Every year, a wonderful time comes all over the country, when only cold water runs from the tap, and the teapot practically does not turn off in the mornings and evenings.Treasured boiling water can disappear for a week or several months - depending on how lucky someone is. The main reason is preventive maintenance on the heating network, they throw us back in time. How long will this go on?
Why disconnect
The content of the article
- Why disconnect
- What happens during prevention
- Why is hot water cut off in Russia, but not in Europe
- When will we leave the Stone Age
Alas, prevention and testing relate to the concepts of necessary evil.On the Internet regularly upload photos of pipes through which homes receive the desired boiling water. It's scary to look at them! Remember the teapots. We constantly clean them, and after all, soft water from a cold tap is poured in there, and everything that pours out from hot tap refers to process water with a high salt content. They form a thick layer of deposits inside the pipes.
The heating system is not a perpetual motion machine, requiring replacement. Water flows through it under tremendous pressure, passing many bends and joints. The most intense load falls on the winter, then the risk of accidents increases. For this reason, public utilities for prevention in the summer are testing.
According to sanitary standards, work cannot last longer than 14 days. Those who have been tested for the whole summer, lawyers are advised to write complaints to the prosecutor’s office, housing inspection and other regulatory authorities, although the deadlines may increase due to the increased complexity of the repair.
Depreciation is increasing every year, but there is good news: they promise us that pipe preparation will be soon will be carried out with the redistribution of the load between the sites, allowing at least to reduce the time in times two. Is it really that complicated?
What happens during prevention
Water is heated in the boiler room, then boiling water goes through pipes to each house.The boiler also requires verification, otherwise there is a risk of its breakdown in the cold, so it is stopped and routine inspection and descaling are carried out. The heating mains undergo severe pressure testing. Water is supplied under high pressure, and experts observe whether the entire stream has passed the established path, if not, the site needs to be repaired.
In early 2019, the Ministry of Construction announced the deterioration of a third of all heating systems in the country.
Pipes in disconnected areas are never left empty, so cold water starts to flow from a hot tap, otherwise deformation will occur. Therefore, if there are metering devices in the apartment, then the best solution is to block the riser with hot water, otherwise in the end we get the score that we didn’t have any tests, and we calmly enjoyed the benefits of civilization in the form of warm bathtubs.
Is it really impossible in a different way, and will we suffer with coxae every summer?
Why is hot water cut off in Russia, but not in Europe
Our citizens who have traveled to European countries return with a slight bewilderment in their eyes: they are not there traditions every summer to wash under an ice shower, boil pots on the tiles and go to visit friends with a goal to wash. What's the secret?
In the US, neighborhoods are heated by electric convectors, and in apartment buildings in Western Europe there are boilers. In warm European countries in the south, houses are not equipped with a heating system at all! For example, Italians in winter turn on air conditioning for heating, but it's cold for them - it's when the street is +15 degrees! It turns out that Europeans get only cold water into the house, and it has little effect on the condition pipes.
Our heating networks have been preserved since the times of the USSR, and their length has become a zone of increased risk. In addition, Russia has severe winters that will not allow using only one heater. The experience of warm countries will definitely not help, but is there any other way?
When will we leave the Stone Age
It is unlikely that in the near future the whole country will be transferred to a fundamentally new heating and water supply system.Dates are being reduced a little, for example, in Moscow after 2010, you need to suffer only 10 days. For new buildings promise relief for several years due to new communications.
Found a mention that by 2020 the housing and communal services wants to reduce the shutdown time of hot water to 7 days - It sounds fantastic so far. Perhaps this applies only to the capital...
There is talk that in the future, prevention will be carried out every 2 years. Utility workers hope for innovations that will enable them to work more efficiently. When the miracle happens is not yet known.
On the other hand, we spend the time of preventive work to good use: we go to visit, bathe in the baths, temper ourselves, come up with new jokes, treating what is happening with a touch of irony!
