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Property management company forbids any such installations. It's my flat, but we're not allowed to drill any holes in bricks or ceiling. I moved out from that

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• Aachen 3y ago
  That's not your flat
• jahnu 3y ago
  Sounds bad. I hope they change their rules to allow upgrading to heat pumps one day.
  • agilob 3y ago
    That's how leasehold and property management works in the UK. I paid off the mortgage completely: bought the flat. Yet I'm not allowed to eg. better insulate walls, the attic belongs to me, the roof doesn't. If I wanted to replace windows, I would need to pay £100 application fee and justify it. Then the property management company sends their guy "who knows the job" who I pay THEIR AGREED price to replace the windows. Whole process take about 5 months and 3 weeks. Apparently, this is normal with FirstPort. If you want to buy a flat, you either agree to their rules or don't buy a flat. Changing the property management company is close to impossible. I fought many battles with them, all lost.
• scythe 3y ago
  A sensible legal reform would be to establish that property managers and other private busybodies can't ban any reasonable energy-saving upgrades.
  • agilob 3y ago
    That's correct. I spent over a year trying to negotiate with them adding an external insulation because the flat has naked bricks. Their position was basically that they aren't legally forces to do so and finding a contractor is a lot of work.