bewitching65
Feb 5, 2014, 02:01 AM
I live in York pa in a mobile home park . I own my home and rent the land. The shut off valve to my water broke and had to be replaced. The park replaced but when the water was turned on it caused a pipe under my kitchen sink to separate. We had to turn water off until next day to fix the pipe in my kitchen, when we tried to turn water on the handle broke and we had to call the park back out to fix. The water had frozen at ground level into shut off and caused it to break. I was told by park management that since this happened on a sat no one would be back out until Monday to fix and that I had to have heat tape on or they would not turn my water back on. Purchased the only heat tape in the county and my son put it on Sunday so we were ready to have water on Monday. Monday no water and had heard nothing from park management so I called and was told that they had a major water line break at one of their other parks and no one would be able to be at my home until tues. morning. Tues morning having heard nothing from park management I called once again and was told my water would not be turned back on until I had heat tape covering the entire water pipe and that I have a broken sewer pipe in my yard that I have to fix before the water can be turned back on. My lease says I am responsible for sewer from ground level to hook up to my home. This pipe first off is not a sewer pipe it is an access pipe and there fore not mine to fix. Secondly it has been broken for more than 7 years and reported to the park numerous times. And thirdly it was never broken the way it is now. I believe the maintenance guy broke it when he removed my skirting to check the heat tape. What can I do to get my water back on and do I have grounds to sue park management for having my water off for 2 and 1/2 weeks for a condition that is their responsibility to fix? As far as not enough heat tape most of the homes in my park have no heat tape at all on and they still have water. Also my oldest son was going to fix but couldn't because the water pipes where different sizes and required an adapter to fix. The park management does no maintenance at all not to roads , water , sewage nothing