Hallo.
I live in an apartment which has a wardrobe that inside it has my Wasseruhr, Absperrventile für die Heizung and Sicherungen (turning power off/on). See picture.
Kürzlich sagte mir ein Klempner, der mich besuchte, dass es illegal/nicht empfehlenswert sei, Dinge im Kleiderschrank aufzubewahren, da diese Schalter immer sichtbar sein müssten.
Sie müssen sichtbar sein, denn im Brandfall oder bei anderen Problemen möchten die Feuerwehrleute direkten Zugriff darauf haben.
Falls mein Gebäude abbrennt, könnten sie sagen, dass sie das wegen meiner Garderobe nicht tun könnten, und ich erhalte möglicherweise keine Versicherungsansprüche usw.
Wie wahr ist das?
Das sieht verdammt dumm aus, denn ich bin mir sicher, dass sie das Zeug einfach entfernen und bei Bedarf reparieren können.
Außerdem gab es in allen Wohnungen, in denen ich gelebt habe, so etwas, und es ist sehr hässlich und ich würde es lieber verstecken.
In jeder Wohnung, in der ich war, wurden diese ebenfalls versteckt.
https://i.redd.it/ybnl5anqobwg1.jpeg
Von rakeee
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They guy is not entirely wrong, these installations should be easy to access. The wardrobe is bad placed. Was it placed by you or your landlord? If it was you, change it, if it was your landlord ignore it and just use it. BC not your issue.
In a truly life threatening emergency you need those panels to be obvious and accessible. It’s fine to cover them if it’s clear where they are. It’s not a good idea to hide them in the back of a wardrobe.
Bear in mind if it’s your life that’s in danger you might not be able to speak and explain.
What is that padlock doing there?? That could be an issue because it denies easy access to the fuses.
As far as i know, these there are only specific for your appartment.
What the plumber mentioned the „house burning down“-scenario, there would be the main switch in the cellar.
For the electrical part, it should be accessible. Which means, its okay if there are jackets which you are able to shove on a side. Not oka, would be placing a cupboard inside there, stacking boxes in there or else what would make the accessibility harder.
And as i can see it, even if you would have to access the water switches, they would be easily accessible if you shove the jackets on a side.
Its totally common to put these units there in apartments. Would it be a 1-family-home its commonly put in a separate place in the cellar. As far as my knowledge from working 7 years in construction goes.
The padlock can get you into serious trouble if someone gets hurt because of time loss in an emergency.
Germans are always afraid if their house burns down that insurance will refuse. So they do crazy things. They forget that insurance has to prove the reason it burned down was directly cause by that. Which is super hard to prove even if it did contribute. Basically they’d have to have a fire fighter say they looked and looked and couldn’t find the shutoff so the apartment burned down. In reality they will shut off the whole building and will never search in your apartment.
Edit: and they downvote me now too because they’d rather be Angsthasen
Why would I want the fuse box to be locked? In my own apartment!
My washing machine had a cable fire. It didn’t trip the breaker, the entire apartment started to fill with smoke and the stench of burning rubber. I couldn’t see further than a meter, and was quite panicked. I was glad my fuse box is easily accessible in the open.
Also, if a pipe burst in the kitchen, you’d want to be able to shut off the water quite quickly.
If you think you can reach everything quickly enough, a few clothes should be fine.
What Imtworried about more is the screw going right where all electric cables go out of the fuse box. Would never drill above the fuse box.
If the house is burning down, toggling those switches won’t do much. Would only be useful if you see a cable in your flat smoking and then turning it of.
So I think he may be overreacting a little bit.
If I was you, I’d remove stuff before someone checks it so they can access it easily, but I wouldn’t leave the space empty all the time.