Phase 1 Membrane Project, Day 57 (November 6, 2025)

Phase 1 Membrane Replacement Project

Project Mobilization Date: August 11, 2025
Work Start Date: August 28, 2025
Expected duration: 2–3 months (Completion TBD)
Owner updates: Phase 1 Membrane Project Official Updates
Calendar of days worked: August 2025 to February 2026
Primary contractor: Prostar https://prostar.ca/

Weather: 12C, intermittent heavy rain throughout day

Work done today:

  • Unsure what was done, but Prostar was onsite.
  • Strata Engineering was inspecting the site early in the morning.
  • Workers onsite: Unknown.

Phase 1 Membrane Project, Day 35 (October 10, 2025)

Phase 1 Membrane Replacement Project

Project Mobilization Date: August 11, 2025
Work Start Date: August 28, 2025
Expected duration: 2–3 months (Completion TBD)
Owner updates: Phase 1 Membrane Project Official Updates
Calendar of days worked: August 2025 to February 2026
Primary contractor: Prostar https://prostar.ca/

Weather: 14C, rain

Work done today:

  • Three new drains cored/drilled in the area between the 244 and 248 buildings:
    • The first drain is near the edge of the parking lot
    • The second drain is about midway to the steel staircase, just off of where the pathway normally is
    • The third is adjacent to the steel staircase, closer to the 248 building
  • Workers onsite: Observed two, possibly more

The three drains:

Phase 1 Membrane Project, Day 31 (October 6, 2025)

Phase 1 Membrane Replacement Project

Project Mobilization Date: August 11, 2025
Work Start Date: August 28, 2025
Expected duration: 2–3 months (Completion TBD)
Owner updates: Phase 1 Membrane Project Official Updates
Calendar of days worked: August 2025 to February 2026
Primary contractor: Prostar https://prostar.ca/

Weather: 20C, sunny

The third biweekly status meeting took place. Attending were:

  • Prostar
  • Strata Engineering
  • Sub contractor reps
  • Copperstone Council, represented by the Vice President
  • Quay Pacific strata property manager

Prostar indicated all membrane should be removed by the end of this week.

Work done today:

  • Membrane removed from the area between 244 and 248 buildings.
  • Excavation done at edge of visitor parking adjacent to the above area. This also acts as a preview of the work that will be required for Phase 2.
  • Workers onsite: Between 3-5

Copperstone signs spruced up

Your current council VP has cleaned the Copperstone sign and cleaned and painted the signpost at the entrance to the complex. Here are some before and after shots.

Copperstone sign at Sherbrooke Street:

Before:

After:

(The moss will be treated soon, as well.)

Copperstone realtor sign before:

After:

Clean-up in the 244 garbage room (Aug. 24, 2025)

This problem seems to have begun when the garbage contractor pushed the left dumpster back into the garbage room with the lids down. The ceiling of the garbage room is too low to allow the lids to be completely folded back, as should have been (and is normally) done.

The lids were propped open with rods, but this only gives limited clearance. This led to several issues:

  • Someone apparently failed to get their garbage into the dumpster, spilling its contents, including a large amount of packing peanuts, onto the floor. Whoever did this simply left the mess.
  • With the left dumpster difficult to use, people kept throwing garbage into the right dumpster until it was overflowing.

I used a combo of dustbin, picker, broom and work gloves to:

  • Sweep up and dispose of all the garbage on the floor.
  • Redistribute a lot of garbage from the right dumpster to the left one, until the right one was full, but not overflowing. I will monitor the right dumpster, as I suspect people will overfill it again.

I am not on council, but in my opinion, the following needs to happen:

  • The garbage contractor needs to be notified that a dumpster was brought in with the lids down, and this must not happen (it’s possible this was done by someone new or unfamiliar with our garbage room).
  • Owners and tenants need to be reminded to not overfill dumpsters.

So, how was your Sunday? 😛

No Caller ID issue with enterphone (and possible workaround)

UPDATE August 13, 2025: I'm not sure what is going on with the system now. It is clearly broken and not working properly. The workaround below is not working any longer for me.
UPDATE: Verified that the workaround worked for me. I am trying to verify if it has worked for anyone else.

The enterphone/intercom is experiencing an issue now where owners and tenants answering a buzzer are getting a “No Caller ID” message on their phones and are unable to buzz people in.

While this is being investigated, a workaround that fixed the issue for me was to add the enterphone phone number as a contact on my phone (I have an iPhone). I haven’t confirmed if the same number is used for every building, but for 244 the following number works: 778-397-0265

I’ll update this post if I confirm it also works for buildings 240 and 248.