How to find out about the timing and types of major repairs of apartment buildings at the address of the house

What does the legislation say?

The current legislation regulates in sufficient detail issues related to the implementation of all activities and the timing of major repairs of an apartment building.

The main regulatory act regulating such issues is the Housing Code of the Russian Federation . It is he who regulates the timing of major repairs in residential buildings.

So, part 1 of Art. 166 of the Housing Code regulates the list of works that must be carried out as part of the overhaul of an apartment building.

As for the timing of repairs in apartment buildings, in each region the frequency of such work is established specifically based on the characteristics of the technical operation of a particular residential building.

For example, in permafrost conditions, repairs to foundations as the main structural component of a house should be carried out at least once every ten years, and in central Russia, in the absence of extreme destructive factors, the period is set once every 25 years.

In addition to the frequency of work, you should remember such a concept as the deadline for completing work. This concept refers to the number of days during which work must be completed.

There are currently no specific requirements for such a number of days in the legislation, however, all work, for example, repairing utility lines, must be carried out during the period when the previous heating season is over and a new one has not begun.

How to find out the timing of a major home renovation? We will talk about this in the following sections of this article.

Read about what the law on capital repairs says here.

What is included in the inspection of a building before major repairs?

The list of works included in the inspection of a building before major repairs and the requirements for their implementation are determined by the provisions of GOST 31937-2011. The state standard has been in force since January 2014 and is mandatory in the Russian Federation. It is supplemented by several regulatory and departmental acts that establish rules for conducting examinations for various types of buildings and individual structural elements.

The standard procedure for inspecting buildings and structures involves performing two types of work. The first includes visual studies of the object, which include:

description of the schemes and design features of the building;
expert determination of the technical condition of load-bearing structures;
identification of defects with subsequent photo and video recording;
visual inspection of utilities, individual elements and structures of the building;
preliminary calculation of the approximate volume of work for major repairs;
preliminary calculation of the estimate for major repairs.

The second group of works includes instrumental examinations of a building subject to major repairs. These include:

study of foundations and determination of groundwater levels by digging holes;
probing of soil foundations located under and next to the foundation;
laboratory tests and analyzes of soil samples and building materials (to determine their characteristics and compare them with standard ones);
carrying out calculations using specialized software equipment (heat engineering, individual structures - beams, foundations, floors, rafter system, etc.);
taking measurements;
measurement of detected defects - cracks, deformations, deflections and other negative phenomena;
mycological examination of the condition of wood;
measuring the operating characteristics of building engineering systems (ventilation, heating, hot water supply, etc.)

Frequency of work

The key issue currently concerning major renovations of apartment buildings is the question of the frequency with which such renovations should be carried out for the existing housing stock. How many years does it take to overhaul an apartment building?

And here those who want to find an answer to it will be faced with a rather serious problem, namely the lack of clear regulation of this point in the current legislation.

Thus, the Housing Code of the Russian Federation in Section 9, which is entirely devoted to issues of capital repairs, does not even give approximate deadlines after which certain work should be carried out.

The answer to this question will have to be sought in GOSTs for certain materials, as well as in specialized instructions created to regulate the performance of certain works.

For example, for sewer pipes made of plastic, the minimum service life during which they will fully ensure the safe existence of residents in an apartment building is 60 years, for metal ones - half as much, and cast iron - about 20 years (GOST 286- 82).

Thus, the frequency of major repairs for each house should be set individually based on which communications and engineering structures need to be repaired or reconstructed. Clause 1.7 also speaks about this. Instructions on the composition, procedure for development, coordination and approval of design and estimate documentation for major repairs of residential buildings, approved by Decree of the State Construction Committee No. 79 of December 17, 1999 and which came into force on January 1, 2000.

We wrote about the frequency, procedure and possibility of early overhauls here.

Goals and objectives of such a survey

The purpose of inspecting a building before a major overhaul is to determine the current technical condition of the facility. At the same time, several fundamentally important problems are solved at once, including:

establishing the level of deterioration of the building - physical and moral;
detection of defects and other problem areas;
recognition of the building as unsafe or dilapidated, which in relation to housing means the need for resettlement within the framework of the federal program;
development of a list of works for major repairs of buildings and structures. In relation to an apartment building, this is a mandatory condition for inclusion in the federal program implemented by the Housing and Communal Services Assistance Fund and financed from budgets of various levels;
determining the possibility of further operation of the facility and the conditions that must be met for this.

A well-conducted construction inspection of buildings and structures allows us to determine the need for major repairs. In addition, it allows you to determine the amount of funding required for high-quality work. Moreover, in the case of budget funds allocated for major repairs, the examination becomes mandatory and is carried out by a specialized organization that has the appropriate approvals and permission.

How to find out the timing of major repairs of a particular house?

Many people ask the pressing question: is it possible to somehow find out the timing of a major home renovation? We answer, you can find out the time frame for major home repairs. We’ll tell you how below.

Since even new buildings, after several years of operation (usually, the period is from three to five years), are included in multi-level capital repair programs (both federal and regional), any resident of a particular apartment building can find out the period of capital repairs of an apartment building by the address.

In order to obtain information in how many years it will take to carry out a major renovation of the house, you can proceed in three ways:

the first way involves contacting your own HOA or your management company to find out for which year the house is included in the capital repair program;
the second way would be to contact the administration of the locality in which the house is located, with the same goal as the first way to find out whether the building is on the list of the capital repair program;
the third way will be the least expensive in terms of time and effort, since it will allow you to find out all the necessary information through the website of the program for Assistance in Housing and Communal Services Reform (provided that the house is included in the corresponding regional program).

In this case, in addition to receiving information about the time of work, it will also be possible to familiarize yourself with an approximate list of these works, as well as a list of communications that will be subject to repair.

If the house is not included in the program, residents have the right to demand from the management company or by unanimous decision of the HOA participants to include it in the appropriate list of houses (by inspecting the entire building by a specially authorized commission and drawing up a report on the inspection results).

How to find out when the apartment building will be repaired is described here.

How to find out when a major overhaul of a particular house is to be carried out

The state has reserved the right to be the bearer of information about completed renovations of the housing stock and to monitor compliance with the frequency of all actions in this area.

All housing, even new buildings, are included in various capital restoration programs. These programs at the regional or federal level are publicly available on the official websites of government agencies. And, any resident of an apartment building can receive information about the appointment of a major operation of a certain railway at his postal address.

To obtain information about the implementation of major repairs, you should proceed in the following ways:

Contact the municipal organization that operates the housing in order to find out the procedure for inclusion in the special program of the Kyrgyz Republic and the timing of their implementation.
Send a request to the administration of the NP according to territorial affiliation, where there is also information about the CR program for this area.
Through the official website of “Housing and Communal Services Reform”. The circumstances for obtaining information in this way is that the railway of interest belongs to the regional program of the Kyrgyz Republic.

You should know that in addition to obtaining information about the planned date of work, it is also possible to find out the design list of these actions and the list of communications to be repaired. If the structure is not declared in the special programs of the Kyrgyz Republic, residents have the right to initiate its inclusion in the appropriate list by conducting an unscheduled inspection of the entire residential building by a special commission with the signing of an act on the results of the consequences of this inspection.

What to do if repairs are needed urgently?

There are situations when a house is scheduled for repairs in ten years, but the need for it is urgent (for example, due to a constantly leaking roof, it is necessary to urgently change the electrical wiring in the entire house to avoid short circuits and fires).

Is it possible to postpone the date of major repairs to an earlier date? What to do in this situation? Is it really impossible to move the start of the renovation ?

Since its implementation is possible only after agreeing on special estimates for the work, it will not be possible to begin work immediately after the decision to postpone the repair is made. Such approval usually takes about 6 months.

In addition, according to Part 3 of Art. 189 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, no less than 6 months before the beginning of the year in which repairs are to be carried out, the person responsible for maintaining the common property in proper condition (most often this is the chairman of the housing cooperative or HOA) must bring the relevant information to the owners of the premises with a detailed transcript of all the provisions on the work being carried out, as well as holding a meeting among residents in order to approve all estimates and the list of work being carried out.

That is, a year before the start of repairs (if it is carried out within the originally planned timeframe), residents begin the process of agreeing on estimates for the work and transfer the missing funds to the account in which money for the work is accumulated.

To postpone the start of repairs or change the position of a particular house within the framework of a regional program, you must contact your management company (and in cases of HOAs, a department in the municipal administration) in order to call a special commission to inspect the condition of the house, which, based on the results of the inspection, will repair, reconstruction or replacement of certain engineering parts of the house, will issue an appropriate proposal indicating the timing of mandatory repair work (what is the difference between major repairs and reconstruction?).

However, as mentioned above, approval of the work plan must be carried out no later than six months before the start of the year in which the repairs will be carried out.

The only exception can be an unscheduled one, which will be appointed based on the results of an inspection of the entire building by an assessment commission.

Timing of work

Major repair work is quite complex in terms of both human and material resources, activities that must be carried out very carefully, since often the operational capabilities of a building, as well as the safety of its occupants, will depend on their quality.

It is for this reason that such work cannot be completed in one day. However, they also cannot be extended over several years.

If for current repairs Appendix No. 6 to the Resolution of the State Construction Committee No. 170 of September 27, 2003 determined the time frame of 22 working days for carrying out all necessary work, then for capital repairs there are no such periods stipulated in the legislation.

However, if we turn to Part 5 of Art. 189 of the Housing Code, you can see that the timing of major repairs is approved directly at a meeting of homeowners in an apartment building.

Thus, we can say that residents themselves must determine within what time all work should be completed.

The only condition that the legislator sets is that the deadlines must be reasonable and not cause inconvenience to the residents of the house.

Deadline for major repairs of apartment buildings

In addition to the concept of the frequency of major repairs, you should understand the term “work completion period.” The meaning of this provision implies the duration of time required to obtain the result of the activities.

For the execution of current repairs, the regulations are prescribed in Resolution No. 170 of the State Construction Committee [4], but there are no specific requirements for the duration of capital actions. There is a concept of reasonable duration, which, for example, prescribes that the replacement of the heating system of the residential complex should be carried out during the off-season period and the work should be completed before the start of the heating season.

Also, when considering Article 189 of the Housing Code [5], it can be gleaned that the duration of restoration actions is approved at meetings of housing stock owners with entry into the minutes of such a meeting. It is authorized by the decision of the meetings to fix the deadlines for the implementation of activities and to impose responsibility on the contractor in the event of a change in the period allotted for the production of structural updates.

Thus, proactive residents can independently determine the regulations for the implementation of capital restoration, as well as participate in control over the performers and expenses borne by the capital repair fund of this community.

An important condition enshrined in law and which should be used is that time periods must be realistic and create inconvenience for residents and contractors.