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INSPECTOR 212 Main Street • Municipal Building
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Northampton, MA 01060
Friday,February 5, 1999
Building Commissioner;
Tony Patillo
Subject; 157 Bridge Street Gas Co Red Tag.
Tony these are the minutes of this mornings meeting pertaining to the complaint at 157
Bridge Street.
On 2/14/99 at the request of Bay State Gas Company an inspection was
conducted at 157 Bridge Street basement apartment.The following people were present
Building Inspector Stanley Szewczyk,Bill Gayle,Dave Byron Gas Company
Representatives,Two non English speaking Tenants and myself.
The Gas Company had redtagged the apartments heating system the previous
day due to roll out created by poor draft and lack of combustion air.
The apartment was measured during the inspection,The total cubic feet arrived
at was approximately 5,000 cubic feet.The total btu use is four water heaters at 30,000
each,one large boiler at 175,000,one small boiler at 75,000 giving a combined total of
370,000 btu's. The apartment has about half the combustion and make up air necessary
for efficient and hazard free heating.The apartment should have c o detectors installed
immediately as a temporary measure of safety.A slit in the plastic near the water
heater room was made as an immediate temporary solution. To remedy the poor
situation, the following steps should be taken.
1. Install duct work for combustion air in water heater room.
2. Install duct work for comustion air in the boiler room, and make the
boiler room accessible for maintenance and flue cleaning purposes.
The tennants had difficulty understanding because of a language barrier,the
Building Inspector did his best to convey the problems to them. The Building Inspector
said he will notify the Landlord and make the proper reccomendations.
Respectfu4 Submitted
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