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by inglor_cz
27 days ago
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Paneláks work, in the sense that after the necessary fixes and improvements, plenty of people still live in them happily. Some comments from the Commie era, though: * quality of work used to be shoddy in a legal environment where firing a drunkard was illegal and there were no competing firms. In a competitive market, this can only work if the people doing the building are reliable and competent, * some level of personalization, if only decorative, goes a long way. If all the buildings look identical, it wears down on people: https://historie.ovajih.cz/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/G-OS-K... * you really, really have to think about how people will use the resulting architecture. Some such buildings had a lot of various empty corners and dead ends where people would piss and worse, thus developing an extremely disgusting smell. |
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I have good examples, we had vote in our building who will upgrade our roof, we had offers for like 1.2M CZK, 1.8M CZK and 4-5M CZK, while they all had space specs, same warranty, I was the only one who voted for cheapest option, the rest of the people used logic "won't vote for the cheapest" option and the result was exactly as I expected, instead of the cheapest Ukrainians we paid 50% extra for very same Ukrainians doing the job under different company with bigger margin. Of course the roof which didn't leak before "upgrade" started to leak in my apartment, so much for the quality of work. When we asked them to fix it, they claimed it's leaking because of my A/C on the roof (which didnt leak for years before their "upgrade"), but 3rd party inspection confirmed they glued insulation wrong and surprise surprise after fixing it stopped leaking while nothing was done about my A/C. There was not a single Czech speaking person working on the roof since I could hear them shouting until very late and had to climb to roof at one instance when they kept working still around 9PM, why would they care when they go to dormitory without families...
Building across the road was fixing the roof as well, done by usual non-local suspects as well and the quality? Immediately after they "finished" their job I could see objects slowly falling from under the roof, which is now going on for years, but most of the residentof the building seem to not care or are unaware of this since it's empty wall without windows, which my kitchen window faces.
So yes, quality of work on panelaks was very inconsistent (there was no 90 degree corner in my bathroom/toilet when I was remodeling, my panelak has even concrete walls in toilet/bathroom unlike the cheaper prefab core in most newer panelak buildings, prefab with 90 degree corners would be in this aspect improvement), but so is quality of the work on new buildings by my experiences and I could add more.