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Pangaea_Ron
May 25, 2015Explorer
westernrvparkowner wrote:Pangaea Ron wrote:So you would close the park and make everyone move if the hot water heater failed? What if it was an electric hot water system, do they evacuate the park every time the power flickers off in an electrical storm? Apparently a Code Commander who practices zero tolerance would require it. Thankfully, the code enforcement people around me are a bit more reasonable. I would imagine you had a lot of unhappy campers (pun intended) when you closed up RV parks and required everyone to find other accommodations because they ran out of hot water for a few minutes or hours.
I totally avoid the CG showers, unless we have several female teenagers camping with us. I love our shower with hot water in the MH.
I posted the code requirements that a CG has to provide for safe and healthful facilities for their guests. If there is no hot water, they are violating those requirements, and can be denied their opportunity to operate.
I've inspected restaurants that did not have hot water and needed to close until the situation could be corrected. A CG has similar, but probably lesser issues without hot water, and by code they need to comply, or cannot operate. There are stop-gap measures that they can use to provide hot water if repairs are not available within a reasonable time frame.
The OP did not say what repairs were required or if they were actively trying to correct the situation. The owner seemed less than coperative. Most of us are able to compensate for unoperative systems, but can persevere. When a CG can't do that there should be some
compensation.
I never said to close the park, (and no reasonable code official would) I'm saying that there is a requirement to provide a safe and healthy facility. We're making lot's of assumptions here about the availability of hot water in the rest of the toilet/bathing facility. Did the CG management try to offer other options to accomplish that. I had a sense from the OP that the hot water may not be avaiable for several days or more.
Most men don't wash their hands anyway, so the reality of the loss of hot water may not be a serious issue, I brought "officialdom" into the discussion to indicate that the Owner has a responsibility to provide hot water.
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