Wear of roof of multifamily houses - the inevitable phenomenon against which community services has to fight, in due time carrying out repair works. Where to address to inhabitants of upper floors if the roof after all has leaked, and damage has been caused to property of residents?
1. Address to housing and public utilities or the management company serving the house. Submit the application about accident by phone and expect visit of the mechanic or the plumber. The damage caused as a result of leakage is recommended to film and take pictures. Further these materials can help to achieve compensation of material damage from community services.
2. The mechanic who has come on call states leakage, but will not take any measures for its elimination. To achieve repair of roof, it is necessary to submit the application of the established sample addressed to the chief of regional housing and public utilities. The document is formed in duplicate, one of which remains on hands of injured residents. Both copies have to be signed by the employee who has adopted the statement.
3. After a while after filing of application the commission of several employees of municipal services has to visit the apartment. Members of the commission confirm the leakage fact, assess the material damage caused to owners and draw up the statement of availability of damages. Unlike list of deficiencies, the act of availability of damages does not describe the sum of material damage. In the act only the nature of damages of property and also possible cause of accident is fixed. As independent witnesses it is possible to attract neighbors in stair landing. Before signing the document, attentively study it. If you do not accept the description of the caused damage, you have the right not to sign the act until the commission complements it with missing details. Remember that the second copy of the signed document remains at the owner of the apartment.
4. Most often after the conclusion of the commission the roof is restored, and compensate to residents material damage, according to list of deficiencies. If all attempts to remove the cause and consequences of accident through higher instances were ineffectual, and the roof has not been repaired, the owner of the apartment has the right to appeal to court. For the legal claim you will need all acts and statements addressed to employees of municipal services, the conclusions of the commission, documents on assessment of material damage and also the photographic materials and videos proving the fact of leakage and allowing to evaluate most fully scales of the damaged property.