A technical report certifies the supervening technical uninhabitability of an apartment in Llívia due to the constant infiltration of soot and ash. The resident of Camí del Nord street has been reporting this situation for three years, which affects her protected rental housing. The user lives in an interior ground-floor apartment owned by a private company where a biomass boiler operates in the building. The problem lies in the location of the chimney, situated just above the apartment's patio. Every time the heating or hot water is activated, the residues fall directly outside and sneak into the home.
"I am trapped living in a bunker where it doesn't stop raining soot and ash"
The consequences are serious for the habitability of the home. The furniture, sofas, mattresses, and even the resident's son's toys end up blackened by toxic products. The tests carried out detected high levels of formaldehyde, a dangerous substance that the mother claims her little one inhales. The commissioned document on habitability and environmental health is conclusive in this regard.
"the furniture, sofa, mattresses and even my son's toys end up blackened and full of toxic products"
Expert points out design error and illegal location
The study concludes that no cleaning measure is capable of repairing the combined design error, the illegal location of the chimney, and the lack of dynamic dispersion. The only solution proposed by the professional is to move the chimney to the central axis of the roof. Until that moment, the family is forced to live in conditions that the technician himself considers uninhabitable.
The administration ignores the recurring requests
The residence is marked by helplessness before the institutions. The neighbor assures that she has repeatedly complained to the owner to intervene in the matter for years. She has also requested assistance from the Paeria and the Generalitat, although she maintains that both instances have ignored her in her efforts. Faced with this vacuum, the tenant must assume the costs of maintaining her own visual and environmental health.
"If I could, I would have already moved to another apartment, but I can't afford it"
Indicates that she pays a specialized company monthly to remove the accumulated ash. This cleaning covers both the interior terrace and all the rooms of the apartment. The woman acknowledges that if she could leave the property, she would have already done so, but the cost of moving elsewhere does not allow it. She thus remains in a situation of environmental vulnerability that prevents her from enjoying a pollutant-free home.