What to do if the neighbors from above flooded the apartment or if you flooded the neighbors?

It is hardly possible to find at least one resident of an apartment building who does not have conflicts with neighbors. Rarely or often, but we all quarrel. And one of the most common causes of such domestic quarrels is flooding. You flooded the neighbors from below, the neighbors flooded you: the result is the same - damaged relationships and a lengthy trial. Let's figure out how to get out of this situation with the least damage to ourselves.

They flooded the neighbors from below - what to do?

Nobody is immune from this. Communications and plumbing, especially if they are not changed for a long time, constantly fail. Therefore, you need to know how to behave correctly if you suddenly become the cause of an emergency. The algorithm of actions is as follows:

1. So, first you need to deal with the elimination of the causes and consequences of flooding. If it is impossible to do everything on your own, you will have to call the masters from the Housing Office. It also makes sense to go down to a neighbor (unless, of course, he himself came running to you) and try to negotiate with him about compensation for the damage caused. In the event that a neighbor requests an overestimated amount of damages, you should record with the help of a photo or video all the damage caused and the general condition of the apartment.
2. The next step will be the preparation of an act of flooding by the employees of the housing office, in which the objective reason for what happened should be displayed. The signatures on the document must be affixed by all members of the commission - the chief engineer, the technical foreman. site, chief repairman, fitter ZhEK. Sometimes representatives of the house committee, if any, are added to the list.
3. After drawing up the act of flooding, an assessment of the damage must be carried out by a professional appraiser who has a certificate confirming the qualification. You, as a defendant, have the right to receive a properly certified result in your hands in order to avoid various “cheating” on the part of the plaintiff.
4. Having on hand all the necessary papers and acts, you will be ready to represent your interests in court. If you are the real culprit of the incident, you will have to pay, but it is in your power to minimize the amount of compensation by providing an honest appraiser's report. If third parties became the cause of flooding, for example, a plumber who installed low-quality equipment, you need to prove their guilt and hold them accountable.

Neighbors are pouring from above - what to do?

So, you've been flooded. The principle of action in this situation is not much different from what was described earlier, only now you are in the place of the victim. To be honest, spoiling relations with a neighbor who flooded you once by suing him does not make any sense. Try to negotiate compensation for property damage without involving anyone else. In the end, the appraiser's fees are your responsibility, and the monetary compensation is calculated based on the actual value of the items, not their purchase price. Plus the time spent collecting papers and the trial itself.

A completely different situation is if the neighbors constantly flood the apartment and are not particularly worried about this. In case of repeated violations, the court will definitely take your side. Then you will not only be able to claim compensation for all material damage, but also file a claim for moral damage.

It is also worth noting that both sides of the conflict - those who flooded and those who suffered from flooding, can resort to the services of a lawyer. The former will have a chance to evade payment of compensation, or minimize it. The latter, on the contrary, with the help of a competent lawyer, will be able to compensate for the damage “with excess”.

Reviews of the victims

Well, what to do?! First you need to try to negotiate with the neighbors, if they are decent people, then they themselves will raise the issue of damages. They must also explain the reason for the emergency. If it is not possible to reach an agreement, then you should apply to the court with a statement of claim.

The main thing is that the neighbors understand what they have done, and not turn up their noses and ignore. Bring to your apartment, jointly assess the damage and try to negotiate. Lovingly, of course. Otherwise, by force through the Housing Office, through tantrums and spoiled nerves and health.

Ekaterina V

I flooded the neighbor from below several times. And when I rented out an apartment, my tenants flooded it. It's not a very pleasant thing. All these clarifications. My neighbor is still an elderly woman, she was so worried every time, she cursed, but she always refused money or any help. She said she didn't want anything from me. not nice of course. Actually, it's better to be safe. There, it seems, the amount of the contribution is not large, but then there are fewer problems. But I can't do it anyway.

Many do this, well, they flooded it or something else, our neighbor came and tells us that we connected to her and her counters turn our water. She came to check. We explain to her that it can't be. She received a receipt, owes a lot of money, and began to check everyone, if anyone connected. So if trouble happened, then you should definitely try to agree, if possible. In general, if you flooded, check the plumbing if you are taken for repairs.

If you were flooded by neighbors from above, then you must first talk peacefully with them about compensation for damage, you can take a receipt from them - for your insurance. And if it doesn’t work out, then an application is written and an evaluation commission from the ZhEK is assembled. And then with this paper in court.

Sultan, I agree with you - this is a legally correct decision. And you can't really trust anyone's word. Once a neighbor flooded me, and I only made repairs in the bathroom. She promised that she would do it, I believed - we have been neighbors for 30 years. It's been 4 years and I haven't done anything. Although there is money, they live in abundance.

It’s good if you manage to agree with the neighbors on compensation for damage, but neighbors are not always so good, and then only in court. As you rightly wrote, first a housing officer to fix the damage, and then to the court.

I haven't had this problem for several years now. Finally, all our residents are insured. Social responsibility insurance, if I'm not mistaken. Now at least it's not scary. The truth is not yet known how the insurance will pay, honestly or try to get out.

I still care. I'm on the 11th, so the 15th floor recently drowned us. The result is deplorable - 15 and 14 are all floating, 13 let water through all the holes for wires, 12th cost little blood, only a bathroom, I scooped up water from the toilet for 11 buckets, where the riser itself is with pipes, and my video camera flooded the stairwell . And before these, I completed the repair a month ago. I need it, I ask that some marmyshka put Chinese taps for herself, so she saved money, yeah. Now it will pay several million to those who have European-style repairs in 3 apartments flooded, I refused the refund.
They also leave, their taps do not shut off. I understand that the fasteners were torn off the toilet bowl, this is how we scooped out a neighbor, in knee-deep ice water, cold water is supplied there, but those who leave for a long time without shutting off the water - I can’t understand them.

We are probably lucky so far, there have not been such severe floods. Moreover, all the main pipes and risers were replaced last year. Now everything is brand new and well made. True, pipe repair will not save you from sloppiness, forgetfulness of neighbors.

But there was another case! They just made repairs in a new apartment with stretch French ceilings, when a neighbor from above began repairs, and the first thing he did was flooded us. And 3 times in a row. The first 2 times the water seeped through the wallpaper and then dried up, and the third time the water poured from the evening until 2 am, poured through the light bulbs on the ceiling, the light went out. The son tried to cope alone, and my husband and I were in our apartment in a different place, then he called us, and we arrived at night and raked water from the floor with buckets until morning. In the morning a neighbor and his workers appeared, so they had something to listen to. I yelled at them like no foreman yelled. After that, he paid for the repairs in full, and his hard workers fixed and restored everything.

Helen, But you are lucky. Your neighbor turned out to be a decent person and made up for everything. And not just promised, and then forgot, as is often the case. It is always necessary to insure and draw up acts in such cases, so that there is something to present in court.

Yes, he understood that the court is inevitable, if not repaired. After all, I immediately invited the neighbors to look at the flood and could become witnesses. The most interesting thing, I noticed even earlier, when I was doing repairs in my old apartment, that flooding occurs immediately after the repair.

In any case, the first step is to draw up an act on the damage caused. The act must be drawn up in the presence of a representative of the management office. After that, you can try to negotiate with a neighbor. If it succeeds, then everything is in order, if not, then a lawsuit in court with the application of the drawn up act.

Astelik, sue such people. This is even worse than immediately showing that the neighbors above do not care about the damage caused to you. They promised to reimburse everything, but they themselves have probably been laughing at you for 4 years already ...

If you have a court order in your hands to compensate for the damage caused, then I think it will be extremely unprofitable for them to wait 4 years, since for failure to comply with a court decision that has entered into force, they can be heavily fined and still be forced to compensate for the damage. You just need to be more persistent and confidently defend your rights.

The problem is that they underestimate this damage. We had a case in the entrance when the neighbors flooded the apartment from below very strongly. The owner invited the commission to assess the damage, they counted some crumbs there, a fifth of the carpet was damaged - this is 500 rubles, something like that .. They estimated it at a ridiculous amount, incommensurable with nerves. It seems to me that here it is just necessary to focus on moral damage, or to frighten the neighbors with your screams and cries, the stobs forked out themselves, amicably, without trial or investigation.

There was a situation, once, that the neighbors from above flooded me, but it didn’t bring much damage, I only had to make a new ceiling. What is good is that the neighbor deliberately reimbursed all the expenses financially and we peacefully dispersed. Naturally, no one filed a lawsuit and was not going to. It's another matter if a bathroom of a high price category were flooded, then the court would probably make sense.

In any case, it is best of course to make a reservation amicably in one and the other case. If you feel guilty. then try not to bring things to an open confrontation, which in the end very often develops into a protracted war with neighbors. Well, if nothing happened, then fix the damage and write a lawsuit to the court.