The patient’s issue in the old fund is heating. Here you even need to categorically advise: either tune in advance to replace the entire heating system (including a common riser), or pick up housing in the center only in the desired season. And it is worth paying attention when examined by the degree of heating of the batteries. It may turn out that the radiators will be cold at the bottom, since for decades all kinds of suspension accumulated in them, which cannot be “blowing” or “rinse”. Of course, in the old fund, heat is well held, which generates heaters and gas stoves, unlike ordinary panel houses in the sleeping area. But this is a weak consolation, and do not lose additional costs of electricity and cannot avoid harm from the constantly included gas. Even if the proposed apartment has everything at first glance: a separate bathroom, a brand new gas column, it is better to make sure that all this exists in reality. Otherwise, you can become a victim of a well -known folk effect of the “Potemkin village”. Cunning sellers often equip old housing with pretty details, in fact that turn out to be conventional decorations that cover serious disadvantages.
An ordinary citizen who earned a certain amount and an obsessed idea of moving “to St. Petersburg from Leningrad” for an exchange with an additional payment, it is unlikely that an apartment in an old fund in a completely new or reconstructed and finished “under the old man” will be completed. These buildings that compacted historical buildings are characterized by many advantages and some minor disadvantages: they have a relatively high price, and due to the mechanism of mandatory prepayment long before moving the entire amount, such an acquisition becomes inaccessible to the main mass to move to the center. Most often, in practice, they are faced with a “unreasonable” bathroom. It is good that the requirements of hygiene are firmly rooted in the minds of the masses. It is bad that the bath is not always placed in the most suitable place. Well, if the kitchen or corridor has a partition. Then, having passed thirty -three instances and paying everywhere, you still will be able to legalize full -fledged amenities. But when they are located above the living rooms of the neighbors from below, it is better to think about it to forget! And with the slightest leak, you will have to deal not only with all the costs of repairing flooded apartments, but with the immediate dismantling of the bath installed in a forbidden place and after paying for a decent fine.
Not so often, but still have to face the problem of hot water supply. As you know, in the old fund it may simply not be in principle. The sellers will be offered to install a column or a storage-loading electric heater. Perhaps they will even decide to “live” at $ 150-300 the price (the cost of these devices), or in general, they say that when assessing the apartment, everything is already taken into account. But the installation of the column requires coordination with Gorgaz, and before them – visits of the chimney sweeps, which should be engaged in the examination, sanitation of ventilation ducts. And also welders. Therefore, the costs in this case will be rather large if the question is generally fundamentally resolved. Otherwise it happens in every way!