List of reasons why the house will never be installed meters for water or electricity, announced the Ministry of construction. Keep strict account of consumed resources residents can prevent floods in the basement and electromagnetic factors.
As stated in the draft order of the Ministry of construction, before installation of individual or collective metering should conduct a survey of the house. If high-rise buildings will be found at least one serious drawback, the meters for heat, water and gas to the owners of apartments will have to forget. So, do not get to put devices of the account if this would require a serious reconstruction of a building or engineering communication. The second reason why tenants may not be destined to save on housing – the old communication. A barrier will be electromagnetic interference. And, because of them the inhabitants of problem houses will have to part with the idea to put the counters and Internet. Excessive moisture and especially flooding in the engineering spaces, too, will play against fans of precise control over every poured down the sink cubic meters of water. Finally, to set the electricity employees of the management company will refuse you if you have to shift the wiring in the apartment.
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Comments by the Executive Director of NP “national centre of public control in the housing sector “housing Control” Svetlana Razvorotneva: “According to the rules, if the apartment has no meter, tenants pay according to the standards, and with increasing coefficients. Management companies also receive penalties for lack of common parts. A clear list of criteria of absence of technical possibility of installation of metering devices is protection from overpayments for tenants who can pay the standards without raising factors”.
