Tsiigehtchic is not happy with service
Dawn Ostrem
Northern News Services
Tsiigehtchic (Apr 06/01) - Tsiigehtchic residents laughingly call their storage shed the "saddledome" when visitors see it folded in the middle under the weight of snow.
It started slumping inward early this year and since February no one has been able to get in to retrieve stored materials.
"We are waiting for the snow to melt and then we will cut our way in through the doors," said hamlet SAO Colum McCready
The company that sold the hamlet the prefabricated shed seemed to have disappeared accept for an answering machine in Markham, Ont. and a Web site.
McCready gave up trying to contact the manufacturer and turned to insurance brokers to settle a claim for the building that cost the hamlet $30,000 in September 1999.
News/North contacted Bill Mankofsky, owner of First Choice, the building manufacturer.
Mankofsky said the company sends written instructions that correlate to each region's building codes.
"Ninety-nine per cent of the time if there is a problem the building was not put up right," he said.
McCready said the collapse is not the fault of the workers who assembled it.
