Q&A
NYCHA's preparedness and preventative maintenance for the heating season
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Council Member Chris Banks inquires about NYCHA's preparedness and preventative maintenance for the heating season. Keith Grossman explains that preparation begins during the previous heating season and continues throughout the year.
- NYCHA starts maintenance on hot water systems as early as February or March
- They perform maintenance on boilers throughout the heating season
- A vendor is brought in to help with troubled distribution systems
- The goal is to have enough boilers online to provide heat by October 1st
Chris Banks
0:35:25
What is NYCHA's preparedness, planned for the heat season, and have you completed a, preventative maintenance for the heat for this heat season?
Keith Grossman
0:35:35
Yeah.
0:35:36
So, our our preparedness plan, really, our preparedness for the heating season starts, while the previous heating season is ongoing.
0:35:46
Right?
0:35:47
As I said, we have almost 5,000 assets.
Chris Banks
0:35:49
Right.
Keith Grossman
0:35:49
Which is a significant amount to cover in between that May 31st to October 1st timeline.
0:35:55
So what we do is we we starting in February, we will take down we will start doing hot water systems where possible to take them down.
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Obviously, if it's excessively cold in February, we'll we'll start at March.
0:36:09
Additionally, throughout the heating season, boilers will come down for maintenance.
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As I said, most most significant number of our properties have multiple boilers.
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So, when one is down for maintenance, we're able to do not only the repair, but also the preventative maintenance.
0:36:22
That's before the heating season even ends.
0:36:25
As we get days where we're not providing heat towards the end, we'll start to tape boilers down and do the maintenance cycle there.
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We also bring on a vendor, to help us at trouble at developments with troubled distribution systems, so that they can focus on the boiler maintenance, and our staff can work on the distribution systems, from the apartment all the way back to the boiler.
0:36:45
From the boiler to the apartment, and the apartment back to the boiler.
0:36:50
Those, those maintenance and and repair cycles lead to some repairs, and our goal is to repeat to to complete those and have enough boilers online to provide heat at 32 degrees on October 1st.
0:37:05
We have accomplished that goal in at least the last 2 years.
0:37:09
And as I said, at this point, all of our repairs required, to have proper functioning heat as a result of that preventative maintenance process have been completed.
0:37:18
Obviously, throughout the heating season, we we Right.
0:37:20
We have some issues.
0:37:21
But