Question on the reconstruction of the balcony slab
Good afternoon. To begin with, on the one hand, the area of the balcony is included in the total area of the apartment, and its repair is your area of responsibility. But on the other hand, balcony slabs are an integral part of the supporting structures of the entire building and belong to the common property of the house, therefore, the housing department or the management company is responsible for their repair.
This is spelled out in the rules approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on August 13, 2006. And these responsibilities of the Criminal Code to maintain the supporting structures in a technically sound condition should be reflected in the contract.
Do not engage in amateur performances, with your own hands you will not be able to put in order the worn-out plate and calculate its bearing capacity. In addition, it will cost a lot of money, while the housing department is required to perform these works for free.
True, you may have bureaucratic problems.
To speed up the work of officials, do the following:
- Write a statement in duplicate on the repair of the balcony slab addressed to the director of the housing department or the management company indicating the type of damage and those clauses of the contract that oblige this organization to carry out repairs;
- Indicate in the application the terms in which you require repairs;
- Collect the written testimony of the neighbors that the specified design is a danger to residents of the house. It does not hurt to attach photos;
- Take the application in person, register at the front desk and leave one copy with you;
- If the work is not completed before the deadline and you don’t have a representative of the Housing Management Office with the inspection report, feel free to contact a higher authority, newspaper, court. As a rule, after this, the matter is resolved quickly.
However, if you are going to insulate the balcony, you can not do without consulting a specialist and without an expert assessment of the bearing capacity of the repaired plate. It is initially, especially in old houses, not designed for a load that exceeds the calculated.
Such an examination can be done by employees of serious companies involved in the installation of double-glazed windows, before accepting your glazing order. Therefore, it is better to contact them, rather than one-day firms offering services at low prices.
Of course, it is better to contact the Housing Management Office, or even the court, but the issue of repairing the balcony may still remain unresolved. There is another, faster way to repair, or replace a ruined balcony. For this, it will be necessary, nevertheless, to make an act of inspection of the emergency balcony and ask the housing department, a project for its reconstruction. The balconies are all the same and the housing department probably has a typical solution to this problem. On each page of the copy of the drawings, the address of the repair work being carried out and the approval of the application of the project for these works should be indicated. I need the signature of the responsible employee and the seal of the housing department.Then, with the act of inspection and the reconstruction project, you will need to contact the construction company, which has a license for the reconstruction of residential buildings.
Conclude an agreement with them and pay the cost of work.
All balcony slabs must, in my opinion, be dismantled. The plate itself enters the body of the wall (we have a brick house “Khrushchevsky”) 30 cm. And that's it. And therefore, in my opinion, it is necessary to punch a niche with a puncher from the outside of the wall (from the street) to a depth of 30 cm. H-120 mm. along the entire length of the balcony, first formwork, then reinforce and then lay the concrete using a vibrator. It remains to determine the estimated cost and all.
All balcony slabs must, in my opinion, be dismantled. The plate itself enters the body of the wall (we have a brick house “Khrushchevsky”) 30 cm. And therefore, in my opinion, it is necessary to punch a niche with a puncher from the outside of the wall (from the street) to a depth of 30 cm. H-120 mm. along the entire length of the balcony, first formwork, then reinforce and then lay the concrete using a vibrator. It remains to determine the estimated cost and all.