The challenge for property owners by May 2023: goodbye to central heating

This rule to end Central heating will come into effect within a year.in May 2023. The measure, ordered by Brussels in 2012, reduce consumption and each home pays for the heat it uses, so the owners individual counters or cost allocators. A Coruña, part of climate zone C, has two deadlines: buildings with more than 20 dwellings that must make the change before March 1, 2023, and buildings with less than 20 dwellings due. May 1, 2023. The rule affects buildings constructed before 1998, as buildings after that year were already required by law to have this facility.

“Communities of owners they should have asked for an offer already Carmela Lavandeira, vice president of the Galician College of Property Management, “assures that there are a significant number of buildings in the country, if not the majority.” “The city” has to adapt to this regulation. “Some have done the conversion before, but a few remain,” he elaborates.

In this way, centrally heated buildings will have to install a separate meter that measures the exact consumption to each floor or, if this is not possible, cost allocators operating on each radiator. “There is no longer a way to measure how much central heating each spends, they pay equally. tries to avoid it and every owner pays for what he gets”, explains Lavender.

And there is another important issue: consumption. “In most of these houses, the heating is so high that the window opens to make it cooler. And it could be the other way around. Before the central heating is turned on, it’s getting cold and you want to light it up, but you can’t. “Each arranges and pays for cost,” reflects the vice-president of the Galician College of Property Management.

Who should undertake this change? Owners’ communities will pay for the installation of meters or cost separators, which are “devices that measure the individual consumption of each radiator,” according to Carmela Lavandeira.

Both installers and managers already delegate the need to undertake this action to their owners. “It is imperative to comply,” he warns. This finesIn fact, they range from a thousand to 10,000 euros.. Lavandeira recalls that this affects “old buildings in particular from the 1980s and 1990s”, because in 1998 the Regulations and Supplementary Technical Instructions for the Regulation of Thermal Installations in Buildings were approved, which prompted new buildings to have a system to allow thermal insulation in new buildings. forced. distribution of expenses corresponding to each supply. However, there are exceptions. Not all homes with central heating will need to do the conversion. The norm specifies in buildings that consumption meters must be adapted to the new law. not technically or economically viable, they won’t have to. This is when the investment in jobs is not profitable, meaning it is not recovered within four years or the jobs do not lead to savings. “It has been calculated that 5% of buildings in climate zones C, D and E will be exempt from complying with the standard when the standard is set. However, this percentage is increasing,” he warns.

The regulation requires a report showing whether the building meets the requirements to not undertake the change. “Probably the district administration will ask more complete reports to prove”, warns Lavender. He also sends a message to owners who find themselves in this situation: “Buildings can’t ask for the report to be made, that’s all. It must be submitted to the register along with the statement of the head of the community claiming to be responsible for the report. All this should be recorded. It’s important because there are many communities that don’t do this.”

The vice-president of the Galician College of Property Management further stated that “the rule is also obligation read of accountants”. “All established as of August 7, 2020 should have remote reading, something that will be mandatory from 2027, so the older ones will have to adapt,” reminding that this will end “go have a look”. counter to do the calculation”.

The end of central heating is still a controversial arrangement, despite the fact that Brussels ordered it a decade ago. While there are owners who argue that this system is more profitable, there are also those who support the decree, especially those that use less heating but pay the same amount as the others.

Source: Informacion

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