DAS Shutdown in our estate (potentially no electricity)

Our estate is switching over to a Demand Aggregation Scheme which will lower our estate's electricity bills in the long run. This was approved at an AGM and the MA is preparing us for the switchover.

What that means however is that for our blocks, there may be a time when there's no electricity. They have posted this info on the notice boards and in the lift areas but here's that info too...

1. Shutdown on 30 August 2021 (Monday).
2. On that day, from 9am to 1pm, Blocks A to D might be affected.
3. Common facilities (gym, function room, management office) might be affected from 9am to 4pm.
4. Common facilities such as lifts, door magnetic locks, intercom will NOT be affected at all.
5. All facility bookings are cancelled for this day.

The actual situation will depend on that day itself. There might not be any loss in electricity or there might be, I guess. But best be prepared. 

• Charge any electrical items that you need for the morning especially.
• Switch off all electrical appliances before the 9am start in case there are any power spikes that might affect your electrical items.
• Fridge/freezer - generally for the 4 hours or so, it should be okay for your items if the doors are closed but good idea to reduce the food in the fridge/freezer just in case.

Some residents have fish tanks and are worried about the loss of electricity. I did a quick search (caveat, these are not based on anything other than a google search) and found that this company provides 1 day rentals of Uninterrupted Power Supplies - 400w for $80 a day. Might be a useful backup, but I'm not sure what kind of power you'll need.

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with this company. You should do your own googling to find alternatives...

https://gorental.sg/collections/battery-solar-generators

Good luck! (I'm going to be in the office that morning haha)

Have feedback on estate? Use iPrivilege App

 For residents of Viz, our current Managing Agent (to be confirmed if they will remain with us for next year) has an app that is used for various functions including the booking of facilities. Called iPrivilege (yeah I know, sounds atas), it can be found on both Apple and Android app stores and you do need to log in using your unit information. Once in, there are a number of important sections:

1. Announcements - Regular updates from the estate are found here, and of course on our estate's notice boards. 
2. Facility Booking - To book our facilities such as tennis course and gym. This is important now because of the new restrictions via the vaccination-differentiation measures. Gym users must be vaccinated.
3. My Feedback - Use this to take photos of areas that the Managing Agent needs to attend to, such as oil slicks, litter, faulty lighting etc. 

The Managing Agent has been fairly responsive to the feedback that I've been spamming via the iPrivilege app, and you can see whether the case is closed or still ongoing etc. Useful!

Dead Built-in Combi Oven? Yeah, that sucks.

 It's going to happen some day. The wonderful, quite expensive, De Dietrich Built-in Oven kaputs. And the problem is there's no more spare parts or repairs possible for it because it's, well, a really old model by now.

This happened to quite a few residents and I had to do some research on the oven and look for replacement ovens. The problem with our De Dietrich oven - the DME499XE1 - is the height. 

(You can check the model number by opening the oven and looking at the right side frame where there should be a metal label with the model no)

The manual, which you can find here ( just enter "dme499xe1" and download the MULTI manual) shows the following specifications (click on image to expand):

(I can provide a link to the manual below but it'll be a link to my dropbox manual..)

The built in size is 380 (H) x 560 (W) x 550 (D). Most built in ovens have a width of about 590-595 x depth of about 550mm. But their height tends to be tall - about 500mm or more. With our oven, it's stuntedly short at 380mm or 395 fitted. So you need to find a replacement oven that fits into the cubby hole with some slight modifications.

It turns out that De Dietrich has a new model - DMG7129X - that has a built in dimension of 380(H) x 560 (W) x 550 (D), which fits in perfectly with the older DME499XE1 model. I'm not sure if the DMG7129X is available in SG though. 

Searched through Harvey Norman's online site, and Courts, and found this Techno TMW58BI that I suspect fits because it has dimensions of 592 (W) x 330 (H) x 550 (D). 

Disclaimer here: I have not confirmed it nor have I purchased and installed it.. just that the dimensions seem like it could fit. Best is to show the specifications outlined above to the vendor and ask them to confirm if it is possible to replace your old oven with the new one.

Here's the link to the DME499XE1 manual via a dropbox link.

Good luck!