For numerous months, residents have been complaining that the landscaping lighting has been coming on while it's still daylight out. Some pool and spa lights, needlessly, also are on during the day. It's a big waste of money and a big waste of electricity, yet nothing is being done to correct this situation. Miss Penny Lane asks: If the homeowners association has money to burn, is it time to lower the monthly $241 dues?
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They have been told about the lights. They even talked about it at the meetings. NOTHING DONE. What is the board doing??
most the lights around property aren't even coming on now...and if they do, it is when they are not needed!!!
The pools lights aren't on at night anymore.
WHY AREN'T THE POOL LIGHTS ON AT NIGHT???
Pool lights aren't on at night again. Hello????
The landscaping lights are still coming on when it is light out. Can't this waste be stopped, and soon?
After reading all this, I took a like and yes indeed the lights are on when it is still daylight. There are a lot of light fixes in this community so that must be costing a lot of money. I'm not awake then, but I wonder when they go off. Do they go off when it is still dark out? If so then this is just a waste of juice but also a safety concern. Anyone know?
Thanks Palermo Management for lack of proper pool and spa lighting for the hundredth time. This 4th of July weekend evening swimming was "lights out", again no pool or spa lights worked during the hours the pool and spa being open, and that's for the smaller pool area and spa.
Personally I'm not interested in swimming or using the spa in the dark. And, in case you didn't know it any pool and spa legally must having properly lighting in the water at night (that works) especially since this is a rather public area. Certainly the association should care. All someone has to do is either hire a new pool service that checks the timers everytime they come here to clean the pool. (Did you see Pool #2 the smaller pool this weekend, depending on when you read this comment, it looks like London,completely foggy and you can't see the bottom of the pool to save your life, lovely.
At any rate, get a new pool service, get someone to look at the timers, it's that simple. And this is at least the 200th evening without lights in the pool or spa during hours of operation in a years time. Keep up the wonderful service, next time they aren't on this resident of Palermo is calling and filing a complaint with the Board of Health, then you will start paying some handsome fines, get shut down (which won't affect me since I can't use or I should say won't use the pool or spa when it's dark outside and there is no lighting, because it isn't safe) then maybe someone will start to care, because as of now and for more than a year, it seems the only time the lights come on for the pool and spa or during the day and even that's spotty.
The pool lights still are not on at night. Dangerous.
It was between 8 and 9 in this morning and the back pool's lights were still on. The HOA board can't whine about costs when this waste is going on. They are misusing our HOA fees in this manner.
Landscaping Lights were again during the day before sun went down. More waste of our HOA by the board. Perhaps it is time to LOWER the HOA fees if there's so much money to waste.
From Quiet Side to Penny Lane:
Sorry to complain, a rather common practice since living here (at Palermo, for one and a half years), for one thing and one thing only, which is that almost every day or once a week, other times for three or four days of each week, sometimes weeks at a time, and sometimes not for as long as 10 days, are the spa and pool lights at the smaller pool are not working when they should.
Inevitably, it happens on a weekend (the most likely time I can use the pool or spa at night) and given a holiday weekend, then that’s like a guaranteed event. Last night (Friday of the Labor Day weekend) no pool or spa lights on at the smaller pool when I went there to use it a 9:40pm. And, as much as I have complained to everyone and I’m not alone, by now certainly someone should have a reason why this is happening again and again.
As an outsider (in terms of not being an electrician, but nor am I unaware), the timer must be constantly breaking or clocking too fast or slow. Because like the pool and spa lights, this problem of equipment not working when the times are set for them to work, has happened several times with the spa jets operating during the pool and spa hours of operation. The jets for the spa are on a separate timer, since the timer is set to only operate certain hours the area is open for use and not be workable after closing etc. Well sometimes before closing the timer in the spa must have been off, since everything else worked but the jets.
Anyway, there seems to be no other explanation, other than a timer issue. And, another reason I feel that is the reason, is because often times (and I don’t know about last night) when the pool and spa lights don’t come on when they are suppose to, then they (in many cases) come on a half a dozen hours later like at 3am for their set duration, (that to me clearly illustrates a timer being off by X number of hours). Otherwise and highly unlikely can it be sabotage, because the light and switch/timer as I understand it are with the pool equipment area and that is locked off for public access.
If it’s a matter of buying a timer then why in Goodness sake hasn’t that happened. And in my opinion, if the pool man or maintenance people who merely check the setting each time they are there then that would be helpful. Hopefully this email to you (although it’s Saturday and who can you call?) will be attended to, I’ve run out of resources. Furthermore, could you please post this on your online blog for viewing by others?
For the first time in my life does the saying often heard not come true…”The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Complaints weekly to management, the association, even your blog by me and others about the exact same problem continue but never does it get fixed and fixed for very long. So where is the grease? And, when are the lights going to work properly?
Since July 4th the pool lights have not come on at dusk and instead have remained off until the pool is about to close (now it's Mid September). Then the lights for the pool and spa come on and remain on (I guess their allotted time way into the early morning hours) and like clockwork (timer you idiot) they go off until it's time to use the pool or spa again. And, when you want to go swim with no lights, well you got it, too bad nobody else does.
Sick I tell you, simply a bunch of idiots who can't get one thing right and don't even try to, which is crazy, why not try and fix the problem.
Well, I hope see you at the bottom of the pool, the unemployment pool (for you) I hope.
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