As they are cutting us over from the old to the new system on Thursday September 28, we will have an outage from 9am – 4pm
As I understand everyone has electric hot water – so it should be low impact
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Update on Gas and Comms work
As the residents of Botanica will have noticed, there is lots of work happening. The current plan (subject to change of course) is as follows:
- Gas work next to the Bowen Cres driveway will be done this week.
- Involves laying a concrete slab, installing a meter and cage
- Garden will be re-instated at the end, as best it can be
- We are likely to have a gas outage on Thursday during the day
- Comms work under footpath
- Most of the ‘work’ should be done by the end of this week
- Footpath re-instatement should be done by end of next week
Gas outage for Botanica
We have received this notification
Please be advised that the gas supply will be curtailed for a period of approximately 2 hours, next week between Tuesday and Friday, I will notify you when the works schedule is firmed up.
Paul is asking for clarification
Lap Pool for Botanica?
See attached
Noisy night ahead?
I have spotted road equipment across the road and done a search on the MMRA website. Seems that they are re-surfacing St Kilda Rd TONIGHT (9pm – 6am)
I have already asked MMRA why this was not placed in our letterboxes and not emailed out??
Feel free to call and complain to their 24 hour number 1800551927
More details here
Mayfair at 412 St Kilda Rd
Here is an interesting article on 412 St Kilda Rd from yesterday AFR
More on water issues – Friday
Yep – more issues again today
The complete shutoff on Wednesday(?) was tracked back to the guys out the front. There is some very odd historical routing of water under our footpath. The good news is that we’ve been able to see and photograph/document it all…and the valve was re-opened.
We’re not certain but seems today’s issues with v low pressure is related. It seems that we have a lot of air trapped in our system and it’s currently being flushed out.
Great double bed – very cheap
We have a double bed that is looking for a new home. It’s only $50 including delivery to any apartment in Botanica.
It has a slat base and ortholatex mattress – all in v good condition
Call Sandy on 0438 085800
Water problems
Yes we had some issues with water supply this morning – the John Holland contractors who are working our the front were sure it had nothing to do with them but they turned things back to how they were yesterday and water started flowing
An amazing co-incidence.
Our plumber will be on site tomorrow to do some more checking.
Apologies…and I was worried they’d our break our internet connection
Intercom – Mobile call diversion unit
This is for people who have purchased the additional unit that allows them to use their mobile phone to ‘answer the door’
Here is the full instruction book
It is all covered in there but a few hints from me – done from memory, so I hope it is right
- The app you need on your phone is called UrMet CallMe. It is available for Apple and Android
- You have to create an account in the app
- The email that comes back is from an Italian website (Urmet) and is highly likely to be in your spam folder.
- When you are setting it up you will need to connect to a wifi ‘link’ called something like URMETCALLFW-abcd It will tell you and you only do this once but it is a bit tricky
- Write down the letters at the end…..abcd in the above example
- That is your password – your password is abcd-abcd Yes you repeat the same characters with a hyphen in between
- It seems you only need one account for all the family – means all phones that have the app running will ‘ring’ when the front door is buzzed
Only other tricks when you are using
- You must have the app running to get buzzed from the front door
- Some battery saving things on phones will turn it off. Be careful
- When it pops up…there is an ‘open gate’ and an ‘open door’, you need to hit ‘open door’
Still day 1 for me too – hope this all helps
The Botanica 
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