 48” long and 29” high (and I’m going to say 16” deep because I’m not sure I got that measurement right!). 

It needs its legs tightened up and the top needs some work to remove/hide 2 water stains made by drinking glasses – but you can’t beat the price – FREE!!!

Give me a call at 978-764-5574 and we can make arrangements for you to see it.

We have an additional resident with a mobility-impaired family member who really needs a parking space in the surface lot rather than in the city garage during the repairs to our basement. Can we get another volunteer with a surface lot space to take a Leo Roy garage space for the duration? It will keep your car cooler! 🙂 Please contact Brittanye during lobby office hours or Patti or me if you can help. Thanks!

Also, a long sleeve, red shirt jacket was recently lost somewhere around our driveway or garage. If anyone has found it, please turn it into the lobby office and/or let me know.

A black iPhone was found by the side door. It has been left at the Lowell Police Station to be claimed. 

Residents should be aware that a raccoon was reported roaming the basement garage and hiding in the garage ceiling this evening. Please take extra care when in the basement until this is resolved.

I know at least one person has reached out to management but I’m not sure if they’ve made contact yet.

Georgi asked me to post this:

Hi Everyone

I want to thank all of you (who are much more computer-literate than I am) for your suggestions and fixes for my iPhone. Kate especially – she invited me to her place and we spent about an hour getting my phone ‘tuned up’

Again, thanks so much for all the suggestions! This is a GREAT site for Canal Place – thank you Ruth, for ‘manning’ it!

Georgi

Just want to remind folks again that the new admin email for this site is canalplaceone@gmail.com. I had one email make it to me through the old address and at least three that didn’t this week so please make sure to use the gmail address.

Also, any iPhone experts out there? Georgi is looking for advice:

Hi Everyone

I need to talk to someone who has a good working knowledge of how an iPhone works.

My iPhone 8 is, randomly, not allowing incoming calls to ring through; they just go to vmail. 

I visited an AT&T store today; the guy played with my phone for about a minute, handed it back to me saying he didn’t know what was wrong and proceeded to try to sell me a new phone.

I’m not averse to getting a new phone; I would just like someone who understands iPhones and doesn’t have a financial gain in my buying a new one if I can get my old one to work for a bit longer, to have a look at it.

Please call me at 978-764-5570 (I’ll be checking vmail a lot since it won’t probably ring for you!). Anything you could do to advise me (even if it’s “yep, you need a new phone” would be appreciated!

A resident contacted me looking for advice (see below). My own heating units were both replaced shortly before we moved here so I haven’t any experience with replacing one. If anyone has any info or advice to share, please reply in the comments. Thanks!

My first floor heating/cooling unit died this week and it cannot be fixed. I am wondering if anyone in the building has replaced their system before and if so, what model they used for the new system. My system was from the ’80s. I am also wondering if I need to get the building management company involved since I don’t know if they will need access to the roof/basement. 

I’ve been asked by a fifth floor resident to put up a post soliciting advice on window operation. His message is as follows:

“I assumed for a while that the downstairs windows weren’t supposed to open, but I recently saw a picture on the site of them open, so now I know they’re supposed to open but can’t for some reason. The best I can do is move them up a couple millimeters. They won’t budge past that. 

I was hoping perhaps someone else in the building has been in this position before and could help me come up with strategies to make them work again. I imagine the best route to go would be to open them then lubricate the tracks, but it’s that first opening that I can’t manage.“

Admin here again: I’m hoping someone else can offer some helpful suggestions (in the comments, please), but my impression after watching more than one contractor open long-unused windows in my unit is that it’s pretty much a matter of brute force. Because of the depth of the sills, I usually have to climb up and kneel on the sill to get enough leverage to open even a not-stuck window (Warning: lifting from that position can be risky for one’s back). I know someone else who’s used a metal bar as a lever but that visibly bends the lift ridge of the window and could damage it permanently. I’ve thought for years that someone needs to design a mechanism that can lift these windows without damage to them or us.

That said, I can suggest the best lubricant to use on the tracks once the window is open: white lithium spray. It’s readily available at Home Depot and makes a huge difference.

One other factor that affects ease of window use is whether the glass has been replaced. Although it’s not obvious just by looking, the newer glass is twice as thick which provides better insulation but means it weighs twice as much. One can find a bit more info about our windows by clicking on the “Windows” page of this site’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor section.