Sprinklers!!!

That's our new building. It's not very good. It is (was) pretty, that's for sure, and it's VERY easy to manage and supervise the milieu. But it was built to cheap residential (as in "a house where you live") standards instead of to institutional standards. Most shocking for me was the floors. The first time i walked into the building, i noticed the tapping noise my footsteps made. Turns out that laminate flooring, which is basically particle board with a wood-grain sticker on top, isn't glued down or affixed at all to the actual floor, thus the tapping noise. Weird, but not horrible. Then i asked a construction guy how we should clean the floors. The first thing he said was "It doesn't like water." Doesn't like water, huh? Do they understand what goes on in these homes? Kids get really out there sometimes, and mop buckets and cups of liquid go flying hither and yon frequently enough that "water resistant" would have been among the properties i'd have looked for in a floor. Already i have found little dents and holes in the flooring where something or other fell and broke through the "aluminum oxide coating".

But Monday, a girl upstairs was in the seclusion room (a room which is where kids go when they're completely out of control and need to be kept away from others for safety's sake) and she broke the sprinkler head off. I heard that and instantly said "SPRINKLER??? IN THE SR???" Again, did the designers of our building know what goes on in these homes?

To be fair, the sprinkler head was sort of hardened with a cone of stainless steel or something, but why was it not behind a very tough grate or something? It often amazed me how the old building had very strong institutional grade gadgets around like ventilation grates and stuff, and while it was still functional, it was all bashed up from decades of abuse. This new building is simply not made to last.

So anyway, the sprinkler was broken, so tens of gallons of water were dumped everywhere. So now there's no laminate flooring anymore, because it got ruined. There's blistering paint from where it seeped through the drywall. Drywall.

I'm going to quit complaining now. I need to take out the trash and then file our taxes. Or rebuild my computer. Depends on how TurboTax's site is working.

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