Property & facilities
How to find the best electrician in Johannesburg
The best electrician is a registered one who will sign the certificate. Here are the checks to run before anyone touches your wiring.
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For the people who own and manage buildings. Sectional title, body corporate reserve funds, planned maintenance, and the managing agent's year.
For trustees, managing agents and the people who run estates. The Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act makes a body corporate maintain its common property; these pieces are about doing that well: who approves a quote and at what threshold, what a scheme should check before a contractor starts, what the year's tariff increases do to a levy, and which registrations a borehole or a plant needs.
Property & facilities
Emergency plumber in Johannesburg: what to do first
Stop the water, make the geyser safe, then call. What to check before an emergency plumber arrives, and what the quote should say.
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Property & facilities
Burst pipe at night in Johannesburg: who fixes what
The water meter is the line. Johannesburg Water fixes its side, you fix yours, and a leak on your side is billed to you until it stops.
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Property & facilities
Emergency repairs in a body corporate, after hours
The trustees cannot meet at 2am, and the Act and the management rules already say who may authorise the repair, who may enter a unit and who pays.
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Property & facilities
Burst geyser: what to do in the first ten minutes
Switch off the power, shut the water, protect the ceiling, then photograph everything before you phone the insurer. Here is the order and why.
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Property & facilities
Nine centres changed hands. Who maintains them?
Dipula is buying nine shopping centres for R2 billion, and on the day of transfer somebody has to know who fixes the air conditioning.
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Property & facilities
Approved contractor list, and who builds one
Eighteen panels on one September day's tender board, and a landlord with 18.6% of its Gauteng offices empty. Both sides were building lists.
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Property & facilities
Maintenance contractors for bodies corporate
The Act makes trustees maintain the common property. It does not say how to find the contractor, compare the quotes or check the registers first. This does.
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Property & facilities
Who approves the quote in a sectional title scheme
There are 130 female sectional title owners for every 100 male owners, and the quote your contractor wrote is still addressed to a single homeowner.
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The Arabella Brief
What changed this week, and what it costs you on Monday.
One email on a Friday, covering the week from Friday to Thursday so the week is closed when it is written. What actually changed, everything with a date on it, one development run through what it means for a contractor with forty people, and what we got wrong. A thin week is a short issue.