How does Smolensk prepare for the heating season 2015?
When will the heating in Smolensk? This issue is already beginning to interest more and more residents of the city. In the apartments it starts to get colder and does not even save heat generators. Preparatory work in Smolensk is now continuing, although they are proceeding in accordance with the accepted schedule for the repair of thermal mains.
At the moment, the availability of heating mains is 90%.Testing of the hydraulics of heat networks, the duration of which is about 190,000 meters. In full readiness for the winter boiler rooms of Leninsky district, Gnezdov and Krasnoye Bora. Almost all boiler-houses were prepared for the heating season, and insulation of heat networks was changed. The latter will protect the thermal mains from evaporation.
Social facilities will receive warmth first when they turn on heating in Smolensk. Therefore, in the first place, social institutions were prepared. Managing companies should take care of getting passports of readiness for September 20.
There is no specific date for heating in 2015.However, weather forecasters promise a cold snap in Smolensk at the end of September. It was during this period that the city authorities plan to start the heating season.
What does the heat supply schedule depend on?
The timing of the inclusion of heating systems in Smolensk depends on a number of conditions, the main of which are:
- availability of funds for timely start of heating;
- compliance with the timing of repair and maintenance work with the system.
The city administration of Smolensk has allocated in 2015 for repair and maintenance of heating systems more than 400 million rubles.
Today 90% of consumers are prepared to start heating. Repair and preventive measures are carried out exactly in time.
Priority of heating supply in Smolensk
Traditionally the first heat will be received by social institutions:
- schools;
- children's homes;
- kindergartens;
- hospital;
- children's homes.
After they are provided with heat, heating systems will be launched in residential buildings. The latter will connect to the heat of industrial premises.
Optimal temperature in a residential area
If you have doubts about the quality of housing services in heating systems, make a temperature measurement in the apartment premises. The following parameters should be optimal for SANPiN 2.1.2.1002-00:
| Room | Celsius temperature | |
| optimum | acceptable | |
| Living rooms | 20-22 | 18-24 |
| Kitchen | 19-21 | 18-26 |
| WC | 19-21 | 18-26 |
| Bathroom | 24-26 | 18-26 |
| Corridor | 18-20 | 16-22 |
| Driveway, ladder | 16-18 | 14-20 |
| Storage compartments | 16-18 | 12-22 |
What to do if the heating was not given to
Find out who you have a contract for the supply of heat. It can be either a management company or a heat utility directly. There you can request that you perform a clearing for improper provision of the service.
By law, heating can be turned off for a month for 24 hours( total for all days).At the same time, there can be no more than 16 hours of continuous heat( if in residential premises +12 and above), no more than 8 hours( if at home 10-12 degrees of heat) and no more than 4 hours( if the temperature is 8-10 degrees).
If these general rules are not met, for each hour of failure to provide services( the total amount for the entire period), heating fees will decrease by 0.15%.
