It is technologically easy to insert a heated towel rail into a hot water riser (DHW). But there are several practical and legal nuances. Actually, precisely for the reason that the wrong technology for connecting this heating equipment to the domestic hot water can to problems in the heating system of the other residents of the apartment building, legislative restrictions on this type have been introduced works.
Replacement Permission
It doesn’t matter if you want to replace the old model with a new one, increase the length of the pipe or if you want to remove the heated towel rail obtain written permission from the Management Company or any other organization that carries out house-building control. This is necessary because the hot water riser is a common house property, as is the heating system.
Moreover, if this is not your whim, and the replacement is due to a malfunction or leakage of an old standard heated towel rail, then the management company is obliged to perform these works at the expense of the funds transferred once a month by you for the “maintenance and repair of residential premises ".
At the same time, the company does not have any legal grounds to refuse you, since “the owners of the premises RIGHT TO TAKE ACTIONS independently on the maintenance and repair of common property” (approved. Fast. Government of the Russian Federation of August 13, 2006 N 491, as amended by the Post. Government of the Russian Federation of May 6, 2011 N 354). The request for permission from the Management Company is rather informative. You declare that you will change the heated towel rail, undertake to perform all work in accordance with the requirements, and for this you will have to temporarily turn off the water supply to the riser.
Technical details
The management company will come to check the results of the replacement and the compliance of the work performed with the requirements. What is important to consider when replacing:
- When connected in series, the diameter of the heated towel rail should be the same as for hot water pipes;
- In parallel, it is impossible to install shut-off valves on a riser or bypass (jumper), all mechanisms for adjusting the water supply are mounted only on a heated towel rail;
- To avoid stagnation of water in the heated towel rail, it must be mounted in accordance with the horizontal level. An additional insurance will be the installation of a Maevsky crane on the heated towel rail.
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