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PLRD-83-19 1 (1982-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmsi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT. LOGISTICS. AND READINESS DIVISION B-209901 DECEMBER 3,1982 The Honorable Lawrence J. Korb Assistant Secretary of Defense Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics 120039 Dear Mr. Korb: Subject: Military Family Housing--Need for DOD Improvements in Policy on Floor Replace- ments and the Services to Comply with Existing DOD Policy on Their Maintenance (GAO/PLRD-83-19) We have surveyed major maintenance and repairs to family housing units at five installations. Because our work disclosed a problem relating to wood floor replacement and maintenance, we concentrated our efforts in that area. We observed that instal- lation personnel were generally not performing economic analyses to determine the most cost-effective materials to use when replacing wood floors. Four of the installations we surveyed had wood floors. One Air Force installation replaced, over a period of years, the original veneer floors with solid oak parquet in 510 of 540 Capehart units constructed in 1960. We estimate that the cost to replace these floors was $1.6 million. Alternative materials, such as vinyl tile, were not considered, even though they could have cost less. Three other installations replaced hardwood or parquet floors in some of their housing units with vinyl or vinyl asbestos tile. Only one of the four installations performed an economic analysis to determine the most cost effective material to use. That installation selected vinyl tile as its replace- ment material. The Department of Defense (DOD) has instructions on sanding and refinishing wood floors, but it does not have a policy on which materials to use when floors need to be replaced. We believe it is essential that economic analyses be made to deter- mine the most cost-effective materials to be used when it becomes necessary to replace these floors. (945605) 0 IL14 1 1

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