Documents required to permit the docking of dissimilar materials on heating pipes

Good afternoon. Thanks for the difficult question, I will try to answer you.

As you absolutely correctly noted, according to Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 13.08.2006 N 491 (as amended on 12/15/2018) “On the approval of the Rules for the maintenance of common property in an apartment building”, risers heating included in the property. And the Criminal Code is responsible for them. If you achieve at least 2/3 of the votes of the residents of the house, changing the riser after agreement with the Criminal Code is quite realistic.

By the way, coordination is necessary, but they cannot refuse if all the rules are followed and a contractor with a license to work is invited. In addition, it is possible to change without agreement with the residents of the house if the riser is considered to be emergency, to agree on this in the Criminal Code is easier than after repair, if the work was carried out outside the heating season.

Let’s say that the Criminal Code didn’t go to your neighbors and stated that the repair work was carried out without approval. We look:

P. 6, Art. 26 and paragraph 1 of article 29 LCD RF states that "the reorganization or redevelopment of a dwelling, carried out in the absence of a decision on approval issued by the body implementing such approval, or in violation of the project, is unauthorized."

AND part 1 of article 25 LCD RF states that “the conversion of a dwelling is the installation, replacement or relocation of utility networks, sanitary, electrical or other equipment requiring changes to the technical passport of a dwelling”.

And then your neighbors may object - they say, the material of the riser is not included in the technical passport of the living quarters. And they would be absolutely right, and more than one court has broken into such a loophole, if not for one “but”. The risers are recognized as common property, and they are included in the general technical passport.

In general, it does not have a mandatory form, there are only rules of recommendation. But in general, it, among other things, contains information about the characteristics of engineering systems with a list of installed auxiliary equipment. It is located in the department of the Criminal Code, but it is common property and is intended to inform apartment owners, service workers, and so on about the condition of the building and its individual parts.

And, of course, there should be such data in the passport, otherwise how to prove that the service life of the pipes is out or the fact of theft? But even if your passport does not have such information or it is closed, before someone changes the riser on their own, the Criminal Code is responsible for it. And after they change on their own, those who have changed. In the interests of the Criminal Code, request documentation for repairs.

You do not have to go to the Criminal Code and ask for this document. As far as I know, in 2016, the State Housing and Public Utilities Information System began to be mandatory. There utility services enter information about what they did in the MKD and, in particular, there should be technical passports. Try this option.

Will they be allowed to leave the conversion? It could even be:

1. Art. 29 LCD RF p. 4: “On the basis of a court decision, a room in an apartment building can be saved in a converted and (or) re-planned state if this does not violate the rights and legitimate interests of citizens or does not pose a threat to their life or health.”
2. If the opposite is proved - Art. 29 LCD RF p. 3: “The owner of a premise in an apartment building that has been arbitrarily remodeled and (or) re-planned, or the tenant of a residential building under a social tenancy agreement, a rental contract for a dwelling of social housing housing, which has been arbitrarily remodeled and (or) re-planned, must bring such a premise in the previous state within a reasonable time and in the manner established by the body that carries out the coordination. ”

Now we will analyze your question in pipes. I don’t know and didn’t find the documents regulating the combination of materials, it flickered somewhere, which is allowed using normative compounds by technology, etc., but we look “Pipelines. Heating. SNiP 2.04.05-91“:

“3.22. The pipelines of heating systems, heat supply of air heaters and water heaters of ventilation, air conditioning, air shower systems and air-to-air curtains (hereinafter referred to as heating system pipelines) should be designed from steel, copper, brass pipes, heat-resistant pipes from polymeric materials (including metal-polymer), allowed for use in construction. In conjunction with plastic pipes, fittings and products appropriate to the type of pipe used should be used.
3.3. Heating systems (heaters, heat carrier, limit temperature of the heat carrier or heat-transferring surfaces) should be adopted according to the mandatory Appendix 11.The heat carrier parameters (temperature, pressure) in heating systems with pipes made of heat-resistant polymer materials must not exceed the maximum permissible values ​​specified in the regulatory documentation for their manufacture, but not more than 90 ° C and 1.0 MPa. ”

That is, if the used pipes do not meet these standards, they should be dismantled.

Now for your last question. Replacement of the riser is a major overhaul, which must be agreed upon in the design documentation. But here is the place to be article 29, which I quoted above. As for your responsibility, proving that you haven't changed anything is pretty easy. The riser of the neighbors was changing, not yours. You supposedly just gave permission to enter your apartment.

Illegal invasion of someone else’s house by deceit to commit fraudulent acts also strongly “smacks of article”. But this is already in the department of other structures.