My dad is claiming that a city inspector approached him on his driveway, and claimed there are trace amounts of urea formeldahyde coming from the home, and left with him a blue business card to contact him. Dad sounded very animated about this conversation and insists that we have to do these costly repairs to the home otherwise it might be condemned as unlivable.
The only thing is this...I have no proof or evidence this actually occurred. My dad can't produce this blue card and claims he remember giving it to me (ie of course I don't know what he is talking about). The city is having a construction taking place in the neighbourhood for realignment of sewers, and updating the old infrastructure. However, this is happening on the city part of the property, not within the owner limits.
Therefore, it has me asking these questions:
1) Is it possible to measure Urea Formeldahyde of a home from the outside of the house. From the street level. I've heard of indoor test kits, but nothing about outdoor. Nobody ever came inside of the home to measure indoor formeldahyde levels.
2) Why would this home be singled out..if this were true, they would have to be doing this with all of the homes on the block.
3) Dad has changed his story in one account saying a water intake valve has to be replaced (which would cost $ 600), now today he is saying the floor, walls, everything would have to be replaced (costing $ 200K / we would have to panic sell the home).
When I called the city, nobody could verify that such a conversation or encounter ever occurred but gave me another number to call (ie I'm assuming is the project manager).
I'm expecting from that call tomorrow that nobody is going to have a clue of what I'm talking about as it's an ouside project covering various blocks and it's unlikely that any single home is singled out or that testing for formeladyde is even relevant for updating water main or sewer issue on the street. This would confirm the hypothesis that there was a temporary slip into another dimension and such an encounter never occurred in this reality, but what dad experienced was real.
The only thing is this...I have no proof or evidence this actually occurred. My dad can't produce this blue card and claims he remember giving it to me (ie of course I don't know what he is talking about). The city is having a construction taking place in the neighbourhood for realignment of sewers, and updating the old infrastructure. However, this is happening on the city part of the property, not within the owner limits.
Therefore, it has me asking these questions:
1) Is it possible to measure Urea Formeldahyde of a home from the outside of the house. From the street level. I've heard of indoor test kits, but nothing about outdoor. Nobody ever came inside of the home to measure indoor formeldahyde levels.
2) Why would this home be singled out..if this were true, they would have to be doing this with all of the homes on the block.
3) Dad has changed his story in one account saying a water intake valve has to be replaced (which would cost $ 600), now today he is saying the floor, walls, everything would have to be replaced (costing $ 200K / we would have to panic sell the home).
When I called the city, nobody could verify that such a conversation or encounter ever occurred but gave me another number to call (ie I'm assuming is the project manager).
I'm expecting from that call tomorrow that nobody is going to have a clue of what I'm talking about as it's an ouside project covering various blocks and it's unlikely that any single home is singled out or that testing for formeladyde is even relevant for updating water main or sewer issue on the street. This would confirm the hypothesis that there was a temporary slip into another dimension and such an encounter never occurred in this reality, but what dad experienced was real.
