Rules for the provision of utilities in Russia

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In the approved rules, utility services are provided to citizens with a huge number of different pitfalls, but some key points may seem interesting.

First of all, the rules for the provision of public services to citizens are the introduction of two payments for each public service. In other words, the receipt indicates the amount that must be paid for receiving utility services in the apartment, and next to it is the cost of this service spent on general house needs. It would seem that everything is clear: the rules for the provision of public services - individual services - these are those that are used inside the apartment. Household needs are common expenses.

At the same time, it is worth taking a closer look at the situation thoroughly. Common house water needs imply water consumption in liters spent on cleaning entrances, watering the yard. With heating - also no special questions arise - the entrance should be heated. Questions begin to appear when it comes to gas and sewerage. Why do “common house” gas needs arise? And the rules for the provision of public services provide for such an article. Thatthe same can be said about the sewers.

The new rules for the provision of public services indicate that it is easiest to make calculations in the presence of apartment and common house meters. In this case, the total apartment consumption is subtracted from the readings of the common house device. The resulting difference is the common house expense. The rules for the provision of utilities recommend distributing the amount of common house expenses to all residents, according to the occupied area.

The question arises as to why this expense is tied not to the number of residents, but to square meters. As a result, it turns out that a lonely elderly person, who once privatized a three-room apartment, must pay for the overspending of a large family that huddles in a "kopeck piece"

In the case when the meters are not installed, the calculations are made, as before, according to consumption standards. The situation is more complicated in houses where some consumers have meters installed, and the other part of the residents do not have meters. If, for some reason, consumers do not have time to turn in meter readings, they will be charged according to the standards, and then they will have to “recalculate” the entire house.

Many experts are pessimistic. It is not clear to many that if the standard for heat is the same for general house needs and for apartments, then the temperature requirements at the entrance are much lower. The same applies to water consumption standards. If in summer

time it can be assumed that the yard and flower beds are watered with "common water", then inin winter, such expenses are practically zero, except for washing the floors in the entrances. So what utilities are we paying for?

All these issues need to be sorted out, if only because, according to many experts, a serious increase in the amount of utility bills for management companies has become the norm. To begin with, it will be enough to get acquainted with at least one item of expenditure in more detail - current repairs and maintenance. Under this item, citizens' funds go to the account of the management company, although the volume of work performed rarely reaches 50% of the planned.