Ciao.
Vivo in un appartamento che ha un armadio che al suo interno ha il contatore dell’acqua, le valvole di intercettazione del riscaldamento e i fusibili (spegnimento/accensione). Vedi l’immagine.
Recentemente, un idraulico che è venuto a trovarmi, mi ha detto che tenere le cose nell’armadio è illegale/sconsigliato, poiché quegli interruttori devono essere sempre visibili.
Devono essere visibili perché in caso di incendio o di qualsiasi problema, i vigili del fuoco vorranno avere accesso diretto ad essi.
Nel caso in cui il mio edificio andasse a fuoco, potrebbero dire che non possono farlo a causa del mio guardaroba, e potrei non ricevere alcuna richiesta di indennizzo all’assicurazione, ecc.
Quanto è vero?
Sembra una cosa dannatamente stupida perché sono sicuro che possano semplicemente rimuovere le cose e sistemarle se necessario.
Inoltre, tutti gli appartamenti in cui ho vissuto avevano qualcosa del genere, ed è molto brutto e preferirei nasconderlo.
Anche quelli in ogni appartamento in cui sono stato erano nascosti.
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di rakeee
6 commenti
They guy is not entirely wrong, these installations should be easy to access. The wardrobe is bad placed. Was it placed by you or your landlord? If it was you, change it, if it was your landlord ignore it and just use it. BC not your issue.
In a truly life threatening emergency you need those panels to be obvious and accessible. It’s fine to cover them if it’s clear where they are. It’s not a good idea to hide them in the back of a wardrobe.
Bear in mind if it’s your life that’s in danger you might not be able to speak and explain.
What is that padlock doing there?? That could be an issue because it denies easy access to the fuses.
As far as i know, these there are only specific for your appartment.
What the plumber mentioned the “house burning down”-scenario, there would be the main switch in the cellar.
For the electrical part, it should be accessible. Which means, its okay if there are jackets which you are able to shove on a side. Not oka, would be placing a cupboard inside there, stacking boxes in there or else what would make the accessibility harder.
And as i can see it, even if you would have to access the water switches, they would be easily accessible if you shove the jackets on a side.
Its totally common to put these units there in apartments. Would it be a 1-family-home its commonly put in a separate place in the cellar. As far as my knowledge from working 7 years in construction goes.
The padlock can get you into serious trouble if someone gets hurt because of time loss in an emergency.
Germans are always afraid if their house burns down that insurance will refuse. So they do crazy things. They forget that insurance has to prove the reason it burned due to was directly cause by that. Which is super hard to prove even if it did contribute. Basically they’d have to have a fire fighter say they looked and look and couldn’t find the shutoff so the apartment burned down. In reality they shut off the whole building and will never search for yours,