Marius van Witzenburg "Learned my lesson in life, now setting my action to stay in life."

Our garden (and home), from Hell to Heaven to Hell again ?

When I started to rent this house I thought, oh, just a bit of a mess in the garden... Its fixable... (or not?)

Well, don't expect things to go easy...

On the first image you can see the completely waisted garden.
On first sight it looks not so bad, but later on I found out that underneath the stones you see there are plastic garbage bags... And underneath that ~10 cm sand and even more stones...
It happened to be that Maasdelta was aware of this when I called about it. Thank you for telling me before I started renting the home... Thank you so much.

You can see on the second and third picture what we made of it... Can tell you, when we had a wasp nest in the back of the garden Maasdelta even told us that it also was our own problem.

Rotten doors? Oh, we just have to wait... Freezing plants cause of the openings in the wood? They don't care...

While waling with a person from Maasdelta in here we checked the electricity installation, first thing I noticed, the bed-light switch was missing... There was just a hole in there with 3 wires and one not even connected... He said this was normal... Normal huh? You are definitely someone who doesn't understand the way how a bed-light switch works... I placed this my self cause Maasdelta didn't wanted to fix this for us.
When I started to put on wallpaper with my mom, she was standing on an isolated stair no problem... But as soon as I touched the wall with my shoulder I was feeling electricity in my back. First thing, turned off the power... And started to investigate this... It can't be that you feel electricity about 4 meters from any power connector...
Now this happened, turned off the power, screwed off the light switch... And what I saw there, an iron pipe instead of plastic and even worse, the wire was made of copper with linen around it, which is not allowed anymore in NL. So I called Maasdelta and told the story... They said. The power installation was checked and had an OK mark in there system so I should not complain about it, its okay...
Well since I'm an electrician my self I pulled out all wires and replaced them with vinyl wires how it should be and with the right colors. Replaced all switches and outlets with new ones. So we are a bit more safe than the people of Maasdelta wanted us to be...
Great that they save money, but saving money on things that even might cause someone to die cause of electric shock? In my opinion you are completely out of your mind!

Our water heater shut off when we are having a shower... Maasdelta their solution? Turn open your windows... Common! Its fucking freezing outside and you want us to open our windows instead of making an easy solution with 1 pipe?... Thanks for the help again.

Now we are waiting for them to have a solution for the sewer smell in and around our house... First they tried to ship me of with a reaction "It might be the dirt into your toilet". WHAT? Are you insane! Telling someone that they don't clean their house and thats why it smells? This has been an issue for about 4 weeks, actually, this is the 4th week. Next to our house the stones of the pavement are sacking into the ground... Meant the sand is getting flushed away. Maybe its time to get some jurist to push Maasdelta to set some action instead of letting us wait. I'm not the only one who smells it so maybe we could take advantage of that...
Yesterday someone who got hired by Maasdelta... He said, if its outside, it might even be a problem for the community to fix instead of Maasdelta... Trying to shift the problem to someone else huh?... DON'T!

Well, this is an in-a-nutshell post of things going on with our house the past time...
Having fun with Maasdelta.... Great!

update: 23-10-2009, 12:05
Just called to Maasdelta, he said that they told me yesterday that they are going to dig up the pipes outside... Hmmm, thanks for letting me know that too...
So now lets just wait for someone to show up and actually dig up those pipes to check them...

Update: 23-10-2009, 17:48
Whow, things never went this fast... I started whining again today on the phone for 2 times and mailed this post... Suddenly everything gets fixed...
You see, if you start whining, things sometimes do get solved fast by Maasdelta... Thanks for the time guys!

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