Comments | gehayi: Furnace IX: Social Workers and Water Leaks

gehayi

Furnace IX: Social Workers and Water Leaks

Jan 13, 2010 15:29

I have just got off the phone with West Hartford's Department of Social Services, Housing Division. Seems that Weatherization is claiming that they can't replace the furnace until a leak in the basement is eliminated. Weatherization is saying that it is a sewage leak. I say that it is a leak from a water main with a missing lid, not a sewage leak; ( Read more... )

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lee_rowan January 13 2010, 21:04:27 UTC

The obsession with tidiness is a pain, but it's valid. I've known a few truly unbalanced people and most really are unable to keep anything clean. (Except for someone who's OCD, in which case the house and clothes are probably excessively tidy.)

Any luck on the Freecycle front? I'll bet a couple of outdoor-grade sleeping bags would help.

Mercury goes out of retrograde on the 15th... maybe that'll help. I won't say 'couldn't be worse' because that's just asking for trouble.

Hang in there!

gehayi January 13 2010, 21:07:47 UTC

Hang in there!

What else can I do?

It's not going to get better, though. Nothing ever gets better.

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gehayi January 13 2010, 22:07:37 UTC

I have electric radiators. They're all hooked up to the furnace.

Space heaters are expensive whether they're big or small.

I'm more terrified of the social worker tomorrow than anything else. I can't count on him to be honest with me, any more than Weatherization was. I'm afraid I'm going to be declared a ward of the state and involuntarily committed if the house isn't clean enough to suit him. Social workers terrify me anyway, because one of them tried like hell to get me involuntarily committed when I was in the nursing home. The idea of having this guy here makes me physically ill. I'm fighting off a panic attack right now.

lee_rowan January 14 2010, 05:27:15 UTC

Get somebody there as a witness.

thundercrap January 14 2010, 01:49:09 UTC

It sounds like they're trying to milk for money to me.

leaper182 January 14 2010, 02:34:54 UTC

The more I read about this trouble, the more I think you should go to a TV station, because if someone talks to a news program about how much they're getting shafted, the people doing the shafting usually get embarrassed and try to hush it up right away.

Or maybe that's threatening to take it to a TV station instead of taking it to them. Agh.

Either way, this shit is stupid, and I'm sorry you have to deal with these dumbasses. :(

lee_rowan January 14 2010, 05:28:39 UTC

Another suggestion that you may have already tried: Call Habitat for Humanity in your area and ask them if they have any suggestions. Everyone I've met who's associated with that group have been good folks, and someone may be able to just lend a hand.