Verification of the water meter is designed to determinethe error that is allowed during the operation of the device during the recording of the consumption of water in different modes of consumption. After the necessary verification, a conclusion is made about the operation of the device for the possibility of further operation.
How often should this procedure be carried out, why is it being done, who is doing it and is it true that the verification of water meters has been canceled? Let's look at these issues in more detail.
For economical water consumption and for exclusionover-expenditure of finance, many citizens install in their apartments appliances to account for cold, as well as hot water. Many felt significant savings by paying for the actual water flow according to the meter readings, and not by the regulations established from above. Imputed verification of meters quite well regulates sales in the Russian market of plumbing services, but many consumers believe that verification of water meters is illegal and try to challenge it legally.
The conducted metrological process, afterwhich the owner of the device receives the necessary documents for further operation, is called meter calibration. A normal water meter can normally last up to twelve years under normal conditions, but a periodic check is necessary during operation. Checking the hot water meters should be done every four years, cold - once every six years. Sometimes an extraordinary procedure for such a plan is required. To conduct it, you need to contact the service company. The staff will check for 18 days.
Checking counters can be performed in different ways. Full verification is carried out in several stages:
• An expert from the service company comes to the apartment, dismantles the operating water meter and places a temporary spacer in its place, which is prepared in advance.
• The meter is delivered to the metrological laboratory, where it is cleaned of contamination, deposits, repairs and performs the verification procedure.
• After the calibration is completed, the installer returns the counter to its original location, removes the spacer.
• The owner is given out all the necessary documents.
Of course, this method is not cheap.You have to pay for everything. In addition, during the dismantling and installation of the meter, the presence of the host is mandatory. This method is often used for extraordinary verification.
There is another way when replacing the oldcounter on already attorney. Replacement is much cheaper. The downside is that the installed attenuated device has already been operated, and this reduces the guarantees for further work.
Many consumers now in Moscow have heard that checking water meters is canceled, and therefore do not conduct it. Are they right? The question is still open.
Periodic verification of the meter, according to the statementDEZov and TSZH, is a mandatory procedure. If it is not carried out, the meter readings will be considered invalid, and the payment for consumed water will be accrued according to the norms for one person actually living. Often, which is quite unpleasant for the consumer, accruals can be made retroactively. Since the limitation period is now three years, the DOZ can wait for this period, and then present a recalculation. So the debt with an untrusted meter can be three years.
From the very beginning, the verification of water meters in Moscow withsuch intervals was fixed from the moment when the Moscow Government in February 2004 issued Resolution No. 77-PP, which raised the issue of improving measures to take into account the system of water consumption. In Appendix No. 1, paragraph 7.9, it was said that the calibration of the cold water meter according to the State Standard of the Russian Federation should be made at least every 4 years, and for hot water, respectively, the interval should be at least 5 years. That is, if the consumer has any doubts about the accuracy of the operation of the water meter, he can turn to the metrological laboratory. There experts will identify some errors in the device, and then it will need to be replaced, or deviations will not be detected, and then the meter can be safely put back. Such verification, based on instructions in the resolution, could be carried out in six and eight years. And thus it would be considered lawful. But…
Over time, these intervals somehow lostprefix "not less". Verification of water meters in Moscow began exactly four years later for cold and six years for hot water. These terms are fixed in practice. Now, if the tenant did not perform the verification according to the "new" standards, the settlement center, on the instructions of the management companies, charged the payment for water according to the existing standards.
So on what the State standards were referred by officialsa sample of 2004, when they approved the verification of hot water meters for a period of 4 years, and cold water - at 6 years? Not on any! Now the metrological service of Rosstandart recognizes that there is no documentary information about the notorious timing of verification of domestic and imported devices. It turns out that for many years the ordinary consumer was misled, forcing to do verification, referring to the nonexistent Gosstandart.
As early as January 2013, the Moscow Government canceled the obligatory verification of water meters. What was the reason for this?
In recent years, before the abolition of all MoscowДЭЗы asserted that the validity of meters is 4 and 6 years, referring at the same time to the 77th Resolution of 10.02.2004. A lot of complaints were received by the Moscow Prosecutor's Office on this sensational issue. Based on the results of a thorough prosecutor's inspection it was established that the established terms of the verifications are illegal. The prosecutor's office demanded that these violations be eliminated.
Sobyanin canceled the verification of water meters withJanuary-the month of 2013. At the end of 2012, namely on December 26, the Moscow government issued a new Resolution under the number 831-PP. This document abolished Annex 1 of Resolution No. 77-PP, which specified the time limits for checking counters. Thus, verification of individual water consumption devices became not the responsibility of Muscovites, but the right.
If for your DEZ the meter counts are canceledwater is an empty sound, employees do not take the testimony of an untrusted counter, then write the application to the prosecutor's office, referring to the new issued Resolution No. 831-PP of December 26, 2012, in which the fixed terms of verification are canceled.
Russian companies, participating in one way or another inverification of meters, their replacement, installation, continue to write in the passport numbers that are pleasing to themselves. On import meters, including German manufacturers, can be inscribed 4 and 6-year verification of water meters. Feedback on this fact from consumers you can hear the most negative. Many are interested, but what about the situation, for example, in Berlin? The answer can discourage everyone. The point is that water meters can work there until they, in simple terms, start to "chud". If this does not happen in favor of the owner of the device, he, of course, hurries to replace it. In the reverse situation, the employees of the management company will immediately notice the dirty trick on the transmitted testimony and come with a check. Defective equipment will help to replace, the owner will pay. They also act in America.
In many states where counters are used to account for water consumption, verification intervals are established by law, but they are not indicated in technical datasheets.
If, nevertheless, the time for verification of the counter has come, thatit is easier: to replace it altogether or to perform a verification of all the points given above? For some consumers, the verification procedure itself may seem very burdensome, since it is associated with the dismantling of the old device, the installation of a temporary device, a trip to the metrological service where it is possible that the water meter can be rejected.
First of all, the specialists, caused by you,will make a replacement immediately, for one visit. Further - you do not have to pay in vain, because in the case of another verification there is no guarantee that the meter will be suitable, the services of the metrological service will be in vain paid. And, finally, since illegal dates were considered invalid, and mandatory verification of water meters was canceled, it is possible to put a new, more advanced model of the device, which has longer inter-calibration intervals. This will also bring savings to the family budget.
Summing up the sensational topic of canceling the notorious calibration intervals for water metering devices, we will draw conclusions and consider the most interesting questions asked by consumers.
According to an objective judgment, it is notverification, and fixed terms, which the prosecutor's office found illegal. Resolution of the Moscow Government No. 831-PP, issued in December 2012, abolished the document (Appendix No. 1 to the 77th Resolution of 10.02.2004), to which all management companies referred and established verification periods of 4 and 6 years.
So is verification of water meters now necessary?Verification of devices for recording water consumption remains an indispensable factor in the operation of the meter, this is stated in the decree issued by the Government of the Russian Federation, No. 354 of 06.05.2011. This document informs that "the consumer is obliged to perform verification of the device in terms that are fixed in the technical passport". For most domestic devices, these terms are the same notorious 4 and 6 years, but some import devices in their technical passport have a period of 10 to 15 years. The choice of the counter is given to the consumer. And when the verifying period comes, everyone has the right just to replace the old device with a new one.
After the owner of the housing has established in hisit must bring to the management company documents confirming the readiness of the meter to work - this should be an act of putting the device into operation, and, of course, a technical passport, which indicates the inter-verifying time for this model of the device. Employees of the management company must record all this. Thus, they will have the necessary information about the interval through which the next verification should be performed. Many consumers are interested in the question, what could be the consequences if the verification dates that are indicated in the technical passport were ignored? As it was said above, an unverified meter will be deemed unfit for work, and payment for consumed water will be calculated in accordance with general regulations.
Recently in Moscow, inspections have increasedapartments, where there are no devices for recording water consumption, for the registration of citizens actually living there. How and with what it is connected? In January 2013, the Department of Housing and Public Utilities and Improvement of the City of Moscow approved the "Methodological Recommendations", which gave the rights of housing and communal services to establish individuals actually living in the audited accommodation. So, thanks to this document, management companies can now identify unregistered citizens in apartments where the necessary water meters are not installed. And if earlier charges for water were made only for registered persons according to the general housekeeping, now the owner of the apartment will have to pay for water consumption based on the facts - that is, the number of citizens living in this area. Every two weeks a commission will visit such apartments and transfer data about those living in the management company.
From all of the above, it can be concluded thatif there is one person registered in the living area, but in fact there are more people living, and the water meter in the apartment is not installed, the landlord will no longer pay the receipt as before - at the minimum. The management company will make accruals on the norms for each soul, and this is extremely unprofitable, the tariffs there are simply astronomical. It will be much more profitable to install a water consumption meter, with it you will feel considerable savings in the family budget.
