Without water, warmth and light

Novoseli near Moscow is waiting for the connection of engineering communications for more than a year housing in Moscow is growing in a frantic pace. Today, even for the most modest legally clean apartment, you will have to pay at least 75-80 thousand dollars. Therefore, more and more Muscovites who want to improve their living conditions pay attention to the Moscow Region, where apartments are much cheaper.

A new building located in a 15-kilometer zone from Moscow can be purchased for 35-40 thousand dollars. True, buying apartments in the region is quite risky. And not only because of the large number of unscrupulous developers who, outside the Moscow Ring Road, feel much more Volga. The fact is that in the Near Moscow Region, where housing construction is carried out most intensively, the problem of engineering communications is acute.

“Today, many houses built in 2005 are in the region without heat and light, the connection period of which in some cases may exceed a year,” says Dmitry Popov, head of the analytical department of Novy Square. For example, in the microdistrict No. 27 of the city of Balashikha, the house built by DSK-1 still stand not connected to engineering networks.

Each district of the Moscow Region has its own problems. For example, in the Trekhogorka microdistrict, located in the Odintsovo district, there were questions with heat supply. True, as the newspaper explained in the Su-155 press service, all the first stage houses were connected back in October. “And autumn was quite warm,” the press service employee added.

When developing the city of Troitsk, investors to connect Novoselov to heat, had to build a boiler room not part of the project. In the village of Tomilino of the Lyubertsy district, where the wear of the heating networks is about 80%, the local developer of Asstrol LLC got out of the situation in a very unusual way: gas boilers were installed in the kitchen of each apartment, from which pipes were left to remove exhaust gases. In the distant regions of Russia, where the problem with communications is even more serious, this method is often used by developers. However, gas boilers are installed not in the kitchen, but in the premises specially provided for by the project.

In the neighboring village of Kraskovo, in the neighborhood with Tomilino, the water supply. The capacities of the old local substation are designed for five -story buildings with which the village was built up twenty years ago, and the pumps cannot raise water above this level. Today, towers are built here 25 floors high, and water reaches only in the working and nights of the upper floors.

Meanwhile, only in the last 3 years about 15 million square meters have been introduced in the region. meters of housing. At the same time, the houses under construction are “planted” on existing engineering communications that are not designed for additional loads.

“The question is acute for several years,” adds Dmitry Popov. - However, comprehensive, at the regional level the problem is not solved in any way. There are some projects of the new construction of networks, but for the most part, so far they all remain on paper. ”

So you should not count on a solution to the problem in the near future, and you need to purchase housing in the region extremely carefully. At the same time, developers and realtors try not to voice this problem. The first - in order not to spoil relations with local officials, the latter - so as not to scare away potential buyers.

01/19/2006 / Denis Pokulov, the material was published in the newspaper No. 7 dated 01.20.2006.