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Noise problem at Telus building - 826 Yates St

Deekay3884
Friendly Neighbour

For the past 13 days there has been a constant loud noise coming from the rooftop of the Telus building at 826 Yates St, Victoria, BC. It sounds like a vacuum cleaner. It's been going non-stop 24 hours a day. You can hear it from down at street level.

 

I've contacted Telus 3 times about it (various different people/departments) but they don't seem to have any way of contacting the building as apparently the building is temporarily closed(?). The phone number for the building has also been disconnected. The building is locked to the public. So it appears that no one is aware of this noisy equipment issue as I'm assuming they're all working from home during the building closure.

 

I've been advised by Telus customer service to contact the property manager for the building, but they don't know who that is and there's no contact info for a property manager on the door of the building.

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TELUS_Support
Official Support Team
Official Support Team

Hi there, we have requested that someone look into this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. 


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Thank you, that would be great. Is there any rough timeline on when this will be investigate / resolved? The noise is still ongoing and I haven't seen anyone come out onto the building rooftop to look at it yet.

We've heard back from the property manager. The noise is from the HVAC system and is below the required/legal level. Their team however is looking into ways to make the noise lower but will need a bit of time to implement a solution. We can't provide a definitive timeframe for it here today, but rest assured they're on it!


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Hi again, thanks for the followup. I would find it very hard to believe that the current noise is below the required level. To clarify a bit further, there is usually a small ongoing noise from their HVAC equipment that is not a problem (and I'm sure would be considered below the required level). However, the current noise is MUCH louder than the usual noise and can be clearly heard even through closed double-glazed windows half a block away.

 

I wonder if the property manager was just talking about the normal HVAC noise and not the current excessive noise? Have they actually been out to the building rooftop in the last few days to hear the current noise?

 

Also, this excessive noise occurs fairly often (once every couple months on average), but usually within a few hours I'll see a maintenance worker come out onto the rooftop to fix it and within an hour the sound is gone. This is the first time that no one has come to fix the noise and it's been going for 19 days straight, 24 hours a day now. This is a high density neighbourhood with over 1,000 residents living in high-rise buildings on this one block of Yates St and so it's affecting a lot of people. All I'm asking is that the property manager does whatever they normally do to quickly fix the sound. Is there a reason why their usual process isn't working this time?

Gotcha. We've forwarded this off to the property manager just now to get them to look into it asap. Thanks for letting us know!


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Perfect, thanks so much!

No worries. Thanks again for the heads up!


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Hello again! We've just sent you a private message to discuss this further if you'd like. Check your inbox!


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