Act on flooding of an apartment. How to draw up, terms of Issuance, form and sample of the Act on the Bay of an Apartment

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How to draw up a flood report correctly

The current legislation of the Russian Federation does not establish requirements for the form of the act of flooding of premises. Thus, this act is drawn up in simple written form.

If a citizen who owns a residential property on whose territory an accident occurred that led to flooding refuses to take part in drawing up a flood report, then this report is drawn up without his participation.

However, in this situation, in addition to representatives of the management company or service organization, the commission drawing up the act will need to additionally include at least 2 neighbors. These neighbors, who witnessed the incident, will be able to confirm the fact of flooding during legal proceedings.

Let us note that quite often there are situations when an accident that led to flooding occurred not through the fault of the owner of a residential property, but through the fault of the management company or service organization. In such a situation, eyewitness testimony will significantly strengthen the position of the injured citizen during legal proceedings.

Attention! The flood report will need to reflect the following information:

full data of citizens included in the commission for drawing up this act;
date and, if possible, time when the flooding occurred;
address of the residential property subject to flooding;
area of premises subject to flooding;
a detailed description of the damage caused to the property of a citizen, including equipment, furniture and household items, who owns a residential property subject to flooding;
the amount of damage (in m2) caused to the building structures of premises subject to flooding.

When drawing up an act, it is necessary to reflect the direct cause-and-effect relationship between the accident and the damage caused to the citizen’s property.

The drawn up act is sealed with the handwritten signatures of all members of the commission with a transcript and indicating the date of signing. Anyone’s refusal to sign the act is recorded in writing.

The drawn up and signed act is sealed with the seal of the management company.

ATTENTION! Look at the completed sample act on the consequences of an apartment flood:

The act of filling the apartment, correct registration

Apartment Bay Act

AN APARTMENT INSPECTION ACT AFTER A FLOOD is a document drawn up by representatives of the Management Organization to record the fact of water damage to the home and the property located in it. This paper is the main evidence of the flood, so the injured party should be extremely careful about the process of its preparation.

How to draw up a bay deed correctly

SO, YOU HAVE FOUND THAT WATER IS PENETRING INTO YOUR HOUSING, causing damage to your apartment and property. First, you need to find out the cause of the leak and try to eliminate it: this is quite easy to do if the flood was caused, for example, by the inattention of neighbors.

If the reason is technical (a battery burst, a pipe burst, the roof is leaking, there is flooding from the sewer, etc.), then the injured party should call the plumbers of the management company or the HOA, while simultaneously sending a request to the Unified Dispatch Service (UDS).

Read a SEPARATE ARTICLE about what to do in the first minutes of detecting a leak and how to minimize the damage.

After the supply of water to the apartment is stopped, it is necessary to prepare an act of filling the apartment with water in the following order:

I. Without changing the situation in the apartment, call specialists from the Management Organization or the HOA; after a preliminary inspection, they must set a time for drawing up the document. Ask to leave direct contacts through which you can contact the management company’s employees, because communication by phone on the Hotline or Dispatch Service involves a lot of intermediaries.

II. Invite the alleged culprit of the accident to the appointed time, find two neighbors who will also participate in the inspection. The culprit of the incident must be sent an official telegram indicating that in case of failure to appear, the inspection will be carried out without his participation. We also note that the legislation does not impose clear requirements for the composition of the commission.

III. At the agreed time, take part in the inspection, drawing the attention of the commission to all damage and defects caused by the flood. Arm yourself with a completed form of the apartment filling act so as not to miss important details. Measure and record the area of damage in as much detail as possible - on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling.

IV. Upon completion of drawing up the report, carefully study the document, check whether all the damages were reflected by the representatives of the management company, whether the data about the apartment, the victim and the culprit were entered correctly. If everything is correct, you can sign it. The timing of drawing up the act on the bay is not regulated, but usually company representatives submit the document on the same day.

The last statement concerns the documentation of the act in its final form.
In fact, the law provides for the obligation of the management company to draw up an act within 12 hours from the moment of application.
But at such a time, reports are drawn up extremely rarely, it is pointless - some of the damage can be discovered only after several days.

Act on the bay of an apartment: rules for registration according to the law

WE NOTE IMMEDIATELY that the law does not impose strict requirements for the act of flooding an apartment: the document is drawn up in free form. Organizations in the housing and communal services sector are guided by Appendix No. 2 to the Order of the UGZ and UZHKhiB dated March 12, 2001 No. 55-48/1, which contains general rules for drawing up an act on the flooding of an apartment according to the law.

Each Management Company has ready-made apartment flooding certificate forms that are used to document such incidents.

The Management Company’s act on the filling of the apartment, as a rule, contains the following information:

1. Name of the Management Company, official details, including address, INN, OGRN, current account, contact information, as well as the full name and signature of its manager.

2. The number of the report and the date of its preparation, as well as the number of the application for the gulf received from the victim. As a rule, the numbers of the act and the application coincide, which should be especially taken into account when preparing a claim in court.

3. The composition of the commission that recorded the damage and participated in the preparation of the document, including contact information and information about the chairman, members of the commission, as well as invited persons.

4. The exact and complete address of the apartment affected by the flood, as well as technical data about it (floor, number of rooms, area, year the house was built and design features).

5. Full name, passport details of the injured citizen (owner or tenant of the damaged housing), details of documents on ownership rights (optional).

6. The causes of the leak, the culprit of the flood, as well as the technical operation standards that were violated by him - the most important and controversial point should be given special attention.

7. Date of the incident, a detailed description of all damage caused to the apartment and the property located in it. Damage must be described room by room.

Let's give an example:
... In a room of 23 sq.m. There are peelings of wallpaper from the walls.
The total area of damage is 5 sq.m...

8. If furniture and equipment are damaged, you must indicate their exact name, model, year of manufacture and other data that allows you to identify the item.

9. It is allowed to indicate the list and scope of restoration work, as well as methods and deadlines for eliminating recorded damage.

Act on the bay of the apartment: correct registration

AS NOTED ABOVE, the main task of the victim will be to control the process of drawing up the Gulf Act. Often the Management Company, especially if it is at fault, deliberately distorts the facts and prepares a document “convenient” for itself. The affected owner should remember the basic rules for drawing up an act of flooding an apartment:

1. The deadline for drawing up a flood report is no later than 12 hours from the moment a citizen contacts the emergency dispatch service of the Criminal Code. This is directly stated in paragraph 152 of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 6, 2011 No. 354.

2. The act of the management company regarding the flooding of the apartment, of course, must be in written form. The document is drawn up in three copies: one remains with the service organization, the second with the victim, and the third with the guilty party.

3. The style of presentation in the document is formal and businesslike. All damage is described as specifically and clearly as possible. If you don’t know what to write in the document, use the sample Certificate of the Management Company on the filling of the apartment.

4. It is not recommended to make corrections to the document, cross out any words, add phrases, etc. This does not apply to cases of disagreements regarding the document - they should be indicated in writing, and also signed by members of the commission.

The terms of the act of flooding an apartment are 3 years from the date of its preparation: it is during this time that the document is valid, which corresponds to the general limitation periods.
The injured party must resolve the issue of filing claims within the specified period, otherwise the deadline for receiving compensation will be missed and the court will reject the claim.

Problematic points

UNFORTUNATELY, the above rules for drawing up an Apartment Filling Act are NOT ALWAYS strictly observed. Circumstances make their own adjustments, which subsequently have to be explained to the culprit or the court. Let's consider possible problems that arise when drawing up such documents, as well as ways to resolve them.

I. The management company is in NO HURRY to draw up an apartment INSPECTION ACT after the flooding, most often motivating this by the busyness of its employees (another problem is that the deadline for issuing an apartment flooding certificate is greatly delayed after the inspection). How to deal with an unscrupulous management company if persuasion and threats have no effect on employees, and the apartment requires repairs?

In this case, the Apartment Bay Inspection Report can be drawn up independently: the document will have the same structure as given above, and to prepare an alternative report, you must invite the culprit and neighbors.
Another option is to file a complaint against your Management Organization with the City Housing Inspectorate, which will definitely speed up the preparation of such a document.

II. The Criminal Code INSISTS ON THE ABSTRACT DRAFTING OF AN ACT on the consequences of flooding the apartment. This situation may look like this: a representative of the company comes to inspect the property and reports that the Act on the flooding of the apartment by the neighbor will be drawn up in absentia, and the culprit and the victim will be able to pick up the documents later.

Under no circumstances should you agree to this proposal, since there is a high probability that the representative of the management company will overlook any damage, will not describe it clearly enough, etc.
Insist that the drawing up of the Apartment Filling Act takes place before your eyes and in front of witnesses.

III. THE REPORT FAILED TO INCLUDE any property damaged by the flood, or did not describe some of the damage. This may occur due to the selfish motives of the Management Company, as well as simple carelessness. The injured party should point out all the missed circumstances on paper, outlining their comments in detail.

Comments should be entered directly into the Act, or stated below the text of the main document and ask all persons participating in the inspection to sign them.
It is allowed to draw up a separate document - an Act or protocol of disagreements in free form.

IV. THE RULES FOR DRAFTING AN ACT ON THE FLOODING OF AN APARTMENT suggest that the document must indicate the culprit of the accident, but sometimes representatives of the Management Company deliberately omit this information. In some cases, it is indeed very difficult to determine the culprit - a special examination may be required.

If the culprit is obvious, the injured party must write down its comments on this matter in the document.
Often in this way, the Management Company responsible for the bay tries to shift responsibility to the actions of third parties.

V. INTERESTED PERSONS REFUSE TO SIGNATURE on the document (more often it is the direct culprit of the accident). In this case, the commission members must record this fact in a document and confirm it with their own signatures. It’s good that refusal to sign a document does not relieve you of the obligation to compensate for damage.

Refusal to sign in the Premises Inspection Report must be reflected as follows:
“Gr. Sechin I.V., who is the tenant of the residential premises, refused to sign the Act without explaining the reasons, which was recorded by the members of the Commission: full name, signatures, date.”

How to invalidate the act of flooding an apartment

IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHALLENGE THE APARTMENT OCCUPATION ACT if it is drawn up with errors or contains information that does not correspond to reality? For example, it may name the wrong person responsible for the incident, may not describe all the damage, may lack the signatures of the parties, etc.

We recommend reading a SEPARATE ARTICLE on our website about how to invalidate the Inspection Report for a flood-damaged premises.

In fact, the laws do not regulate the procedure for appealing acts on the flooding of an apartment. Accordingly, it is useless to file an appeal against the act of flooding the apartment to any authority. On the other hand, a person who does not agree with the document can make a note about this in the act itself, indicating in detail the list of inconsistencies.

Before going to court, a citizen can conduct his own examination, which will refute the information contained in the act. In a trial, the act of flooding the apartment, according to current legislation, will be only one of the pieces of evidence. It will not have priority over other documents.

It is during the trial that you can draw the judge's attention to the fact that the document is inadmissible evidence.
An invalid Apartment Filling Act cannot be used as the basis for the final court decision.

Apartment bay: practice

COURT PRACTICE FOR COLLECTION OF DAMAGE FROM FLOODING OF AN APARTMENT is very diverse. As for the acts, they are evidence of the fact of the flood, as well as damage to the home and the property located in it. However, failure to comply with the requirements for the Apartment Bay Act may result in the court excluding it from the list of evidence in the case.

Let's give an example:

Ms. Starobogatova’s apartment in the Meshchansky district of Moscow was damaged by the flood, about which a corresponding report was drawn up.
The alleged culprit of the incident, Ms. Ivanova, did not want to compensate for the damage voluntarily, and then the victim went to court.
In court, Ivanova noted that she was not invited to inspect the damaged home, she did not receive any notifications, and, therefore, could not personally participate in the preparation of the document and state her objections.
In addition, the defendant noted that the reasons for the flood were not indicated in the act, therefore, it is impossible to say that she is the culprit.
There was also no exact information about how many apartments in the building were damaged.
The court took into account that the procedure for drawing up the act of filling the apartment was violated, therefore it considered the document unacceptable evidence, and the final decision was made in favor of Ivanova.

Now let's give an example when the act of flooding an apartment played an important role in making the final decision:

Mr. Afanasyev filed a claim with Mr. Nesterov in the Preobrazhensky Court for damages caused by the flooding of his residential premises.
The trial lasted quite a long time, the defendants categorically objected, the hearings were constantly postponed, and as time passed, new damage was discovered in Afanasyev’s apartment in the form of fungal stains on the walls.
The plaintiff prepared a repeated inspection report indicating these damages and increased the amount of the claim.
The court agreed with the plaintiff's arguments, the claim was satisfied, but only after a mycological examination.

Act on the bay of an apartment: sample

SAMPLES OF INSPECTION REPORTS for an apartment after the flood can be easily found on the Internet. You can rely on them, for example, when drawing up your act, as well as to check the act of the Management Company. However, do not rush to use the document right away, there are some reasons for this:

Not all sample apartment inspection reports after the flood contain the necessary information and sections required by law. They are often drawn up very concisely, so to speak, on the knees, so important data may be missed in the final document, because the form of the act on the bay is not legally defined.
Sample acts on the flooding of an apartment by neighbors can be prepared not by professional lawyers, but by ordinary copywriters who have no idea about the rules for drawing up legal documents. In court, it is possible to declare such an Apartment Filling Act invalid with all the ensuing consequences.
Examples of filling out apartment registration acts may contain errors. The most common is damage that is not described in too much detail. For example, it is not enough to simply indicate that the wallpaper has come off - you need to write in which room this happened, what is the exact area of the damage, what kind of wallpaper (paper, vinyl, etc.).

Therefore, you should treat samples of acts on the consequences of flooding of an apartment carefully: check on which sites they are posted and by whom they were compiled.
It’s even better not to look for ready-made samples, but to order an Apartment Filling Certificate from professional lawyers.

Do you really need the help of a lawyer?

LET'S TALK ABOUT RISKS, because you already know what act to draw up if your apartment is flooded by neighbors after reading our article. But what to do if the rules for drawing up an act on the flooding of an apartment, provided for by law, were violated? What if the Criminal Code refuses to prepare such a document and delays its issuance? Of course, it is worth contacting a professional Bay Area lawyer who is thoroughly versed in the field of housing and communal services and real estate.

How our Legal Center specialists can help:

We will advise you on the rules for drawing up the Apartment Filling Act, the basic requirements for the content of the main document in a dispute between neighbors, as well as with the participation of the Management Company, the Overhaul Fund or the insurer.
Our specialists will take part in the inspection of the damaged housing and monitor compliance with the laws regulating the content of the Apartment Flood Act. Lawyers will help you make comments on the document (if the situation requires it).
If for some reason the Criminal Code does not prepare this document, the lawyers of the Legal Center will draw up an act that meets all legal requirements, which will certainly be accepted by the court as evidence.

Our specialists know very well how the Apartment Filling Act is drawn up, what tricks the management company can resort to and what problematic issues may arise when preparing this document.
Therefore, if you want to have in your hands a well-drafted, high-quality and informative act that can be used at the pre-trial and trial stages, contact us, Legal’s lawyers will help you.

In what cases is an act drawn up?

In accordance with the norms enshrined in Article 1064 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, a citizen guilty of causing damage to someone else's property is obliged to compensate for the damage caused.

Please note that legal provisions alone are not sufficient to obtain compensation. During legal proceedings, the victim will need to prove that the damage to property was caused as a result of the actions or inaction of the defendant. If the court finds the evidence unconvincing, then it will not be possible to receive compensation.

In practice, this means that a citizen whose residential property has been flooded will need to accurately determine who is responsible for the incident, and only then go to court. Otherwise, instead of compensation for damage, the citizen will receive additional costs associated with legal proceedings.

A citizen who discovers that his residential property is subject to flooding should take measures to immediately de-energize this property. In this case, in no case should you begin to eliminate the consequences of flooding until the commission draws up a report.

Important! After a power outage, a citizen must call representatives of the management company or service organization to inspect the flooded residential property and draw up a report.

Employees of the management company will be able to determine the reasons why the accident occurred. If it becomes obvious that the flooding was due to the fault of a citizen who owns a residential property located on the top floor, then this citizen must be invited to conduct an inspection and draw up a report.

Let us note that even if the culprit of the incident agrees to voluntarily compensate for the damage caused, it is better to draw up a flood report. This will help avoid problems if the culprit refuses to pay compensation in the future.

What to do if your neighbors below are flooded?

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Purpose and legal effect

In everyday life, such an act is called by different terms - about flooding, about a leak, about a flood, or simply about causing material damage (sometimes also an inspection act). The main purpose is primary accounting, recording the following facts:

actual flooding;
material damage caused to each individual room in the apartment;
material damage that was delivered to a specific item (movable objects, valuables);
confirmation of the fact of inspection of this damage by neighbors, the culprit (if he agreed), as well as representatives of the management company that maintains the house.

Thus, regardless of the specific sample and form in which the act was drawn up, the document records the fact of flooding of the apartment and the corresponding material damage. This document can be used in subsequent proceedings, including trials, as primary or additional evidence.

Compilation is a mandatory procedure even in cases where flooding was not detected immediately. For example, if the owner or tenant of a home returned from vacation and saw the consequences of an incident, it is necessary to record such circumstances and describe the damage on paper.

Identification of the perpetrators

If the accident occurred as a result of negligence shown by the owners of a residential property located on the floor above, this must be recorded in the act.

It is the neighbors who will be found guilty if flooding occurs:

due to an open tap in the kitchen or bathroom;
due to clogged drainage pipes in the bathroom or kitchen;
as a result of damage to the heating, water supply or drainage system;
as a result of repair work independently carried out on water supply, heating or drainage systems by the owner of a residential property.

If the accident occurred in areas related to common property, and also if the cause of the accident was deterioration of communications, the blame for the flooding lies with the management company. The corresponding entry must be made in the act being drawn up.

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What is stated in the act:

The legislation does not impose clearly established requirements for the form of the act, however, in order for the act to have the force of a document, it must indicate the following data:

date of compilation and place;
the members who were part of the commission are listed;
flood address;
a list of damaged property and its qualifying characteristics;
causes of flooding.

The report contains the commission's findings on the causes of the flooding. It is necessary to draw up a report even if the visible causes of flooding are insignificant, since in the future their manifestations may intensify. In addition to drawing up a report, it is advisable to record the consequences of flooding using technical means, which will also become evidence in court. This means photo and video shooting of furniture, apartment premises and other material assets.

Who draws up the document and is present at the time?

Before you begin drawing up a flood report, a commission should be convened. If the act is drawn up by the owner of the residential property subject to flooding alone, then this act will not have legal force.

The commission, in addition to the owner of the residential property subject to flooding, includes:

representatives of the management company: chief engineer, employees of the repair and technical department, plumber;
employees of the organization responsible for maintaining communications as a result of damage to which an accident occurred;
the owner of the residential property on whose territory the accident occurred;
eyewitnesses to the incident.

It is advisable for a citizen who has suffered as a result of flooding to invite a lawyer who will represent the interests of this citizen to the procedure for drawing up a report.

Please note! The flooding report is drawn up in three copies, each of which is sealed with the handwritten signatures of the commission members and the seal of the management company.

Instructions for compilation

How is a document drawn up confirming damage caused by flooding of an apartment or other premises?

The legislation does not establish mandatory requirements for the execution of the act or any strict form of the document. However, in practice, there are a number of conditions and rules for drawing up a document about neighbors flooding an apartment or other premises that must be observed.

You can find out how to write and get acquainted with an example of how to correctly fill out an inspection report for an apartment after it has been flooded with water from above in our article below.

The contents of the flood report include the following:

The actual name of the document (“Flooding Act”).
Place and time when the act was drawn up.
List of persons who participated in the commission and inspected the premises.
Found cause of flooding. If, when drawing up the report, the exact cause of the flooding was not clarified, a note is made about this in the document. In this case, the reason will be determined by an expert or an additional commission.
An exact list of damages that were found during the inspection. This is the most important point of the act, and therefore all traces of flooding must be described in as much detail as possible.
Signatures of all commission members who participated in the preparation of the act.

If necessary, additional clauses can be included in the document. They may concern both the status of the persons who took part in the inspection of the apartment after the flood (or, conversely, those who refused to participate in the inspection), and the methods used during the inspection of the premises (for example, whether decorative panels and cable ducts were opened during the inspection, etc.) d.). In addition, if photography or video was used during the inspection, this should also be noted in the report. In this case, the photographs can be printed, certified by the signatures of the commission members and attached to the report.

The reasons for flooding may be stated in the report as follows:

Violation of the rules for the use and maintenance of water supply, heating or sewerage systems. In this case, further claims must be made to the owner or tenant of the premises from which the water leak occurred.
Structural defect of a pipe, tap, heating battery, etc.
Water hammer due to the fault of the water or heat supply organization.
Destruction of those infrastructure elements for which it is no longer the responsibility of the owner or user of a specific premises, but of the company servicing the building as a whole.

The reasons specified in the report cannot be considered as finally established. A person accused of causing harm can always challenge them. Therefore, the main thing at the stage of drawing up a flood report is to focus on an accurate description of the property that was damaged. The cause of flooding can be determined separately with the involvement of communications service specialists.

The act itself can be drawn up in the following ways:

If the management company that maintains the building has ready-made forms, you can use them.
If there are no forms, the document can be prepared simply in handwritten form.
If possible, in electronic form with printing in the required number of copies. There must be at least three of them.

Nuances of drawing up an act

Even when the flooding of a residential property was not immediately discovered, or if minor damage was caused as a result of this flooding, it is still necessary to draw up a flood report. This must be done, since water can accumulate in the ceilings, as a result of which the consequences of flooding will appear after a while.

Please note that a citizen whose apartment was flooded can count on receiving compensation only if there is a properly executed act. Errors made when drawing up a flood report, as well as failure to include various details in this report, can lead to the fact that the victim will not be able to recover compensation from the culprit.

Watch the video. Apartment flooding report:

Who inspects flooded residential/non-residential premises and draws up a report?

It is important to understand who draws up the flood and damage report. Since the condition of the water pipes in many older houses leaves much to be desired, leaks often occur.

Also, a common cause of flooding in an apartment is an unclosed tap in the upstairs neighbors. To achieve fair compensation for losses incurred, you need to record them.

Decree of the Government of Russia No. 354 of May 6, 2011 regulates the basic rules by which utilities provide services to apartment owners. It also provides the procedure for drawing up an act of flooding of real estate, and the time frame for preparing such paper.

The document is drawn up based on the results of a study of the apartment. A special commission is created for this procedure. It includes representatives of the management company (MC), housing offices, victims (apartment owners) and the perpetrators (determined based on the circumstances of the emergency). Eyewitnesses and witnesses are not included in the commission.

But they are required to be present when the document is signed as witnesses. This is especially important in situations where the apartment is flooded by a neighbor who is not going to compensate for the damage. The formed commission identifies those responsible and calculates the losses incurred during the flooding. Based on this information, its members draw up and sign an act.

If the culprit was not present

Note that the citizen responsible for the flooding may refuse to be present when the act is drawn up.

In practice, the following situations most often occur:

the citizen through whose fault the flooding occurred refuses contact with the victim;
the citizen responsible for the flooding enters into negotiations with the victim, but completely denies responsibility for the incident;
the citizen responsible for the flooding refuses to join the commission and does not participate in the procedure for drawing up the flooding report;
the citizen responsible for the flooding agrees to be a member of the commission, participates in drawing up the act, but refuses to sign this act.

Compilation and issuance deadline

According to paragraph 152 of Russian Government Decree No. 354, an apartment flood report must be drawn up no later than 12 hours after the flooding is detected and the victim contacts the emergency service.
It is important to comply with this deadline. If the HOA or management company delays the specialist’s departure, then it is better for the affected person to come in person and write a statement about the flooding of real estate. It happens that the flood occurs on Friday evening. In this case, the emergency service will respond to the call and fix the leak.

But the act will be drawn up only on Monday. In fact, it can take up to three days to draw up a conclusion.

Collection of evidence

A citizen who owns a residential property subject to flooding will need to substantiate the claims, including the amount of compensation, presented to the defendant during court proceedings.

To do this, you will need to record the damage caused to the victim’s property in a photo or video. If recording will be carried out on video, then filming must begin from the entrance in which the flooded apartment is located, right up to the flooded residential property.

Video recording should not be interrupted. It must record all flooded premises and property damaged as a result of this flooding.

Photo and video recording must be carried out in the presence of witnesses who, during legal proceedings, will be able to confirm the authenticity of these materials.

Before going to court to demand compensation from the defendant, a citizen must assess the damage caused to property as a result of flooding. To do this, you will need to contact an expert organization or an independent appraiser.

We especially note that the expert organization must have a license to carry out the relevant type of work. Otherwise, the conclusion issued by the expert organization cannot be used as a justification for the amount of damage caused.

In what cases might a sample apartment flooding report be useful?

No one is immune from apartment flooding, and this phenomenon occurs in apartment buildings with enviable regularity. Based on civil law, damage caused by flooding is subject to compensation by the guilty party in full. Such issues are resolved either voluntarily, or, if the parties could not agree, by the court. In the event of a trial, the injured party will need evidence to confirm its legal position. One such evidence will be the act of flooding the apartment. This document is confirmation of what happened. It is drawn up by a commission, which includes representatives of utility services, and approved by the balance holder or the owner of the house.