The Story Of Why We Left Yafo P.2

The house is filled with history, it's construction dates back to the mid 1800's. It was built by German Templar settlers, from stone and wood. The original ceiling beams exist until today, a unique feature the other apartment are with out, since a fire destroyed most of the original wood in the building. Like the house every picture here comes with a history of itself complete with an agonizing story of completely unnecessary stress.

This is the crack beneath my door, which created countless issues to contend with. The steel door itself was fashioned for a warehouse not a home, this is my exterior facing door and it does nothing to block sounds or elements. I am sure when the space was renovated to be a warehouse the builders were not concerned about the water, earth, sun, or wind  entering or leaving the warehouse since it was not required to keep human occupants comfortable, safe and healthy.

I was continously bombarded by the enslaught of anything and everything that could enter through these cracks. An assortment of debris small enough constantly entered ; cigarette butts, dust, rocks, plastic bits, wind, water, heat, cockroaches, slugs, ants and anything else that could work it's way in. So I did what any person would do; I suggested to my landlord that he fix the door and make it livable. I suggested an industrial door sweep, you know those plastic broomy comb things with a rubber strip attached at the bottom of the door to keep these things out..... Our landlord's inferior solution was to take a thick vinyl sheet, cut it and screw it into the door, this is the result in the picture. The hideous chunk of vinyl provided minor improvements; less slugs, but still slugs, less dirt mostly only the smaller stuff, it didn't slow down the cockroaches one bit, or water for that matter, and maybe it stopped some of the wind who knows? My conclusion is that the landlord couldn't care less about his investment and the people providing him with the rent income....
 to be continued...

the lovely vinyl solution in the corner, here you can see what a great job it does. Piles of corrosion and erosion caused from water continuously entering through the corner crack here.