Community shrinkage: residents of Moscow and the Moscow region pay too much for cold water disguised as hot. A new phenomenon is gaining popularity in the metropolitan area - community shrinkage. The management companies quietly reduce the hot water temperature in the houses, while continuing to issue bills at maximum rates. Consumers pay for a full resource, and barely get hot water from their taps. According to current sanitary regulations, the hot water temperature should be between 60 and 75 degrees Celsius. If this indicator drops below 40 degrees Celsius, the law allows you to pay for the resource at cold water rates. For every three degrees of deviation from the norm, the fee is reduced by 0.1% for each hour, but this can only be achieved through official measurements and a demand for recalculation. Such loopholes allow service companies to save significantly on energy resources, while maintaining the usual amounts in receipts. Experience shows the scope of the problem in various areas. Thus, in Pechatniki, thermometers recorded about 50 degrees Celsius, and in Provo the residents spent the entire summer with water that did not heat up above 37 degrees Celsius, while the management companies simply ignored all complaints. An even more serious case was registered in Balashika, where a local resident was billed for heating water for several months in a row, and in one month the payment immediately increased 14 times. Despite the instruction of the Moscow Housing Inspectorate to cancel the violations, the receipts remained the same. In the current situation, the residents are forced to prepare a collective appeal to the prosecutor's office, since peaceful attempts to achieve justice and recalculation have not brought results.

Community shrinkage: residents of Moscow and the Moscow region pay too much for cold water disguised as hot. A new phenomenon is gaining popularity in the metropolitan area - community shrinkage. The management companies quietly reduce the hot water temperature in the houses, while continuing to issue bills at maximum rates. Consumers pay for a full resource, and barely get hot water from their taps. According to current sanitary regulations, the hot water temperature should be between 60 and 75 degrees Celsius. If this indicator drops below 40 degrees Celsius, the law allows you to pay for the resource at cold water rates. For every three degrees of deviation from the norm, the fee is reduced by 0.1% for each hour, but this can only be achieved through official measurements and a demand for recalculation. Such loopholes allow service companies to save significantly on energy resources, while maintaining the usual amounts in receipts. Experience shows the scope of the problem in various areas. Thus, in Pechatniki, thermometers recorded about 50 degrees Celsius, and in Provo the residents spent the entire summer with water that did not heat up above 37 degrees Celsius, while the management companies simply ignored all complaints. An even more serious case was registered in Balashika, where a local resident was billed for heating water for several months in a row, and in one month the payment immediately increased 14 times. Despite the instruction of the Moscow Housing Inspectorate to cancel the violations, the receipts remained the same. In the current situation, the residents are forced to prepare a collective appeal to the prosecutor's office, since peaceful attempts to achieve justice and recalculation have not brought results.