The latest notice from Shandong Housing and Construction Department! The number of washing machines or sinks placed on the balcony is illegal

The Provincial Department of Housing and Construction learned that in recent years, some owners of residential quarters in Shandong Province illegally placed washing machines or sinks on balconies, and washing wastewater was discharged into rainwater pipes and mixed into urban rainwater systems, resulting in a series of problems such as fouling of residential external walls, destruction of public greening, and pollution of urban water systems.

Putting the washing machine on the balcony is the choice of many families.

In order to strengthen the source control, the Provincial Housing and Construction Department issued a notice on strengthening the drainage management of residential balconies.

First, do a good job in the source management of the design of new residential quarters. For newly-built residential quarters, the design unit should strictly implement the Code for Design of Water Supply and Drainage in Buildings (GB 50015-2009 (version 2013) and the Code for Design of Residential Buildings (GB 50096-201KLOC-0/) and other relevant codes and standards. Life balcony, equipped with washing machine and sink, should be equipped with waste water drainage pipe and connected to the sewage system.

Second, implement the quality responsibility of all parties concerned. The construction drawing review institution shall strengthen the review of the construction drawing design documents of the residential balcony wastewater collection system. Do not meet the requirements of the specification, shall not issue a certificate of construction drawing review. Construction, construction, supervision and other units should strictly implement the main responsibility, strictly according to the construction plan, to ensure that the life balcony wastewater collection system is in place.

Third, strengthen the management of balcony drainage in existing residential quarters. Community neighborhood committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises should strengthen the publicity of laws and policies on balcony sewage discharge, and persuade and stop the illegal acts of property users in the process of decoration and transformation, such as connecting drainage pipes to indoor rainwater pipes, and daily problems such as balcony domestic sewage discharged into rainwater pipes, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and decoration management agreements, and report to local urban management or comprehensive law enforcement departments if they do not listen to dissuasion. Encourage the renovation of old residential quarters, and add a wastewater collection system in life balcony with reference to new residential buildings.

Original title: Is your washing machine installed on the balcony? The latest notice from Shandong Housing and Construction Department!