Lifts in brandhärjat house was covered with ban 15 times – used anyway

the House is described by the Swedish union of tenants as a fuskbyggde. It consists of trämoduler held together by tightening straps. In January of last year burned heavily in the house and several people were hospitalised when the fire alarm only sounded for 20 seconds. When the house was finished ten years ago, coated it with boendeförbud precisely because of the lack of fire protection.

the building had problems with bedbugs, water damage, and ill-functioning elevators. The latter has been coated with the use prohibition, since 2015. Since then, the elevators in the house, and in two similar systerbyggnader in the area, surveyed 15 times and still used until the fire of last year.

” It’s crazy. The current property values took over the house in 2015, and I knew then that the elevators were not approved. Nevertheless, they caused them to be in operation, ” says Bengt Öhman, a lawyer at the Swedish union of tenants.

the elevators over a period of time and values, the company ITSELF Invest, made extensive renovations. The elevators are then in the september of the year before approved for use. The Swedish union of tenants has now notified the hosts to the city planning committee and requires that they shall pay sek 1.4 million penalty to the elevators remained in operation despite the ban, which is in the Middle of was the first to report on. The tenants ‘ association will also explore whether to require that the properties tvångsförvaltas.

ITSELF Invest, operational manager Tomas Magnusson regret that the tenants ‘ association notified the company and mean that they continuously addressed the problems that the building has had. In an email to DN, he writes that the company tried to fix the notes between the besiktningstillfällena, but without success.

”It simply took so long to find a solution to this problem, and we addressed sharp criticism to the elevator-skötselföretaget Thyssen, who is contracted to solve the hissproblemen and Dekra, which could not provide complete information about the problemavhjälpande efforts.”, writes Tomas Magnusson.