Unwanted showers!

We have a first floor apartment and the occupants above have recently taken to leaving a hose pipe running on their balcony ( they have a large dog so presumably cleaning up after it) which pours down onto our balcony causing us to have to pull our furniture in and not be able to sit out until it stops which can be quite a while. I know this is supposed to be a drainage system for rain water but this is a lot more water than the odd shower! Has anyone else had this problem? Any solutions would be appreciated 😊

Loads of owner have this problem, it is a major design fault and generally tenants and owners are expected to use just a damp mop to clean the terrace or inform below if they wish to use a hose on some ocassions.

It is extremely antisocial of them tobehave in this way.

You cold try politely asking them to refrain from this practice or

you could ask your Community and Administrator if a guttering system could be put in.

Which Community are you on, as many are taking the develpoer to court over design faults such as this?

Also contact Resortalia for their advice.

Thanks for your reply hugh_man. We are on P12 and are aware of our case against the developer but didn't know if this was one of the issues. Do you know what type of drainage system we would be allowed to install or would it be better to ask resortalia? Apart from the inconvenience it is such a waste of water when it could be saved and recycled!

Don't get me started on the waste of water. As the President of P12 I recently asked our Administrator to get a surveybtonchannel excess water into tanks in the garages, clean it and use it in the gardens.

i was told that the cost of the survey alone would not be worth it when you measure the average amount of rainfall received at Roda.

In Spain, everyone complains about water shortages but they do nothing to help the situation, hence the stupid pipe system at Roda, architects believed it would never rain and planners accepted it.

if you look at blocks 44 and 52 you will notice slight variations on a guttering system that was permitted by owners at previous AGMs.

We are still not sure of the best approach but will look further IF we receive enough compensation from the claim that is currently approaching the SanJavier courts as per my recent newsletter.

I still believe that talking initially to your neighbours for some respect is the best initial play but would recommend asking Resortalias advice for now as the Court claim will take some time, perhaps up to two years after appeals etc.

Chris Perree

Please feel free to cc me in to any correspondence with Resotalia

Presidente@rodagolf-p12.com

Thanks for the advice Chris, to be fair we were over for three weeks in June/July and we had no problem but we had it twice in a week last week plus one natural downpour so lots of mopping up and lots of water that as you say could have been used elsewhere. 

The people in question are Spanish and unless they speak a bit of English we could have a problem trying to explain as we are just learning but our daughter is fluent so we may have to wait until she is with us.

We will be over again in a few weeks so we'll see how it goes then and speak to resortalia if the problem persists but we would definitely be  interested in improving the current system.